Cannon Entertainment
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Cannon Entertainment was an American film production and distribution company best known for its prolific output of low- to mid-budget genre films during the 1980s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cannon Entertainment canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12768064 — 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: Cannon Entertainment Context triple: [A Cry in the Dark, productionCompany, Cannon Entertainment]
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A.
Centropolis Entertainment
Centropolis Entertainment is a film production company co-founded by director Roland Emmerich, best known for producing large-scale science fiction and disaster movies.
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B.
Sullivan Entertainment
Sullivan Entertainment is a Canadian film and television production company best known for adapting Lucy Maud Montgomery’s works, including the Anne of Green Gables series and its spin-off Road to Avonlea.
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C.
Parkwood Entertainment
Parkwood Entertainment is an American entertainment and management company founded by Beyoncé that produces music, films, and other creative projects.
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D.
Star Trak Entertainment
Star Trak Entertainment is a record label founded by Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo, known for releasing hip hop and R&B music by artists such as Clipse, N.E.R.D, and others.
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E.
Parkfield Entertainment
Parkfield Entertainment is a British film and television production company known for producing crime and gangster-related content, including works about the notorious Kray twins.
- 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: Cannon Entertainment Target entity description: Cannon Entertainment was an American film production and distribution company best known for its prolific output of low- to mid-budget genre films during the 1980s.
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A.
Centropolis Entertainment
Centropolis Entertainment is a film production company co-founded by director Roland Emmerich, best known for producing large-scale science fiction and disaster movies.
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B.
Sullivan Entertainment
Sullivan Entertainment is a Canadian film and television production company best known for adapting Lucy Maud Montgomery’s works, including the Anne of Green Gables series and its spin-off Road to Avonlea.
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C.
Parkwood Entertainment
Parkwood Entertainment is an American entertainment and management company founded by Beyoncé that produces music, films, and other creative projects.
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D.
Star Trak Entertainment
Star Trak Entertainment is a record label founded by Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo, known for releasing hip hop and R&B music by artists such as Clipse, N.E.R.D, and others.
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E.
Parkfield Entertainment
Parkfield Entertainment is a British film and television production company known for producing crime and gangster-related content, including works about the notorious Kray twins.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film distribution company
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film production company ⓘ |
| activePeriod | 1980s ⓘ |
| basedIn |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| businessActivity |
film distribution
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film financing ⓘ film production ⓘ |
| businessModel | high-volume production ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| distributionScope |
home video distribution
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theatrical distribution ⓘ |
| genreSpecialty |
action films
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exploitation films ⓘ horror films ⓘ martial arts films ⓘ thriller films ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
focus on commercial genre cinema
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low production budgets ⓘ prolific output ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| market | international film market ⓘ |
| notableFor |
genre films
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low-budget films ⓘ mid-budget films ⓘ |
| product | feature films ⓘ |
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: Cannon Entertainment Description of subject: Cannon Entertainment was an American film production and distribution company best known for its prolific output of low- to mid-budget genre films during the 1980s.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.