Doc McCoy
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Doc McCoy is the seasoned professional criminal protagonist of the crime thriller "The Getaway," known for his complex morality and high-stakes escape from a botched heist.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Doc McCoy canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9839855 — 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: Doc McCoy Context triple: [The Getaway (1994 film), character, Doc McCoy]
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A.
Trapper John McIntyre
Trapper John McIntyre is a witty, skilled U.S. Army surgeon and Hawkeye Pierce’s close friend in the Korean War–set television series M*A*S*H.
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B.
Doc Cochran
Doc Cochran is a compassionate and morally driven frontier physician in the television series "Deadwood," known for his dedication to treating the camp’s residents amid harsh and lawless conditions.
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C.
Sanford Bates
Sanford Bates was an American corrections official who became the first director of the U.S. Bureau of Prisons and a key figure in the professionalization of the federal prison system in the early 20th century.
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D.
McCoy
McCoy is a common Scottish and Irish surname often associated with the phrase "the real McCoy," meaning something genuine or authentic.
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E.
Dr. Cadman
Dr. Cadman is a sinister surgeon in the 1956 horror film "The Black Sleep," known for conducting macabre brain experiments on unwilling subjects.
- 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: Doc McCoy Target entity description: Doc McCoy is the seasoned professional criminal protagonist of the crime thriller "The Getaway," known for his complex morality and high-stakes escape from a botched heist.
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A.
Trapper John McIntyre
Trapper John McIntyre is a witty, skilled U.S. Army surgeon and Hawkeye Pierce’s close friend in the Korean War–set television series M*A*S*H.
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B.
Doc Cochran
Doc Cochran is a compassionate and morally driven frontier physician in the television series "Deadwood," known for his dedication to treating the camp’s residents amid harsh and lawless conditions.
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C.
Sanford Bates
Sanford Bates was an American corrections official who became the first director of the U.S. Bureau of Prisons and a key figure in the professionalization of the federal prison system in the early 20th century.
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D.
McCoy
McCoy is a common Scottish and Irish surname often associated with the phrase "the real McCoy," meaning something genuine or authentic.
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E.
Dr. Cadman
Dr. Cadman is a sinister surgeon in the 1956 horror film "The Black Sleep," known for conducting macabre brain experiments on unwilling subjects.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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protagonist ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Getaway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
crime underworld
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escape ⓘ heists ⓘ |
| characterArc | struggle between self-interest and loyalty ⓘ |
| conflictType |
man versus criminal associates
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man versus law enforcement ⓘ man versus self ⓘ |
| genreContext | crime thriller ⓘ |
| hasMoralAlignment | antihero ⓘ |
| hasTrait |
morally complex
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seasoned ⓘ |
| involvedIn | botched heist ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | central figure driving the plot of The Getaway ⓘ |
| narrativeSettingType | American crime milieu ⓘ |
| notableFor | high-stakes escape after a failed robbery ⓘ |
| occupation | professional criminal ⓘ |
| plotElement | escape from a botched heist ⓘ |
| primaryActivity | planning and executing robberies ⓘ |
| riskLevel | high-stakes operations ⓘ |
| role | protagonist of the crime thriller The Getaway ⓘ |
| storyTheme |
loyalty under pressure
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survival after a failed crime ⓘ trust and betrayal ⓘ |
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: Doc McCoy Description of subject: Doc McCoy is the seasoned professional criminal protagonist of the crime thriller "The Getaway," known for his complex morality and high-stakes escape from a botched heist.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.