Billy Loomis
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Billy Loomis is the primary antagonist and original Ghostface killer in the 1996 horror film "Scream," known for orchestrating a series of murders in Woodsboro.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Billy Loomis canonical | 11 |
| Billy Loomis in Scream | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6102534 — 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: Billy Loomis Context triple: [Scream, mainCharacter, Billy Loomis]
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A.
Michael Myers
Michael Myers is the iconic masked serial killer from the "Halloween" horror film franchise.
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B.
Silas Laurence Loomis
Silas Laurence Loomis was a 19th-century American physician, inventor, and educator known for his contributions to medical science and technological innovation.
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C.
Francis Dolarhyde
Francis Dolarhyde is the fictional serial killer known as "The Tooth Fairy" in Thomas Harris's novel *Red Dragon* and its screen adaptations.
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D.
Sam Loomis
Sam Loomis is a central character in Alfred Hitchcock's classic horror film "Psycho," known as Marion Crane's boyfriend who becomes involved in investigating her disappearance.
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E.
Gabriel Harris
Gabriel Harris is an American percussionist and musician best known for his work with his mother, folk singer and activist Joan Baez, as well as other world and folk music artists.
- 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: Billy Loomis Target entity description: Billy Loomis is the primary antagonist and original Ghostface killer in the 1996 horror film "Scream," known for orchestrating a series of murders in Woodsboro.
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A.
Michael Myers
Michael Myers is the iconic masked serial killer from the "Halloween" horror film franchise.
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B.
Silas Laurence Loomis
Silas Laurence Loomis was a 19th-century American physician, inventor, and educator known for his contributions to medical science and technological innovation.
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C.
Francis Dolarhyde
Francis Dolarhyde is the fictional serial killer known as "The Tooth Fairy" in Thomas Harris's novel *Red Dragon* and its screen adaptations.
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D.
Sam Loomis
Sam Loomis is a central character in Alfred Hitchcock's classic horror film "Psycho," known as Marion Crane's boyfriend who becomes involved in investigating her disappearance.
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E.
Gabriel Harris
Gabriel Harris is an American percussionist and musician best known for his work with his mother, folk singer and activist Joan Baez, as well as other world and folk music artists.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Ghostface killer
ⓘ
antagonist ⓘ fictional character ⓘ film character ⓘ serial killer ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Scream
ⓘ
Scream (1996 film) ⓘ Scream (2022 film) as hallucination ⓘ Scream (franchise) ⓘ
linked to:
Scream film series
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| associatedWith |
Ghostface killings
ⓘ
Woodsboro murders ⓘ |
| createdBy | Kevin Williamson ⓘ |
| deathIn | Scream (1996 film) ⓘ |
| enemy |
Dewey Riley
ⓘ
Gale Weathers ⓘ Randy Meeks ⓘ |
| family |
Christina Carpenter
ⓘ
Hank Loomis ⓘ Mrs. Loomis ⓘ
linked to:
Lila Loomis
|
| fictionalUniverse |
Scream universe
ⓘ
linked to:
Scream film series
|
| firstAppearance | Scream (1996 film) ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | horror ⓘ |
| hasChild | Samantha Carpenter ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | slasher film tropes ⓘ |
| killedBy | Sidney Prescott ⓘ |
| killsWith |
knife
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voice changer-assisted phone calls ⓘ |
| motive |
desire to frame Sidney's father
ⓘ
hatred of Maureen Prescott ⓘ revenge for his mother's abandonment ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableQuote | We all go a little mad sometimes ⓘ |
| notableScene | reveals himself as one of the Ghostface killers in the climax of Scream (1996) ⓘ |
| occupation | high school student ⓘ |
| partnerInCrime | Stu Macher ⓘ |
| portrayedBy |
Skeet Ulrich
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Skeet Ulrich in Scream (2022 film) ⓘ |
| portrayedIn | live-action film ⓘ |
| residence | Woodsboro ⓘ |
| roleInWork |
original Ghostface killer
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primary antagonist in Scream (1996 film) ⓘ |
| romanticRelationship | Sidney Prescott ⓘ |
| targets |
Sidney Prescott
ⓘ
Sidney Prescott's friends ⓘ |
| usesAlias | Ghostface ⓘ |
| visualCharacteristic |
dark hair
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often wears dark clothing ⓘ |
| wears | Ghostface costume ⓘ |
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: Billy Loomis Description of subject: Billy Loomis is the primary antagonist and original Ghostface killer in the 1996 horror film "Scream," known for orchestrating a series of murders in Woodsboro.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Billy Loomis
linked to: Billy Loomis