New Line Cinema
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New Line Cinema is a major American film production and distribution company known for franchises like The Lord of the Rings and A Nightmare on Elm Street.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| New Line Cinema canonical | 353 |
| New Line Home Entertainment | 2 |
| New Line Home Video | 2 |
| New Line Records | 2 |
| New Line Cinema Corporation | 1 |
| New Line Cinema was built on horror film success | 1 |
| New Line Productions | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T151809 — 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: New Line Cinema Context triple: [Time Warner, owned, New Line Cinema]
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A.
Columbia Pictures
Columbia Pictures is a historic American film studio that rose to prominence during Hollywood’s Golden Age and became one of the industry’s leading producers and distributors of motion pictures.
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B.
Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures is a major American film studio and distributor known for producing and releasing numerous influential Hollywood movies across multiple genres.
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C.
Universal Pictures
Universal Pictures is a major American film production and distribution studio, one of Hollywood's oldest and most prominent, known for releasing a wide range of blockbuster and critically acclaimed movies.
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D.
Paramount Pictures Studios
Paramount Pictures Studios is a historic major American film studio and production lot in Hollywood known for producing and distributing countless iconic movies and television shows.
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E.
20th Century Fox
20th Century Fox was a leading American film studio renowned for producing and distributing many iconic movies during and after Hollywood’s Golden Age.
- 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: New Line Cinema Target entity description: New Line Cinema is a major American film production and distribution company known for franchises like The Lord of the Rings and A Nightmare on Elm Street.
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A.
Columbia Pictures
Columbia Pictures is a historic American film studio that rose to prominence during Hollywood’s Golden Age and became one of the industry’s leading producers and distributors of motion pictures.
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B.
Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures is a major American film studio and distributor known for producing and releasing numerous influential Hollywood movies across multiple genres.
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C.
Universal Pictures
Universal Pictures is a major American film production and distribution studio, one of Hollywood's oldest and most prominent, known for releasing a wide range of blockbuster and critically acclaimed movies.
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D.
Paramount Pictures Studios
Paramount Pictures Studios is a historic major American film studio and production lot in Hollywood known for producing and distributing countless iconic movies and television shows.
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E.
20th Century Fox
20th Century Fox was a leading American film studio renowned for producing and distributing many iconic movies during and after Hollywood’s Golden Age.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American company
ⓘ
film distribution company ⓘ film production company ⓘ |
| acquiredBy |
Time Warner
ⓘ
Turner Broadcasting System ⓘ |
| businessModel |
film distribution
ⓘ
film production ⓘ home video distribution ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| distributionArea | worldwide ⓘ |
| focus |
fantasy films
ⓘ
genre films ⓘ horror films ⓘ independent films (early years) ⓘ |
| formerHeadquartersLocation | New York City ⓘ |
| foundedAs | independent film distribution company ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Robert Shaye ⓘ |
| foundingDate | 1967 ⓘ |
| hasDivision |
Fine Line Features
ⓘ
New Line Cinema self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
New Line Home Entertainment
|
| headquartersLocation |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
Los Angeles ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| industry |
entertainment industry
ⓘ
film industry ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| nickname | The House that Freddy Built ⓘ |
| notableGenre |
comedy
ⓘ
fantasy ⓘ horror ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Nightmare on Elm Street
ⓘ
A Nightmare on Elm Street ⓘ
surface form:
A Nightmare on Elm Street film series
Austin Powers film series ⓘ Blade film series ⓘ Final Destination film series ⓘ Rush Hour film series ⓘ The Conjuring ⓘ
surface form:
The Conjuring Universe
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring ⓘ
surface form:
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Hobbit film trilogy ⓘ
surface form:
The Hobbit film series
The Lord of the Rings film trilogy ⓘ The Mask ⓘ The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King ⓘ
surface form:
The Return of the King
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers ⓘ
surface form:
The Two Towers
|
| ownedBy | Warner Bros. Discovery ⓘ |
| parentOrganization |
Warner Bros. Discovery
ⓘ
Warner Bros. Pictures ⓘ
surface form:
Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group
|
| reasonForNickname | success of the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise ⓘ |
| subsidiaryOf |
Warner Bros. Entertainment
ⓘ
surface form:
Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group
|
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: New Line Cinema Description of subject: New Line Cinema is a major American film production and distribution company known for franchises like The Lord of the Rings and A Nightmare on Elm Street.
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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subject surface form:
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