Good Machine
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Good Machine was an influential independent film production company known for backing acclaimed American art-house and international films in the 1990s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Good Machine canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4106173 — 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: Good Machine Context triple: [The Ice Storm, productionCompany, Good Machine]
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A.
Bone Machine
"Bone Machine" is the opening track of the Pixies' influential 1988 album *Surfer Rosa*, known for its raw sound and surreal, fragmented lyrics.
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B.
The Machine
The Machine is the nickname of Albert Pujols, a Dominican-American former Major League Baseball first baseman renowned for his remarkably consistent and powerful hitting.
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C.
The Machine
The Machine is a powerful, clandestine artificial superintelligence from the TV series "Person of Interest" that predicts violent crimes by analyzing global surveillance data.
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D.
Dream Machines
Dream Machines is the visionary second half of Ted Nelson’s influential 1974 book that imagines interactive, hypertext-based computers as tools for personal creativity and liberation.
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E.
The Love Machine
The Love Machine is a 1971 American satirical drama film, based on Jacqueline Susann’s novel, about an ambitious and amoral television executive whose ruthless rise in the industry leads to personal and professional ruin.
- 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: Good Machine Target entity description: Good Machine was an influential independent film production company known for backing acclaimed American art-house and international films in the 1990s.
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A.
Bone Machine
"Bone Machine" is the opening track of the Pixies' influential 1988 album *Surfer Rosa*, known for its raw sound and surreal, fragmented lyrics.
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B.
The Machine
The Machine is the nickname of Albert Pujols, a Dominican-American former Major League Baseball first baseman renowned for his remarkably consistent and powerful hitting.
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C.
The Machine
The Machine is a powerful, clandestine artificial superintelligence from the TV series "Person of Interest" that predicts violent crimes by analyzing global surveillance data.
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D.
Dream Machines
Dream Machines is the visionary second half of Ted Nelson’s influential 1974 book that imagines interactive, hypertext-based computers as tools for personal creativity and liberation.
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E.
The Love Machine
The Love Machine is a 1971 American satirical drama film, based on Jacqueline Susann’s novel, about an ambitious and amoral television executive whose ruthless rise in the industry leads to personal and professional ruin.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film production company
ⓘ
independent film company ⓘ |
| activeInDecade | 1990s ⓘ |
| associatedWithMovement | American independent film movement ⓘ |
| basedIn | New York City ⓘ |
| coFoundedBy |
James Schamus
ⓘ
Ted Hope ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
Ang Lee
ⓘ
Edward Burns ⓘ Hal Hartley ⓘ Todd Solondz ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| distributedThrough | major art-house distributors ⓘ |
| field | independent cinema ⓘ |
| focus |
art-house distribution partnerships
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director-driven projects ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
James Schamus
ⓘ
Ted Hope ⓘ |
| industry | film ⓘ |
| influenced | later independent production companies ⓘ |
| knownFor |
festival-oriented films
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international co-productions ⓘ producing critically acclaimed films ⓘ supporting emerging filmmakers ⓘ |
| legacy | helped define 1990s American art-house cinema ⓘ |
| notableFor |
backing American art-house films
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backing international films ⓘ |
| produced |
Eat Drink Man Woman
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Happiness ⓘ In the Bedroom ⓘ Lovely & Amazing ⓘ
surface form:
Lovely and Amazing
Ride with the Devil ⓘ Safe ⓘ Sense and Sensibility ⓘ The Brothers McMullen ⓘ The Ice Storm NERFINISHED ⓘ The Wedding Banquet ⓘ Walking and Talking ⓘ |
| reputation | influential in 1990s independent cinema ⓘ |
| roleOfJamesSchamus | producer ⓘ |
| roleOfTedHope | producer ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
| style |
character-driven dramas
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low-to-mid budget productions ⓘ socially conscious narratives ⓘ |
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
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Input
Subject: Good Machine Description of subject: Good Machine was an influential independent film production company known for backing acclaimed American art-house and international films in the 1990s.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.