China Lee
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China Lee is an American model and actress best known as the first Asian American Playboy Playmate, featured as Playmate of the Month in August 1964.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| China Lee canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3643596 — 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: China Lee Context triple: [Mort Sahl, spouse, China Lee]
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A.
Jin Lee
Jin Lee is the gentle, supportive father of protagonist Meilin "Mei" Lee in Pixar's animated film "Turning Red."
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B.
Hau Lee
Hau Lee is a prominent operations and supply chain management scholar known for his influential research on global supply networks and his long-standing professorship at Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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C.
Ming Lee
Ming Lee is the strict yet loving mother of protagonist Meilin in Pixar's animated film "Turning Red," whose own emotional struggles and family legacy drive much of the story's conflict and heart.
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D.
In Sik Rhee
In Sik Rhee is a technology entrepreneur and venture capitalist best known as a co-founder of the cloud services company Loudcloud (later Opsware).
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E.
Des Lee
Des Lee is an Irish musician best known as a member of the Miami Showband and as one of the few survivors of the notorious 1975 Miami Showband killings during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
- 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: China Lee Target entity description: China Lee is an American model and actress best known as the first Asian American Playboy Playmate, featured as Playmate of the Month in August 1964.
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A.
Jin Lee
Jin Lee is the gentle, supportive father of protagonist Meilin "Mei" Lee in Pixar's animated film "Turning Red."
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B.
Hau Lee
Hau Lee is a prominent operations and supply chain management scholar known for his influential research on global supply networks and his long-standing professorship at Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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C.
Ming Lee
Ming Lee is the strict yet loving mother of protagonist Meilin in Pixar's animated film "Turning Red," whose own emotional struggles and family legacy drive much of the story's conflict and heart.
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D.
In Sik Rhee
In Sik Rhee is a technology entrepreneur and venture capitalist best known as a co-founder of the cloud services company Loudcloud (later Opsware).
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E.
Des Lee
Des Lee is an Irish musician best known as a member of the Miami Showband and as one of the few survivors of the notorious 1975 Miami Showband killings during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Playboy Playmate
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actress ⓘ human ⓘ model ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | 1960s ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| date | August 1964 ⓘ |
| describedBySource |
American popular culture histories
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Playboy ⓘ
surface form:
Playboy magazine
|
| employer | Playboy ⓘ |
| ethnicBackground | Chinese American ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Asian American ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
entertainment industry
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film acting ⓘ magazine modeling ⓘ |
| genre | glamour modeling ⓘ |
| hasPartIn |
Playboy Playmate
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surface form:
Playboy magazine pictorials
|
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | China Lee self-link ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | breaking racial barriers in Playboy centerfolds ⓘ |
| notableFor | first Asian American Playboy Playmate ⓘ |
| notableWork | Playboy Playmate of the Month August 1964 ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
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model ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Playboy Playmate
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surface form:
Playboy Playmate of the Month
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| publisher | Playboy ⓘ |
| residence |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| workLocation |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
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: China Lee Description of subject: China Lee is an American model and actress best known as the first Asian American Playboy Playmate, featured as Playmate of the Month in August 1964.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.