Apparition
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Apparition was an independent American film distribution company known for releasing prestige and arthouse films in the late 2000s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Apparition canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1107945 — 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: Apparition Context triple: [The Young Victoria, distributor, Apparition]
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A.
The Night
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B.
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C.
Mask of Sorrow
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D.
Lurking Fear
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E.
Wonders of the Invisible World
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- 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: Apparition Target entity description: Apparition was an independent American film distribution company known for releasing prestige and arthouse films in the late 2000s.
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A.
The Night
The Night is a haunting Expressionist painting by Max Beckmann that depicts the brutal terror and psychological trauma of a violent home invasion.
-
B.
Eidolon
Eidolon is an online classics journal and magazine that presents accessible, socially engaged writing on the ancient world for a broad contemporary audience.
-
C.
Mask of Sorrow
Mask of Sorrow is a monumental sculpture in Magadan, Russia, commemorating the victims of Stalinist political repression and the Gulag labor camps.
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D.
Lurking Fear
Lurking Fear is a renowned big-wall rock climbing route on Yosemite’s El Capitan, known for its long, challenging aid and free climbing pitches.
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E.
Wonders of the Invisible World
Wonders of the Invisible World is a 1693 book by Puritan minister Cotton Mather defending the Salem witch trials and describing alleged cases of witchcraft in New England.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film distribution company
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independent film distributor ⓘ |
| businessModel | theatrical film distribution ⓘ |
| companyScope | independent sector of American film industry ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| distributionChannel | cinema ⓘ |
| focus | specialized theatrical releases ⓘ |
| genreFocus |
arthouse films
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prestige films ⓘ |
| industry | film distribution ⓘ |
| locationCountry |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| market | independent cinema ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic |
specialized in arthouse releases
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specialized in prestige releases ⓘ |
| operationalPeriod | late 2000s ⓘ |
| scale | independent ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
art film audiences
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prestige film audiences ⓘ |
| type | American company ⓘ |
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: Apparition Description of subject: Apparition was an independent American film distribution company known for releasing prestige and arthouse films in the late 2000s.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.