The Criminal Lu Yanshi
E543512
The Criminal Lu Yanshi is a Chinese novel by Yan Geling that tells the story of a man persecuted during the Cultural Revolution and his emotionally fraught return to his family after years of imprisonment.
All labels observed (4)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5782866 — 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 Criminal Lu Yanshi Context triple: [Coming Home, basedOn, The Criminal Lu Yanshi]
-
A.
Curse of the Golden Flower
Curse of the Golden Flower is a lavish 2006 Chinese historical drama film directed by Zhang Yimou, known for its opulent visuals, intricate palace intrigue, and tragic royal family power struggle during the Tang Dynasty.
-
B.
Prince of Yan
Prince of Yan was the noble title held by Zhu Di before he became the Yongle Emperor of the Ming dynasty.
-
C.
Ban Shu Legend
Ban Shu Legend is a Chinese historical romance television drama series centered on the life and adventures of a spirited young woman in the Han dynasty.
-
D.
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie is a 1976 neo-noir crime drama film by John Cassavetes that follows a nightclub owner whose gambling debts entangle him in a violent underworld.
-
E.
Huangjian
Huangjian was an era name used during the Northern Qi dynasty in imperial China to designate a specific reign period.
- 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 Criminal Lu Yanshi Target entity description: The Criminal Lu Yanshi is a Chinese novel by Yan Geling that tells the story of a man persecuted during the Cultural Revolution and his emotionally fraught return to his family after years of imprisonment.
-
A.
Curse of the Golden Flower
Curse of the Golden Flower is a lavish 2006 Chinese historical drama film directed by Zhang Yimou, known for its opulent visuals, intricate palace intrigue, and tragic royal family power struggle during the Tang Dynasty.
-
B.
Prince of Yan
Prince of Yan was the noble title held by Zhu Di before he became the Yongle Emperor of the Ming dynasty.
-
C.
Ban Shu Legend
Ban Shu Legend is a Chinese historical romance television drama series centered on the life and adventures of a spirited young woman in the Han dynasty.
-
D.
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie is a 1976 neo-noir crime drama film by John Cassavetes that follows a nightclub owner whose gambling debts entangle him in a violent underworld.
-
E.
Huangjian
Huangjian was an era name used during the Northern Qi dynasty in imperial China to designate a specific reign period.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| adaptationCountry | China ⓘ |
| adaptationDirector | Zhang Yimou ⓘ |
| adaptationLanguage | Chinese ⓘ |
| adaptationType | feature film ⓘ |
| adaptedAs |
Coming Home (film)
ⓘ
linked to:
Coming Home
|
| author | Yan Geling ⓘ |
| centralConflict | A persecuted man struggles to reconnect with his family after long imprisonment. ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | China ⓘ |
| genre |
historical fiction
ⓘ
political fiction ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Lu Yanshi ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
Cultural Revolution in China
ⓘ
linked to:
Cultural Revolution
|
| originalLanguage | Chinese ⓘ |
| plotSummary |
The novel tells the story of Lu Yanshi, a man persecuted during the Cultural Revolution and his emotionally fraught return to his family after years of imprisonment.
ⓘ
linked to:
The Criminal Lu Yanshi
|
| protagonistOccupation | intellectual ⓘ |
| settingCountry | China ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | Cultural Revolution ⓘ |
| theme |
emotional trauma
ⓘ
family separation ⓘ love and loyalty ⓘ memory and forgetting ⓘ political persecution ⓘ |
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 Criminal Lu Yanshi Description of subject: The Criminal Lu Yanshi is a Chinese novel by Yan Geling that tells the story of a man persecuted during the Cultural Revolution and his emotionally fraught return to his family after years of imprisonment.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
The Criminal Lu Yanshi
→
plotSummary
→
The novel tells the story of Lu Yanshi, a man persecuted during the Cultural Revolution and his emotionally fraught return to his family after years of imprisonment.
ⓘ
linked to: The Criminal Lu Yanshi
linked to: The Criminal Lu Yanshi
linked to: The Criminal Lu Yanshi