CBS/Fox Video
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CBS/Fox Video was a home video distribution company formed as a joint venture between CBS and 20th Century Fox that released films and television programs on VHS and other formats during the 1980s and early 1990s.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| CBS Video | 2 |
| CBS/Fox Video canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6464819 — 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: CBS/Fox Video Context triple: [Enemy Mine, distributor, CBS/Fox Video]
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A.
CBS Media Ventures
CBS Media Ventures is a major American television distribution and syndication company that handles the domestic and international distribution of numerous popular TV series and media properties for CBS.
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B.
CBS
CBS is a leading graduate business school of Columbia University in New York City, renowned for its MBA and finance programs.
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C.
CBS
CBS is a leading Danish university in Copenhagen specializing in business and economics education and research.
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D.
CBS
CBS is a major American broadcast television network known for airing a wide range of popular news, sports, and entertainment programming nationwide.
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E.
CBS
CBS is a college within the University of California, Davis that focuses on education and research in the biological sciences.
- 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: CBS/Fox Video Target entity description: CBS/Fox Video was a home video distribution company formed as a joint venture between CBS and 20th Century Fox that released films and television programs on VHS and other formats during the 1980s and early 1990s.
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A.
CBS Media Ventures
CBS Media Ventures is a major American television distribution and syndication company that handles the domestic and international distribution of numerous popular TV series and media properties for CBS.
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B.
CBS
CBS is a leading graduate business school of Columbia University in New York City, renowned for its MBA and finance programs.
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C.
CBS
CBS is a leading Danish university in Copenhagen specializing in business and economics education and research.
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D.
CBS
CBS is a major American broadcast television network known for airing a wide range of popular news, sports, and entertainment programming nationwide.
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E.
CBS
CBS is a college within the University of California, Davis that focuses on education and research in the biological sciences.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
home video distribution company
ⓘ
joint venture ⓘ |
| activePeriod |
1980s
ⓘ
early 1990s ⓘ |
| associatedBrand |
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
ⓘ
linked to:
20th Century Fox
CBS Video ⓘ
linked to:
CBS/Fox Video
|
| associatedCompany | CBS/Fox Company ⓘ |
| businessModel | licensing of film and TV libraries for home video ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| distributedContentType |
feature films
ⓘ
made-for-TV movies ⓘ television programs ⓘ |
| distributionChannel |
retail video sales
ⓘ
video rental stores ⓘ |
| formatDistributed |
Betamax
ⓘ
LaserDisc ⓘ VHS ⓘ |
| industry |
film distribution
ⓘ
home video ⓘ television program distribution ⓘ |
| labelFor |
20th Century Fox titles
ⓘ
linked to:
20th Century Fox
CBS titles ⓘ |
| market |
North America
ⓘ
United States home video market ⓘ |
| mediaType | analog video ⓘ |
| notableBrandingFeature | CBS/Fox Video logo on cassette packaging ⓘ |
| owner |
20th Century Fox
ⓘ
CBS Inc. ⓘ
linked to:
Columbia Broadcasting System
|
| parentCompany |
20th Century Fox
ⓘ
CBS Inc. ⓘ
linked to:
Columbia Broadcasting System
|
| predecessor | Magnetic Video ⓘ |
| product |
Betamax tapes
ⓘ
LaserDisc releases ⓘ VHS tapes ⓘ home video cassettes ⓘ |
| reasonForEnd | reorganization of parent companies’ home video operations ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
| successor |
CBS Video
ⓘ
linked to:
CBS/Fox Video
Fox Video ⓘ |
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: CBS/Fox Video Description of subject: CBS/Fox Video was a home video distribution company formed as a joint venture between CBS and 20th Century Fox that released films and television programs on VHS and other formats during the 1980s and early 1990s.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: CBS/Fox Video
linked to: CBS/Fox Video