The City of Dim Faces
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The City of Dim Faces is a 1918 silent drama film starring Sessue Hayakawa that explores themes of identity, race, and cultural conflict in early 20th-century America.
All labels observed (1)
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| The City of Dim Faces canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13499409 — 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: The City of Dim Faces Context triple: [Sessue Hayakawa, notableWork, The City of Dim Faces]
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A.
The City Jilt
The City Jilt is an early 18th-century amatory novella by Eliza Haywood that explores themes of love, betrayal, and female agency in urban London society.
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B.
City of Smiles
City of Smiles is the popular nickname of Bacolod City in the Philippines, known for its friendly residents and vibrant MassKara Festival.
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C.
The Soul of the Soulless City
The Soul of the Soulless City is a 1920 painting by British artist C.R.W. Nevinson that depicts the modern metropolis of New York as a dehumanized, mechanized urban landscape.
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D.
The Grim Smile of the Five Towns
"The Grim Smile of the Five Towns" is a collection of interlinked short stories by Arnold Bennett that wryly portrays the lives, ambitions, and social dynamics of characters in the industrial "Five Towns" of the English Midlands.
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E.
City of Ghosts
City of Ghosts is a 2002 neo-noir crime drama film set largely in Cambodia, following a con man entangled in a dangerous underworld scheme.
- 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: The City of Dim Faces Target entity description: The City of Dim Faces is a 1918 silent drama film starring Sessue Hayakawa that explores themes of identity, race, and cultural conflict in early 20th-century America.
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A.
The City Jilt
The City Jilt is an early 18th-century amatory novella by Eliza Haywood that explores themes of love, betrayal, and female agency in urban London society.
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B.
City of Smiles
City of Smiles is the popular nickname of Bacolod City in the Philippines, known for its friendly residents and vibrant MassKara Festival.
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C.
The Soul of the Soulless City
The Soul of the Soulless City is a 1920 painting by British artist C.R.W. Nevinson that depicts the modern metropolis of New York as a dehumanized, mechanized urban landscape.
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D.
The Grim Smile of the Five Towns
"The Grim Smile of the Five Towns" is a collection of interlinked short stories by Arnold Bennett that wryly portrays the lives, ambitions, and social dynamics of characters in the industrial "Five Towns" of the English Midlands.
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E.
City of Ghosts
City of Ghosts is a 2002 neo-noir crime drama film set largely in Cambodia, following a con man entangled in a dangerous underworld scheme.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
drama film
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feature film ⓘ silent film ⓘ |
| castMember | Sessue Hayakawa ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| depicts |
cultural conflict in America
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questions of personal identity ⓘ racial issues in the United States ⓘ |
| featuresPerformerOfAsianDescent | Sessue Hayakawa ⓘ |
| filmFormat | black-and-white ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
ⓘ
silent drama ⓘ |
| hasTitleLanguage | English intertitles ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
cultural conflict
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identity ⓘ race ⓘ |
| medium | 35 mm film ⓘ |
| narrativeSetting | early 20th-century America ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Silent film with English intertitles ⓘ |
| portrays | Asian characters in America ⓘ |
| productionPeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1918 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1918 ⓘ |
| soundCharacteristic | silent ⓘ |
| starredActor | Sessue Hayakawa ⓘ |
| workPeriod | silent era of American cinema ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The City of Dim Faces Description of subject: The City of Dim Faces is a 1918 silent drama film starring Sessue Hayakawa that explores themes of identity, race, and cultural conflict in early 20th-century America.
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