Pitch Black
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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.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Pitch Black canonical | 14 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5317030 — 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: Pitch Black Context triple: [Claudia Black, notableWork, Pitch Black]
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A.
Edge of Darkness
Edge of Darkness is a critically acclaimed 1985 British television drama serial that blends political thriller and environmental conspiracy themes as it follows a detective investigating his daughter’s mysterious murder.
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B.
Pariah
Pariah is a 2011 independent coming-of-age drama film about a Brooklyn teenager embracing her identity as a lesbian, noted for its intimate storytelling and evocative cinematography.
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C.
Pontypool
Pontypool is a historic industrial town in Torfaen, South Wales, known for its iron and steel heritage and location near the eastern edge of the South Wales Valleys.
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D.
The Devil’s Rejects
The Devil’s Rejects is a 2005 horror film written and directed by Rob Zombie that follows a sadistic family of killers on a violent, blood-soaked road trip across rural America.
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E.
Phantom
Phantom is a hostile flying undead mob in Minecraft that swoops down from the night sky to attack players who haven’t slept for several days.
- 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: Pitch Black Target entity description: 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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A.
Edge of Darkness
Edge of Darkness is a critically acclaimed 1985 British television drama serial that blends political thriller and environmental conspiracy themes as it follows a detective investigating his daughter’s mysterious murder.
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B.
Pariah
Pariah is a 2011 independent coming-of-age drama film about a Brooklyn teenager embracing her identity as a lesbian, noted for its intimate storytelling and evocative cinematography.
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C.
Pontypool
Pontypool is a historic industrial town in Torfaen, South Wales, known for its iron and steel heritage and location near the eastern edge of the South Wales Valleys.
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D.
The Devil’s Rejects
The Devil’s Rejects is a 2005 horror film written and directed by Rob Zombie that follows a sadistic family of killers on a violent, blood-soaked road trip across rural America.
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E.
Phantom
Phantom is a hostile flying undead mob in Minecraft that swoops down from the night sky to attack players who haven’t slept for several days.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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science fiction horror film ⓘ |
| characterFeatured | Richard B. Riddick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | David Eggby NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | David Twohy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | USA Films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Rick Shaine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresSpecies | nocturnal alien creatures ⓘ |
| featuresTheme |
antihero protagonist
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light and darkness ⓘ survival horror ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Australia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedBy |
Riddick
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Chronicles of Riddick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
horror
ⓘ
science fiction ⓘ thriller ⓘ |
| hasCultFollowing | true ⓘ |
| hasFranchise | The Chronicles of Riddick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeMedia |
Blu-ray
ⓘ
DVD ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| leadCharacter | Richard B. Riddick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| MPAARating | R ⓘ |
| musicBy | Graeme Revell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableCharacterTrait | Riddick has surgically enhanced night vision ⓘ |
| notableFor | launching the Chronicles of Riddick franchise ⓘ |
| plotElement |
planet with periodic darkness
ⓘ
spaceship crash landing ⓘ survival against alien creatures ⓘ |
| portraysCharacter | Vin Diesel as Richard B. Riddick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Tom Engelman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Gramercy Pictures
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Interscope Communications NERFINISHED ⓘ PolyGram Filmed Entertainment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDateUS | February 18, 2000 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2000 ⓘ |
| runtime | approximately 109 minutes ⓘ |
| setting | desert planet ⓘ |
| stars |
Cole Hauser
NERFINISHED
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Keith David NERFINISHED ⓘ Radha Mitchell NERFINISHED ⓘ Vin Diesel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | Pitch Black NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writer |
David Twohy
NERFINISHED
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Jim Wheat NERFINISHED ⓘ Ken Wheat NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Pitch Black Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.