Transatlantic Pictures
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Transatlantic Pictures was a short-lived film production company co-founded by Alfred Hitchcock and Sidney Bernstein in the late 1940s to produce Hitchcock-directed features.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Transatlantic Pictures canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5514671 — 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)
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Target entity: Transatlantic Pictures Context triple: [Rope, productionCompany, Transatlantic Pictures]
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A.
Embassy Pictures
Embassy Pictures was an American independent film production and distribution company known for releasing influential and offbeat films from the 1950s through the 1970s.
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B.
New World Pictures
New World Pictures was an American independent film production and distribution company, founded by Roger Corman, known for low-budget genre films and for releasing foreign and arthouse cinema in the U.S.
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C.
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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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.
Monumental Pictures
Monumental Pictures is a British film and television production company known for producing feature films such as the 2019 adaptation of "Cats."
- 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: Transatlantic Pictures Target entity description: Transatlantic Pictures was a short-lived film production company co-founded by Alfred Hitchcock and Sidney Bernstein in the late 1940s to produce Hitchcock-directed features.
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A.
Embassy Pictures
Embassy Pictures was an American independent film production and distribution company known for releasing influential and offbeat films from the 1950s through the 1970s.
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B.
New World Pictures
New World Pictures was an American independent film production and distribution company, founded by Roger Corman, known for low-budget genre films and for releasing foreign and arthouse cinema in the U.S.
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C.
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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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.
Monumental Pictures
Monumental Pictures is a British film and television production company known for producing feature films such as the 2019 adaptation of "Cats."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
defunct company
ⓘ
film production company ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
British cinema
ⓘ
Hollywood studio system ⓘ |
| businessModel | independent production company ⓘ |
| coFounder |
Alfred Hitchcock
NERFINISHED
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Sidney Bernstein NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Warner Bros. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dissolved | early 1950s ⓘ |
| focus | feature films ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Alfred Hitchcock
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sidney Bernstein NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreSpecialization | thriller films ⓘ |
| inception | late 1940s ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| keyPerson |
Alfred Hitchcock
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sidney Bernstein NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| notableTechniqueInWork | long-take cinematography in Rope ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Rope
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Under Capricorn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operationalPeriod |
early 1950s
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late 1940s ⓘ |
| primaryDirector | Alfred Hitchcock NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producedFilmDirectedBy |
Rope
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Under Capricorn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| purpose | to produce films directed by Alfred Hitchcock ⓘ |
| reasonForDissolution | commercial underperformance of early productions ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
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: Transatlantic Pictures Description of subject: Transatlantic Pictures was a short-lived film production company co-founded by Alfred Hitchcock and Sidney Bernstein in the late 1940s to produce Hitchcock-directed features.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.