Kino Lorber
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Kino Lorber is an independent film distribution company known for releasing art-house, foreign, and documentary films in North America.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kino Lorber canonical | 7 |
| Kino International | 1 |
| Kino Lorber Edu | 1 |
| Kino Lorber Studio Classics | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8834343 — 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: Kino Lorber Context triple: [Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case, distributor, Kino Lorber]
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A.
Gramercy Pictures
Gramercy Pictures was an American film production and distribution company known for releasing acclaimed independent and specialty films in the 1990s.
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B.
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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C.
Overture Films
Overture Films was an American independent film production and distribution company active in the late 2000s, known for releasing a range of mid-budget and specialty films.
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D.
Vertigo Films
Vertigo Films is a British film and television production company known for producing a range of independent and genre films as well as TV series.
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E.
Janus Films
Janus Films is a renowned American film distribution company best known for bringing classic, foreign, and art-house cinema to U.S. audiences and for its close association with The Criterion Collection.
- 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: Kino Lorber Target entity description: Kino Lorber is an independent film distribution company known for releasing art-house, foreign, and documentary films in North America.
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A.
Gramercy Pictures
Gramercy Pictures was an American film production and distribution company known for releasing acclaimed independent and specialty films in the 1990s.
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B.
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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C.
Overture Films
Overture Films was an American independent film production and distribution company active in the late 2000s, known for releasing a range of mid-budget and specialty films.
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D.
Vertigo Films
Vertigo Films is a British film and television production company known for producing a range of independent and genre films as well as TV series.
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E.
Janus Films
Janus Films is a renowned American film distribution company best known for bringing classic, foreign, and art-house cinema to U.S. audiences and for its close association with The Criterion Collection.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film distribution company
ⓘ
home video label ⓘ |
| areaServed | North America ⓘ |
| catalogIncludes |
European art cinema
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classic Hollywood films ⓘ contemporary independent films ⓘ silent films ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith |
film festivals
ⓘ
independent filmmakers ⓘ international sales agents ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| distributes |
Blu-ray releases
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DVD releases ⓘ digital releases ⓘ theatrical films ⓘ |
| distributionChannel |
digital streaming
ⓘ
educational distribution ⓘ home video ⓘ theatrical ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
art-house films
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documentary films ⓘ foreign films ⓘ |
| hasDivision |
Kino Classics
ⓘ
linked to:
Kino International
Kino Lorber Edu ⓘ
linked to:
Kino Lorber
Kino Lorber Studio Classics ⓘ
linked to:
Kino Lorber
Kino Now ⓘ |
| hasReputationFor |
curated catalog titles
ⓘ
high-quality restorations ⓘ |
| industry |
film distribution
ⓘ
home entertainment ⓘ |
| knownFor |
art-house film distribution
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curated home video editions ⓘ documentary film releases ⓘ releasing foreign films in the U.S. market ⓘ |
| market |
art-house audiences
ⓘ
cinephiles ⓘ educational institutions ⓘ |
| offers |
educational licenses
ⓘ
video-on-demand services ⓘ |
| specializesIn |
independent cinema
ⓘ
restored classic films ⓘ world cinema ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
film scholars
ⓘ
specialty film audiences ⓘ university libraries ⓘ |
| typeOfBusiness | independent distributor ⓘ |
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: Kino Lorber Description of subject: Kino Lorber is an independent film distribution company known for releasing art-house, foreign, and documentary films in North America.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
documentary film "Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case"
subject linked to:
This Changes Everything
linked to: Kino Lorber
subject linked to:
"Citizen Koch"
linked to: Kino Lorber
linked to: Kino Lorber