Lt. Donald Thompson in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
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Lt. Donald Thompson in *A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors* is a former Springwood police lieutenant and the troubled, alcoholic father of Nancy Thompson, whose past involvement in the vigilante killing of Freddy Krueger continues to haunt him.
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| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lt. Donald Thompson in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14702391 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Lt. Donald Thompson in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors Context triple: [John Saxon, playedCharacter, Lt. Donald Thompson in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors]
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Detective Lennox in Fright Night
Detective Lennox in *Fright Night* is a skeptical police detective who dismisses the protagonist’s claims about his neighbor being a vampire, adding grounded, procedural tension to the horror-comedy film.
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Nancy Thompson is a teenage girl targeted by Freddy Krueger
Nancy Thompson is the resourceful teenage protagonist of the horror film "A Nightmare on Elm Street," who battles the supernatural killer Freddy Krueger in her dreams.
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Detective Ray Cameron in Night of the Creeps
Detective Ray Cameron in *Night of the Creeps* is a grizzled, wisecracking small-town cop haunted by a past tragedy who becomes the film’s cult-favorite hero as he battles parasitic alien slugs.
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Lt. Alex McCarthy in Maniac Cop
Lt. Alex McCarthy in *Maniac Cop* is a hard-nosed New York City police lieutenant who investigates a series of brutal murders linked to a seemingly unstoppable, vengeful cop.
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Detective Mike Norris in Child's Play
Detective Mike Norris in Child's Play is the homicide detective who investigates the mysterious murders linked to a possessed doll and becomes a key ally to young Andy Barclay.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lt. Donald Thompson in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors Target entity description: Lt. Donald Thompson in *A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors* is a former Springwood police lieutenant and the troubled, alcoholic father of Nancy Thompson, whose past involvement in the vigilante killing of Freddy Krueger continues to haunt him.
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A.
Detective Lennox in Fright Night
Detective Lennox in *Fright Night* is a skeptical police detective who dismisses the protagonist’s claims about his neighbor being a vampire, adding grounded, procedural tension to the horror-comedy film.
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B.
Nancy Thompson is a teenage girl targeted by Freddy Krueger
Nancy Thompson is the resourceful teenage protagonist of the horror film "A Nightmare on Elm Street," who battles the supernatural killer Freddy Krueger in her dreams.
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C.
Detective Ray Cameron in Night of the Creeps
Detective Ray Cameron in *Night of the Creeps* is a grizzled, wisecracking small-town cop haunted by a past tragedy who becomes the film’s cult-favorite hero as he battles parasitic alien slugs.
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D.
Lt. Alex McCarthy in Maniac Cop
Lt. Alex McCarthy in *Maniac Cop* is a hard-nosed New York City police lieutenant who investigates a series of brutal murders linked to a seemingly unstoppable, vengeful cop.
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E.
Detective Mike Norris in Child's Play
Detective Mike Norris in Child's Play is the homicide detective who investigates the mysterious murders linked to a possessed doll and becomes a key ally to young Andy Barclay.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.