The Secret Game
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The Secret Game is a 1917 American silent spy drama film starring Sessue Hayakawa, notable for its early portrayal of an Asian lead in Hollywood cinema.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Secret Game canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13499402 — 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: The Secret Game Context triple: [Sessue Hayakawa, notableWork, The Secret Game]
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A.
The Mad Game
The Mad Game is a 1933 American crime drama film starring Spencer Tracy and Claire Trevor, centered on a reformed bootlegger who goes undercover to help the police.
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B.
The Name of the Game
"The Name of the Game" is a 1977 pop song by Swedish group ABBA, known for its melodic complexity and introspective lyrics.
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C.
The Name of the Game
The Name of the Game is an American television series from the late 1960s and early 1970s that followed the lives of magazine publishing executives through rotating lead characters and storylines.
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D.
Telling Secrets
Telling Secrets is a memoir by theologian and novelist Frederick Buechner that reflects on his family history, personal struggles, and the role of faith and storytelling in making sense of a broken past.
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E.
The Human Game
"The Human Game" is a track by the electronic music duo Duality, known for its atmospheric production and introspective tone.
- 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: The Secret Game Target entity description: The Secret Game is a 1917 American silent spy drama film starring Sessue Hayakawa, notable for its early portrayal of an Asian lead in Hollywood cinema.
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A.
The Mad Game
The Mad Game is a 1933 American crime drama film starring Spencer Tracy and Claire Trevor, centered on a reformed bootlegger who goes undercover to help the police.
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B.
The Name of the Game
"The Name of the Game" is a 1977 pop song by Swedish group ABBA, known for its melodic complexity and introspective lyrics.
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C.
The Name of the Game
The Name of the Game is an American television series from the late 1960s and early 1970s that followed the lives of magazine publishing executives through rotating lead characters and storylines.
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D.
Telling Secrets
Telling Secrets is a memoir by theologian and novelist Frederick Buechner that reflects on his family history, personal struggles, and the role of faith and storytelling in making sense of a broken past.
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E.
The Human Game
"The Human Game" is a track by the electronic music duo Duality, known for its atmospheric production and introspective tone.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American film
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black-and-white film ⓘ drama film ⓘ feature film ⓘ silent film ⓘ spy film ⓘ |
| associatedWithMovement | representation of Asians in American cinema ⓘ |
| basedOn | original screenplay ⓘ |
| catalogedIn | American silent feature film catalog ⓘ |
| cinematographer | Charles Rosher NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| colorProcess | black and white ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| director | William C. deMille NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Paramount Pictures ⓘ |
| era | silent era ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter | Japanese secret service agent ⓘ |
| filmFormat | 35 mm ⓘ |
| genre |
spy drama
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war drama ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeTitle | Secret Game NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFilmStar | Sessue Hayakawa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSurvivingPrints | partially ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
espionage
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patriotism ⓘ wartime intrigue ⓘ |
| isBlackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| leadActor | Sessue Hayakawa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | early portrayal of an Asian lead in Hollywood cinema ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Silent film with English intertitles ⓘ |
| partOf | early Hollywood cinema ⓘ |
| portrays | Japanese protagonist ⓘ |
| producer | Jesse L. Lasky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1917-10-14 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1917 ⓘ |
| runtime | approximately 50 minutes ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Marion Fairfax NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
San Francisco
NERFINISHED
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World War I NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| silentWithIntertitles | true ⓘ |
| starring |
Charles Ogle
NERFINISHED
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Florence Vidor NERFINISHED ⓘ Guy Oliver NERFINISHED ⓘ Jack Holt NERFINISHED ⓘ James Neill NERFINISHED ⓘ Mabel Van Buren NERFINISHED ⓘ Mayme Kelso NERFINISHED ⓘ Sessue Hayakawa 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: The Secret Game Description of subject: The Secret Game is a 1917 American silent spy drama film starring Sessue Hayakawa, notable for its early portrayal of an Asian lead in Hollywood cinema.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.