Shanghai Surprise
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Shanghai Surprise is a 1986 British-American romantic adventure comedy film starring Madonna and Sean Penn, produced by George Harrison’s HandMade Films.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shanghai Surprise canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9465514 — 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 Surprise Context triple: [HandMade Films, notableWork, Shanghai Surprise]
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A.
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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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 Shanghai Gesture
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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D.
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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E.
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.
- 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 Surprise Target entity description: Shanghai Surprise is a 1986 British-American romantic adventure comedy film starring Madonna and Sean Penn, produced by George Harrison’s HandMade Films.
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A.
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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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 Shanghai Gesture
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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D.
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Faraday’s Flowers
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
novel by Tony Kenrick ⓘ |
| boxOfficePerformance | commercial failure ⓘ |
| castMember |
Clyde Kusatsu
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Madonna NERFINISHED ⓘ Paul Freeman NERFINISHED ⓘ Philip Sayer NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard Griffiths NERFINISHED ⓘ Sean Penn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematography | Ernest Day NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| costumeDesigner | Emma Porteous NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United Kingdom
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| director | Jim Goddard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | MGM/UA Entertainment Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editor | Peter Hollywood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
Hong Kong
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Macau NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
adventure comedy
ⓘ
comedy film ⓘ romance film ⓘ romantic comedy ⓘ |
| hasMainCharacter |
Glendon Wasey
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gloria Tatlock NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSong |
Breath Away from Heaven
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Shanghai Surprise (song) NERFINISHED ⓘ Someplace Else NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| musicBy |
George Harrison
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Michael Kamen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeLocation | Shanghai NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nominatedFor |
Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress NERFINISHED ⓘ Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Director NERFINISHED ⓘ Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture NERFINISHED ⓘ Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screenplay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| producer | George Harrison NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | HandMade Films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1986 ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1986-08-29 ⓘ |
| runtime | 98 minutes ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
John Kohn
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Robert Bentley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | 1930s ⓘ |
| starring |
Madonna
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sean Penn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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 Surprise Description of subject: Shanghai Surprise is a 1986 British-American romantic adventure comedy film starring Madonna and Sean Penn, produced by George Harrison’s HandMade Films.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.