The Cinema Guild
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The Cinema Guild is an independent film distribution company known for releasing acclaimed documentaries, foreign films, and art-house features in the United States.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cinema Guild | 1 |
| The Cinema Guild canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7905835 — 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 Cinema Guild Context triple: [Marwencol, distributor, The Cinema Guild]
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A.
World Film Company
World Film Company was an early 20th-century American motion picture distribution and production company active during the silent film era.
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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.
Cinema International Corporation
Cinema International Corporation was a major international film distribution company formed by the joint venture of major Hollywood studios to handle the overseas release of their movies in the 1970s and early 1980s.
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D.
Janus Films
Janus Films is a renowned American film distribution company best known for bringing classic, foreign, and art-house cinema to U.S. audiences and for its close association with The Criterion Collection.
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E.
Vistar Films
Vistar Films is a film production company best known for its involvement in the making of the 1985 horror-comedy classic "Fright Night."
- 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 Cinema Guild Target entity description: The Cinema Guild is an independent film distribution company known for releasing acclaimed documentaries, foreign films, and art-house features in the United States.
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A.
World Film Company
World Film Company was an early 20th-century American motion picture distribution and production company active during the silent film era.
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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.
Cinema International Corporation
Cinema International Corporation was a major international film distribution company formed by the joint venture of major Hollywood studios to handle the overseas release of their movies in the 1970s and early 1980s.
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D.
Janus Films
Janus Films is a renowned American film distribution company best known for bringing classic, foreign, and art-house cinema to U.S. audiences and for its close association with The Criterion Collection.
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E.
Vistar Films
Vistar Films is a film production company best known for its involvement in the making of the 1985 horror-comedy classic "Fright Night."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film distribution company
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independent film distributor ⓘ |
| businessModel |
educational distribution
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home video distribution ⓘ theatrical distribution ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| distributes |
feature films
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nonfiction films ⓘ |
| distributesIn | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| focus |
art-house films
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documentary films ⓘ foreign films ⓘ independent cinema ⓘ |
| industry | film distribution ⓘ |
| knownFor |
releasing acclaimed documentaries
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releasing art-house features ⓘ releasing foreign films ⓘ |
| languageOfReleases | multiple languages ⓘ |
| marketSegment | specialty film market ⓘ |
| releaseType |
DVD and Blu-ray releases
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theatrical releases ⓘ video-on-demand releases ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
art-house audiences
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film festivals ⓘ universities and libraries ⓘ |
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 Cinema Guild Description of subject: The Cinema Guild is an independent film distribution company known for releasing acclaimed documentaries, foreign films, and art-house features in the United States.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Cinema Guild