Thomas "Babe" Levy
E189953
Thomas "Babe" Levy is a graduate student and long-distance runner who becomes entangled in a violent conspiracy involving a Nazi war criminal in the thriller film "Marathon Man."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Thomas "Babe" Levy canonical | 8 |
| Babe Levy (Marathon Man novel character) | 1 |
| Thomas "Babe" Levy (Marathon Man novel character) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1679052 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas "Babe" Levy Context triple: [Marathon Man (1976 film), mainCharacter, Thomas "Babe" Levy]
-
A.
Marvin Jacobs
Marvin Jacobs was an entrepreneur best known as a founder of the global hospitality and food service company Delaware North.
-
B.
Martin "Buggsy" Goldstein
Martin "Buggsy" Goldstein was an American mobster and contract killer associated with New York's organized crime underworld in the early to mid-20th century.
-
C.
Bobby Byrne
Bobby Byrne is an American cinematographer known for his work on films such as the baseball romantic comedy "Bull Durham."
-
D.
Bobby Morrow
Bobby Morrow was an American sprinter and three-time Olympic gold medalist renowned for dominating the 100m and 200m events in the mid-1950s.
-
E.
Heinie Zimmerman
Heinie Zimmerman was an early 20th-century Major League Baseball third baseman known for his strong hitting and a famously costly baserunning blunder in the 1917 World Series.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas "Babe" Levy Target entity description: Thomas "Babe" Levy is a graduate student and long-distance runner who becomes entangled in a violent conspiracy involving a Nazi war criminal in the thriller film "Marathon Man."
-
A.
Marvin Jacobs
Marvin Jacobs was an entrepreneur best known as a founder of the global hospitality and food service company Delaware North.
-
B.
Martin "Buggsy" Goldstein
Martin "Buggsy" Goldstein was an American mobster and contract killer associated with New York's organized crime underworld in the early to mid-20th century.
-
C.
Bobby Byrne
Bobby Byrne is an American cinematographer known for his work on films such as the baseball romantic comedy "Bull Durham."
-
D.
Bobby Morrow
Bobby Morrow was an American sprinter and three-time Olympic gold medalist renowned for dominating the 100m and 200m events in the mid-1950s.
-
E.
Heinie Zimmerman
Heinie Zimmerman was an early 20th-century Major League Baseball third baseman known for his strong hitting and a famously costly baserunning blunder in the 1917 World Series.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Thomas "Babe" Levy Description of subject: Thomas "Babe" Levy is a graduate student and long-distance runner who becomes entangled in a violent conspiracy involving a Nazi war criminal in the thriller film "Marathon Man."
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.