Brick (2005 film)
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Brick is a 2005 neo-noir mystery film that transplants hardboiled detective tropes into a modern American high school setting, written and directed by Rian Johnson.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Brick (2005 film) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9459495 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Brick (2005 film) Context triple: [Richard Roundtree, notableWork, Brick (2005 film)]
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A.
The Lego Movie
The Lego Movie is a 2014 animated adventure-comedy film that follows an ordinary LEGO minifigure mistaken for a prophesied hero in a fast-paced, self-aware story set in a world built entirely from LEGO bricks.
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B.
Brick by Brick
Brick by Brick is a 1990 rock album by Iggy Pop that marked a commercial and critical resurgence, blending hard rock with more polished, accessible songwriting.
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C.
Brick House
"Brick House" is a 1977 funk and soul hit by The Commodores, celebrated for its iconic bassline and enduring popularity as a dance-floor classic.
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D.
The Block
The Block is a popular Australian reality television series in which couples compete to renovate and sell properties for profit.
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The Block
The Block is a comeback studio album by American boy band New Kids on the Block, marking their return to the music scene in the late 2000s with a contemporary pop and R&B sound.
- 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: Brick (2005 film) Target entity description: Brick is a 2005 neo-noir mystery film that transplants hardboiled detective tropes into a modern American high school setting, written and directed by Rian Johnson.
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A.
The Lego Movie
The Lego Movie is a 2014 animated adventure-comedy film that follows an ordinary LEGO minifigure mistaken for a prophesied hero in a fast-paced, self-aware story set in a world built entirely from LEGO bricks.
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B.
Brick by Brick
Brick by Brick is a 1990 rock album by Iggy Pop that marked a commercial and critical resurgence, blending hard rock with more polished, accessible songwriting.
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C.
Brick House
"Brick House" is a 1977 funk and soul hit by The Commodores, celebrated for its iconic bassline and enduring popularity as a dance-floor classic.
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D.
The Block
The Block is a popular Australian reality television series in which couples compete to renovate and sell properties for profit.
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E.
The Block
The Block is a comeback studio album by American boy band New Kids on the Block, marking their return to the music scene in the late 2000s with a contemporary pop and R&B sound.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Special Jury Prize for Originality of Vision NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceivedFrom | Sundance Film Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| boxOfficeGrossUSD | 3900000 ⓘ |
| budgetUSD | 475000 ⓘ |
| character |
Brain
NERFINISHED
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Brendan Frye NERFINISHED ⓘ Emily Kostich NERFINISHED ⓘ Laura Dannon NERFINISHED ⓘ The Pin NERFINISHED ⓘ Tugger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Steve Yedlin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| director | Rian Johnson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor |
Focus Features
NERFINISHED
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Universal Pictures ⓘ |
| editedBy | Rian Johnson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | San Clemente, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
crime
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drama ⓘ mystery ⓘ neo-noir ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
drug trafficking
ⓘ
noir detective investigation ⓘ teen crime ⓘ |
| musicBy | Nathan Johnson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeStyle | hardboiled detective pastiche ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| premiereYear | 2005 ⓘ |
| producer | Ram Bergman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonist | Brendan Frye NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2005 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 110 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Rian Johnson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
American high school
ⓘ
Southern California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Emilie de Ravin
NERFINISHED
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt NERFINISHED ⓘ Lukas Haas NERFINISHED ⓘ Matt O’Leary NERFINISHED ⓘ Meagan Good NERFINISHED ⓘ Noah Fleiss NERFINISHED ⓘ Noah Segan NERFINISHED ⓘ Nora Zehetner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| worldPremiereAt | Sundance Film Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writer | Rian Johnson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Brick (2005 film) Description of subject: Brick is a 2005 neo-noir mystery film that transplants hardboiled detective tropes into a modern American high school setting, written and directed by Rian Johnson.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.