David F. Sandberg
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David F. Sandberg is a Swedish filmmaker best known for directing the horror films "Lights Out" and "Annabelle: Creation" and later the superhero movie "Shazam!".
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David F. Sandberg canonical | 13 |
| David Sandberg | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8315756 — 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: David F. Sandberg Context triple: [Benjamin Wallfisch, collaboratedWith, David F. Sandberg]
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A.
Leigh Whannell
Leigh Whannell is an Australian screenwriter, director, actor, and producer best known for co-creating the Saw and Insidious horror film franchises.
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B.
Tomas Alfredson
Tomas Alfredson is a Swedish film director best known internationally for his atmospheric, character-driven thrillers such as "Let the Right One In" and the espionage drama "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy."
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C.
Gareth Edwards
Gareth Edwards is a Welsh former rugby union scrum-half widely regarded as one of the greatest rugby players of all time.
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D.
Gareth Edwards
Gareth Edwards is a British filmmaker known for directing large-scale science fiction and monster films such as "Monsters," "Godzilla" (2014), and "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story."
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E.
Daniel Alfredson
Daniel Alfredson is a Swedish film director and screenwriter best known for directing adaptations in the Millennium crime novel series, including "The Girl Who Played with Fire" and "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest."
- 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: David F. Sandberg Target entity description: David F. Sandberg is a Swedish filmmaker best known for directing the horror films "Lights Out" and "Annabelle: Creation" and later the superhero movie "Shazam!".
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A.
Leigh Whannell
Leigh Whannell is an Australian screenwriter, director, actor, and producer best known for co-creating the Saw and Insidious horror film franchises.
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B.
Tomas Alfredson
Tomas Alfredson is a Swedish film director best known internationally for his atmospheric, character-driven thrillers such as "Let the Right One In" and the espionage drama "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy."
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C.
Gareth Edwards
Gareth Edwards is a Welsh former rugby union scrum-half widely regarded as one of the greatest rugby players of all time.
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D.
Gareth Edwards
Gareth Edwards is a British filmmaker known for directing large-scale science fiction and monster films such as "Monsters," "Godzilla" (2014), and "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story."
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E.
Daniel Alfredson
Daniel Alfredson is a Swedish film director and screenwriter best known for directing adaptations in the Millennium crime novel series, including "The Girl Who Played with Fire" and "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
YouTuber
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film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeIn | film industry ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
New Line Cinema
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Warner Bros. Pictures ⓘ |
| birthCountry | Sweden ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1981-01-21 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Jönköping ⓘ |
| citizenship | Sweden ⓘ |
| countryOfWork |
Sweden
ⓘ
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| created | Ponysmasher (YouTube channel) ⓘ |
| directed |
Annabelle: Creation
ⓘ
Kung Fury 2 (early involvement; later left project) ⓘ
linked to:
Kung Fury 2
Lights Out (2013 short film) ⓘ Lights Out (2016 feature film) ⓘ
linked to:
Lights Out (2016 film)
Shazam! ⓘ Shazam! Fury of the Gods ⓘ |
| familyName | Sandberg ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
horror cinema
ⓘ
motion pictures ⓘ superhero cinema ⓘ |
| genre |
horror film
ⓘ
superhero film ⓘ |
| givenName | David ⓘ |
| influencedBy | online short film distribution ⓘ |
| knownFor |
low-budget horror short films
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transition from short films to Hollywood features ⓘ |
| language |
English
ⓘ
Swedish ⓘ |
| name | David F. Sandberg ⓘ |
| nationality | Swedish ⓘ |
| notableFor | expanding a viral short film into a feature-length movie ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Annabelle: Creation
ⓘ
Lights Out (2013 short film) ⓘ Lights Out (2016 feature film) ⓘ
linked to:
Lights Out (2016 film)
Shazam! ⓘ Shazam! Fury of the Gods ⓘ |
| occupation |
YouTuber
ⓘ
cinematographer ⓘ editor ⓘ film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| partOf | DC Extended Universe (as director of Shazam! films) ⓘ |
| spouse | Lotten Sandberg ⓘ |
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: David F. Sandberg Description of subject: David F. Sandberg is a Swedish filmmaker best known for directing the horror films "Lights Out" and "Annabelle: Creation" and later the superhero movie "Shazam!".
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
The Wizard Shazam in Shazam!
subject linked to:
Shazam! (as executive at associated company)
linked to: David F. Sandberg
linked to: David F. Sandberg
linked to: David F. Sandberg
linked to: David F. Sandberg