Super Technirama 70
E189961
Super Technirama 70 is a widescreen 70mm film format developed in the late 1950s that provided high-resolution, large-format projection for epic motion pictures.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Super Technirama 70 canonical | 2 |
| Technirama | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1679172 — 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: Super Technirama 70 Context triple: [Spartacus (1960 film), aspectRatio, Super Technirama 70]
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A.
VistaVision
VistaVision is a high-resolution widescreen motion picture format developed by Paramount Pictures in the 1950s that runs 35mm film horizontally to achieve finer image quality.
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B.
Regnier Extreme Screen Theatre
Regnier Extreme Screen Theatre is a large-format cinema venue located within Kansas City’s historic Union Station, known for immersive movie and educational film presentations.
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C.
CinemaScope
CinemaScope was a widescreen film format introduced in the 1950s that used anamorphic lenses to create a much wider image than traditional movie presentations.
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D.
IMAX
IMAX is a high-resolution large-format cinema technology known for its giant screens, immersive sound, and specialized cameras used for premium theatrical presentations.
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E.
Cinerama film process
The Cinerama film process is a widescreen cinematic technique that used three synchronized projectors and a deeply curved screen to create an immersive, panoramic viewing experience in mid-20th-century theaters.
- 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: Super Technirama 70 Target entity description: Super Technirama 70 is a widescreen 70mm film format developed in the late 1950s that provided high-resolution, large-format projection for epic motion pictures.
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A.
VistaVision
VistaVision is a high-resolution widescreen motion picture format developed by Paramount Pictures in the 1950s that runs 35mm film horizontally to achieve finer image quality.
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B.
Regnier Extreme Screen Theatre
Regnier Extreme Screen Theatre is a large-format cinema venue located within Kansas City’s historic Union Station, known for immersive movie and educational film presentations.
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C.
CinemaScope
CinemaScope was a widescreen film format introduced in the 1950s that used anamorphic lenses to create a much wider image than traditional movie presentations.
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D.
IMAX
IMAX is a high-resolution large-format cinema technology known for its giant screens, immersive sound, and specialized cameras used for premium theatrical presentations.
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E.
Cinerama film process
The Cinerama film process is a widescreen cinematic technique that used three synchronized projectors and a deeply curved screen to create an immersive, panoramic viewing experience in mid-20th-century theaters.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
70 mm film format
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motion picture film process ⓘ widescreen film format ⓘ |
| basedOn | horizontal 35 mm Technirama negative ⓘ |
| category |
motion picture technology
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widescreen cinema process ⓘ |
| competesWith |
Super Panavision 70
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Todd-AO ⓘ |
| designedFor |
epic motion pictures
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large-format theatrical projection ⓘ |
| developedBy | Technicolor ⓘ |
| developedFrom |
Super Technirama 70
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Technirama
|
| feature |
high image resolution
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large screen presentation ⓘ six-track magnetic stereophonic sound ⓘ wide aspect ratio ⓘ |
| introducedInDecade | 1950s ⓘ |
| introducedInYear | 1959 ⓘ |
| marketedAs | large-format alternative to 70 mm negative systems ⓘ |
| notableFor | sharpness comparable to 65 mm origination systems ⓘ |
| originCountry |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| printingProcess | blow-up from 35 mm horizontal negative to 70 mm print ⓘ |
| projectionAspectRatio | approximately 2.20:1 ⓘ |
| projectionPrintGauge | 70 mm ⓘ |
| projectionPrintsBlownUpFrom | 35 mm Technirama ⓘ |
| usedFor |
feature films
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roadshow presentations ⓘ |
| usedInEra |
1960s
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late 1950s ⓘ |
| usesFilmGauge | 70 mm ⓘ |
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: Super Technirama 70 Description of subject: Super Technirama 70 is a widescreen 70mm film format developed in the late 1950s that provided high-resolution, large-format projection for epic motion pictures.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Technirama
this entity surface form:
Technirama