Brain on Fire
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Brain on Fire is a 2016 biographical drama film based on Susannah Cahalan’s memoir about her sudden descent into and recovery from a rare autoimmune brain disease.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Brain on Fire canonical | 21 |
| Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness | 2 |
| Brain on Fire (film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2200978 — 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: Brain on Fire Context triple: [Denver and Delilah Productions, notableWork, Brain on Fire]
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A.
Sleep Now in the Fire
"Sleep Now in the Fire" is a politically charged rap metal song by Rage Against the Machine, known for its critique of capitalism and its controversial music video directed by Michael Moore.
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B.
The Blackout
"The Blackout" is a rock song by U2 from their 2017 album *Songs of Experience*, noted for its heavy bass-driven sound and politically charged lyrics.
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C.
The Light We Carry
The Light We Carry is a 2022 nonfiction book by Michelle Obama that offers personal reflections and practical wisdom on resilience, hope, and navigating uncertainty.
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D.
Firestarter
Firestarter is a 1980 science fiction–horror novel by Stephen King about a young girl with dangerous pyrokinetic powers being pursued by a secret government agency.
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The Fire
The Fire is a Major League Soccer club based in Chicago, Illinois, known formally as Chicago Fire FC.
- 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: Brain on Fire Target entity description: Brain on Fire is a 2016 biographical drama film based on Susannah Cahalan’s memoir about her sudden descent into and recovery from a rare autoimmune brain disease.
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A.
Sleep Now in the Fire
"Sleep Now in the Fire" is a politically charged rap metal song by Rage Against the Machine, known for its critique of capitalism and its controversial music video directed by Michael Moore.
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B.
The Blackout
"The Blackout" is a rock song by U2 from their 2017 album *Songs of Experience*, noted for its heavy bass-driven sound and politically charged lyrics.
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C.
The Light We Carry
The Light We Carry is a 2022 nonfiction book by Michelle Obama that offers personal reflections and practical wisdom on resilience, hope, and navigating uncertainty.
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D.
Firestarter
Firestarter is a 1980 science fiction–horror novel by Stephen King about a young girl with dangerous pyrokinetic powers being pursued by a secret government agency.
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E.
The Fire
The Fire is a Major League Soccer club based in Chicago, Illinois, known formally as Chicago Fire FC.
- 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: Brain on Fire Description of subject: Brain on Fire is a 2016 biographical drama film based on Susannah Cahalan’s memoir about her sudden descent into and recovery from a rare autoimmune brain disease.
Referenced by (24)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Brain on Fire
linked to: Brain on Fire
subject linked to:
Susannah Cahalan
subject linked to:
Rob Merilees
linked to: Brain on Fire