Vistar Films
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Vistar Films is a film production company best known for its involvement in the making of the 1985 horror-comedy classic "Fright Night."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Vistar Films canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5142486 — 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: Vistar Films Context triple: [Fright Night (1985 film), productionCompany, Vistar Films]
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A.
Overture Films
Overture Films was an American independent film production and distribution company active in the late 2000s, known for releasing a range of mid-budget and specialty films.
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Alliance Films
Alliance Films was a major Canadian film distribution and production company known for releasing a wide range of independent and international movies in Canada and other markets.
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C.
Ventana Films
Ventana Films is a film production company known for its work on Guillermo del Toro’s acclaimed 1993 horror-fantasy film "Cronos."
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D.
Gramercy Pictures
Gramercy Pictures was an American film production and distribution company known for releasing acclaimed independent and specialty films in the 1990s.
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E.
Rastar Films
Rastar Films was an American film production company known for producing a range of notable Hollywood films from the 1960s through the 1980s.
- 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: Vistar Films Target entity description: Vistar Films is a film production company best known for its involvement in the making of the 1985 horror-comedy classic "Fright Night."
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A.
Overture Films
Overture Films was an American independent film production and distribution company active in the late 2000s, known for releasing a range of mid-budget and specialty films.
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B.
Alliance Films
Alliance Films was a major Canadian film distribution and production company known for releasing a wide range of independent and international movies in Canada and other markets.
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C.
Ventana Films
Ventana Films is a film production company known for its work on Guillermo del Toro’s acclaimed 1993 horror-fantasy film "Cronos."
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D.
Gramercy Pictures
Gramercy Pictures was an American film production and distribution company known for releasing acclaimed independent and specialty films in the 1990s.
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E.
Rastar Films
Rastar Films was an American film production company known for producing a range of notable Hollywood films from the 1960s through the 1980s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
feature film
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film production company ⓘ |
| activeInDecade | 1980s ⓘ |
| antagonist | Jerry Dandrige NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Fright Night (1985 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Jan Kiesser NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| director | Tom Holland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Columbia Pictures ⓘ |
| editingBy | Kent Beyda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| field | film production ⓘ |
| followedBy | Fright Night Part 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
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horror ⓘ horror-comedy ⓘ |
| genreSpecialization |
horror films
ⓘ
horror-comedy films ⓘ |
| hasRemake | Fright Night (2011 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
neighbor-as-monster trope
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teen horror ⓘ vampires ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Charley Brewster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Brad Fiedel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | Fright Night NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| producer | Herb Jaffe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Columbia Pictures
ⓘ
Vistar Films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionStartDecade | 1980s ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1985 ⓘ |
| roleInWork | production company of Fright Night ⓘ |
| runtime | 106 minutes ⓘ |
| setIn | suburban United States ⓘ |
| starring |
Amanda Bearse
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Chris Sarandon NERFINISHED ⓘ Roddy McDowall NERFINISHED ⓘ Stephen Geoffreys NERFINISHED ⓘ William Ragsdale NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writer | Tom Holland 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: Vistar Films Description of subject: Vistar Films is a film production company best known for its involvement in the making of the 1985 horror-comedy classic "Fright Night."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.