The Left Ear
E686781
The Left Ear is a 2015 Chinese coming-of-age romantic drama film, adapted from Rao Xueman’s novel, that significantly boosted actress Ma Sichun’s popularity.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Left Ear (novel) | 2 |
| The Left Ear canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7771681 — 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 Left Ear Context triple: [Ma Sichun, notableWork, The Left Ear]
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A.
The Ear
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B.
Things Heard & Seen
Things Heard & Seen is a 2021 supernatural horror drama film that blends marital thriller elements with ghost story themes, based on the novel "All Things Cease to Appear" by Elizabeth Brundage.
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C.
After Laughter
After Laughter is Paramore’s fifth studio album, marking a stylistic shift toward bright, 1980s-influenced pop-rock with introspective, emotionally candid lyrics.
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D.
Goodbye Earl
"Goodbye Earl" is a darkly comic country song by the Dixie Chicks about two friends who murder an abusive husband and dispose of his body.
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E.
Whispers
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- 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 Left Ear Target entity description: The Left Ear is a 2015 Chinese coming-of-age romantic drama film, adapted from Rao Xueman’s novel, that significantly boosted actress Ma Sichun’s popularity.
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A.
The Ear
The Ear is a distinctive rock formation on El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, serving as a notable feature along the Salathé Wall climbing route.
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B.
Things Heard & Seen
Things Heard & Seen is a 2021 supernatural horror drama film that blends marital thriller elements with ghost story themes, based on the novel "All Things Cease to Appear" by Elizabeth Brundage.
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C.
After Laughter
After Laughter is Paramore’s fifth studio album, marking a stylistic shift toward bright, 1980s-influenced pop-rock with introspective, emotionally candid lyrics.
-
D.
Goodbye Earl
"Goodbye Earl" is a darkly comic country song by the Dixie Chicks about two friends who murder an abusive husband and dispose of his body.
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E.
Whispers
Whispers is a bestselling horror-thriller novel by Dean Koontz that blends psychological suspense with supernatural overtones.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese film
ⓘ
film ⓘ |
| adaptationOf |
The Left Ear (novel)
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linked to:
The Left Ear
|
| authorOfSourceWork | Rao Xueman ⓘ |
| basedOn |
The Left Ear (novel)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Left Ear
|
| boostedCareerOf | Ma Sichun ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | China ⓘ |
| director | Alec Su ⓘ |
| distributor | Enlight Pictures ⓘ |
| genre |
coming-of-age film
ⓘ
romantic drama ⓘ youth film ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
first love
ⓘ
friendship ⓘ self-discovery ⓘ tragedy ⓘ youth ⓘ |
| hasTitleInChinese | 左耳 ⓘ |
| language | Mandarin Chinese ⓘ |
| leadActress | Chen Duling ⓘ |
| notableFor | significantly increasing Ma Sichun’s popularity ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Chinese ⓘ |
| partOf | Chinese youth romance film wave of the 2010s ⓘ |
| producer | Alec Su ⓘ |
| publicationTypeOfSource | novel ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 2015-04-24 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2015 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 114 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Alec Su
ⓘ
Rao Xueman ⓘ |
| setIn | China ⓘ |
| starring |
Chen Duling
ⓘ
Ma Sichun ⓘ Oho Ou ⓘ Yang Yang ⓘ |
| supportingActress | Ma Sichun ⓘ |
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 Left Ear Description of subject: The Left Ear is a 2015 Chinese coming-of-age romantic drama film, adapted from Rao Xueman’s novel, that significantly boosted actress Ma Sichun’s popularity.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Left Ear
linked to: The Left Ear