Brad Anderson
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Brad Anderson is an American film and television director known for psychological thrillers and genre films such as "The Machinist" and "Session 9."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Brad Anderson canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6530244 — 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: Brad Anderson Context triple: [The Call (2013 film), director, Brad Anderson]
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A.
Paul W. S. Anderson
Paul W. S. Anderson is a British film director, producer, and screenwriter best known for genre films such as the Resident Evil series and other science fiction and action movies.
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B.
George P. Cosmatos
George P. Cosmatos was a Greek-Italian film director known for helming action and genre films such as "Cobra," "Rambo: First Blood Part II," and "Tombstone."
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C.
Antoine Fuqua
Antoine Fuqua is an American film director and producer best known for directing the crime thriller "Training Day" and numerous action films.
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D.
Peter Hyams
Peter Hyams is an American filmmaker known for directing and often writing and shooting genre films such as science fiction thrillers and action movies.
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E.
John Dahl
John Dahl is an American film and television director best known for his stylish neo-noir thrillers such as "Red Rock West" and "The Last Seduction."
- 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: Brad Anderson Target entity description: Brad Anderson is an American film and television director known for psychological thrillers and genre films such as "The Machinist" and "Session 9."
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A.
Paul W. S. Anderson
Paul W. S. Anderson is a British film director, producer, and screenwriter best known for genre films such as the Resident Evil series and other science fiction and action movies.
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B.
George P. Cosmatos
George P. Cosmatos was a Greek-Italian film director known for helming action and genre films such as "Cobra," "Rambo: First Blood Part II," and "Tombstone."
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C.
Antoine Fuqua
Antoine Fuqua is an American film director and producer best known for directing the crime thriller "Training Day" and numerous action films.
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D.
Peter Hyams
Peter Hyams is an American filmmaker known for directing and often writing and shooting genre films such as science fiction thrillers and action movies.
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E.
John Dahl
John Dahl is an American film and television director best known for his stylish neo-noir thrillers such as "Red Rock West" and "The Last Seduction."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film director
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human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television director ⓘ |
| basedIn | United States of America ⓘ |
| birthName | Bradley Anderson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| directed |
Beirut
NERFINISHED
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Boardwalk Empire episodes ⓘ Fractured NERFINISHED ⓘ Fringe (TV series) episodes ⓘ Fringe episode "6955 kHz" NERFINISHED ⓘ Fringe episode "Anomaly XB-6783746" NERFINISHED ⓘ Fringe episode "August" NERFINISHED ⓘ Fringe episode "Bloodline" NERFINISHED ⓘ Fringe episode "Enemy of My Enemy" NERFINISHED ⓘ Fringe episode "Immortality" NERFINISHED ⓘ Fringe episode "Momentum Deferred" NERFINISHED ⓘ Fringe episode "Nothing As It Seems" NERFINISHED ⓘ Fringe episode "One Night in October" NERFINISHED ⓘ Fringe episode "The Box" NERFINISHED ⓘ Fringe episode "The Recordist" NERFINISHED ⓘ Happy Accidents NERFINISHED ⓘ Masters of Horror episodes ⓘ Next Stop Wonderland NERFINISHED ⓘ Session 9 NERFINISHED ⓘ Stonehearst Asylum NERFINISHED ⓘ The Call NERFINISHED ⓘ The Killing (U.S. TV series) episodes ⓘ The Machinist NERFINISHED ⓘ The Wire (TV series) episodes ⓘ Transsiberian NERFINISHED ⓘ Treme episodes ⓘ Vanishing on 7th Street NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
horror film
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psychological thriller film ⓘ science fiction film ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | psychological thriller films ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Fractured
NERFINISHED
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Happy Accidents NERFINISHED ⓘ Next Stop Wonderland NERFINISHED ⓘ Session 9 NERFINISHED ⓘ The Call NERFINISHED ⓘ The Machinist NERFINISHED ⓘ Transsiberian NERFINISHED ⓘ Vanishing on 7th Street NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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screenwriter ⓘ television director ⓘ |
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: Brad Anderson Description of subject: Brad Anderson is an American film and television director known for psychological thrillers and genre films such as "The Machinist" and "Session 9."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.