Shanghai Lily
E426108
Shanghai Lily is the sophisticated and enigmatic female protagonist portrayed by Marlene Dietrich in the 1932 film "Shanghai Express."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shanghai Lily canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4268935 — 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: Shanghai Lily Context triple: [Shanghai Express, leadCharacter, Shanghai Lily]
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A.
The Plum Blossom
"The Plum Blossom" is a track from the 1989 album *China* by electronic music composer Vangelis, known for its atmospheric, synthesizer-driven evocation of East Asian themes.
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B.
The Flower of Shanghai
The Flower of Shanghai is a popular nickname for Shanghai Shenhua F.C., one of China's most historic and passionately supported professional football clubs.
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C.
Lady Wang
Lady Wang was a Ming dynasty noblewoman best known as the consort of the Taichang Emperor and the mother of the Tianqi Emperor.
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D.
Daughter of Shanghai
Daughter of Shanghai is a 1937 crime drama film starring Anna May Wong that is notable for its rare early Hollywood portrayal of a Chinese American heroine in a leading, heroic role.
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E.
Lili
Lili is a 1953 musical fantasy film starring Leslie Caron as a naive orphan who joins a carnival and forms a touching bond with a puppeteer.
- 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: Shanghai Lily Target entity description: Shanghai Lily is the sophisticated and enigmatic female protagonist portrayed by Marlene Dietrich in the 1932 film "Shanghai Express."
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A.
The Plum Blossom
"The Plum Blossom" is a track from the 1989 album *China* by electronic music composer Vangelis, known for its atmospheric, synthesizer-driven evocation of East Asian themes.
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B.
The Flower of Shanghai
The Flower of Shanghai is a popular nickname for Shanghai Shenhua F.C., one of China's most historic and passionately supported professional football clubs.
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C.
Lady Wang
Lady Wang was a Ming dynasty noblewoman best known as the consort of the Taichang Emperor and the mother of the Tianqi Emperor.
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D.
Daughter of Shanghai
Daughter of Shanghai is a 1937 crime drama film starring Anna May Wong that is notable for its rare early Hollywood portrayal of a Chinese American heroine in a leading, heroic role.
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E.
Lili
Lili is a 1953 musical fantasy film starring Leslie Caron as a naive orphan who joins a carnival and forms a touching bond with a puppeteer.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
female character
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fictional character ⓘ film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Shanghai Express ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
redemption
ⓘ
romantic reconciliation ⓘ sacrifice ⓘ |
| characterInFilmGenre |
drama film
ⓘ
romantic drama film ⓘ |
| costumeStyle | glamorous 1930s fashion ⓘ |
| countryOfFilmProduction |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdBy | screenwriters of Shanghai Express ⓘ |
| createdFor | Shanghai Express ⓘ |
| culturalStatus | classic Marlene Dietrich screen persona ⓘ |
| describedAs |
enigmatic
ⓘ
sophisticated ⓘ |
| emotionalArc | from cynicism to renewed faith in love ⓘ |
| era | Pre-Code Hollywood ⓘ |
| filmDirector | Josef von Sternberg ⓘ |
| filmFormat | black-and-white ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 1932 ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceYear | 1932 ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hairStyle | platinum blonde ⓘ |
| hasAlias | Lily ⓘ |
| hasLoveInterest | Captain Donald Harvey ⓘ |
| hasRelationshipType | former lover of Captain Donald Harvey ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Weimar-era femme fatale archetype ⓘ |
| knownFor |
emotional complexity
ⓘ
glamorous appearance ⓘ mysterious past ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| medium | cinema ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | central protagonist ⓘ |
| nationality | German ⓘ |
| notableSceneType | train compartment confrontations ⓘ |
| notableTrait |
emotional vulnerability
ⓘ
worldly demeanor ⓘ |
| occupation | courtesan ⓘ |
| partOfCastType | leading role ⓘ |
| portrayalStyle | understated and sensual performance ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Marlene Dietrich ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Paramount Pictures ⓘ |
| screenTimeContext | appears in most major scenes of Shanghai Express ⓘ |
| storySettingCity | Shanghai ⓘ |
| storySettingCountry | China ⓘ |
| travelsOn |
Shanghai Express train
ⓘ
linked to:
Shanghai Express
|
| visualIconography | veils and dramatic lighting ⓘ |
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: Shanghai Lily Description of subject: Shanghai Lily is the sophisticated and enigmatic female protagonist portrayed by Marlene Dietrich in the 1932 film "Shanghai Express."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.