Josh Trank
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Josh Trank is an American filmmaker best known for directing the found-footage superhero film "Chronicle" and the 2015 reboot of "Fantastic Four."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Josh Trank canonical | 14 |
| Josh Trank (film interpretation) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3067812 — 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: Josh Trank Context triple: [Fantastic Four (2015 film), director, Josh Trank]
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A.
Gareth Edwards
Gareth Edwards is a Welsh former rugby union scrum-half widely regarded as one of the greatest rugby players of all time.
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B.
Gareth Edwards
Gareth Edwards is a British filmmaker known for directing large-scale science fiction and monster films such as "Monsters," "Godzilla" (2014), and "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story."
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C.
Rian Johnson
Rian Johnson is an American filmmaker known for his inventive, genre-bending movies such as "Brick," "Looper," and "Knives Out," as well as directing "Star Wars: The Last Jedi."
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D.
Travis Knight
Travis Knight is an American animator, film director, and CEO of the stop-motion animation studio Laika, known for directing films such as "Kubo and the Two Strings."
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E.
Rupert Sanders
Rupert Sanders is a British film director best known for making his feature debut with the dark fantasy film "Snow White and the Huntsman."
- 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: Josh Trank Target entity description: Josh Trank is an American filmmaker best known for directing the found-footage superhero film "Chronicle" and the 2015 reboot of "Fantastic Four."
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A.
Gareth Edwards
Gareth Edwards is a Welsh former rugby union scrum-half widely regarded as one of the greatest rugby players of all time.
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B.
Gareth Edwards
Gareth Edwards is a British filmmaker known for directing large-scale science fiction and monster films such as "Monsters," "Godzilla" (2014), and "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story."
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C.
Rian Johnson
Rian Johnson is an American filmmaker known for his inventive, genre-bending movies such as "Brick," "Looper," and "Knives Out," as well as directing "Star Wars: The Last Jedi."
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D.
Travis Knight
Travis Knight is an American animator, film director, and CEO of the stop-motion animation studio Laika, known for directing films such as "Kubo and the Two Strings."
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E.
Rupert Sanders
Rupert Sanders is a British film director best known for making his feature debut with the dark fantasy film "Snow White and the Huntsman."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film director
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film editor ⓘ human ⓘ producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| directed |
Capone (2020 film)
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Chronicle ⓘ Fantastic Four (2015 film) ⓘ |
| familyName | Trank ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
filmmaking
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science fiction films ⓘ superhero films ⓘ |
| genre |
found footage film
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science fiction film ⓘ superhero film ⓘ |
| givenName | Josh ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Josh Trank ⓘ |
| notableFor |
directing the 2015 reboot of "Fantastic Four"
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directing the found-footage superhero film "Chronicle" ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Chronicle
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Fantastic Four (2015 film) ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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film editor ⓘ film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| workLocation | United States of America ⓘ |
| wrote |
Capone (2020 film)
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Chronicle ⓘ |
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: Josh Trank Description of subject: Josh Trank is an American filmmaker best known for directing the found-footage superhero film "Chronicle" and the 2015 reboot of "Fantastic Four."
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Fantastic Four film series
subject linked to:
Reed Richards / Mister Fantastic in Fantastic Four (2015 film)
linked to: Josh Trank