Lorimar
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Lorimar was a prominent American television and film production company best known for producing popular TV series in the 1970s and 1980s, such as "Dallas" and "Knots Landing."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lorimar Television | 20 |
| Lorimar Productions | 17 |
| Lorimar canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10676930 — 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: Lorimar Context triple: [Lookin' to Get Out, productionCompany, Lorimar]
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A.
Spaceship Entertainment
Spaceship Entertainment is a Nigerian record label founded by rapper and producer Ye (formerly known as Kanye West).
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B.
Spaceship Entertainment
Spaceship Entertainment is a Nigerian record label founded by and best known for representing Afrobeats star Burna Boy.
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C.
Buena Vista Records
Buena Vista Records is a record label historically associated with releasing music and soundtracks from The Walt Disney Company’s films and television productions.
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D.
The Geffen Company
The Geffen Company was an American film production company founded by music and entertainment executive David Geffen, known for producing several notable Hollywood films in the 1980s and 1990s.
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E.
MGM Records
MGM Records was a prominent American record label, especially active in the mid-20th century, known for releasing film soundtracks and popular music by a variety of notable artists.
- 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: Lorimar Target entity description: Lorimar was a prominent American television and film production company best known for producing popular TV series in the 1970s and 1980s, such as "Dallas" and "Knots Landing."
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A.
Spaceship Entertainment
Spaceship Entertainment is a Nigerian record label founded by rapper and producer Ye (formerly known as Kanye West).
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B.
Spaceship Entertainment
Spaceship Entertainment is a Nigerian record label founded by and best known for representing Afrobeats star Burna Boy.
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C.
Buena Vista Records
Buena Vista Records is a record label historically associated with releasing music and soundtracks from The Walt Disney Company’s films and television productions.
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D.
The Geffen Company
The Geffen Company was an American film production company founded by music and entertainment executive David Geffen, known for producing several notable Hollywood films in the 1980s and 1990s.
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E.
MGM Records
MGM Records was a prominent American record label, especially active in the mid-20th century, known for releasing film soundtracks and popular music by a variety of notable artists.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American company
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film production company ⓘ television production company ⓘ |
| activePeriod |
1970s
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1980s ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Dallas franchise
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Knots Landing franchise ⓘ
linked to:
Dallas–Knots Landing franchise
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| businessModel | independent television production ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| distribution | syndication of television series ⓘ |
| fate | acquired by Warner Communications ⓘ |
| foundedAs |
Lorimar Productions
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linked to:
Lorimar
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| genreFocus |
drama television series
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family drama ⓘ soap opera ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
California
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linked to:
California, United States
Los Angeles ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| industry |
film production
ⓘ
television production ⓘ |
| knownFor |
network television series
ⓘ
prime-time soap operas ⓘ |
| mediaType | scripted television ⓘ |
| notableSeriesEra |
American television in the 1970s
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American television in the 1980s ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Dallas
ⓘ
Eight Is Enough ⓘ Falcon Crest ⓘ Family Matters ⓘ Full House ⓘ Knots Landing ⓘ Perfect Strangers ⓘ The Waltons ⓘ |
| parentCompany |
Warner Bros.
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linked to:
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Warner Communications ⓘ |
| producedFormat |
half-hour sitcoms
ⓘ
hour-long drama series ⓘ |
| producedForNetwork |
ABC
ⓘ
CBS ⓘ NBC ⓘ |
| regionServed |
North America
ⓘ
international markets ⓘ |
| status | defunct company ⓘ |
| successor |
Lorimar-Telepictures
ⓘ
linked to:
Lorimar Film Entertainment
Warner Bros. Television ⓘ |
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: Lorimar Description of subject: Lorimar was a prominent American television and film production company best known for producing popular TV series in the 1970s and 1980s, such as "Dallas" and "Knots Landing."
Referenced by (39)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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TV series – Knots Landing
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