Melville-Talbot Productions
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Melville-Talbot Productions is a film production company best known for its involvement in the making of the 1962 psychological thriller "Cape Fear."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Melville-Talbot Productions canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10808079 — 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: Melville-Talbot Productions Context triple: [Cape Fear, productionCompany, Melville-Talbot Productions]
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A.
Selig Polyscope Company
Selig Polyscope Company was an early American motion picture studio and production company, notable as one of the pioneering firms in the silent film era.
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B.
Biograph Company
Biograph Company was an early American motion picture studio and production company known for pioneering work in silent films and launching the careers of major stars and directors in the early 20th century.
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C.
Vitagraph Company of America
Vitagraph Company of America was a pioneering early American film studio and production company that played a major role in the development of the silent film era.
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D.
Société nouvelle de cinématographie
Société nouvelle de cinématographie is a French film production and distribution company known for handling influential works of the French New Wave.
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E.
De Forest Phonofilm Corporation
De Forest Phonofilm Corporation was an early 20th-century film company that pioneered synchronized sound-on-film technology for motion pictures.
- 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: Melville-Talbot Productions Target entity description: Melville-Talbot Productions is a film production company best known for its involvement in the making of the 1962 psychological thriller "Cape Fear."
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A.
Selig Polyscope Company
Selig Polyscope Company was an early American motion picture studio and production company, notable as one of the pioneering firms in the silent film era.
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B.
Biograph Company
Biograph Company was an early American motion picture studio and production company known for pioneering work in silent films and launching the careers of major stars and directors in the early 20th century.
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C.
Vitagraph Company of America
Vitagraph Company of America was a pioneering early American film studio and production company that played a major role in the development of the silent film era.
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D.
Société nouvelle de cinématographie
Société nouvelle de cinématographie is a French film production and distribution company known for handling influential works of the French New Wave.
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E.
De Forest Phonofilm Corporation
De Forest Phonofilm Corporation was an early 20th-century film company that pioneered synchronized sound-on-film technology for motion pictures.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film production company ⓘ |
| activity | film production ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| genreSpecialization |
psychological thriller films
ⓘ
thriller films ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| involvedInProductionOf | Cape Fear (1962 film) ⓘ |
| notability | best known for involvement in Cape Fear (1962 film) ⓘ |
| notableWork | Cape Fear (1962 film) ⓘ |
| producer | Melville-Talbot Productions ⓘ |
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: Melville-Talbot Productions Description of subject: Melville-Talbot Productions is a film production company best known for its involvement in the making of the 1962 psychological thriller "Cape Fear."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Melville-Talbot Productions