Fran Kranz
E443028
Fran Kranz is an American actor best known for his roles in the TV series "Dollhouse" and the horror-comedy film "The Cabin in the Woods."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Fran Kranz canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4459617 — 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: Fran Kranz Context triple: [Dollhouse, castMember, Fran Kranz]
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A.
Thomas Sadoski
Thomas Sadoski is an American actor known for his roles in television series like "The Newsroom" and films such as "John Wick" and "Wild."
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B.
Greg Sanders
Greg Sanders is a quirky, music-loving forensic scientist who evolves from a DNA lab technician to a field investigator on the TV series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
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C.
Marc Tarpenning
Marc Tarpenning is an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of electric vehicle and clean energy company Tesla, Inc.
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D.
Alan Tudyk
Alan Tudyk is an American actor and voice actor known for his versatile character roles in films, television, and animation, including work with Disney and on series like "Firefly."
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E.
Eric Bauza
Eric Bauza is a Canadian voice actor and comedian best known for portraying iconic animated characters in modern Looney Tunes productions.
- 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: Fran Kranz Target entity description: Fran Kranz is an American actor best known for his roles in the TV series "Dollhouse" and the horror-comedy film "The Cabin in the Woods."
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A.
Thomas Sadoski
Thomas Sadoski is an American actor known for his roles in television series like "The Newsroom" and films such as "John Wick" and "Wild."
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B.
Greg Sanders
Greg Sanders is a quirky, music-loving forensic scientist who evolves from a DNA lab technician to a field investigator on the TV series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
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C.
Marc Tarpenning
Marc Tarpenning is an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of electric vehicle and clean energy company Tesla, Inc.
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D.
Alan Tudyk
Alan Tudyk is an American actor and voice actor known for his versatile character roles in films, television, and animation, including work with Disney and on series like "Firefly."
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E.
Eric Bauza
Eric Bauza is a Canadian voice actor and comedian best known for portraying iconic animated characters in modern Looney Tunes productions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
Dollhouse
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Homecoming (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ Major Crimes NERFINISHED ⓘ Mass (2021 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Much Ado About Nothing (2012 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Cabin in the Woods NERFINISHED ⓘ The Good Wife NERFINISHED ⓘ The Village NERFINISHED ⓘ Training Day NERFINISHED ⓘ Welcome to the Captain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Francis Elliott Kranz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1981-07-13 ⓘ |
| directed | Mass (2021 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard-Westlake School
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Yale University ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White American ⓘ |
| familyName | Kranz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | horror-comedy ⓘ |
| givenName | Francis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild | daughter (name not widely public) ⓘ |
| hasIMDbId | nm0462712 ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Fran Kranz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Dollhouse
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mass (2021 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Much Ado About Nothing (2012 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Cabin in the Woods NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
film director ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Los Angeles, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedCharacter |
Claudio in Much Ado About Nothing (2012 film)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Marty Mikalski in The Cabin in the Woods ⓘ Topher Brink in Dollhouse ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles
ⓘ
surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Spencer Margaret Richmond NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedWith | Joss Whedon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wrote | Mass (2021 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1990s–present ⓘ |
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: Fran Kranz Description of subject: Fran Kranz is an American actor best known for his roles in the TV series "Dollhouse" and the horror-comedy film "The Cabin in the Woods."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.