Josie Radek
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Josie Radek is a character in the science fiction film "Annihilation," portrayed as a quiet, introspective paramedic who joins an ill-fated expedition into a mysterious environmental anomaly.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Josie Radek canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10494452 — 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: Josie Radek Context triple: [Annihilation, hasCharacter, Josie Radek]
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A.
Lyla Novacek
Lyla Novacek is a gifted cellist and one of the central characters in the musical drama film "August Rush."
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B.
Josie McCullough
Josie McCullough is known primarily as the wife of Northern Irish guitarist and singer-songwriter Henry McCullough, associated with acts like Wings and Joe Cocker.
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C.
Risa Zaitschek
Risa Zaitschek is a visual artist and designer best known for creating the cover art for Neil Young’s album "Rust Never Sleeps."
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D.
Jessica Szohr
Jessica Szohr is an American actress best known for her role as Vanessa Abrams on the television series "Gossip Girl" and later as a main cast member on the sci-fi comedy-drama "The Orville."
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E.
Katie Kresek
Katie Kresek is an American violinist, concertmaster, and orchestrator best known for her work on Broadway productions including the Tony Award-winning musical "Moulin Rouge! The Musical."
- 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: Josie Radek Target entity description: Josie Radek is a character in the science fiction film "Annihilation," portrayed as a quiet, introspective paramedic who joins an ill-fated expedition into a mysterious environmental anomaly.
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A.
Lyla Novacek
Lyla Novacek is a gifted cellist and one of the central characters in the musical drama film "August Rush."
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B.
Josie McCullough
Josie McCullough is known primarily as the wife of Northern Irish guitarist and singer-songwriter Henry McCullough, associated with acts like Wings and Joe Cocker.
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C.
Risa Zaitschek
Risa Zaitschek is a visual artist and designer best known for creating the cover art for Neil Young’s album "Rust Never Sleeps."
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D.
Jessica Szohr
Jessica Szohr is an American actress best known for her role as Vanessa Abrams on the television series "Gossip Girl" and later as a main cast member on the sci-fi comedy-drama "The Orville."
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E.
Katie Kresek
Katie Kresek is an American violinist, concertmaster, and orchestrator best known for her work on Broadway productions including the Tony Award-winning musical "Moulin Rouge! The Musical."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | fictional character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Annihilation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | the Shimmer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | character from the novel Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer (loosely) ⓘ |
| expeditionOutcome | ill-fated ⓘ |
| filmBasedOn | Annihilation (Southern Reach Trilogy, Book 1) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmDirector | Alex Garland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 2018 ⓘ |
| filmWriter | Alex Garland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction ⓘ |
| joins | expedition into the Shimmer ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| nationalityInFilm | American ⓘ |
| occupation | paramedic ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
introspective
ⓘ
quiet ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Tessa Thompson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
Area X
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
abandoned lighthouse inside the Shimmer ⓘ |
| storyFunction | explores themes of self-destruction and transformation ⓘ |
| teamMembersInclude |
Anya Thorensen
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cass Sheppard NERFINISHED ⓘ Dr. Ventress NERFINISHED ⓘ Lena NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| teamRole | member of all-female expedition team ⓘ |
| themeInvolvement |
human response to the unknown
ⓘ
identity dissolution ⓘ |
| worksIn | emergency medical services ⓘ |
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: Josie Radek Description of subject: Josie Radek is a character in the science fiction film "Annihilation," portrayed as a quiet, introspective paramedic who joins an ill-fated expedition into a mysterious environmental anomaly.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.