Playtone
E198397
Playtone is a film and television production company founded by Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman, known for producing acclaimed movies and series such as "Band of Brothers" and "My Big Fat Greek Wedding."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Playtone canonical | 22 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1108267 — 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: Playtone Context triple: [Charlie Wilson's War, productionCompany, Playtone]
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A.
Reprise Records
Reprise Records is a major American record label founded by Frank Sinatra, known for signing a wide range of influential artists across rock, pop, and R&B.
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B.
CBS Records
CBS Records was a major American record label and music company that played a significant role in the development and promotion of popular music in the 20th century.
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C.
ABC Records
ABC Records was a prominent American record label known for releasing influential blues, jazz, and pop recordings, including notable works by B.B. King.
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D.
RCA Records
RCA Records is a major American record label, historically influential in popular music and home to numerous iconic artists across genres.
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E.
Apple Records
Apple Records is the record label founded by The Beatles in 1968 as part of their multimedia company Apple Corps, known for releasing much of the band’s later work and various solo projects.
- 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: Playtone Target entity description: Playtone is a film and television production company founded by Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman, known for producing acclaimed movies and series such as "Band of Brothers" and "My Big Fat Greek Wedding."
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A.
Reprise Records
Reprise Records is a major American record label founded by Frank Sinatra, known for signing a wide range of influential artists across rock, pop, and R&B.
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B.
CBS Records
CBS Records was a major American record label and music company that played a significant role in the development and promotion of popular music in the 20th century.
-
C.
ABC Records
ABC Records was a prominent American record label known for releasing influential blues, jazz, and pop recordings, including notable works by B.B. King.
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D.
RCA Records
RCA Records is a major American record label, historically influential in popular music and home to numerous iconic artists across genres.
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E.
Apple Records
Apple Records is the record label founded by The Beatles in 1968 as part of their multimedia company Apple Corps, known for releasing much of the band’s later work and various solo projects.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Playtone Description of subject: Playtone is a film and television production company founded by Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman, known for producing acclaimed movies and series such as "Band of Brothers" and "My Big Fat Greek Wedding."
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
John Adams (miniseries)
features a volleyball named Wilson as a companion to the protagonist
→
productionCompany
→
Playtone
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Cast Away
subject surface form:
Carol (Where the Wild Things Are character)
subject surface form:
The Pacific
subject surface form:
The Pacific