Peter Foley – William McNamara
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Peter Foley is the fictional serial killer antagonist in the 1995 psychological thriller film "Copycat," portrayed by actor William McNamara.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Peter Foley – William McNamara canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9789550 — 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: Peter Foley – William McNamara Context triple: [Copycat, characterPortrayedBy, Peter Foley – William McNamara]
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A.
Lenny McLean
Lenny McLean was a British bare-knuckle boxer, bouncer, and actor, best known for his tough-guy persona and roles in gritty crime films.
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B.
Pete Wylie
Pete Wylie is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist best known as the frontman of the post-punk band Wah! and for the hit single "The Story of the Blues."
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C.
Tim McInnerny
Tim McInnerny is a British actor best known for his comedic and character roles in television and film, particularly in the classic sitcom series Blackadder.
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D.
Brian Foley
Brian Foley is a personal name shared by multiple notable individuals across fields such as sports, politics, and academia.
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E.
Tony McCarroll
Tony McCarroll is an English drummer best known as the original drummer for the rock band Oasis, playing on their debut album "Definitely Maybe."
- 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: Peter Foley – William McNamara Target entity description: Peter Foley is the fictional serial killer antagonist in the 1995 psychological thriller film "Copycat," portrayed by actor William McNamara.
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A.
Lenny McLean
Lenny McLean was a British bare-knuckle boxer, bouncer, and actor, best known for his tough-guy persona and roles in gritty crime films.
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B.
Pete Wylie
Pete Wylie is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist best known as the frontman of the post-punk band Wah! and for the hit single "The Story of the Blues."
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C.
Tim McInnerny
Tim McInnerny is a British actor best known for his comedic and character roles in television and film, particularly in the classic sitcom series Blackadder.
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D.
Brian Foley
Brian Foley is a personal name shared by multiple notable individuals across fields such as sports, politics, and academia.
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E.
Tony McCarroll
Tony McCarroll is an English drummer best known as the original drummer for the rock band Oasis, playing on their debut album "Definitely Maybe."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (23)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film ⓘ film character ⓘ human ⓘ |
| antagonistIn | Copycat ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Copycat ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
|
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| countryOfOriginOfWork |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| genre |
crime film
ⓘ
thriller film ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | psychological thriller film ⓘ |
| hasCharacter | Peter Foley ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| notableFor | serial murders inspired by famous real-life killers ⓘ |
| notableWork | Copycat ⓘ |
| occupation |
film actor
ⓘ
serial killer ⓘ |
| portrayed | Peter Foley ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | William McNamara ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1995 ⓘ |
| roleIn | Copycat ⓘ |
| yearOfWorkRelease | 1995 ⓘ |
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: Peter Foley – William McNamara Description of subject: Peter Foley is the fictional serial killer antagonist in the 1995 psychological thriller film "Copycat," portrayed by actor William McNamara.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.