21st Century Film Corporation
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21st Century Film Corporation was an independent American film production and distribution company active primarily in the 1980s and early 1990s, known for low- to mid-budget genre films.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 21st Century Film Corporation canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8518749 — 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: 21st Century Film Corporation Context triple: [The Masque of the Red Death (1989 film), distributor, 21st Century Film Corporation]
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A.
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.
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B.
Twentieth Century Pictures
Twentieth Century Pictures was a 1930s American film production company that later merged with Fox Film Corporation to form 20th Century-Fox.
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C.
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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D.
Capstone Pictures
Capstone Pictures is a film production company best known for producing the crime thriller "Lucky Number Slevin."
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E.
World Film Company
World Film Company was an early 20th-century American motion picture distribution and production company active during the silent film era.
- 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: 21st Century Film Corporation Target entity description: 21st Century Film Corporation was an independent American film production and distribution company active primarily in the 1980s and early 1990s, known for low- to mid-budget genre films.
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A.
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.
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B.
Twentieth Century Pictures
Twentieth Century Pictures was a 1930s American film production company that later merged with Fox Film Corporation to form 20th Century-Fox.
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C.
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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D.
Capstone Pictures
Capstone Pictures is a film production company best known for producing the crime thriller "Lucky Number Slevin."
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E.
World Film Company
World Film Company was an early 20th-century American motion picture distribution and production company active during the silent film era.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (14)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film production company
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independent film company ⓘ |
| activePeriod |
1980s
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early 1990s ⓘ |
| businessModel |
distribution
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production ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| genreFocus |
genre films
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low-budget films ⓘ mid-budget films ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic |
independent American film production and distribution company
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known for low- to mid-budget genre 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: 21st Century Film Corporation Description of subject: 21st Century Film Corporation was an independent American film production and distribution company active primarily in the 1980s and early 1990s, known for low- to mid-budget genre films.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.