Selznick Releasing Organization
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Selznick Releasing Organization was an American film distribution company associated with producer David O. Selznick that handled the release of several notable mid-20th-century motion pictures.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Selznick Releasing Organization canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2326405 — 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: Selznick Releasing Organization Context triple: [The Paradine Case, distributor, Selznick Releasing Organization]
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A.
Selznick International Pictures
Selznick International Pictures was an American film production company founded by producer David O. Selznick, best known for creating lavish, high-profile Hollywood epics in the 1930s and 1940s.
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B.
Samuel Goldwyn Company
Samuel Goldwyn Company is an American film production and distribution company known for producing and releasing a wide range of independent and mainstream movies.
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C.
Zanuck/Brown Company
Zanuck/Brown Company was a prominent American film production company best known for producing blockbuster hits such as Steven Spielberg’s "Jaws."
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D.
Samuel Goldwyn Productions
Samuel Goldwyn Productions was an independent American film production company founded by producer Samuel Goldwyn, known for creating prestigious Hollywood dramas and literary adaptations during the studio era.
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E.
Louis B. Mayer Pictures
Louis B. Mayer Pictures was an early American film production company founded by producer Louis B. Mayer that later became a key component of the major Hollywood studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM).
- 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: Selznick Releasing Organization Target entity description: Selznick Releasing Organization was an American film distribution company associated with producer David O. Selznick that handled the release of several notable mid-20th-century motion pictures.
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A.
Selznick International Pictures
Selznick International Pictures was an American film production company founded by producer David O. Selznick, best known for creating lavish, high-profile Hollywood epics in the 1930s and 1940s.
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B.
Samuel Goldwyn Company
Samuel Goldwyn Company is an American film production and distribution company known for producing and releasing a wide range of independent and mainstream movies.
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C.
Zanuck/Brown Company
Zanuck/Brown Company was a prominent American film production company best known for producing blockbuster hits such as Steven Spielberg’s "Jaws."
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D.
Samuel Goldwyn Productions
Samuel Goldwyn Productions was an independent American film production company founded by producer Samuel Goldwyn, known for creating prestigious Hollywood dramas and literary adaptations during the studio era.
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E.
Louis B. Mayer Pictures
Louis B. Mayer Pictures was an early American film production company founded by producer Louis B. Mayer that later became a key component of the major Hollywood studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM).
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American company
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film distribution company ⓘ |
| activity | handling release of motion pictures ⓘ |
| associatedIndustryFigure | David O. Selznick ⓘ |
| associatedWith | David O. Selznick ⓘ |
| businessModel | distribution of feature films ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| distributionChannel | movie theaters ⓘ |
| field |
cinema
ⓘ
entertainment ⓘ |
| focus | theatrical distribution ⓘ |
| foundedBy | David O. Selznick ⓘ |
| genreFocus | Hollywood films ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfBusiness | English ⓘ |
| industry |
film distribution
ⓘ
motion pictures ⓘ |
| locationCountry |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| mediaTypeDistributed | feature films ⓘ |
| namedAfter | David O. Selznick ⓘ |
| notableFor | releasing notable mid-20th-century motion pictures ⓘ |
| operatedInPeriod | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| partOf |
American cinema
ⓘ
surface form:
American film industry
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| product | theatrical film releases ⓘ |
| regionServed | North America ⓘ |
| typeOfBusiness | private 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: Selznick Releasing Organization Description of subject: Selznick Releasing Organization was an American film distribution company associated with producer David O. Selznick that handled the release of several notable mid-20th-century motion pictures.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.