Focus Features
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Focus Features is an American film production and distribution company known for releasing critically acclaimed independent and art-house movies.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Focus Features canonical | 123 |
| Focus Features (reorganized specialty division) | 1 |
| Focus Features International | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T382345 — 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: Focus Features Context triple: [Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011 film), distributor, Focus Features]
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A.
Marché du Film
Marché du Film is the Cannes Film Festival’s major international film market, where industry professionals buy, sell, and promote films and projects.
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B.
Cinéfondation
Cinéfondation is a Cannes Film Festival program dedicated to discovering and promoting emerging filmmakers, primarily through showcasing short and medium-length films from film schools around the world.
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C.
Five Star Feature Films
Five Star Feature Films is a film production company best known for producing the biographical drama "Jobs" about Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.
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D.
Open Road Films
Open Road Films is an American independent film distribution company known for releasing a range of mid-budget and specialty films in theaters.
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E.
The Weinstein Company
The Weinstein Company was an American independent film studio and distributor founded by Bob and Harvey Weinstein, known for producing and releasing numerous critically acclaimed and award-winning films.
- 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: Focus Features Target entity description: Focus Features is an American film production and distribution company known for releasing critically acclaimed independent and art-house movies.
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A.
Marché du Film
Marché du Film is the Cannes Film Festival’s major international film market, where industry professionals buy, sell, and promote films and projects.
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B.
Cinéfondation
Cinéfondation is a Cannes Film Festival program dedicated to discovering and promoting emerging filmmakers, primarily through showcasing short and medium-length films from film schools around the world.
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C.
Five Star Feature Films
Five Star Feature Films is a film production company best known for producing the biographical drama "Jobs" about Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.
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D.
Open Road Films
Open Road Films is an American independent film distribution company known for releasing a range of mid-budget and specialty films in theaters.
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E.
The Weinstein Company
The Weinstein Company was an American independent film studio and distributor founded by Bob and Harvey Weinstein, known for producing and releasing numerous critically acclaimed and award-winning films.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American company
ⓘ
film distribution company ⓘ film production company ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Academy Award-winning films
ⓘ
Golden Globe-winning films ⓘ |
| brandOf |
Universal Pictures
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surface form:
Universal Pictures specialty division
|
| businessModel | specialty film division ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| distributes | feature films ⓘ |
| distributionChannel |
home entertainment (through partners)
ⓘ
theatrical distribution ⓘ |
| distributionScope | worldwide ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
award-contending films
ⓘ
critically acclaimed films ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
David Linde
ⓘ
James Schamus ⓘ |
| genreFocus |
art film
ⓘ
drama films ⓘ period drama films ⓘ romantic drama films ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
New York
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| logoUsedIn | theatrical releases ⓘ |
| notableRelease |
Atonement
ⓘ
BlacKkKlansman ⓘ Brokeback Mountain ⓘ Dallas Buyers Club ⓘ Darkest Hour ⓘ Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind ⓘ Lost in Translation ⓘ Moonrise Kingdom ⓘ Pride and Prejudice (2005 film) ⓘ
surface form:
Pride & Prejudice (2005 film)
The Theory of Everything ⓘ Tár ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Universal Pictures ⓘ |
| parentCompany |
Comcast
ⓘ
NBCUniversal ⓘ Universal Pictures ⓘ |
| predecessor |
October Films
ⓘ
surface form:
USA Films
Universal Focus ⓘ |
| specializesIn |
art-house films
ⓘ
independent films ⓘ |
| typeOfBusiness | subsidiary ⓘ |
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: Focus Features Description of subject: Focus Features is an American film production and distribution company known for releasing critically acclaimed independent and art-house movies.
Referenced by (125)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Focus Features International
subject surface form:
Hanna (2011 film)
subject surface form:
Hanna (2011 film)