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Not directly, that's not how the bittorrent protocol works.
That website you reference doesn't work the way you are thinking it would work, it does not examine an IP address & then somehow figure out what it is downloading (this is impossible). That website does exactly what every other copyright troll service would do, they monitor specified torrents, load them in their own torrent software, save all the current peer IP addresses associated with that torrent, then they claim you were downloading that.
So with just an IP address no you could not do anything like that. You'd need to scour the internet for as many torrents as possible, load all the current peer IPs into a massive database, then you can search the IP address in your database & see what comes up. In other words you need to know the torrent(s) before you know the peer IP addresses.
Thank you for thorough clarification