Shanghai Express
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Shanghai Express is a 1932 pre-Code Hollywood drama film directed by Josef von Sternberg, best known for its atmospheric cinematography and starring performances by Marlene Dietrich and Anna May Wong.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shanghai Express canonical | 29 |
| Shanghai Express (1932 film) | 1 |
| Shanghai Express train | 1 |
| drives key plot developments in Shanghai Express | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T809477 — 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 Express Context triple: [Anna May Wong, notableWork, Shanghai Express]
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A.
The World of Suzie Wong
The World of Suzie Wong is a 1957 novel by Richard Mason, later adapted into a successful stage play and film, that tells the story of a romance between a British artist and a Chinese sex worker in Hong Kong.
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B.
Casablanca
Casablanca is Morocco’s largest city and economic hub, located on the Atlantic coast of North Africa and known for its major port and modern urban character.
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C.
Casablanca
Casablanca is a classic 1942 American romantic drama film set during World War II, renowned for its iconic performances, memorable dialogue, and enduring status as one of Hollywood’s greatest movies.
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D.
City Lights
City Lights is a 1931 silent romantic comedy film written, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin, celebrated for its blend of slapstick humor and poignant emotion.
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E.
Gunga Din
Gunga Din is a 1939 adventure film set in British colonial India, loosely based on Rudyard Kipling’s poem, known for its action, camaraderie, and iconic title character.
- 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 Express Target entity description: Shanghai Express is a 1932 pre-Code Hollywood drama film directed by Josef von Sternberg, best known for its atmospheric cinematography and starring performances by Marlene Dietrich and Anna May Wong.
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A.
The World of Suzie Wong
The World of Suzie Wong is a 1957 novel by Richard Mason, later adapted into a successful stage play and film, that tells the story of a romance between a British artist and a Chinese sex worker in Hong Kong.
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B.
Casablanca
Casablanca is Morocco’s largest city and economic hub, located on the Atlantic coast of North Africa and known for its major port and modern urban character.
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C.
Casablanca
Casablanca is a classic 1942 American romantic drama film set during World War II, renowned for its iconic performances, memorable dialogue, and enduring status as one of Hollywood’s greatest movies.
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D.
City Lights
City Lights is a 1931 silent romantic comedy film written, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin, celebrated for its blend of slapstick humor and poignant emotion.
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E.
Gunga Din
Gunga Din is a 1939 adventure film set in British colonial India, loosely based on Rudyard Kipling’s poem, known for its action, camaraderie, and iconic title character.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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 Express Description of subject: Shanghai Express is a 1932 pre-Code Hollywood drama film directed by Josef von Sternberg, best known for its atmospheric cinematography and starring performances by Marlene Dietrich and Anna May Wong.
Referenced by (32)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.