Big Trouble in Little China
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Big Trouble in Little China is a 1986 cult-classic action-comedy fantasy film directed by John Carpenter and starring Kurt Russell, known for its blend of martial arts, supernatural elements, and tongue-in-cheek humor set in San Francisco’s Chinatown.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Big Trouble in Little China canonical | 18 |
| 1986 film Big Trouble in Little China | 1 |
| Big Trouble in Little China (1986 film) | 1 |
| Big Trouble in Little China (1986) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3641059 — 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: Big Trouble in Little China Context triple: [Dean Cundey, notableWork, Big Trouble in Little China]
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A.
Kung Fu
Kung Fu is a 1970s American television series that blends martial arts action with Western drama, following a Shaolin monk’s spiritual and physical journey across the American Old West.
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B.
Shanghai Noon
Shanghai Noon is a 2000 action-comedy Western film starring Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson, blending martial arts with cowboy adventure in the American Old West.
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C.
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar is a 1995 American comedy film about three drag queens on a cross-country road trip who transform a small town and its residents.
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D.
Time Bandits
Time Bandits is a 1981 British fantasy adventure film directed by Terry Gilliam that follows a young boy who joins a band of time-traveling dwarfs on a surreal journey through history.
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E.
Once Upon a Time in Shaolin
Once Upon a Time in Shaolin is an ultra-rare, single-copy studio album by the Wu-Tang Clan, conceived as both a musical work and a high-value art object.
- 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: Big Trouble in Little China Target entity description: Big Trouble in Little China is a 1986 cult-classic action-comedy fantasy film directed by John Carpenter and starring Kurt Russell, known for its blend of martial arts, supernatural elements, and tongue-in-cheek humor set in San Francisco’s Chinatown.
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A.
Kung Fu
Kung Fu is a 1970s American television series that blends martial arts action with Western drama, following a Shaolin monk’s spiritual and physical journey across the American Old West.
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B.
Shanghai Noon
Shanghai Noon is a 2000 action-comedy Western film starring Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson, blending martial arts with cowboy adventure in the American Old West.
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C.
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar is a 1995 American comedy film about three drag queens on a cross-country road trip who transform a small town and its residents.
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D.
Time Bandits
Time Bandits is a 1981 British fantasy adventure film directed by Terry Gilliam that follows a young boy who joins a band of time-traveling dwarfs on a surreal journey through history.
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E.
Once Upon a Time in Shaolin
Once Upon a Time in Shaolin is an ultra-rare, single-copy studio album by the Wu-Tang Clan, conceived as both a musical work and a high-value art object.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Big Trouble in Little China Description of subject: Big Trouble in Little China is a 1986 cult-classic action-comedy fantasy film directed by John Carpenter and starring Kurt Russell, known for its blend of martial arts, supernatural elements, and tongue-in-cheek humor set in San Francisco’s Chinatown.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Big Trouble in Little China (1986 film)
subject surface form:
Egg Shen
subject surface form:
Egg Shen
this entity surface form:
1986 film Big Trouble in Little China
subject surface form:
Egg Shen
this entity surface form:
Big Trouble in Little China (1986)