Hemdale Film Corporation
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Hemdale Film Corporation was an independent British-American production and distribution company best known for backing acclaimed films such as "The Terminator," "Platoon," and "Hoosiers" during the 1980s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hemdale Film Corporation canonical | 15 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9839247 — 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: Hemdale Film Corporation Context triple: [Salvador, distributor, Hemdale Film Corporation]
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A.
Ameer Film Corporation
Ameer Film Corporation is an Indian film production company best known for backing acclaimed Tamil cinema projects.
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B.
Academy Pictures
Academy Pictures is a film production company best known for producing the 1973 British horror film "The Legend of Hell House."
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C.
Monumental Pictures
Monumental Pictures is a British film and television production company known for producing feature films such as the 2019 adaptation of "Cats."
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D.
Monumental Pictures
Monumental Pictures is the fictional Hollywood film studio featured in the classic musical film "Singin' in the Rain."
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E.
Rolin Film Company
Rolin Film Company was an early 20th-century American film production company that served as the precursor to the famed Hal Roach Studios, known for its silent comedies.
- 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: Hemdale Film Corporation Target entity description: Hemdale Film Corporation was an independent British-American production and distribution company best known for backing acclaimed films such as "The Terminator," "Platoon," and "Hoosiers" during the 1980s.
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A.
Ameer Film Corporation
Ameer Film Corporation is an Indian film production company best known for backing acclaimed Tamil cinema projects.
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B.
Academy Pictures
Academy Pictures is a film production company best known for producing the 1973 British horror film "The Legend of Hell House."
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C.
Monumental Pictures
Monumental Pictures is a British film and television production company known for producing feature films such as the 2019 adaptation of "Cats."
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D.
Monumental Pictures
Monumental Pictures is the fictional Hollywood film studio featured in the classic musical film "Singin' in the Rain."
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E.
Rolin Film Company
Rolin Film Company was an early 20th-century American film production company that served as the precursor to the famed Hal Roach Studios, known for its silent comedies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film production company
ⓘ
independent film company ⓘ |
| activePeriod | 1980s ⓘ |
| associatedWith | British-American co-productions ⓘ |
| backedFilm |
At Close Range
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linked to:
At Close Range (1986 film)
Hoosiers ⓘ Platoon ⓘ Salvador ⓘ The Last Emperor ⓘ The Return of the Living Dead ⓘ The Terminator ⓘ
linked to:
Terminator
|
| businessModel |
independent distribution
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independent production ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United Kingdom
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United States of America ⓘ |
| distributionRole | theatrical film distribution ⓘ |
| genreFocus |
action films
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drama films ⓘ horror films ⓘ war films ⓘ |
| hasNotableEra | 1980s independent cinema ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| knownFor |
backing commercially successful films
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backing critically acclaimed films ⓘ |
| market |
American film market
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linked to:
North American film market
British film market ⓘ |
| notableWork |
At Close Range
ⓘ
Hoosiers ⓘ Platoon ⓘ Salvador ⓘ The Last Emperor ⓘ The Return of the Living Dead ⓘ The Terminator ⓘ
linked to:
Terminator
|
| status | defunct ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Hemdale Film Corporation Description of subject: Hemdale Film Corporation was an independent British-American production and distribution company best known for backing acclaimed films such as "The Terminator," "Platoon," and "Hoosiers" during the 1980s.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.