Flowers of Shanghai
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Flowers of Shanghai is a 1998 Taiwanese period drama film directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien, set in the opulent brothels of 19th-century Shanghai and renowned for its languid pacing, long takes, and lush, atmospheric cinematography.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Flowers of Shanghai canonical | 6 |
| 花様年華 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13146174 — 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: Flowers of Shanghai Context triple: [Mark Lee Ping-bing, workedOn, Flowers of Shanghai]
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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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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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City of Flowers
City of Flowers is a popular nickname for Zamboanga City in the Philippines, highlighting its abundance of vibrant flora and garden-like landscapes.
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City of Flowers
City of Flowers is the popular nickname of Tomohon, an Indonesian city renowned for its abundant flower cultivation and vibrant floral festivals.
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E.
Shanghai Lil
"Shanghai Lil" is a musical number from the 1933 Warner Bros. film *Footlight Parade*, featuring James Cagney in a memorable song-and-dance performance.
- 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: Flowers of Shanghai Target entity description: Flowers of Shanghai is a 1998 Taiwanese period drama film directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien, set in the opulent brothels of 19th-century Shanghai and renowned for its languid pacing, long takes, and lush, atmospheric cinematography.
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
City of Flowers
City of Flowers is a popular nickname for Zamboanga City in the Philippines, highlighting its abundance of vibrant flora and garden-like landscapes.
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D.
City of Flowers
City of Flowers is the popular nickname of Tomohon, an Indonesian city renowned for its abundant flower cultivation and vibrant floral festivals.
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E.
Shanghai Lil
"Shanghai Lil" is a musical number from the 1933 Warner Bros. film *Footlight Parade*, featuring James Cagney in a memorable song-and-dance performance.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Flowers of Shanghai Description of subject: Flowers of Shanghai is a 1998 Taiwanese period drama film directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien, set in the opulent brothels of 19th-century Shanghai and renowned for its languid pacing, long takes, and lush, atmospheric cinematography.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.