Wei Ling Soo
E586631
Wei Ling Soo is the stage persona of a skeptical English magician in Woody Allen's film "Magic in the Moonlight," under which he performs as a famed Chinese illusionist.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Wei Ling Soo canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6333197 — 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: Wei Ling Soo Context triple: [Magic in the Moonlight, protagonistAlias, Wei Ling Soo]
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A.
Sun Yun-suan
Sun Yun-suan was a Taiwanese engineer-turned-statesman widely credited with spearheading Taiwan’s rapid industrialization and economic transformation in the 1970s and early 1980s.
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B.
Yang Jin-mo
Yang Jin-mo is a South Korean film editor best known for his acclaimed work on the Academy Award–winning film "Parasite."
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C.
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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D.
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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E.
Yun Chi Chung
Yun Chi Chung is best known as the former wife of American comedian and actor Redd Foxx.
- 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: Wei Ling Soo Target entity description: Wei Ling Soo is the stage persona of a skeptical English magician in Woody Allen's film "Magic in the Moonlight," under which he performs as a famed Chinese illusionist.
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A.
Sun Yun-suan
Sun Yun-suan was a Taiwanese engineer-turned-statesman widely credited with spearheading Taiwan’s rapid industrialization and economic transformation in the 1970s and early 1980s.
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B.
Yang Jin-mo
Yang Jin-mo is a South Korean film editor best known for his acclaimed work on the Academy Award–winning film "Parasite."
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C.
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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D.
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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E.
Yun Chi Chung
Yun Chi Chung is best known as the former wife of American comedian and actor Redd Foxx.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
magician ⓘ stage persona ⓘ |
| appearsInFilm | Magic in the Moonlight ⓘ |
| characterType | skeptic ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| createdBy | Woody Allen ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Magic in the Moonlight ⓘ |
| filmDirectorOfWork | Woody Allen ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Magic in the Moonlight ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
period film
ⓘ
romantic comedy ⓘ |
| hasRoleIn | Magic in the Moonlight ⓘ |
| isSkepticalEnglishMagician | true ⓘ |
| isTitleCharacter | false ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| nationalityInStory | Chinese ⓘ |
| notableFor |
debunking spiritualists
ⓘ
skeptical attitude toward the supernatural ⓘ |
| occupation |
illusionist
ⓘ
stage magician ⓘ |
| performsAs | famed Chinese illusionist ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Colin Firth ⓘ |
| realIdentity | Stanley Crawford ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | 1920s ⓘ |
| usesAlias | Stanley Crawford ⓘ |
| usesDisguiseAs | Chinese illusionist ⓘ |
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: Wei Ling Soo Description of subject: Wei Ling Soo is the stage persona of a skeptical English magician in Woody Allen's film "Magic in the Moonlight," under which he performs as a famed Chinese illusionist.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.