Embassy Pictures
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Embassy Pictures was an American independent film production and distribution company known for releasing influential and offbeat films from the 1950s through the 1970s.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Embassy Pictures canonical | 14 |
| Avco Embassy Pictures | 10 |
| AVCO Embassy Pictures | 5 |
| Embassy International Pictures | 3 |
| ABC Pictures | 1 |
| Embassy Home Entertainment | 1 |
| Embassy Pictures Corporation | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1801553 — 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: Embassy Pictures Context triple: [The Night They Raided Minsky's, productionCompany, Embassy Pictures]
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A.
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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B.
Palomar Pictures International
Palomar Pictures International was an American film production company active in the late 1960s and early 1970s, known for producing several notable Hollywood features.
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C.
Argosy Pictures
Argosy Pictures was an American film production company co-founded by filmmaker Merian C. Cooper, known for producing several notable mid-20th-century adventure and war films.
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D.
Alliance Films
Alliance Films was a major Canadian film distribution and production company known for releasing a wide range of independent and international movies in Canada and other markets.
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E.
Pioneer Pictures
Pioneer Pictures was an early 1930s American film production company known for its pioneering work with Technicolor and association with producer-director Merian C. Cooper.
- 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: Embassy Pictures Target entity description: Embassy Pictures was an American independent film production and distribution company known for releasing influential and offbeat films from the 1950s through the 1970s.
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A.
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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B.
Palomar Pictures International
Palomar Pictures International was an American film production company active in the late 1960s and early 1970s, known for producing several notable Hollywood features.
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C.
Argosy Pictures
Argosy Pictures was an American film production company co-founded by filmmaker Merian C. Cooper, known for producing several notable mid-20th-century adventure and war films.
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D.
Alliance Films
Alliance Films was a major Canadian film distribution and production company known for releasing a wide range of independent and international movies in Canada and other markets.
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E.
Pioneer Pictures
Pioneer Pictures was an early 1930s American film production company known for its pioneering work with Technicolor and association with producer-director Merian C. Cooper.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film distribution company
ⓘ
film production company ⓘ independent film company ⓘ |
| activeInDecade |
1950s
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1960s ⓘ 1970s ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Embassy Pictures
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surface form:
Embassy Pictures Corporation
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| associatedWith | Joseph E. Levine Productions ⓘ |
| businessActivity |
film distribution
ⓘ
film production ⓘ |
| businessModel | independent production and distribution outside major studios ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| distributionScope |
domestic distribution in the United States
ⓘ
international distribution ⓘ |
| era | Cold War era film industry ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Joseph E. Levine ⓘ |
| genreFocus | independent cinema ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | New York City ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| knownFor |
releasing influential films
ⓘ
releasing offbeat films ⓘ |
| market | theatrical film market ⓘ |
| mediaType | feature films ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic | willingness to back unconventional projects ⓘ |
| notableEra | post-World War II American cinema ⓘ |
| specialization |
acquisition of foreign films for U.S. release
ⓘ
distribution of art-house and genre films ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
art-house audiences
ⓘ
mainstream audiences ⓘ |
| typeOfCompany | privately held company ⓘ |
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: Embassy Pictures Description of subject: Embassy Pictures was an American independent film production and distribution company known for releasing influential and offbeat films from the 1950s through the 1970s.
Referenced by (35)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Avco Embassy Pictures
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AVCO Embassy Pictures
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Embassy International Pictures
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Embassy Pictures Corporation
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Avco Embassy Pictures
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Avco Embassy Pictures
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Embassy Home Entertainment
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Embassy International Pictures
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Avco Embassy Pictures
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Avco Embassy Pictures
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AVCO Embassy Pictures
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AVCO Embassy Pictures
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Avco Embassy Pictures
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Avco Embassy Pictures