Shanghai Lil
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"Shanghai Lil" is a musical number from the 1933 Warner Bros. film *Footlight Parade*, featuring James Cagney in a memorable song-and-dance performance.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shanghai Lil canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8999574 — 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: Shanghai Lil Context triple: [Footlight Parade, hasSong, Shanghai Lil]
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A.
Shanghai Lily
Shanghai Lily is the sophisticated and enigmatic female protagonist portrayed by Marlene Dietrich in the 1932 film "Shanghai Express."
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B.
Little Shanghai
Little Shanghai is a nickname for the city of Wuxi in Jiangsu Province, reflecting its historical prosperity and cultural resemblance to nearby Shanghai.
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C.
Daughter of Shanghai
Daughter of Shanghai is a 1937 crime drama film starring Anna May Wong that is notable for its rare early Hollywood portrayal of a Chinese American heroine in a leading, heroic role.
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D.
Шанхайская пятёрка
Шанхайская пятёрка была региональным объединением Китая, России, Казахстана, Киргизии и Таджикистана, созданным для укрепления доверия и сотрудничества в сфере безопасности на постсоветском пространстве и в Центральной Азии.
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E.
The Flower of Shanghai
The Flower of Shanghai is a popular nickname for Shanghai Shenhua F.C., one of China's most historic and passionately supported professional football clubs.
- 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: Shanghai Lil Target entity description: "Shanghai Lil" is a musical number from the 1933 Warner Bros. film *Footlight Parade*, featuring James Cagney in a memorable song-and-dance performance.
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A.
Shanghai Lily
Shanghai Lily is the sophisticated and enigmatic female protagonist portrayed by Marlene Dietrich in the 1932 film "Shanghai Express."
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B.
Little Shanghai
Little Shanghai is a nickname for the city of Wuxi in Jiangsu Province, reflecting its historical prosperity and cultural resemblance to nearby Shanghai.
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C.
Daughter of Shanghai
Daughter of Shanghai is a 1937 crime drama film starring Anna May Wong that is notable for its rare early Hollywood portrayal of a Chinese American heroine in a leading, heroic role.
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D.
Шанхайская пятёрка
Шанхайская пятёрка была региональным объединением Китая, России, Казахстана, Киргизии и Таджикистана, созданным для укрепления доверия и сотрудничества в сфере безопасности на постсоветском пространстве и в Центральной Азии.
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E.
The Flower of Shanghai
The Flower of Shanghai is a popular nickname for Shanghai Shenhua F.C., one of China's most historic and passionately supported professional football clubs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | song ⓘ |
| associatedWithDecade | 1930s ⓘ |
| associatedWithEra | Pre-Code Hollywood ⓘ |
| basedInMedium | film ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| featuredInFilm | Footlight Parade ⓘ |
| featuresPerformer |
James Cagney
ⓘ
Ruby Keeler ⓘ |
| filmStudio |
Warner Bros.
ⓘ
linked to:
Warner Bros. Pictures
|
| genre | film musical number ⓘ |
| hasChoreographyStyle |
ensemble production number
ⓘ
tap dance ⓘ |
| hasDanceSequence | yes ⓘ |
| hasSetting | Shanghai (stylized, fictionalized setting) ⓘ |
| hasVisualFormat | black-and-white film sequence ⓘ |
| isBlackAndWhite | yes ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | James Cagney song-and-dance performance ⓘ |
| partOf |
Footlight Parade soundtrack
ⓘ
linked to:
Footlight Parade
|
| partOfFilmGenre | musical film ⓘ |
| performedByCharacter | James Cagney’s character in Footlight Parade ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Warner Bros.
ⓘ
linked to:
Warner Bros. Pictures
|
| releaseYear | 1933 ⓘ |
| titleOf | musical number in the film Footlight Parade ⓘ |
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: Shanghai Lil Description of subject: "Shanghai Lil" is a musical number from the 1933 Warner Bros. film *Footlight Parade*, featuring James Cagney in a memorable song-and-dance performance.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Footlight_Parade