The Bitter Tea of General Yen
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The Bitter Tea of General Yen is a 1933 romantic drama film directed by Frank Capra that explores a controversial interracial relationship between an American missionary and a Chinese warlord during the Chinese Civil War.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Bitter Tea of General Yen canonical | 4 |
| The Bitter Tea of General Yen (novella) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7567328 — 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 Bitter Tea of General Yen Context triple: [Walter Wanger, notableWork, The Bitter Tea of General Yen]
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A.
The Barbarian and the Geisha
The Barbarian and the Geisha is a 1958 historical drama film directed by John Huston and starring John Wayne as an American diplomat in 19th-century Japan.
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B.
O Mandarim
O Mandarim is a satirical novella by Portuguese writer Eça de Queirós that explores greed, morality, and the consequences of wish fulfillment through a fantastical tale about a clerk who can gain a fortune by causing the death of a distant Chinese mandarin.
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C.
The Bitchun Society
The Bitchun Society is a post-scarcity, reputation-based future society from Cory Doctorow’s novel "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom," where death is obsolete and social capital replaces money.
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D.
The Vagabond
The Vagabond is a 1916 silent short film starring Charlie Chaplin as his iconic Tramp character, blending comedy and pathos in a story about a wandering violinist.
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E.
The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail
The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail is a 1945 Japanese period drama film directed by Akira Kurosawa, adapted from a traditional kabuki play about a disguised lord and his loyal retainers.
- 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 Bitter Tea of General Yen Target entity description: The Bitter Tea of General Yen is a 1933 romantic drama film directed by Frank Capra that explores a controversial interracial relationship between an American missionary and a Chinese warlord during the Chinese Civil War.
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A.
The Barbarian and the Geisha
The Barbarian and the Geisha is a 1958 historical drama film directed by John Huston and starring John Wayne as an American diplomat in 19th-century Japan.
-
B.
O Mandarim
O Mandarim is a satirical novella by Portuguese writer Eça de Queirós that explores greed, morality, and the consequences of wish fulfillment through a fantastical tale about a clerk who can gain a fortune by causing the death of a distant Chinese mandarin.
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C.
The Bitchun Society
The Bitchun Society is a post-scarcity, reputation-based future society from Cory Doctorow’s novel "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom," where death is obsolete and social capital replaces money.
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D.
The Vagabond
The Vagabond is a 1916 silent short film starring Charlie Chaplin as his iconic Tramp character, blending comedy and pathos in a story about a wandering violinist.
-
E.
The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail
The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail is a 1945 Japanese period drama film directed by Akira Kurosawa, adapted from a traditional kabuki play about a disguised lord and his loyal retainers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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 Bitter Tea of General Yen Description of subject: The Bitter Tea of General Yen is a 1933 romantic drama film directed by Frank Capra that explores a controversial interracial relationship between an American missionary and a Chinese warlord during the Chinese Civil War.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.