The Shell Game
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The Shell Game is a 1980 Hong Kong television drama series starring Chow Yun-fat that popularized stories about con artists and gambling in the Cantonese TV landscape.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Shell Game canonical | 1 |
| The Shell Game II | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9802409 — 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 Shell Game Context triple: [Chow Yun-fat, notableWork, The Shell Game]
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A.
The Name of the Game
"The Name of the Game" is a 1977 pop song by Swedish group ABBA, known for its melodic complexity and introspective lyrics.
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B.
The Name of the Game
The Name of the Game is an American television series from the late 1960s and early 1970s that followed the lives of magazine publishing executives through rotating lead characters and storylines.
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C.
Caught in the Game
Caught in the Game is a 1983 hard rock album by American band Survivor, known for its melodic rock sound and powerful vocals.
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D.
The Trick
The Trick is a British drama film in which George MacKay stars in a story inspired by the real-life "Climategate" email hacking scandal.
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E.
Shoot the Moon
Shoot the Moon is a 1982 American drama film about the emotional collapse of a long marriage and its impact on a family, directed by Alan Parker and starring Albert Finney and Diane Keaton.
- 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 Shell Game Target entity description: The Shell Game is a 1980 Hong Kong television drama series starring Chow Yun-fat that popularized stories about con artists and gambling in the Cantonese TV landscape.
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A.
The Name of the Game
"The Name of the Game" is a 1977 pop song by Swedish group ABBA, known for its melodic complexity and introspective lyrics.
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B.
The Name of the Game
The Name of the Game is an American television series from the late 1960s and early 1970s that followed the lives of magazine publishing executives through rotating lead characters and storylines.
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C.
Caught in the Game
Caught in the Game is a 1983 hard rock album by American band Survivor, known for its melodic rock sound and powerful vocals.
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D.
The Trick
The Trick is a British drama film in which George MacKay stars in a story inspired by the real-life "Climategate" email hacking scandal.
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E.
Shoot the Moon
Shoot the Moon is a 1982 American drama film about the emotional collapse of a long marriage and its impact on a family, directed by Alan Parker and starring Albert Finney and Diane Keaton.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hong Kong television drama series
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TVB drama ⓘ |
| basedIn |
Republic of China era (setting)
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linked to:
Republican era of China
|
| countryOfBroadcast |
Hong Kong
ⓘ
linked to:
Hong Kong, China
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| countryOfOrigin |
Hong Kong
ⓘ
linked to:
Hong Kong, China
|
| decadeOfRelease | 1980s ⓘ |
| featuresCharacterType |
con artist
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professional gambler ⓘ |
| firstAired | 1980 ⓘ |
| genre |
crime drama
ⓘ
drama ⓘ gambling drama ⓘ |
| hasSequel |
The Shell Game II
ⓘ
linked to:
The Shell Game
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| mainSubject |
con artists
ⓘ
gambling ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| notableFor |
popularizing gambling-themed plots in Cantonese TV dramas
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popularizing stories about con artists in Cantonese television ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Cantonese ⓘ |
| originallyBroadcastIn | Cantonese ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | TVB Jade ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
TVB
ⓘ
linked to:
TVB (Television Broadcasts Limited)
|
| starredActor |
Chow Yun-fat
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Liza Wang ⓘ Patrick Tse ⓘ |
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 Shell Game Description of subject: The Shell Game is a 1980 Hong Kong television drama series starring Chow Yun-fat that popularized stories about con artists and gambling in the Cantonese TV landscape.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Shell Game