TASK DEFINITION: Given a factoid/trivia type question, generate the topic of the question. The topic is the entity the question talks about.
PROBLEM: Better known as an actor, who directed the film `A Bronx Tale`?

SOLUTION: a bronx tale

PROBLEM: Charlie Chaplin who died on Christmas Day in 1977, co founded which film studio along with Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks?

SOLUTION: douglas fairbanks

PROBLEM: Who wrote the Christmas book 'The Cricket on the Hearth'?

SOLUTION:
the cricket on the hearth