Thomas "Babe" Levy

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Thomas "Babe" Levy is a graduate student and long-distance runner who becomes entangled in a violent conspiracy involving a Nazi war criminal in the thriller film "Marathon Man."

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Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional character
film character
adaptedFromWorkBy William Goldman
appearsIn Marathon Man (1976 film)
surface form: Marathon Man
associatedWith Nazi war criminal hunt
basedOn Thomas "Babe" Levy self-linksurface differs
surface form: Babe Levy (Marathon Man novel character)
characterArc ordinary student drawn into violent espionage conspiracy
characterDevelopment transitions from naive academic to survivor of violent conspiracy
characterTrait long-distance runner
countryOfFictionalResidence United States of America
surface form: United States
createdBy William Goldman
familyMember Henry David "Doc" Levy
famousLineAssociated Is it safe?
fictionalUniverse Marathon Man universe
fieldOfStudy history
filmDirectorOfWork John Schlesinger
filmReleaseYear 1976
firstAppearance Marathon Man (1976 film)
surface form: Marathon Man (1974 novel)
firstFilmAppearance Marathon Man (1976 film)
fullName Thomas Levy
gender male
genre thriller
involvedIn conspiracy involving a Nazi war criminal
languageSpoken English
mainAntagonist Dr. Christian Szell
medium film
nationality American
nickname Babe
notableAbility physical endurance
resourcefulness under pressure
notableRelationship student relationship with his academic advisor
notableScene torture scene involving dental drilling
novelPublicationYear 1974
occupation graduate student
portrayedBy Dustin Hoffman
publisherOfSourceNovel Delacorte Press
relativeType younger brother of Henry David "Doc" Levy
residence New York City
settingOfStory New York City
sport marathon running
storyThemeConnection ordinary man in extraordinary danger
trauma of the Holocaust
trust and betrayal

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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: Thomas "Babe" Levy
Description of subject: Thomas "Babe" Levy is a graduate student and long-distance runner who becomes entangled in a violent conspiracy involving a Nazi war criminal in the thriller film "Marathon Man."

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Marathon Man (1976 film) mainCharacter Thomas "Babe" Levy
Thomas "Babe" Levy basedOn Thomas "Babe" Levy self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Babe Levy (Marathon Man novel character)