Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing

E317757

film romantic drama film

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing is a 1955 romantic drama film set in Hong Kong, renowned for its interracial love story and its iconic, Oscar-winning title song.

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All labels observed (4)

Label	Occurrences
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing canonical	9
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955 film)	3
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (song)	3
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (novel)	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3014289 — 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: Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
Context triple: [Leo Tover, workedOn, Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing]

A. Song of Love
"Song of Love" is a 1947 biographical romantic drama film starring Paul Henreid, Katharine Hepburn, and Robert Walker that portrays the life and music of composer Robert Schumann.
B. A Fine Romance
"A Fine Romance" is a popular 1936 jazz standard by Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields, introduced by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in the film Swing Time.
C. Some Kind of Wonderful
"Some Kind of Wonderful" is a classic pop song co-written by Gerry Goffin that has been widely recorded and performed since the 1960s.
D. The Look of Love
The Look of Love is a 2013 British biographical comedy-drama film about porn baron Paul Raymond, directed by Michael Winterbottom and starring Steve Coogan.
E. The Look of Love
"The Look of Love" is a classic pop standard from the 1960s, best known for its smooth, romantic melody and enduring popularity in both vocal and instrumental versions.
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: Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
Target entity description: Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing is a 1955 romantic drama film set in Hong Kong, renowned for its interracial love story and its iconic, Oscar-winning title song.

A. Song of Love
"Song of Love" is a 1947 biographical romantic drama film starring Paul Henreid, Katharine Hepburn, and Robert Walker that portrays the life and music of composer Robert Schumann.
B. A Fine Romance
"A Fine Romance" is a popular 1936 jazz standard by Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields, introduced by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in the film Swing Time.
C. Some Kind of Wonderful
"Some Kind of Wonderful" is a classic pop song co-written by Gerry Goffin that has been widely recorded and performed since the 1960s.
D. The Look of Love
The Look of Love is a 2013 British biographical comedy-drama film about porn baron Paul Raymond, directed by Michael Winterbottom and starring Steve Coogan.
E. The Look of Love
"The Look of Love" is a classic pop standard from the 1960s, best known for its smooth, romantic melody and enduring popularity in both vocal and instrumental versions.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	film ⓘ romantic drama film ⓘ
authorOfSourceWork	Han Suyin ⓘ
awardReceived	Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Color ⓘ linked to: Academy Award for Best Cinematography Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Color ⓘ linked to: Academy Award for Best Costume Design Academy Award for Best Original Song ⓘ
basedOn	Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (novel) ⓘ linked to: Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
cinematographyBy	Leon Shamroy ⓘ
colorProcess	CinemaScope ⓘ DeLuxe Color ⓘ
composerOfTitleSong	Sammy Fain ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	United States ⓘ linked to: United States of America
director	Henry King ⓘ
distributedInFormat	theatrical film ⓘ
distributor	20th Century Fox ⓘ Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation ⓘ linked to: 20th Century Fox
editedBy	William Reynolds ⓘ
filmingLocation	California ⓘ linked to: California, United States Hong Kong ⓘ linked to: Hong Kong, China
genre	melodrama ⓘ romantic drama ⓘ
hasTitleSong	Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (song) ⓘ linked to: Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
lyricistOfTitleSong	Paul Francis Webster ⓘ
mainCharacter	Han Suyin (character) ⓘ linked to: Han Suyin Mark Elliott ⓘ
musicBy	Alfred Newman ⓘ
narrativeFocus	interracial romance ⓘ
nominatedFor	Academy Award for Best Actress ⓘ Academy Award for Best Director ⓘ Academy Award for Best Picture ⓘ
notableFor	depiction of interracial love story ⓘ iconic title song ⓘ
originalLanguage	English ⓘ
portrays	cross-cultural relationship ⓘ
producer	Buddy Adler ⓘ
productionCompany	20th Century Fox ⓘ
releaseDate	1955-08-18 ⓘ
releaseYear	1955 ⓘ
runtimeMinutes	102 ⓘ
screenwriter	John Patrick ⓘ
setIn	Hong Kong ⓘ linked to: Hong Kong, China
starring	Isobel Elsom ⓘ Jennifer Jones ⓘ Torin Thatcher ⓘ Virginia Gregg ⓘ William Holden ⓘ
timePeriodSetIn	early 1950s ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (16)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Leo Tover → workedOn → Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing ⓘ

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (film score) → basedOnFilm → Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955 film) ⓘ