Brightburn
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Brightburn is a 2019 horror-superhero film that reimagines the Superman origin story as a dark tale about a young boy with alien powers who becomes a malevolent force.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Brightburn canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9996108 — 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)
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Target entity: Brightburn Context triple: [Original Film, produced, Brightburn]
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A.
Pitch Black
Pitch Black is a 2000 science fiction horror film starring Vin Diesel as antihero Richard B. Riddick, known for its tense survival plot on a hostile alien planet and for launching the Chronicles of Riddick franchise.
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B.
Screamers
Screamers is a 1995 science fiction horror film, based on a Philip K. Dick story, in which Peter Weller stars as a soldier on a war-torn planet threatened by self-replicating killer machines.
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C.
The Frighteners
The Frighteners is a 1996 horror-comedy film directed by Peter Jackson that blends supernatural thrills with dark humor as it follows a psychic con artist who must confront real malevolent spirits.
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D.
Knightsville
Knightsville is a historic Italian-American neighborhood in the city of Cranston, Rhode Island, known for its strong community identity and cultural traditions.
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E.
30 Days of Night
30 Days of Night is a 2007 horror film about a remote Alaskan town besieged by vampires during a month-long polar night.
- 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: Brightburn Target entity description: Brightburn is a 2019 horror-superhero film that reimagines the Superman origin story as a dark tale about a young boy with alien powers who becomes a malevolent force.
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A.
Pitch Black
Pitch Black is a 2000 science fiction horror film starring Vin Diesel as antihero Richard B. Riddick, known for its tense survival plot on a hostile alien planet and for launching the Chronicles of Riddick franchise.
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B.
Screamers
Screamers is a 1995 science fiction horror film, based on a Philip K. Dick story, in which Peter Weller stars as a soldier on a war-torn planet threatened by self-replicating killer machines.
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C.
The Frighteners
The Frighteners is a 1996 horror-comedy film directed by Peter Jackson that blends supernatural thrills with dark humor as it follows a psychic con artist who must confront real malevolent spirits.
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D.
Knightsville
Knightsville is a historic Italian-American neighborhood in the city of Cranston, Rhode Island, known for its strong community identity and cultural traditions.
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E.
30 Days of Night
30 Days of Night is a 2007 horror film about a remote Alaskan town besieged by vampires during a month-long polar night.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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superhero horror film ⓘ |
| basedOn | Superman mythos (unofficially inspired) ⓘ |
| boxOfficeWorldwide | over $32 million ⓘ |
| budget | about $6 million ⓘ |
| castMember |
David Denman
NERFINISHED
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Elizabeth Banks NERFINISHED ⓘ Jackson A. Dunn NERFINISHED ⓘ Matt Jones NERFINISHED ⓘ Meredith Hagner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterRole | Brandon Breyer is a young boy with alien powers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Michael Dallatorre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| countryOfRelease |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | David Yarovesky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Sony Pictures Releasing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Andrew S. Eisen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
horror film
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science fiction film ⓘ superhero film ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
corruption of power
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evil Superman archetype ⓘ nature versus nurture ⓘ |
| homeMediaRelease | 2019-08-20 (US Blu-ray and DVD) ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Brandon Breyer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mpaaRating | R for horror violence, bloody images, and language ⓘ |
| musicBy | Tim Williams NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeOrigin | reimagines the Superman origin story as horror ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A couple in Kansas-like rural America adopts a mysterious alien child who later uses his powers malevolently ⓘ |
| posterTagline | He’s not here to save the world ⓘ |
| producer |
Brian Gunn
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
James Gunn NERFINISHED ⓘ Kenneth Huang NERFINISHED ⓘ Lorenzo di Bonaventura NERFINISHED ⓘ Mark Gunn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Screen Gems
NERFINISHED
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Stage 6 Films NERFINISHED ⓘ The H Collective NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonistPortrayedBy | Jackson A. Dunn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| rating | R ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 2019-05-24 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2019 ⓘ |
| runtime | 90 minutes ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Brian Gunn
NERFINISHED
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Mark Gunn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | rural Kansas-like town of Brightburn, Kansas ⓘ |
| storyBy |
Brian Gunn
NERFINISHED
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Mark Gunn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subgenre | superhero horror ⓘ |
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: Brightburn Description of subject: Brightburn is a 2019 horror-superhero film that reimagines the Superman origin story as a dark tale about a young boy with alien powers who becomes a malevolent force.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.