Producers Distributing Corporation
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Producers Distributing Corporation was an American film distribution company active during the silent and early sound era of Hollywood in the 1920s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Producers Distributing Corporation canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10892080 — 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)
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Target entity: Producers Distributing Corporation Context triple: [The Road to Yesterday, distributedBy, Producers Distributing Corporation]
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A.
Distributors Corporation of America
Distributors Corporation of America was a mid-20th-century American film distribution company best known for handling low-budget and independent releases, including cult classics like "Plan 9 from Outer Space."
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B.
Associated Producers Inc.
Associated Producers Inc. was a mid-20th-century American film production company involved in genre and independent features, including the 1964 science fiction horror film "The Last Man on Earth."
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C.
United Productions of America
United Productions of America was an influential mid-20th-century American animation studio known for its innovative, modernist style and departure from traditional cartoon conventions.
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D.
Warner-Pathé Distributors
Warner-Pathé Distributors was a British film distribution company active in the mid-20th century, known for releasing a range of feature films in the United Kingdom.
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E.
Epoch Producing Corporation
Epoch Producing Corporation was an early 20th-century American film production company best known for financing and producing D. W. Griffith’s landmark and controversial silent film "The Birth of a Nation."
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: Producers Distributing Corporation Target entity description: Producers Distributing Corporation was an American film distribution company active during the silent and early sound era of Hollywood in the 1920s.
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A.
Distributors Corporation of America
Distributors Corporation of America was a mid-20th-century American film distribution company best known for handling low-budget and independent releases, including cult classics like "Plan 9 from Outer Space."
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B.
Associated Producers Inc.
Associated Producers Inc. was a mid-20th-century American film production company involved in genre and independent features, including the 1964 science fiction horror film "The Last Man on Earth."
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C.
United Productions of America
United Productions of America was an influential mid-20th-century American animation studio known for its innovative, modernist style and departure from traditional cartoon conventions.
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D.
Warner-Pathé Distributors
Warner-Pathé Distributors was a British film distribution company active in the mid-20th century, known for releasing a range of feature films in the United Kingdom.
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E.
Epoch Producing Corporation
Epoch Producing Corporation was an early 20th-century American film production company best known for financing and producing D. W. Griffith’s landmark and controversial silent film "The Birth of a Nation."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American company
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film distribution company ⓘ |
| activePeriod | 1920s ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Hollywood studio system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| businessActivity |
acquiring distribution rights
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supplying films to theaters ⓘ |
| businessModel | distribution of feature films ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| distributionFormat | 35 mm film ⓘ |
| era |
early sound era
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silent film era ⓘ |
| historicalContext | 1920s American film industry ⓘ |
| industry |
film distribution
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motion pictures ⓘ |
| languageOfReleases |
English intertitles
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English-language sound films ⓘ |
| location | Hollywood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | theatrical film ⓘ |
| notableFor | distribution of American silent-era features ⓘ |
| operatedDuring | transition from silent to sound films ⓘ |
| product |
early sound films
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silent films ⓘ |
| servedMarket | United States theatrical market ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
| typeOfBusiness | independent distributor ⓘ |
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: Producers Distributing Corporation Description of subject: Producers Distributing Corporation was an American film distribution company active during the silent and early sound era of Hollywood in the 1920s.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.