Silver Screen Partners
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Silver Screen Partners was a series of limited partnerships that financed numerous Walt Disney film and television projects in the 1980s and early 1990s.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Silver Screen Partners IV | 4 |
| Silver Screen Partners canonical | 2 |
| Silver Screen Partners III | 2 |
| Silver Screen Partners I | 1 |
| Silver Screen Partners II | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T577830 — 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: Silver Screen Partners Context triple: [Splash, productionCompany, Silver Screen Partners]
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A.
Amblin Partners
Amblin Partners is an American film and television production company founded by Steven Spielberg that develops and produces a wide range of major studio and independent projects.
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B.
Searchlight Pictures
Searchlight Pictures is an American film production and distribution company known for critically acclaimed independent and specialty films, operating as a division of The Walt Disney Company.
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C.
Buena Vista International
Buena Vista International is a global film distribution company historically associated with The Walt Disney Company, responsible for releasing many of its movies in international markets.
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D.
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.
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E.
Ventana Films
Ventana Films is a film production company known for its work on Guillermo del Toro’s acclaimed 1993 horror-fantasy film "Cronos."
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: Silver Screen Partners Target entity description: Silver Screen Partners was a series of limited partnerships that financed numerous Walt Disney film and television projects in the 1980s and early 1990s.
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A.
Amblin Partners
Amblin Partners is an American film and television production company founded by Steven Spielberg that develops and produces a wide range of major studio and independent projects.
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B.
Searchlight Pictures
Searchlight Pictures is an American film production and distribution company known for critically acclaimed independent and specialty films, operating as a division of The Walt Disney Company.
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C.
Buena Vista International
Buena Vista International is a global film distribution company historically associated with The Walt Disney Company, responsible for releasing many of its movies in international markets.
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D.
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.
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E.
Ventana Films
Ventana Films is a film production company known for its work on Guillermo del Toro’s acclaimed 1993 horror-fantasy film "Cronos."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film financing entity
ⓘ
limited partnership program ⓘ |
| activePeriodEnd | early 1990s ⓘ |
| activePeriodStart | 1980s ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
E. F. Hutton
ⓘ
surface form:
E.F. Hutton & Company
|
| basedIn | New York (in connection with E.F. Hutton/partnership offerings) ⓘ |
| businessModel | raising capital through limited partnerships ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| distributionPartner |
Buena Vista International
ⓘ
surface form:
Buena Vista Distribution
|
| financed |
Disney feature films
ⓘ
Disney television movies ⓘ Disney television series ⓘ |
| financingStructure |
equity investment by limited partners
ⓘ
revenue participation for investors ⓘ |
| industry |
entertainment industry
ⓘ
film industry ⓘ television industry ⓘ |
| investmentType | private placement limited partnership interests ⓘ |
| mainActivity |
financing motion pictures
ⓘ
financing television productions ⓘ |
| notableFor |
financing Walt Disney film projects
ⓘ
financing Walt Disney television projects ⓘ |
| partner |
The Walt Disney Company
ⓘ
Walt Disney Pictures ⓘ |
| purpose | to provide production financing for Disney projects ⓘ |
| reasonForEnd | Disney’s shift to other financing methods in the 1990s ⓘ |
| riskProfile | high-risk investment in film slate ⓘ |
| series |
Silver Screen Partners
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Silver Screen Partners I
Silver Screen Partners self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Silver Screen Partners II
Silver Screen Partners self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Silver Screen Partners III
Silver Screen Partners self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Silver Screen Partners IV
|
| 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: Silver Screen Partners Description of subject: Silver Screen Partners was a series of limited partnerships that financed numerous Walt Disney film and television projects in the 1980s and early 1990s.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Silver Screen Partners IV
this entity surface form:
Silver Screen Partners I
this entity surface form:
Silver Screen Partners II
this entity surface form:
Silver Screen Partners III
this entity surface form:
Silver Screen Partners IV
subject surface form:
Brazil (film)
this entity surface form:
Silver Screen Partners IV
this entity surface form:
Silver Screen Partners IV
this entity surface form:
Silver Screen Partners III