White Cargo (play)
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White Cargo is a 1923 stage melodrama by Leon Gordon, best known for its controversial depiction of interracial relationships and colonial life in West Africa and for inspiring several film adaptations.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| White Cargo (play) canonical | 3 |
| White Cargo (1929 film) | 1 |
| White Cargo (1930 film) | 1 |
| play "White Cargo" | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11135615 — 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: White Cargo (play) Context triple: [Leon Gordon, notableWork, White Cargo (play)]
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A.
Remains to Be Seen (play)
Remains to Be Seen is a mid-20th-century Broadway comedy play co-written by Howard Lindsay that blends murder mystery elements with lighthearted, sophisticated humor.
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B.
The Women (play)
The Women is a 1936 satirical comedy play by Clare Boothe Luce that portrays the lives, rivalries, and romantic entanglements of a group of wealthy New York women, notable for its all-female cast.
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C.
Clouds (play)
Clouds is an ancient Greek comedy by Aristophanes that satirizes Socrates and the intellectual fashions of classical Athens.
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D.
White Chameleon (play)
White Chameleon is a semi-autobiographical stage play by Christopher Hampton that explores his childhood experiences in 1950s Egypt against a backdrop of political and social upheaval.
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E.
Bus Stop (play)
Bus Stop (play) is a 1955 romantic comedy-drama by William Inge that centers on a group of strangers stranded overnight in a Kansas diner during a snowstorm, exploring their intersecting relationships and personal revelations.
- 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: White Cargo (play) Target entity description: White Cargo is a 1923 stage melodrama by Leon Gordon, best known for its controversial depiction of interracial relationships and colonial life in West Africa and for inspiring several film adaptations.
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A.
Remains to Be Seen (play)
Remains to Be Seen is a mid-20th-century Broadway comedy play co-written by Howard Lindsay that blends murder mystery elements with lighthearted, sophisticated humor.
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B.
The Women (play)
The Women is a 1936 satirical comedy play by Clare Boothe Luce that portrays the lives, rivalries, and romantic entanglements of a group of wealthy New York women, notable for its all-female cast.
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C.
Clouds (play)
Clouds is an ancient Greek comedy by Aristophanes that satirizes Socrates and the intellectual fashions of classical Athens.
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D.
White Chameleon (play)
White Chameleon is a semi-autobiographical stage play by Christopher Hampton that explores his childhood experiences in 1950s Egypt against a backdrop of political and social upheaval.
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E.
Bus Stop (play)
Bus Stop (play) is a 1955 romantic comedy-drama by William Inge that centers on a group of strangers stranded overnight in a Kansas diner during a snowstorm, exploring their intersecting relationships and personal revelations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
melodrama
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stage play ⓘ |
| author | Leon Gordon ⓘ |
| controversy |
depiction of interracial romance
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racial stereotypes ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| genre | melodrama ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
White Cargo (1929 film)
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linked to:
White Cargo (play)
White Cargo (1930 film) ⓘ
linked to:
White Cargo (play)
White Cargo (1942 film) ⓘ
linked to:
White Cargo
|
| hasCharacterType |
African characters
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European colonists ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
power dynamics in colonial societies
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race relations ⓘ sexual exploitation ⓘ |
| hasTitle | White Cargo ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | contemporary colonial attitudes ⓘ |
| isBasisFor | Hollywood film adaptations ⓘ |
| medium | theatre ⓘ |
| notableFor |
controversial depiction of colonial life in West Africa
ⓘ
controversial depiction of interracial relationships ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1923 ⓘ |
| settingLocation | West Africa ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | colonial era ⓘ |
| subject |
colonialism
ⓘ
interracial relationships ⓘ |
| theatricalDebutYear | 1923 ⓘ |
| workPeriod | 1920s ⓘ |
| writer | Leon Gordon ⓘ |
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: White Cargo (play) Description of subject: White Cargo is a 1923 stage melodrama by Leon Gordon, best known for its controversial depiction of interracial relationships and colonial life in West Africa and for inspiring several film adaptations.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: White Cargo (play)
linked to: White Cargo (play)
linked to: White Cargo (play)
subject linked to:
White Cargo (1942 film screenplay)
subject linked to:
White Cargo (1942 film screenplay)