Cinephone
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Cinephone was an early synchronized sound-on-film system used in late-1920s animated and live-action films to reproduce recorded audio in precise sync with the picture.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cinephone canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7645037 — 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: Cinephone Context triple: [Steamboat Willie, soundSystemUsed, Cinephone]
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A.
Cinesound Productions
Cinesound Productions was a prominent Australian film production company best known for its newsreels and feature films during the 1930s and 1940s.
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B.
Cinemastar
Cinemastar is a line of hard disk drives produced by HGST, typically designed for consumer and multimedia applications.
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C.
Linson Films
Linson Films is a film production company founded by producer Art Linson, known for backing notable movies such as "Fight Club."
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D.
CinéArts
CinéArts is a Cinemark-owned brand of upscale movie theaters that focuses on presenting independent, foreign, and art-house films in a premium cinema environment.
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E.
Cinema International Corporation
Cinema International Corporation was a major international film distribution company formed by the joint venture of major Hollywood studios to handle the overseas release of their movies in the 1970s and early 1980s.
- 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: Cinephone Target entity description: Cinephone was an early synchronized sound-on-film system used in late-1920s animated and live-action films to reproduce recorded audio in precise sync with the picture.
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A.
Cinesound Productions
Cinesound Productions was a prominent Australian film production company best known for its newsreels and feature films during the 1930s and 1940s.
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B.
Cinemastar
Cinemastar is a line of hard disk drives produced by HGST, typically designed for consumer and multimedia applications.
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C.
Linson Films
Linson Films is a film production company founded by producer Art Linson, known for backing notable movies such as "Fight Club."
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D.
CinéArts
CinéArts is a Cinemark-owned brand of upscale movie theaters that focuses on presenting independent, foreign, and art-house films in a premium cinema environment.
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E.
Cinema International Corporation
Cinema International Corporation was a major international film distribution company formed by the joint venture of major Hollywood studios to handle the overseas release of their movies in the 1970s and early 1980s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
sound-on-film system
ⓘ
synchronized sound system ⓘ |
| audioStorageMethod | optical soundtrack on film ⓘ |
| category |
cinema sound system
ⓘ
film sound technology ⓘ |
| comparedTo | other early sound-on-film systems ⓘ |
| componentOf | motion picture exhibition systems ⓘ |
| domain |
cinema sound engineering
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film industry ⓘ |
| enables |
dialogue synchronization
ⓘ
music synchronization ⓘ sound effects synchronization ⓘ |
| era | early sound era in cinema ⓘ |
| feature | precise synchronization between sound and picture ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | transition from silent to sound films ⓘ |
| medium | 35 mm motion picture film ⓘ |
| output | synchronized audio playback in theaters ⓘ |
| precededBy | silent film projection with separate musical accompaniment ⓘ |
| synchronizationType | sound-on-film ⓘ |
| temporalUsage | late 1920s ⓘ |
| usedBy |
film exhibitors
ⓘ
film producers ⓘ |
| usedFor | reproducing recorded audio in sync with motion picture images ⓘ |
| usedIn |
animated films
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live-action films ⓘ |
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: Cinephone Description of subject: Cinephone was an early synchronized sound-on-film system used in late-1920s animated and live-action films to reproduce recorded audio in precise sync with the picture.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.