Cannon Films
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Cannon Films was a prolific independent film production and distribution company best known for its low- to mid-budget action movies and cult classics during the 1980s.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cannon Films canonical | 33 |
| Cannon Film Distributors | 6 |
| Cannon Releasing | 6 |
| Cannon Films (United States) | 1 |
| Cannon Releasing (international) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10526331 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Cannon Films Context triple: [Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, productionCompany, Cannon Films]
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Carnival Films
Carnival Films is a British television and film production company best known internationally for creating the period drama series "Downton Abbey."
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Canana Films
Canana Films is a Mexican film production company known for producing socially conscious and critically acclaimed Latin American cinema.
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Eagle-Lion Films
Eagle-Lion Films was an American film production and distribution company active in the late 1940s, best known for its low-budget features and notable film noir titles.
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Eldorado Films
Eldorado Films is a film production company best known for its involvement in the 1984 adventure romantic comedy "Romancing the Stone."
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Sunrise Films
Sunrise Films is a film distribution company known for handling the release of independent and international movies such as "Dinner Rush."
- 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: Cannon Films Target entity description: Cannon Films was a prolific independent film production and distribution company best known for its low- to mid-budget action movies and cult classics during the 1980s.
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A.
Carnival Films
Carnival Films is a British television and film production company best known internationally for creating the period drama series "Downton Abbey."
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B.
Canana Films
Canana Films is a Mexican film production company known for producing socially conscious and critically acclaimed Latin American cinema.
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C.
Eagle-Lion Films
Eagle-Lion Films was an American film production and distribution company active in the late 1940s, best known for its low-budget features and notable film noir titles.
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D.
Eldorado Films
Eldorado Films is a film production company best known for its involvement in the 1984 adventure romantic comedy "Romancing the Stone."
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E.
Sunrise Films
Sunrise Films is a film distribution company known for handling the release of independent and international movies such as "Dinner Rush."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Cannon Films Description of subject: Cannon Films was a prolific independent film production and distribution company best known for its low- to mid-budget action movies and cult classics during the 1980s.
Referenced by (47)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Lifeforce (1985 film)
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Lifeforce (1985 film)
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Reunion
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Joey
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Joey
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The Maids
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