Red Corner
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Red Corner is a 1997 legal thriller film starring Richard Gere as an American businessman entangled in China's justice system.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Red Corner canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13259183 — 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: Red Corner Context triple: [Bai Ling, notableWork, Red Corner]
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A.
Cornered
Cornered is a 1945 film noir thriller starring Dick Powell as a World War II veteran seeking revenge against a Nazi collaborator.
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B.
The Corner Man
The Corner Man is a work associated with the historical intelligence unit known as the Cairo Gang, likely depicting or inspired by their covert operations during the Irish War of Independence.
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C.
Shooting into the Corner
Shooting into the Corner is a large-scale installation by artist Anish Kapoor that dramatically fires red wax into a gallery corner, exploring themes of violence, materiality, and spectacle.
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D.
Dangerous Corner
Dangerous Corner is a 1932 stage play by J. B. Priestley, best known as a pioneering "time play" that explores truth, memory, and the consequences of revealing secrets.
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E.
The Corner Men
The Corner Men is a spy novel by British author John Gardner, known for its intricate plotting and exploration of Cold War espionage.
- 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: Red Corner Target entity description: Red Corner is a 1997 legal thriller film starring Richard Gere as an American businessman entangled in China's justice system.
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A.
Cornered
Cornered is a 1945 film noir thriller starring Dick Powell as a World War II veteran seeking revenge against a Nazi collaborator.
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B.
The Corner Man
The Corner Man is a work associated with the historical intelligence unit known as the Cairo Gang, likely depicting or inspired by their covert operations during the Irish War of Independence.
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C.
Shooting into the Corner
Shooting into the Corner is a large-scale installation by artist Anish Kapoor that dramatically fires red wax into a gallery corner, exploring themes of violence, materiality, and spectacle.
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D.
Dangerous Corner
Dangerous Corner is a 1932 stage play by J. B. Priestley, best known as a pioneering "time play" that explores truth, memory, and the consequences of revealing secrets.
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E.
The Corner Men
The Corner Men is a spy novel by British author John Gardner, known for its intricate plotting and exploration of Cold War espionage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
ⓘ
legal thriller film ⓘ |
| basedOn | original screenplay ⓘ |
| character |
Jack Moore
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Shen Yuelin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Karl Walter Lindenlaub NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Thomas Newman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Jon Avnet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedInFormat | theatrical release ⓘ |
| editedBy | Peter E. Berger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
China
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Los Angeles ⓘ |
| genre |
crime drama
ⓘ
legal thriller ⓘ |
| hasPosterCaption | Truth is the first casualty of war. ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
critique of Chinese legal system
ⓘ
cross-cultural conflict ⓘ human rights ⓘ |
| language |
English
ⓘ
Mandarin Chinese ⓘ |
| leadActorRole | Richard Gere plays Jack Moore ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Jack Moore NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacterOccupation | American businessman ⓘ |
| mpaaRating | R ⓘ |
| notableFor | portrayal of China’s criminal justice system ⓘ |
| plotSummary | An American businessman in China is accused of murder and must navigate the Chinese justice system to prove his innocence. ⓘ |
| portrays | Chinese court procedures ⓘ |
| producer | Jon Avnet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Avnet/Kerner Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1997-10-31 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1997 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 122 ⓘ |
| setIn |
Beijing
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
China NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Bai Ling
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bradley Whitford NERFINISHED ⓘ Byron Mann NERFINISHED ⓘ Peter Donat NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard Gere NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writer | Robert King NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Red Corner Description of subject: Red Corner is a 1997 legal thriller film starring Richard Gere as an American businessman entangled in China's justice system.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.