The Caddo Company
E432728
The Caddo Company was an early 20th-century American film production company best known for backing influential pre-Code Hollywood films such as the original 1932 "Scarface."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Caddo Company canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4356535 — 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: The Caddo Company Context triple: [Scarface (1932 film), productionCompany, The Caddo Company]
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A.
The Texas Company
The Texas Company, later known as Texaco, was a major American oil and gas corporation that became one of the world’s leading petroleum brands.
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B.
Prairie Oil and Gas Company
Prairie Oil and Gas Company was a regional petroleum firm that emerged as one of the successor companies created from the court-ordered breakup of the Standard Oil monopoly in the early 20th century.
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C.
The Canton Company
The Canton Company is a film production company known for producing movies such as the romantic comedy "40 Days and 40 Nights."
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D.
Mississippi River Logging Company
The Mississippi River Logging Company was a major 19th-century American lumber enterprise that played a key role in harvesting and transporting timber along the upper Mississippi River.
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E.
Dakota Creek Industries
Dakota Creek Industries is an American shipbuilding company known for constructing specialized research and commercial vessels, including U.S. Navy oceanographic ships.
- 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: The Caddo Company Target entity description: The Caddo Company was an early 20th-century American film production company best known for backing influential pre-Code Hollywood films such as the original 1932 "Scarface."
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A.
The Texas Company
The Texas Company, later known as Texaco, was a major American oil and gas corporation that became one of the world’s leading petroleum brands.
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B.
Prairie Oil and Gas Company
Prairie Oil and Gas Company was a regional petroleum firm that emerged as one of the successor companies created from the court-ordered breakup of the Standard Oil monopoly in the early 20th century.
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C.
The Canton Company
The Canton Company is a film production company known for producing movies such as the romantic comedy "40 Days and 40 Nights."
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D.
Mississippi River Logging Company
The Mississippi River Logging Company was a major 19th-century American lumber enterprise that played a key role in harvesting and transporting timber along the upper Mississippi River.
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E.
Dakota Creek Industries
Dakota Creek Industries is an American shipbuilding company known for constructing specialized research and commercial vessels, including U.S. Navy oceanographic ships.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American company
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film production company ⓘ |
| activePeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| associatedWithMovement | pre-Code crime drama ⓘ |
| backedFilm | Scarface (1932 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contributedTo | development of American gangster film genre ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| era | pre-Code Hollywood ⓘ |
| field | cinema ⓘ |
| genreFocus | crime films ⓘ |
| industry | film production ⓘ |
| languageOfFilms | English ⓘ |
| locationCountry |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| medium | feature films ⓘ |
| notableEra | 1930s ⓘ |
| notableFor | backing influential pre-Code Hollywood films ⓘ |
| notableWork | Scarface (1932 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleInScarface1932 |
backer
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production company ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
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: The Caddo Company Description of subject: The Caddo Company was an early 20th-century American film production company best known for backing influential pre-Code Hollywood films such as the original 1932 "Scarface."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.