Roadshow Film Distributors
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Roadshow Film Distributors is an Australian film distribution company best known for releasing major local and international titles, including the original "Mad Max."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Roadshow Film Distributors canonical | 4 |
| Roadshow Films | 4 |
| Roadshow Entertainment | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5072100 — 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: Roadshow Film Distributors Context triple: [Mad Max, distributor, Roadshow Film Distributors]
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A.
Village Roadshow Pictures
Village Roadshow Pictures is a major Australian-American film production company known for co-financing and producing numerous Hollywood blockbusters across various genres.
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B.
Hollywood Pictures
Hollywood Pictures was a film production label of The Walt Disney Company that focused on releasing more mature and genre-oriented movies during the 1990s.
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C.
Columbia Pictures
Columbia Pictures is a historic American film studio that rose to prominence during Hollywood’s Golden Age and became one of the industry’s leading producers and distributors of motion pictures.
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D.
New World Pictures
New World Pictures was an American independent film production and distribution company, founded by Roger Corman, known for low-budget genre films and for releasing foreign and arthouse cinema in the U.S.
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E.
Buena Vista Pictures
Buena Vista Pictures was the theatrical distribution arm of The Walt Disney Company, responsible for releasing many of Disney’s live-action and animated films.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: Roadshow Film Distributors Target entity description: Roadshow Film Distributors is an Australian film distribution company best known for releasing major local and international titles, including the original "Mad Max."
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A.
Village Roadshow Pictures
Village Roadshow Pictures is a major Australian-American film production company known for co-financing and producing numerous Hollywood blockbusters across various genres.
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B.
Hollywood Pictures
Hollywood Pictures was a film production label of The Walt Disney Company that focused on releasing more mature and genre-oriented movies during the 1990s.
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C.
Columbia Pictures
Columbia Pictures is a historic American film studio that rose to prominence during Hollywood’s Golden Age and became one of the industry’s leading producers and distributors of motion pictures.
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D.
New World Pictures
New World Pictures was an American independent film production and distribution company, founded by Roger Corman, known for low-budget genre films and for releasing foreign and arthouse cinema in the U.S.
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E.
Buena Vista Pictures
Buena Vista Pictures was the theatrical distribution arm of The Walt Disney Company, responsible for releasing many of Disney’s live-action and animated films.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Australian company
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film distribution company ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Roadshow Entertainment
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Village Roadshow Pictures (distribution arm) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| businessModel |
home entertainment distribution
ⓘ
theatrical film distribution ⓘ |
| country | Australia ⓘ |
| distributes |
Babe
NERFINISHED
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Babe: Pig in the City NERFINISHED ⓘ Breaker Morant NERFINISHED ⓘ Crocodile Dundee NERFINISHED ⓘ Crocodile Dundee II NERFINISHED ⓘ Gallipoli (1981 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Happy Feet NERFINISHED ⓘ Happy Feet Two NERFINISHED ⓘ Lion NERFINISHED ⓘ Mad Max NERFINISHED ⓘ Mad Max (franchise) NERFINISHED ⓘ Mad Max 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome NERFINISHED ⓘ Mad Max: Fury Road NERFINISHED ⓘ Red Dog NERFINISHED ⓘ San Andreas NERFINISHED ⓘ Shine NERFINISHED ⓘ The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert NERFINISHED ⓘ The Babadook NERFINISHED ⓘ The Castle NERFINISHED ⓘ The Dish NERFINISHED ⓘ The Great Gatsby (2013 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Lego Movie NERFINISHED ⓘ The Man From Snowy River NERFINISHED ⓘ The Matrix NERFINISHED ⓘ The Matrix Reloaded NERFINISHED ⓘ The Matrix Revolutions NERFINISHED ⓘ The Piano NERFINISHED ⓘ Wolf Creek NERFINISHED ⓘ Wolf Creek 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributionFormat |
Blu-ray
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DVD ⓘ cinema ⓘ digital streaming ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Village Roadshow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedIn | 1971 ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Sydney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| industry | film distribution ⓘ |
| notableFor |
releasing major Australian films
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releasing major international studio titles in Australia ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | Village Roadshow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryMarket | Australia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| secondaryMarket | New Zealand NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Roadshow Film Distributors Description of subject: Roadshow Film Distributors is an Australian film distribution company best known for releasing major local and international titles, including the original "Mad Max."
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Roadshow Entertainment
this entity surface form:
Roadshow Entertainment
this entity surface form:
Roadshow Films
this entity surface form:
Roadshow Films
this entity surface form:
Roadshow Entertainment
this entity surface form:
Roadshow Films
this entity surface form:
Roadshow Films