Harry Lyme
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Harry Lyme is one of the bumbling burglar duo known as the "Wet Bandits," serving as a primary comic villain in the film Home Alone.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Harry Lyme canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4356122 — 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: Harry Lyme Context triple: [Home Alone (1990 film), mainCharacter, Harry Lyme]
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A.
Charles Fairburn
Charles Fairburn was a British railway engineer best known for his tenure as Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in the mid-20th century, during which he oversaw the design and development of several notable steam and electric locomotives.
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B.
Charles Leavitt
Charles Leavitt is an American screenwriter best known for writing the screenplay for the film "Blood Diamond."
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C.
George Philip Wells
George Philip Wells was a British zoologist and author, known both for his scientific work and as the son of writer H. G. Wells.
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D.
Henry Lewy
Henry Lewy was a German-born American recording engineer and producer best known for his work on landmark albums by artists such as Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen.
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E.
Frank Greystock
Frank Greystock is a central figure in Anthony Trollope’s Palliser novel "The Eustace Diamonds," portrayed as an ambitious yet morally conflicted politician entangled in complex romantic and social obligations.
- 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: Harry Lyme Target entity description: Harry Lyme is one of the bumbling burglar duo known as the "Wet Bandits," serving as a primary comic villain in the film Home Alone.
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A.
Charles Fairburn
Charles Fairburn was a British railway engineer best known for his tenure as Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in the mid-20th century, during which he oversaw the design and development of several notable steam and electric locomotives.
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B.
Charles Leavitt
Charles Leavitt is an American screenwriter best known for writing the screenplay for the film "Blood Diamond."
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C.
George Philip Wells
George Philip Wells was a British zoologist and author, known both for his scientific work and as the son of writer H. G. Wells.
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D.
Henry Lewy
Henry Lewy was a German-born American recording engineer and producer best known for his work on landmark albums by artists such as Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen.
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E.
Frank Greystock
Frank Greystock is a central figure in Anthony Trollope’s Palliser novel "The Eustace Diamonds," portrayed as an ambitious yet morally conflicted politician entangled in complex romantic and social obligations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| alias | one half of the Wet Bandits ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Home Alone
ⓘ
linked to:
Home Alone (1990 film)
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York ⓘ |
| characterType | comic villain ⓘ |
| createdBy | John Hughes ⓘ |
| criminalActivity |
home invasion
ⓘ
theft ⓘ |
| distinguishingFeature | gold tooth ⓘ |
| enemy | Kevin McCallister ⓘ |
| filmSeries | Home Alone film series ⓘ |
| franchise |
Home Alone
ⓘ
linked to:
Home Alone (1990 film)
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| knownFor |
attempting to rob the McCallister house
ⓘ
slapstick physical comedy ⓘ |
| language | English-speaking character ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Sticky Bandits
ⓘ
Wet Bandits ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| occupation | burglar ⓘ |
| partner | Marv Murchins ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
cunning
ⓘ
greedy ⓘ short-tempered ⓘ violent ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Joe Pesci ⓘ |
| roleInPlot | primary comic villain ⓘ |
| setting |
Chicago
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ |
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: Harry Lyme Description of subject: Harry Lyme is one of the bumbling burglar duo known as the "Wet Bandits," serving as a primary comic villain in the film Home Alone.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.