The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu
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The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu is a 1980 comedy film that parodies the classic Fu Manchu villain character, notable as Peter Sellers’ final movie role.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu canonical | 4 |
| The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu (score) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6571073 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu Context triple: [Sheila Sim, notableWork, The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu]
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A.
The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu
The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu is a 1929 American pre-Code crime film that introduces the infamous criminal mastermind Dr. Fu Manchu, adapted from Sax Rohmer’s popular series of novels.
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B.
The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu
The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu is a 1930 American crime thriller film featuring the infamous fictional villain Dr. Fu Manchu in a tale of revenge and intrigue.
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C.
The Valley of Fear
The Valley of Fear is a Sherlock Holmes detective novel by Arthur Conan Doyle that centers on a mysterious murder linked to a secret society and a dark past in the American coalfields.
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D.
The Man of Mystery
The Man of Mystery is a silent-era film directed by Albert Parker, recognized as one of his notable works in early American cinema.
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E.
The Tooth of Crime
The Tooth of Crime is a 1972 avant-garde play by Sam Shepard that blends rock music, futuristic slang, and stylized violence in a surreal exploration of fame, power, and rivalry.
- 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 Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu Target entity description: The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu is a 1980 comedy film that parodies the classic Fu Manchu villain character, notable as Peter Sellers’ final movie role.
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A.
The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu
The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu is a 1929 American pre-Code crime film that introduces the infamous criminal mastermind Dr. Fu Manchu, adapted from Sax Rohmer’s popular series of novels.
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B.
The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu
The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu is a 1930 American crime thriller film featuring the infamous fictional villain Dr. Fu Manchu in a tale of revenge and intrigue.
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C.
The Valley of Fear
The Valley of Fear is a Sherlock Holmes detective novel by Arthur Conan Doyle that centers on a mysterious murder linked to a secret society and a dark past in the American coalfields.
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D.
The Man of Mystery
The Man of Mystery is a silent-era film directed by Albert Parker, recognized as one of his notable works in early American cinema.
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E.
The Tooth of Crime
The Tooth of Crime is a 1972 avant-garde play by Sam Shepard that blends rock music, futuristic slang, and stylized violence in a surreal exploration of fame, power, and rivalry.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn | Fu Manchu character by Sax Rohmer ⓘ |
| boxOfficePerformance | commercial failure ⓘ |
| character |
Dr. Fu Manchu
ⓘ
Nayland Smith ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Arthur Ibbetson ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United Kingdom
ⓘ
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| director |
Peter Sellers
ⓘ
Piers Haggard ⓘ |
| distributedBy | MGM ⓘ |
| editedBy | Ralph Sheldon ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
London
ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
|
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| hasReception | generally negative reviews ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
parody of pulp villain tropes
ⓘ
spy spoof ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| musicBy | Marc Wilkinson ⓘ |
| notableFor | final film role of Peter Sellers ⓘ |
| parodies | Fu Manchu ⓘ |
| producer | Peter Sellers ⓘ |
| productionCompany | MGM ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1980-08-08 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1980 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 98 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Peter Sellers
ⓘ
Ron Clark ⓘ Rudy De Luca ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | 1930s ⓘ |
| starred |
Burt Kwouk
ⓘ
David Tomlinson ⓘ Helen Mirren ⓘ Peter Sellers ⓘ Sid Caesar ⓘ |
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 Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu Description of subject: The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu is a 1980 comedy film that parodies the classic Fu Manchu villain character, notable as Peter Sellers’ final movie role.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.