Praxis Films
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Praxis Films is an independent film production company best known for producing Laura Poitras’s Oscar-winning documentary "Citizenfour" about Edward Snowden and NSA surveillance.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Praxis Films canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2967765 — 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: Praxis Films Context triple: [Citizenfour, productionCompany, Praxis Films]
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A.
Overture Films
Overture Films was an American independent film production and distribution company active in the late 2000s, known for releasing a range of mid-budget and specialty films.
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B.
Tornasol Films
Tornasol Films is a Spanish film production company known for co-producing acclaimed international films, including Ken Loach’s award-winning drama "The Wind That Shakes the Barley."
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C.
Rastar Films
Rastar Films was an American film production company known for producing a range of notable Hollywood films from the 1960s through the 1980s.
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D.
Diaphana Films
Diaphana Films is a French film distribution and production company known for handling acclaimed international and auteur cinema.
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E.
Dimension Films
Dimension Films is an American film production and distribution company best known for releasing popular horror and genre franchises such as Scream and Scary Movie.
- 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: Praxis Films Target entity description: Praxis Films is an independent film production company best known for producing Laura Poitras’s Oscar-winning documentary "Citizenfour" about Edward Snowden and NSA surveillance.
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A.
Overture Films
Overture Films was an American independent film production and distribution company active in the late 2000s, known for releasing a range of mid-budget and specialty films.
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B.
Tornasol Films
Tornasol Films is a Spanish film production company known for co-producing acclaimed international films, including Ken Loach’s award-winning drama "The Wind That Shakes the Barley."
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C.
Rastar Films
Rastar Films was an American film production company known for producing a range of notable Hollywood films from the 1960s through the 1980s.
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D.
Diaphana Films
Diaphana Films is a French film distribution and production company known for handling acclaimed international and auteur cinema.
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E.
Dimension Films
Dimension Films is an American film production and distribution company best known for releasing popular horror and genre franchises such as Scream and Scary Movie.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film production company
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independent film production company ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Laura Poitras ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
Edward Snowden
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Laura Poitras ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| distributionChannel |
digital streaming platforms
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television broadcast ⓘ theatrical release ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
independent cinema
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non-fiction film ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
U.S. foreign policy
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government surveillance ⓘ human rights issues ⓘ |
| genreFocus | documentary ⓘ |
| hasAwardedWork | Citizenfour ⓘ |
| industry |
documentary film
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film ⓘ |
| knownFor |
investigative documentaries
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political documentaries ⓘ producing Laura Poitras’s documentary Citizenfour ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableEvent | Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for Citizenfour ⓘ |
| notableWork | Citizenfour ⓘ |
| produced | Citizenfour ⓘ |
| subjectFocus |
civil liberties
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national security ⓘ surveillance ⓘ whistleblowing ⓘ |
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: Praxis Films Description of subject: Praxis Films is an independent film production company best known for producing Laura Poitras’s Oscar-winning documentary "Citizenfour" about Edward Snowden and NSA surveillance.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.