USA Films
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USA Films was an American independent film distribution company known for releasing critically acclaimed art-house and specialty films in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| USA Films canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3016734 — 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: USA Films Context triple: [Gosford Park, distributor, USA Films]
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A.
American cinema
American cinema is the film industry and body of motion pictures produced in the United States, best known for Hollywood’s global influence on popular culture and filmmaking.
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B.
October Films
October Films was an American independent film distribution company known for releasing critically acclaimed arthouse and foreign films in the 1990s.
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C.
American independent cinema
American independent cinema is a movement of U.S. filmmaking characterized by low-budget, artistically driven, and often unconventional films produced outside the major studio system.
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D.
American Empirical Pictures
American Empirical Pictures is a film production company closely associated with director Wes Anderson, known for producing his distinctively stylized, character-driven movies.
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E.
CBS Films
CBS Films is an American film production and distribution company owned by CBS Corporation, known for releasing a range of mid-budget feature films.
- 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: USA Films Target entity description: USA Films was an American independent film distribution company known for releasing critically acclaimed art-house and specialty films in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
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A.
American cinema
American cinema is the film industry and body of motion pictures produced in the United States, best known for Hollywood’s global influence on popular culture and filmmaking.
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B.
October Films
October Films was an American independent film distribution company known for releasing critically acclaimed arthouse and foreign films in the 1990s.
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C.
American independent cinema
American independent cinema is a movement of U.S. filmmaking characterized by low-budget, artistically driven, and often unconventional films produced outside the major studio system.
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D.
American Empirical Pictures
American Empirical Pictures is a film production company closely associated with director Wes Anderson, known for producing his distinctively stylized, character-driven movies.
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E.
CBS Films
CBS Films is an American film production and distribution company owned by CBS Corporation, known for releasing a range of mid-budget feature films.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film distribution company
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independent film company ⓘ |
| basedIn |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| businessType |
film distributor
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specialty film distributor ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| countryOfOperation |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| distributionScope | theatrical distribution ⓘ |
| era |
1990s American independent cinema
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2000s American independent cinema ⓘ |
| filmTypeDistributed |
art-house cinema
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foreign-language films ⓘ independent drama films ⓘ |
| focus |
art-house films
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independent films ⓘ specialty films ⓘ |
| industry |
entertainment industry
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film industry ⓘ |
| languageOfReleases | English ⓘ |
| market | United States theatrical market ⓘ |
| notableFor | releasing critically acclaimed films ⓘ |
| operationalPeriod |
early 2000s
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late 1990s ⓘ |
| reputation | critically respected distributor ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
art-house audiences
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specialty film audiences ⓘ |
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: USA Films Description of subject: USA Films was an American independent film distribution company known for releasing critically acclaimed art-house and specialty films in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Traffic (2000 film)