Purple Butterfly
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Purple Butterfly is a 2003 Chinese-Hong Kong romantic thriller film directed by Lou Ye, set in 1930s Shanghai and centered on espionage, love, and political turmoil during the Japanese occupation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Purple Butterfly canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T19898957 — 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: Purple Butterfly Context triple: [Liu Ye, notableWork, Purple Butterfly]
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A.
Blue Butterfly
Blue Butterfly is a film produced by Hungarian-Canadian producer András Hámori, best known for his work on internationally recognized movies such as Sunshine and Being Julia.
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B.
The Butterfly
The Butterfly is a 1947 crime novel by James M. Cain that explores dark family secrets, small-town scandal, and moral ambiguity in Cain’s signature hardboiled style.
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C.
Moon Butterfly
Moon Butterfly is a major character in the animated series "Star vs. the Forces of Evil," known as Star Butterfly’s mother and the former queen of Mewni.
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D.
Black Butterflies
Black Butterflies is a 2011 Dutch biographical drama film about the turbulent life of South African poet Ingrid Jonker.
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E.
Butterfly
"Butterfly" is a British television drama series created and produced by Nicola Shindler that sensitively explores a family's experience of raising a transgender child.
- 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: Purple Butterfly Target entity description: Purple Butterfly is a 2003 Chinese-Hong Kong romantic thriller film directed by Lou Ye, set in 1930s Shanghai and centered on espionage, love, and political turmoil during the Japanese occupation.
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A.
Blue Butterfly
Blue Butterfly is a film produced by Hungarian-Canadian producer András Hámori, best known for his work on internationally recognized movies such as Sunshine and Being Julia.
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B.
The Butterfly
The Butterfly is a 1947 crime novel by James M. Cain that explores dark family secrets, small-town scandal, and moral ambiguity in Cain’s signature hardboiled style.
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C.
Moon Butterfly
Moon Butterfly is a major character in the animated series "Star vs. the Forces of Evil," known as Star Butterfly’s mother and the former queen of Mewni.
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D.
Black Butterflies
Black Butterflies is a 2011 Dutch biographical drama film about the turbulent life of South African poet Ingrid Jonker.
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E.
Butterfly
"Butterfly" is a British television drama series created and produced by Nicola Shindler that sensitively explores a family's experience of raising a transgender child.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.