Brandon Sullivan
E335577
Brandon Sullivan is the troubled, sex-addicted protagonist of the 2011 drama film "Shame," portrayed by Michael Fassbender.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Brandon Sullivan canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3065788 — 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: Brandon Sullivan Context triple: [Shame, leadCharacter, Brandon Sullivan]
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A.
Liam Sullivan
Liam Sullivan was an American character actor known for his numerous television and film roles from the 1950s through the 1980s, often portraying suave or villainous figures.
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B.
Devlin Elliott
Devlin Elliott is an American theater and film producer best known as the husband of actor Nathan Lane.
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C.
Matt Sullivan
Matt Sullivan is the celibate-pledging protagonist of the romantic comedy film "40 Days and 40 Nights," whose vow of abstinence drives the movie’s central plot and comedic conflicts.
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D.
Colin Sullivan
Colin Sullivan is a central character in the crime thriller "The Departed," portrayed as a mole within the police force secretly working for an Irish mob boss.
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E.
Jason Hudson
Jason Hudson was the brother of singer and actress Jennifer Hudson, tragically murdered in a widely publicized 2008 family shooting in Chicago.
- 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: Brandon Sullivan Target entity description: Brandon Sullivan is the troubled, sex-addicted protagonist of the 2011 drama film "Shame," portrayed by Michael Fassbender.
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A.
Liam Sullivan
Liam Sullivan was an American character actor known for his numerous television and film roles from the 1950s through the 1980s, often portraying suave or villainous figures.
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B.
Devlin Elliott
Devlin Elliott is an American theater and film producer best known as the husband of actor Nathan Lane.
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C.
Matt Sullivan
Matt Sullivan is the celibate-pledging protagonist of the romantic comedy film "40 Days and 40 Nights," whose vow of abstinence drives the movie’s central plot and comedic conflicts.
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D.
Colin Sullivan
Colin Sullivan is a central character in the crime thriller "The Departed," portrayed as a mole within the police force secretly working for an Irish mob boss.
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E.
Jason Hudson
Jason Hudson was the brother of singer and actress Jennifer Hudson, tragically murdered in a widely publicized 2008 family shooting in Chicago.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Shame ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | drama film ⓘ |
| centralThemeAround |
compulsive sexual behavior
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emotional disconnection ⓘ shame ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
emotionally distant
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isolated ⓘ troubled ⓘ |
| createdBy | Steve McQueen ⓘ |
| createdFor |
2011 film Shame
ⓘ
linked to:
Shame (2011 film)
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| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasAddiction | sex addiction ⓘ |
| hasFamilyMember | Sissy Sullivan ⓘ |
| livesIn | New York City ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| nationality | American (in-story) ⓘ |
| occupation | corporate professional ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Michael Fassbender ⓘ |
| protagonistOf | Shame ⓘ |
| relationshipToSissySullivan | brother ⓘ |
| writtenBy | Abi Morgan ⓘ |
| yearOfFirstAppearance | 2011 ⓘ |
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: Brandon Sullivan Description of subject: Brandon Sullivan is the troubled, sex-addicted protagonist of the 2011 drama film "Shame," portrayed by Michael Fassbender.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.