Eric Bress
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Eric Bress is an American screenwriter and film director best known for co-writing and co-directing the psychological thriller film "The Butterfly Effect."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Eric Bress canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9740974 — 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)
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Target entity: Eric Bress Context triple: [The Butterfly Effect, director, Eric Bress]
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A.
Alex Gansa
Alex Gansa is an American television writer and producer best known for co-creating and showrunning the acclaimed political thriller series "Homeland."
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B.
Matthew Heineman
Matthew Heineman is an American filmmaker known for his immersive, character-driven documentaries and narrative features that often explore conflict zones and social issues.
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C.
Stephen Gaghan
Stephen Gaghan is an American screenwriter and director best known for his politically charged, multi-narrative films such as "Traffic" and "Syriana."
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D.
Jeremy Leven
Jeremy Leven is an American screenwriter, director, and novelist known for adapting romantic and character-driven stories for film, including the hit movie "The Notebook."
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E.
Michael Seitzman
Michael Seitzman is an American screenwriter and producer known for his work on films such as "North Country" and for creating and producing several television series.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Eric Bress Target entity description: Eric Bress is an American screenwriter and film director best known for co-writing and co-directing the psychological thriller film "The Butterfly Effect."
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A.
Alex Gansa
Alex Gansa is an American television writer and producer best known for co-creating and showrunning the acclaimed political thriller series "Homeland."
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B.
Matthew Heineman
Matthew Heineman is an American filmmaker known for his immersive, character-driven documentaries and narrative features that often explore conflict zones and social issues.
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C.
Stephen Gaghan
Stephen Gaghan is an American screenwriter and director best known for his politically charged, multi-narrative films such as "Traffic" and "Syriana."
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D.
Jeremy Leven
Jeremy Leven is an American screenwriter, director, and novelist known for adapting romantic and character-driven stories for film, including the hit movie "The Notebook."
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E.
Michael Seitzman
Michael Seitzman is an American screenwriter and producer known for his work on films such as "North Country" and for creating and producing several television series.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film director
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film producer ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeIn | Hollywood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| almaMater | Syracuse University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| coCreated | TV series Kyle XY (early concept work, uncredited/creator credit varies) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coDirected | The Butterfly Effect NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coDirectedWith | J. Mackye Gruber NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contributedTo | Final Destination film series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| coWrote |
Final Destination 2
NERFINISHED
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The Butterfly Effect NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coWroteWith | J. Mackye Gruber NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| directed | The Butterfly Effect NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Syracuse University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film
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television ⓘ |
| genre |
horror film
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psychological thriller ⓘ science fiction film ⓘ |
| hasWritingPartner | J. Mackye Gruber NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-directing The Butterfly Effect
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co-writing The Butterfly Effect ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Final Destination 2
NERFINISHED
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The Butterfly Effect NERFINISHED ⓘ The Butterfly Effect 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ The Final Destination NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| partOf | The Butterfly Effect film series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| screenplayBy |
Final Destination 2
NERFINISHED
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The Final Destination NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workFocusesOn |
horror and suspense
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supernatural themes ⓘ time travel and alternate timelines ⓘ |
| wrote |
Final Destination 2
NERFINISHED
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The Butterfly Effect NERFINISHED ⓘ The Butterfly Effect 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ The Final Destination 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: Eric Bress Description of subject: Eric Bress is an American screenwriter and film director best known for co-writing and co-directing the psychological thriller film "The Butterfly Effect."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.