Crank
E121639
Crank is a 2006 high-octane action thriller film starring Jason Statham as a poisoned hitman racing against time to stay alive.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Crank canonical | 21 |
| Crank film series | 3 |
| Crank universe | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1017105 — 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: Crank Context triple: [Dwight Yoakam, filmAppearance, Crank]
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Crank: High Voltage
Crank: High Voltage is a 2009 hyper-kinetic action film starring Jason Statham as a hitman who must keep his heart electrically charged to stay alive.
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Crankstart
Crankstart is a charitable foundation established by venture capitalist Sir Michael Moritz and novelist Harriet Heyman that supports education, the arts, and social mobility initiatives.
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Bolt
Bolt is a global ride-hailing and mobility platform offering services like car rides, scooters, and food delivery, competing with companies such as Uber.
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D.
Wrath of Man
Wrath of Man is a 2021 action thriller film directed by Guy Ritchie, starring Jason Statham as a mysterious cash-truck security guard with a hidden agenda.
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E.
Like Crazy
Like Crazy is a 2011 romantic drama film about a long-distance relationship strained by immigration issues, starring Anton Yelchin and Felicity Jones.
- 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: Crank Target entity description: Crank is a 2006 high-octane action thriller film starring Jason Statham as a poisoned hitman racing against time to stay alive.
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A.
Crank: High Voltage
Crank: High Voltage is a 2009 hyper-kinetic action film starring Jason Statham as a hitman who must keep his heart electrically charged to stay alive.
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B.
Crankstart
Crankstart is a charitable foundation established by venture capitalist Sir Michael Moritz and novelist Harriet Heyman that supports education, the arts, and social mobility initiatives.
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C.
Bolt
Bolt is a global ride-hailing and mobility platform offering services like car rides, scooters, and food delivery, competing with companies such as Uber.
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D.
Wrath of Man
Wrath of Man is a 2021 action thriller film directed by Guy Ritchie, starring Jason Statham as a mysterious cash-truck security guard with a hidden agenda.
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E.
Like Crazy
Like Crazy is a 2011 romantic drama film about a long-distance relationship strained by immigration issues, starring Anton Yelchin and Felicity Jones.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Crank Description of subject: Crank is a 2006 high-octane action thriller film starring Jason Statham as a poisoned hitman racing against time to stay alive.
Referenced by (25)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Crank film series
this entity surface form:
Crank universe
Hitman Chev Chelios must keep his heart electrically charged after his real heart is stolen and replaced with an artificial one.
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partOfSeries
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Crank
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subject surface form:
Crank: High Voltage
this entity surface form:
Crank film series
Hitman Chev Chelios must keep his heart electrically charged after his real heart is stolen and replaced with an artificial one.
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follows
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Crank
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subject surface form:
Crank: High Voltage
Hitman Chev Chelios must keep his heart electrically charged after his real heart is stolen and replaced with an artificial one.
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appearsIn
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Crank
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subject surface form:
Chev Chelios
this entity surface form:
Crank film series