Sky Over China
E426104
Sky Over China is a literary work that served as the source material for the 1932 film "Shanghai Express."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sky Over China canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4268907 — 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: Sky Over China Context triple: [Shanghai Express, basedOn, Sky Over China]
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A.
No Highway in the Sky
No Highway in the Sky is a 1951 British disaster-drama film, based on Nevil Shute’s novel, about an eccentric engineer who predicts a catastrophic structural failure in a new airliner.
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B.
Cranes in the Sky
"Cranes in the Sky" is a critically acclaimed R&B song by Solange Knowles that poignantly explores themes of emotional pain, avoidance, and healing.
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C.
Mountains of Heaven
Mountains of Heaven is a poetic name often associated with lofty, majestic mountain ranges that evoke a sense of divine or celestial grandeur.
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D.
Sky Full of Song
"Sky Full of Song" is a 2018 indie rock single by English band Florence and the Machine, noted for its ethereal vocals and introspective, emotionally charged lyrics.
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E.
Bright Flight
Bright Flight is a 2001 indie rock album by Silver Jews, noted for David Berman’s stark, country-tinged songwriting and melancholic, literate lyrics.
- 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: Sky Over China Target entity description: Sky Over China is a literary work that served as the source material for the 1932 film "Shanghai Express."
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A.
No Highway in the Sky
No Highway in the Sky is a 1951 British disaster-drama film, based on Nevil Shute’s novel, about an eccentric engineer who predicts a catastrophic structural failure in a new airliner.
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B.
Cranes in the Sky
"Cranes in the Sky" is a critically acclaimed R&B song by Solange Knowles that poignantly explores themes of emotional pain, avoidance, and healing.
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C.
Mountains of Heaven
Mountains of Heaven is a poetic name often associated with lofty, majestic mountain ranges that evoke a sense of divine or celestial grandeur.
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D.
Sky Full of Song
"Sky Full of Song" is a 2018 indie rock single by English band Florence and the Machine, noted for its ethereal vocals and introspective, emotionally charged lyrics.
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E.
Bright Flight
Bright Flight is a 2001 indie rock album by Silver Jews, noted for David Berman’s stark, country-tinged songwriting and melancholic, literate lyrics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (9)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
ⓘ
literary work ⓘ source material ⓘ |
| basedOn | Sky Over China ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| genre | drama film ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1932 ⓘ |
| usedAsSourceFor | Shanghai Express ⓘ |
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: Sky Over China Description of subject: Sky Over China is a literary work that served as the source material for the 1932 film "Shanghai Express."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Sky Over China