Skip McCoy
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Skip McCoy is a small-time pickpocket and the streetwise, anti-hero protagonist of the 1953 film noir "Pickup on South Street."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Skip McCoy canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6449012 — 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: Skip McCoy Context triple: [Pickup on South Street, mainCharacter, Skip McCoy]
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A.
Mickey McConnell
Mickey McConnell is a former American point guard best known for his standout collegiate career at Saint Mary's College, where he became one of the program's leading playmakers and shooters.
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B.
Rod Tidwell
Rod Tidwell is a charismatic, outspoken professional football player in the film "Jerry Maguire," best known for his demand to "show me the money."
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C.
Ed Masterson
Ed Masterson was an American lawman and marshal in the Old West, best known for his role in Dodge City, Kansas, and as the brother of famed gunfighter and lawman Bat Masterson.
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D.
Jack McFarland
Jack McFarland is a flamboyant, aspiring actor and Will Truman’s exuberant best friend on the sitcom "Will & Grace," known for his over-the-top personality and comedic antics.
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E.
Martin McKinney
Martin McKinney is a music producer best known for his work on The Weeknd’s hit album "Starboy."
- 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: Skip McCoy Target entity description: Skip McCoy is a small-time pickpocket and the streetwise, anti-hero protagonist of the 1953 film noir "Pickup on South Street."
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A.
Mickey McConnell
Mickey McConnell is a former American point guard best known for his standout collegiate career at Saint Mary's College, where he became one of the program's leading playmakers and shooters.
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B.
Rod Tidwell
Rod Tidwell is a charismatic, outspoken professional football player in the film "Jerry Maguire," best known for his demand to "show me the money."
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C.
Ed Masterson
Ed Masterson was an American lawman and marshal in the Old West, best known for his role in Dodge City, Kansas, and as the brother of famed gunfighter and lawman Bat Masterson.
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D.
Jack McFarland
Jack McFarland is a flamboyant, aspiring actor and Will Truman’s exuberant best friend on the sitcom "Will & Grace," known for his over-the-top personality and comedic antics.
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E.
Martin McKinney
Martin McKinney is a music producer best known for his work on The Weeknd’s hit album "Starboy."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Pickup on South Street ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Candy (Pickup on South Street character)
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communist agents ⓘ police ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
crime
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espionage ⓘ red scare ⓘ urban underworld ⓘ |
| characterType |
anti-hero
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small-time criminal ⓘ |
| createdFor | Pickup on South Street ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | film noir ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| mediumOfOriginCountry |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| moralAlignment | morally ambiguous ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
main character
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protagonist ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | American ⓘ |
| occupation | pickpocket ⓘ |
| personalityTrait | streetwise ⓘ |
| protagonistOf | Pickup on South Street ⓘ |
| settingPeriod |
Cold War era
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linked to:
Cold War
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| skills |
deception
ⓘ
pickpocketing ⓘ stealth ⓘ |
| storyLocation | New York City ⓘ |
| workReleaseYear | 1953 ⓘ |
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: Skip McCoy Description of subject: Skip McCoy is a small-time pickpocket and the streetwise, anti-hero protagonist of the 1953 film noir "Pickup on South Street."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.