Donald Thompson
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Donald Thompson is a fictional police lieutenant and the father of Nancy Thompson in the horror film "A Nightmare on Elm Street."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Donald Thompson canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5485663 — 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: Donald Thompson Context triple: [A Nightmare on Elm Street, mainCharacter, Donald Thompson]
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A.
Ed Thompson
Ed Thompson is a key character in the 2011 horror-comedy film "Fright Night," portrayed as the protagonist's nerdy best friend who first uncovers the truth about their vampire neighbor.
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B.
Peter Thompson
Peter Thompson is a former Northern Irish footballer best known as a prolific striker for Linfield FC.
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C.
Bill Thompson
Bill Thompson was an American voice actor best known for his work in classic Disney animated films and radio, including roles in "Alice in Wonderland."
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D.
Jay Thompson
Jay Thompson was an American writer and lyricist best known as one of the creators of the musical comedy "Once Upon a Mattress."
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E.
Eric Thompson
Eric Thompson was a British actor and writer best known for narrating and adapting the children's television series "The Magic Roundabout" and as the father of actress and screenwriter Emma Thompson.
- 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: Donald Thompson Target entity description: Donald Thompson is a fictional police lieutenant and the father of Nancy Thompson in the horror film "A Nightmare on Elm Street."
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A.
Ed Thompson
Ed Thompson is a key character in the 2011 horror-comedy film "Fright Night," portrayed as the protagonist's nerdy best friend who first uncovers the truth about their vampire neighbor.
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B.
Peter Thompson
Peter Thompson is a former Northern Irish footballer best known as a prolific striker for Linfield FC.
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C.
Bill Thompson
Bill Thompson was an American voice actor best known for his work in classic Disney animated films and radio, including roles in "Alice in Wonderland."
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D.
Jay Thompson
Jay Thompson was an American writer and lyricist best known as one of the creators of the musical comedy "Once Upon a Mattress."
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E.
Eric Thompson
Eric Thompson was a British actor and writer best known for narrating and adapting the children's television series "The Magic Roundabout" and as the father of actress and screenwriter Emma Thompson.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
A Nightmare on Elm Street
ⓘ
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984 film) ⓘ
linked to:
A Nightmare on Elm Street
|
| appearsInGenre | slasher film ⓘ |
| basedOnWork | A Nightmare on Elm Street screenplay ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| creator | Wes Craven ⓘ |
| familyName | Thompson ⓘ |
| fictionalRole | father of Nancy Thompson ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
A Nightmare on Elm Street universe
ⓘ
linked to:
A Nightmare on Elm Street
|
| filmSeries |
A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise
ⓘ
linked to:
A Nightmare on Elm Street
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | horror ⓘ |
| givenName | Donald ⓘ |
| hasChild | Nancy Thompson ⓘ |
| hasRelative | Nancy Thompson ⓘ |
| isFictional | true ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | supporting character ⓘ |
| occupation |
police lieutenant
ⓘ
police officer ⓘ |
| residence | Springwood, Ohio ⓘ |
| worksFor | Springwood Police Department ⓘ |
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: Donald Thompson Description of subject: Donald Thompson is a fictional police lieutenant and the father of Nancy Thompson in the horror film "A Nightmare on Elm Street."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.