Orion Pictures
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Orion Pictures is an American film production and distribution company known for releasing acclaimed movies such as "The Silence of the Lambs," "Dances with Wolves," and numerous influential independent and studio films from the 1980s and 1990s.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Orion Pictures canonical | 111 |
| Orion Home Video | 1 |
| Orion Pictures (as distributor brand) | 1 |
| Orion-Nova Productions | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T443227 — 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: Orion Pictures Context triple: [Bull Durham, distributedBy, Orion Pictures]
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A.
Searchlight Pictures
Searchlight Pictures is an American film production and distribution company known for critically acclaimed independent and specialty films, operating as a division of The Walt Disney Company.
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B.
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.
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C.
Momentum Pictures
Momentum Pictures is a UK-based film distribution company known for releasing a wide range of independent and award-winning movies.
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D.
Touchstone Pictures
Touchstone Pictures is an American film production label of The Walt Disney Company known for releasing more mature and adult-oriented movies than Disney’s main family-friendly brand.
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E.
TriStar Pictures
TriStar Pictures is an American film production and distribution studio known for releasing a wide range of popular Hollywood movies since the 1980s.
- 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: Orion Pictures Target entity description: Orion Pictures is an American film production and distribution company known for releasing acclaimed movies such as "The Silence of the Lambs," "Dances with Wolves," and numerous influential independent and studio films from the 1980s and 1990s.
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A.
Searchlight Pictures
Searchlight Pictures is an American film production and distribution company known for critically acclaimed independent and specialty films, operating as a division of The Walt Disney Company.
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B.
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.
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C.
Momentum Pictures
Momentum Pictures is a UK-based film distribution company known for releasing a wide range of independent and award-winning movies.
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D.
Touchstone Pictures
Touchstone Pictures is an American film production label of The Walt Disney Company known for releasing more mature and adult-oriented movies than Disney’s main family-friendly brand.
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E.
TriStar Pictures
TriStar Pictures is an American film production and distribution studio known for releasing a wide range of popular Hollywood movies since the 1980s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American company
ⓘ
film distribution company ⓘ film production company ⓘ |
| activePeriod |
1980s
ⓘ
1990s ⓘ |
| awardedFor |
Academy Award for Best Picture
ⓘ
surface form:
Academy Award for Best Picture (for Amadeus)
Academy Award for Best Picture ⓘ
surface form:
Academy Award for Best Picture (for Dances with Wolves)
Academy Award for Best Picture ⓘ
surface form:
Academy Award for Best Picture (for Platoon)
Academy Award for Best Picture ⓘ
surface form:
Academy Award for Best Picture (for The Silence of the Lambs)
|
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| distributed |
Amadeus
ⓘ
film "Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure" ⓘ
surface form:
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
Dances with Wolves ⓘ Hannah and Her Sisters ⓘ Hoosiers ⓘ Platoon ⓘ film "RoboCop" ⓘ
surface form:
RoboCop
The Silence of the Lambs ⓘ |
| focusesOn | theatrical film distribution ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Arthur B. Krim
ⓘ
Eric Pleskow ⓘ Mike Medavoy ⓘ Robert S. Benjamin ⓘ William Bernstein ⓘ |
| genreFocus |
comedy films
ⓘ
drama films ⓘ science fiction films ⓘ thriller films ⓘ |
| hasSubsidiary | Orion Classics ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
Los Angeles ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| inception | 1978 ⓘ |
| industry |
entertainment industry
ⓘ
film industry ⓘ |
| logoFeature |
Orion
ⓘ
surface form:
Orion constellation
|
| notableWork |
Amadeus
ⓘ
film "Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure" ⓘ
surface form:
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
Dances with Wolves ⓘ First Blood ⓘ Hannah and Her Sisters ⓘ Hoosiers ⓘ Platoon ⓘ film "RoboCop" ⓘ
surface form:
RoboCop
The Silence of the Lambs ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ⓘ |
| specializesIn |
independent films
ⓘ
studio films ⓘ |
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: Orion Pictures Description of subject: Orion Pictures is an American film production and distribution company known for releasing acclaimed movies such as "The Silence of the Lambs," "Dances with Wolves," and numerous influential independent and studio films from the 1980s and 1990s.
Referenced by (114)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Bull Durham
subject surface form:
Arthur (1981 film)
subject surface form:
Arthur (1981 film)
this entity surface form:
Orion Pictures (as distributor brand)
this entity surface form:
Orion Home Video
subject surface form:
Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
subject surface form:
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (film)