Vestron Pictures
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Vestron Pictures was an American independent film production and distribution company best known for releasing the hit 1987 film "Dirty Dancing."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Vestron Pictures canonical | 11 |
| Vestron Inc. | 1 |
| Vestron Video Collector’s Series | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8424400 — 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: Vestron Pictures Context triple: [Dirty Dancing, distributedBy, Vestron Pictures]
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A.
Vistar Films
Vistar Films is a film production company best known for its involvement in the making of the 1985 horror-comedy classic "Fright Night."
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B.
Saturn Films
Saturn Films is an American film production company founded by actor Nicolas Cage, known for producing a variety of genre films and projects often featuring Cage himself.
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C.
Embassy Pictures
Embassy Pictures was an American independent film production and distribution company known for releasing influential and offbeat films from the 1950s through the 1970s.
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D.
Miramax Films
Miramax Films is an American film production and distribution company known for releasing influential independent and arthouse movies, particularly in the 1990s and early 2000s.
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E.
Monumental Pictures
Monumental Pictures is a British film and television production company known for producing feature films such as the 2019 adaptation of "Cats."
- 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: Vestron Pictures Target entity description: Vestron Pictures was an American independent film production and distribution company best known for releasing the hit 1987 film "Dirty Dancing."
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A.
Vistar Films
Vistar Films is a film production company best known for its involvement in the making of the 1985 horror-comedy classic "Fright Night."
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B.
Saturn Films
Saturn Films is an American film production company founded by actor Nicolas Cage, known for producing a variety of genre films and projects often featuring Cage himself.
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C.
Embassy Pictures
Embassy Pictures was an American independent film production and distribution company known for releasing influential and offbeat films from the 1950s through the 1970s.
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D.
Miramax Films
Miramax Films is an American film production and distribution company known for releasing influential independent and arthouse movies, particularly in the 1990s and early 2000s.
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E.
Monumental Pictures
Monumental Pictures is a British film and television production company known for producing feature films such as the 2019 adaptation of "Cats."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film production company
ⓘ
independent film company ⓘ |
| areaServed |
North America
ⓘ
international markets ⓘ |
| associatedWith | home video boom of the 1980s ⓘ |
| brandImage | cult and genre cinema ⓘ |
| businessModel | financing and distributing low-to-mid budget films ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| distributionChannel |
home video
ⓘ
theatrical release ⓘ |
| distributionType | independent distribution ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Austin Owen Furst Jr. ⓘ |
| genreFocus |
genre films
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horror films ⓘ independent films ⓘ |
| hasBrand |
Vestron Video Collector’s Series
ⓘ
linked to:
Vestron Pictures
|
| headquartersLocation | Stamford, Connecticut ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| knownFor | releasing Dirty Dancing in 1987 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| libraryOwner | Lionsgate ⓘ |
| mediaType | motion pictures ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
Dirty Dancing became a major box office success
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linked to:
Dirty Dancing
Dirty Dancing soundtrack became a best-seller ⓘ |
| notableWork |
An American Werewolf in London
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Blue Steel ⓘ Dirty Dancing ⓘ Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights ⓘ Earth Girls Are Easy ⓘ Little Monsters ⓘ Parents ⓘ The Gate ⓘ The Monster Squad ⓘ The Unholy ⓘ |
| operatedIn |
1980s
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early 1990s ⓘ |
| parentCompany |
Vestron Inc.
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linked to:
Vestron Pictures
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| partOf | Vestron Video ⓘ |
| product |
feature films
ⓘ
home video releases ⓘ |
| service |
film distribution
ⓘ
film production ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
| successor |
Lionsgate (via library acquisition)
ⓘ
linked to:
Lionsgate
|
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: Vestron Pictures Description of subject: Vestron Pictures was an American independent film production and distribution company best known for releasing the hit 1987 film "Dirty Dancing."
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Vestron Pictures
linked to: Vestron Pictures