The Shanghai Gesture
E789187
The Shanghai Gesture is a 1941 film noir drama directed by Josef von Sternberg, set in a decadent Shanghai gambling house and known for its exotic atmosphere and moral corruption.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Shanghai Gesture canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9257566 — 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 Shanghai Gesture Context triple: [Mike Mazurki, notableWork, The Shanghai Gesture]
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A.
City God of Shanghai
The City God of Shanghai is the protective deity of Shanghai in Chinese folk religion and Taoism, overseeing the city's welfare, justice, and local affairs.
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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.
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.
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D.
Shanghai Lil
"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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E.
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.
- 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 Shanghai Gesture Target entity description: The Shanghai Gesture is a 1941 film noir drama directed by Josef von Sternberg, set in a decadent Shanghai gambling house and known for its exotic atmosphere and moral corruption.
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A.
City God of Shanghai
The City God of Shanghai is the protective deity of Shanghai in Chinese folk religion and Taoism, overseeing the city's welfare, justice, and local affairs.
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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.
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.
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D.
Shanghai Lil
"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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| adaptationType | stage-to-film adaptation ⓘ |
| artDirectionBy |
Boris Leven
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hans Dreier NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Shanghai Gesture (play) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnAuthor | John Colton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Harry J. Wild NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Josef von Sternberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | United Artists NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributorRegion | theatrical release in the United States ⓘ |
| editedBy | James Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingFormat | 35 mm ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
ⓘ
film noir ⓘ |
| hasCensorshipIssues | true ⓘ |
| hasSettingType | urban setting ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mpaaRating | Approved ⓘ |
| musicBy | Miklós Rózsa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeTheme |
decadence
ⓘ
gambling ⓘ moral corruption ⓘ |
| notableFor |
depiction of moral corruption
ⓘ
exotic atmosphere ⓘ |
| productionCompany | United Artists NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDecade | 1940s ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1941 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 106 ⓘ |
| screenplayBy |
Geza Herczeg
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Josef von Sternberg NERFINISHED ⓘ Karl Vollmöller NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingEnvironment | gambling house ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Shanghai NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starredActor |
Albert Bassermann
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Eric Blore NERFINISHED ⓘ Gene Tierney NERFINISHED ⓘ Maria Ouspenskaya NERFINISHED ⓘ Mike Mazurki NERFINISHED ⓘ Ona Munson NERFINISHED ⓘ Phyllis Brooks NERFINISHED ⓘ Victor Mature NERFINISHED ⓘ Walter Huston NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | The Shanghai Gesture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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 Shanghai Gesture Description of subject: The Shanghai Gesture is a 1941 film noir drama directed by Josef von Sternberg, set in a decadent Shanghai gambling house and known for its exotic atmosphere and moral corruption.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.