Upgrade (2018 film)
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Upgrade (2018 film) is a sci-fi action thriller about a paralyzed man who is implanted with an experimental AI chip that gives him enhanced physical abilities and drives a violent quest for revenge.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Upgrade (2018 film) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11328601 — 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: Upgrade (2018 film) Context triple: [Blumhouse Productions, associatedWith, Upgrade (2018 film)]
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A.
The Upside
The Upside is a 2017 American comedy-drama film, a remake of the French hit "The Intouchables," starring Kevin Hart and Bryan Cranston and directed by Neil Burger.
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B.
Up (franchise)
Up (franchise) is a Pixar animated film series centered on the adventures and emotional journeys of elderly widower Carl Fredricksen, young Wilderness Explorer Russell, and their talking dog companion Dug.
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C.
Up & Up
Up & Up is Target Corporation’s private-label brand offering a wide range of everyday household, personal care, and essential consumer products at value prices.
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D.
Uplifter
Uplifter is a creative work, likely a music album or song, recognized as a notable release by the artist or group associated with it.
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E.
The Rise
"The Rise" is a song featured on the album "Back to Scratch" by Welsh singer-songwriter Charlotte Church.
- 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: Upgrade (2018 film) Target entity description: Upgrade (2018 film) is a sci-fi action thriller about a paralyzed man who is implanted with an experimental AI chip that gives him enhanced physical abilities and drives a violent quest for revenge.
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A.
The Upside
The Upside is a 2017 American comedy-drama film, a remake of the French hit "The Intouchables," starring Kevin Hart and Bryan Cranston and directed by Neil Burger.
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B.
Up (franchise)
Up (franchise) is a Pixar animated film series centered on the adventures and emotional journeys of elderly widower Carl Fredricksen, young Wilderness Explorer Russell, and their talking dog companion Dug.
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C.
Up & Up
Up & Up is Target Corporation’s private-label brand offering a wide range of everyday household, personal care, and essential consumer products at value prices.
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D.
Uplifter
Uplifter is a creative work, likely a music album or song, recognized as a notable release by the artist or group associated with it.
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E.
The Rise
"The Rise" is a song featured on the album "Back to Scratch" by Welsh singer-songwriter Charlotte Church.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
action film
ⓘ
film ⓘ science fiction film ⓘ thriller film ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
human–AI integration
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loss of control ⓘ revenge ⓘ surveillance technology ⓘ |
| character |
Asha Trace
ⓘ
Detective Cortez ⓘ Eron Keen ⓘ Fisk ⓘ STEM ⓘ |
| characterType | artificial intelligence ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Stefan Duscio ⓘ |
| containsElement |
body augmentation
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cybernetic enhancement ⓘ hand-to-hand combat ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Australia ⓘ |
| criticalReception | generally positive ⓘ |
| director | Leigh Whannell ⓘ |
| distributor |
BH Tilt
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linked to:
BH Tilt (brand variant)
OTL Releasing ⓘ |
| editedBy | Andy Canny ⓘ |
| event |
South by Southwest
ⓘ
linked to:
SXSW festival
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| genre |
action
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body horror ⓘ science fiction ⓘ techno-thriller ⓘ |
| hasTwistEnding | true ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Grey Trace ⓘ |
| mpaaRating | R ⓘ |
| musicBy | Jed Palmer ⓘ |
| notableFor |
depiction of an AI implant taking control of a human host
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stylized action sequences guided by camera movement synced to the protagonist’s body ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A mechanic named Grey Trace becomes quadriplegic after a brutal mugging that kills his wife and receives an experimental AI implant called STEM that restores his mobility and drives him on a violent quest for revenge. ⓘ |
| portrayedBy |
Benedict Hardie
ⓘ
Betty Gabriel ⓘ Harrison Gilbertson ⓘ Logan Marshall-Green ⓘ Melanie Vallejo ⓘ |
| producer |
Jason Blum
ⓘ
Kylie Du Fresne ⓘ
linked to:
Kylie du Fresne
|
| productionCompany |
Blumhouse Productions
ⓘ
Goalpost Pictures ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 2018-03-10 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 100 ⓘ |
| setting | near-future city ⓘ |
| theatricalReleaseDate | 2018-06-01 ⓘ |
| writer | Leigh Whannell ⓘ |
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: Upgrade (2018 film) Description of subject: Upgrade (2018 film) is a sci-fi action thriller about a paralyzed man who is implanted with an experimental AI chip that gives him enhanced physical abilities and drives a violent quest for revenge.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.