Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company
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Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company was an early American motion picture production company that became a key predecessor to Paramount Pictures and helped shape the Hollywood studio system.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4497253 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company Context triple: [Jesse L. Lasky, founded, Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company]
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Edward R. Pressman Film Corporation
Edward R. Pressman Film Corporation is an independent American film production company known for backing a wide range of influential and auteur-driven movies across several decades.
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B.
Mary Pickford Company
Mary Pickford Company was a film production company founded by silent film star Mary Pickford to produce and control her own motion pictures during the early 20th century.
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C.
The Mirisch Company
The Mirisch Company was a prominent American film production company active mainly in the 1950s and 1960s, known for producing numerous acclaimed Hollywood films across various genres.
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D.
Vitagraph Company of America
Vitagraph Company of America was a pioneering early American film studio and production company that played a major role in the development of the silent film era.
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Famous Players Film Company
Famous Players Film Company was an early 20th-century American motion picture production company, co-founded by Adolph Zukor, that played a key role in the rise of feature-length films and later became part of Paramount Pictures.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company Target entity description: Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company was an early American motion picture production company that became a key predecessor to Paramount Pictures and helped shape the Hollywood studio system.
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A.
Edward R. Pressman Film Corporation
Edward R. Pressman Film Corporation is an independent American film production company known for backing a wide range of influential and auteur-driven movies across several decades.
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B.
Mary Pickford Company
Mary Pickford Company was a film production company founded by silent film star Mary Pickford to produce and control her own motion pictures during the early 20th century.
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C.
The Mirisch Company
The Mirisch Company was a prominent American film production company active mainly in the 1950s and 1960s, known for producing numerous acclaimed Hollywood films across various genres.
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D.
Vitagraph Company of America
Vitagraph Company of America was a pioneering early American film studio and production company that played a major role in the development of the silent film era.
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E.
Famous Players Film Company
Famous Players Film Company was an early 20th-century American motion picture production company, co-founded by Adolph Zukor, that played a key role in the rise of feature-length films and later became part of Paramount Pictures.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American company
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film production company ⓘ |
| activeIn | 1910s ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| distributionPartner | Paramount Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employed |
Blanche Sweet
NERFINISHED
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Cecil B. DeMille NERFINISHED ⓘ Dustin Farnum NERFINISHED ⓘ Fannie Ward NERFINISHED ⓘ Geraldine Farrar NERFINISHED ⓘ Jesse L. Lasky NERFINISHED ⓘ Oscar Apfel NERFINISHED ⓘ Samuel Goldwyn NERFINISHED ⓘ Sessue Hayakawa NERFINISHED ⓘ Wallace Reid NERFINISHED ⓘ William C. deMille NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | silent film era ⓘ |
| founded | 1913 ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Cecil B. DeMille
NERFINISHED
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Jesse L. Lasky NERFINISHED ⓘ L. L. Burns NERFINISHED ⓘ Samuel Goldfish NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreFocus |
drama films
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literary adaptations ⓘ |
| hasKeyPerson |
Cecil B. DeMille
NERFINISHED
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Jesse L. Lasky NERFINISHED ⓘ Samuel Goldwyn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
California, United States
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surface form:
California
Hollywood NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| helpedForm | Hollywood studio system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| industry | motion picture industry ⓘ |
| locationFounded |
California
NERFINISHED
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Hollywood NERFINISHED ⓘ United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mergedInto | Famous Players–Lasky Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being an early component of what became Paramount Pictures
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being one of the first feature film companies in Hollywood ⓘ pioneering feature-length motion pictures in the United States ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Squaw Man (1914 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Famous Players–Lasky Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessorOf | Paramount Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producedFilm |
Joan the Woman
NERFINISHED
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The Cheat (1915 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Squaw Man (1914 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Virginian (1914 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionType | feature-length films ⓘ |
| successor | Famous Players–Lasky Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedDistributionSystem | Paramount Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company Description of subject: Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company was an early American motion picture production company that became a key predecessor to Paramount Pictures and helped shape the Hollywood studio system.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
The Warrens of Virginia (1915 film adaptation)
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productionCompany
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Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company
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subject surface form:
The Warrens of Virginia (1915 film)