The Lady from Shanghai
E207529
The Lady from Shanghai is a 1947 film noir directed by and starring Orson Welles, renowned for its complex plot, striking visual style, and famous hall-of-mirrors climax.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Lady from Shanghai canonical | 8 |
| The Lady from Shanghai (1947 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1855135 — 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 Lady from Shanghai Context triple: [Orson Welles, notableWork, The Lady from Shanghai]
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A.
White Heat
White Heat is a 1949 American film noir crime drama directed by Raoul Walsh, renowned for James Cagney’s iconic performance as psychotic gangster Cody Jarrett and its explosive finale.
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B.
Out of the Past
Out of the Past is a 1947 film noir classic starring Robert Mitchum and Jane Greer, renowned for its shadowy cinematography, fatalistic tone, and intricate flashback-driven plot.
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C.
In a Lonely Place
In a Lonely Place is a 1950 film noir drama starring Humphrey Bogart as a troubled screenwriter suspected of murder, noted for its dark psychological complexity and cynical view of Hollywood and relationships.
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D.
Shanghai Express
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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E.
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.
- 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 Lady from Shanghai Target entity description: The Lady from Shanghai is a 1947 film noir directed by and starring Orson Welles, renowned for its complex plot, striking visual style, and famous hall-of-mirrors climax.
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A.
White Heat
White Heat is a 1949 American film noir crime drama directed by Raoul Walsh, renowned for James Cagney’s iconic performance as psychotic gangster Cody Jarrett and its explosive finale.
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B.
Out of the Past
Out of the Past is a 1947 film noir classic starring Robert Mitchum and Jane Greer, renowned for its shadowy cinematography, fatalistic tone, and intricate flashback-driven plot.
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C.
In a Lonely Place
In a Lonely Place is a 1950 film noir drama starring Humphrey Bogart as a troubled screenwriter suspected of murder, noted for its dark psychological complexity and cynical view of Hollywood and relationships.
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D.
Shanghai Express
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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 Lady from Shanghai Description of subject: The Lady from Shanghai is a 1947 film noir directed by and starring Orson Welles, renowned for its complex plot, striking visual style, and famous hall-of-mirrors climax.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Lady from Shanghai (1947 film)