Jack Foley
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Jack Foley is a charming, sharp-witted career bank robber and the central antihero of Elmore Leonard’s crime novel "Out of Sight" and its film adaptation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jack Foley canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3772934 — 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: Jack Foley Context triple: [Out of Sight, character, Jack Foley]
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A.
Frank Gaylord
Frank Gaylord was an American sculptor best known for creating the statues of soldiers at the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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B.
Richard Foy
Richard Foy was a member of the Foy family of American vaudeville and film producers, known primarily in relation to his brother, producer and director Bryan Foy.
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C.
Ted Knight
Ted Knight was an American actor and comedian best known for his Emmy-winning role as the pompous newscaster Ted Baxter on the television sitcom "The Mary Tyler Moore Show."
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D.
Harry H. Corbett
Harry H. Corbett was an English actor best known for his role as Harold Steptoe in the classic BBC sitcom "Steptoe and Son."
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E.
John Barry Humphries
John Barry Humphries was an Australian comedian, actor, satirist, and writer best known for creating the flamboyant character Dame Edna Everage.
- 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: Jack Foley Target entity description: Jack Foley is a charming, sharp-witted career bank robber and the central antihero of Elmore Leonard’s crime novel "Out of Sight" and its film adaptation.
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A.
Frank Gaylord
Frank Gaylord was an American sculptor best known for creating the statues of soldiers at the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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B.
Richard Foy
Richard Foy was a member of the Foy family of American vaudeville and film producers, known primarily in relation to his brother, producer and director Bryan Foy.
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C.
Ted Knight
Ted Knight was an American actor and comedian best known for his Emmy-winning role as the pompous newscaster Ted Baxter on the television sitcom "The Mary Tyler Moore Show."
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D.
Harry H. Corbett
Harry H. Corbett was an English actor best known for his role as Harold Steptoe in the classic BBC sitcom "Steptoe and Son."
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E.
John Barry Humphries
John Barry Humphries was an Australian comedian, actor, satirist, and writer best known for creating the flamboyant character Dame Edna Everage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| adaptedInto |
Out of Sight (1998 film)
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linked to:
Out of Sight
|
| alignment | morally ambiguous ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Out of Sight (film)
ⓘ
linked to:
Out of Sight
Out of Sight (novel) ⓘ
linked to:
Out of Sight
|
| appearsInGenre | crime film ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Karen Sisco ⓘ |
| associatedWithAuthor | Elmore Leonard ⓘ |
| basedOnWork |
Out of Sight (novel)
ⓘ
linked to:
Out of Sight
|
| characterTrait |
charming
ⓘ
sharp-witted ⓘ |
| creator | Elmore Leonard ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
Out of Sight (1996 novel)
ⓘ
linked to:
Out of Sight
|
| genre |
crime fiction
ⓘ
heist fiction ⓘ |
| loveInterest | Karen Sisco ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
central character
ⓘ
protagonist ⓘ |
| nationality | American (fictional) ⓘ |
| notableFor |
bank robberies
ⓘ
wit and charm ⓘ |
| occupation |
bank robber
ⓘ
career criminal ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | George Clooney ⓘ |
| role | antihero ⓘ |
| setting |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| storyMedium |
feature film
ⓘ
novel ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Jack Foley Description of subject: Jack Foley is a charming, sharp-witted career bank robber and the central antihero of Elmore Leonard’s crime novel "Out of Sight" and its film adaptation.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.