Pacific Theatres
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Pacific Theatres was a regional movie theater chain based in Southern California, known for operating prominent cinemas including Hollywood’s iconic Cinerama Dome.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Pacific Theatres canonical | 6 |
| Pacific Theatres cinema | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T506487 — 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: Pacific Theatres Context triple: [Cinerama Dome, operator, Pacific Theatres]
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A.
Regal Cinemas
Regal Cinemas is a major American movie theater chain known for operating multiplex cinemas across the United States.
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B.
Cinemark Theatres
Cinemark Theatres is a major American movie theater chain operating multiplex cinemas across the United States and in several Latin American countries.
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C.
Arclight Cinemas
Arclight Cinemas was a premium movie theater chain based in Los Angeles, known for its upscale amenities, reserved seating, and operation of the iconic Cinerama Dome.
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D.
AMC Theatres
AMC Theatres is one of the largest movie theater chains in the world, operating multiplex cinemas across the United States and internationally.
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E.
Yara Cinema
Yara Cinema is a prominent and historic movie theater in Havana, Cuba, known as a cultural landmark and popular gathering place in the Vedado district.
- 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: Pacific Theatres Target entity description: Pacific Theatres was a regional movie theater chain based in Southern California, known for operating prominent cinemas including Hollywood’s iconic Cinerama Dome.
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A.
Regal Cinemas
Regal Cinemas is a major American movie theater chain known for operating multiplex cinemas across the United States.
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B.
Cinemark Theatres
Cinemark Theatres is a major American movie theater chain operating multiplex cinemas across the United States and in several Latin American countries.
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C.
Arclight Cinemas
Arclight Cinemas was a premium movie theater chain based in Los Angeles, known for its upscale amenities, reserved seating, and operation of the iconic Cinerama Dome.
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D.
AMC Theatres
AMC Theatres is one of the largest movie theater chains in the world, operating multiplex cinemas across the United States and internationally.
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E.
Yara Cinema
Yara Cinema is a prominent and historic movie theater in Havana, Cuba, known as a cultural landmark and popular gathering place in the Vedado district.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
company
ⓘ
movie theater chain ⓘ |
| announcedPermanentClosure | 2021 ⓘ |
| basedIn | Southern California ⓘ |
| brandAssociatedWith |
Arclight Cinemas
ⓘ
surface form:
ArcLight Cinemas
|
| businessModel | first-run movie exhibition ⓘ |
| category |
companies based in Los Angeles
ⓘ
defunct movie theater chains in the United States ⓘ |
| closureAffected |
ArcLight-branded locations in Southern California
ⓘ
Cinerama Dome operations ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| geographicFocus |
Greater Los Angeles Area
ⓘ
surface form:
Greater Los Angeles area
|
| headquartersLocation |
Los Angeles, California, United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
Los Angeles, California
|
| industry |
cinema exhibition
ⓘ
entertainment ⓘ |
| knownFor | operating the Cinerama Dome ⓘ |
| notableFor | operating landmark Hollywood cinema properties ⓘ |
| notableVenue |
ArcLight Hollywood
ⓘ
Cinerama Dome ⓘ |
| operated |
Arclight Cinemas
ⓘ
surface form:
ArcLight Hollywood complex (excluding the Dome ownership)
Cinerama Dome ⓘ drive-in theaters (historically) ⓘ historic single-screen venues ⓘ indoor multiplex theaters ⓘ multiple multiplex cinemas in Southern California ⓘ |
| operatedIn |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
Southern California ⓘ |
| operationalStatus | defunct ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Decurion Corporation ⓘ |
| parentCompany | Decurion Corporation ⓘ |
| reasonForClosure | financial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Greater Los Angeles Area
ⓘ
surface form:
Los Angeles metropolitan area
Southern California ⓘ |
| servedArea | Southern California moviegoers ⓘ |
| servedIndustry | film distribution and exhibition ⓘ |
| typeOfBusiness | privately held company ⓘ |
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: Pacific Theatres Description of subject: Pacific Theatres was a regional movie theater chain based in Southern California, known for operating prominent cinemas including Hollywood’s iconic Cinerama Dome.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Cinerama Dome
this entity surface form:
Pacific Theatres cinema