Balthazar Edison
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Balthazar Edison, later known as Krall, is the main antagonist in the film "Star Trek Beyond," a former Starfleet captain who becomes a vengeful, life-force-draining warlord.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Balthazar Edison canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5321122 — 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: Balthazar Edison Context triple: [Krall, formerName, Balthazar Edison]
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A.
Balthazar
Balthazar is a traditional variant of the name Belshazzar, historically associated with a Babylonian ruler mentioned in the Bible and later used in various cultural and literary contexts.
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B.
Balthazar Bratt
Balthazar Bratt is a former child TV star turned supervillain obsessed with 1980s pop culture in the Despicable Me film series.
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C.
Balthazar Getty
Balthazar Getty is an American actor and musician known for roles in films like "Lord of the Flies" and the TV series "Brothers & Sisters," as well as for being a member of the Getty family.
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D.
Kazimierz Sabbat
Kazimierz Sabbat was a Polish politician who served as Prime Minister and later President of the Polish government-in-exile, symbolically upholding Poland’s pre-communist statehood during the Cold War.
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E.
Claude Devorsine
Claude Devorsine is a French architect best known for designing the Tour Bretagne skyscraper in Nantes.
- 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: Balthazar Edison Target entity description: Balthazar Edison, later known as Krall, is the main antagonist in the film "Star Trek Beyond," a former Starfleet captain who becomes a vengeful, life-force-draining warlord.
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A.
Balthazar
Balthazar is a traditional variant of the name Belshazzar, historically associated with a Babylonian ruler mentioned in the Bible and later used in various cultural and literary contexts.
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B.
Balthazar Bratt
Balthazar Bratt is a former child TV star turned supervillain obsessed with 1980s pop culture in the Despicable Me film series.
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C.
Balthazar Getty
Balthazar Getty is an American actor and musician known for roles in films like "Lord of the Flies" and the TV series "Brothers & Sisters," as well as for being a member of the Getty family.
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D.
Kazimierz Sabbat
Kazimierz Sabbat was a Polish politician who served as Prime Minister and later President of the Polish government-in-exile, symbolically upholding Poland’s pre-communist statehood during the Cold War.
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E.
Claude Devorsine
Claude Devorsine is a French architect best known for designing the Tour Bretagne skyscraper in Nantes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Star Trek character
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ film character ⓘ |
| ability |
life-force draining
ⓘ
rapid regeneration ⓘ |
| affiliation | Starfleet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| alignment | villain ⓘ |
| alliesWith | drone-like soldiers ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Krall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| antagonistOf |
James T. Kirk
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
USS Enterprise crew NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Star Trek Beyond NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInYear | 2016 film ⓘ |
| background | former MACO soldier ⓘ |
| causeOfTransformation | use of alien technology on Altamid ⓘ |
| commanded | USS Franklin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflictType | personal vendetta against Starfleet ⓘ |
| createdBy |
Doug Jung
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Simon Pegg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| directorOfWorkAppearedIn | Justin Lin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| emotion | vengeful ⓘ |
| enemyOf | United Federation of Planets NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | post-Enterprise NX-01 era ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Kelvin timeline NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | film Star Trek Beyond ⓘ |
| franchise | Star Trek NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| goal |
attack Yorktown Starbase
ⓘ
destroy the Federation ⓘ |
| homeworld | Earth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ideology | anti-Federation ⓘ |
| laterIdentity | Krall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | live-action film ⓘ |
| militaryExperience | Earth-Romulan War veteran ⓘ |
| motivation | revenge against the Federation ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | foil to James T. Kirk’s ideals ⓘ |
| notableAction |
absorbs life energy from victims
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hijacks USS Enterprise ⓘ |
| occupation | Starfleet officer ⓘ |
| physicalTransformation | reptilian appearance as Krall ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Idris Elba NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| rank | captain ⓘ |
| residesOn | planet Altamid NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleIn | main antagonist ⓘ |
| species | human ⓘ |
| transformedInto | Krall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| uses | swarm ships ⓘ |
| usesAlias | Krall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usesTechnology | alien life-draining devices ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Balthazar Edison Description of subject: Balthazar Edison, later known as Krall, is the main antagonist in the film "Star Trek Beyond," a former Starfleet captain who becomes a vengeful, life-force-draining warlord.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.