Limehouse Nights
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Limehouse Nights is a 1916 collection of short stories by Thomas Burke that vividly portrays the lives and underworld of London’s Limehouse district, particularly its Chinese community.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Limehouse Nights canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11638509 — 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: Limehouse Nights Context triple: [The Chink and the Child, associatedWith, Limehouse Nights]
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A.
The Lavender Hill Mob
The Lavender Hill Mob is a classic 1951 British Ealing Studios comedy film about a timid bank clerk who masterminds a gold bullion heist.
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B.
London After Midnight
London After Midnight is a lost 1927 silent horror film directed by Tod Browning and starring Lon Chaney, renowned for its eerie atmosphere and Chaney’s iconic makeup.
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C.
The Limehouse Golem
The Limehouse Golem is a 2016 British gothic horror-mystery film, based on Peter Ackroyd’s novel "Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem," about a series of gruesome murders in Victorian London.
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D.
The City Madam
The City Madam is a Jacobean city comedy play by Philip Massinger that satirizes greed, social pretension, and moral corruption in early 17th-century London.
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E.
Limehouse Declaration
The Limehouse Declaration was a 1981 statement by four senior Labour politicians that announced their break from the Labour Party and led to the founding of the Social Democratic Party in the UK.
- 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: Limehouse Nights Target entity description: Limehouse Nights is a 1916 collection of short stories by Thomas Burke that vividly portrays the lives and underworld of London’s Limehouse district, particularly its Chinese community.
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A.
The Lavender Hill Mob
The Lavender Hill Mob is a classic 1951 British Ealing Studios comedy film about a timid bank clerk who masterminds a gold bullion heist.
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B.
London After Midnight
London After Midnight is a lost 1927 silent horror film directed by Tod Browning and starring Lon Chaney, renowned for its eerie atmosphere and Chaney’s iconic makeup.
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C.
The Limehouse Golem
The Limehouse Golem is a 2016 British gothic horror-mystery film, based on Peter Ackroyd’s novel "Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem," about a series of gruesome murders in Victorian London.
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D.
The City Madam
The City Madam is a Jacobean city comedy play by Philip Massinger that satirizes greed, social pretension, and moral corruption in early 17th-century London.
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E.
Limehouse Declaration
The Limehouse Declaration was a 1981 statement by four senior Labour politicians that announced their break from the Labour Party and led to the founding of the Social Democratic Party in the UK.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | short story collection ⓘ |
| adaptationDirector | D. W. Griffith ⓘ |
| adaptationReleaseYear | 1919 ⓘ |
| adaptationTitle |
Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl
ⓘ
linked to:
Broken Blossoms
|
| adaptationType | film ⓘ |
| adaptedInto | Broken Blossoms ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Yellow Peril literature
ⓘ
linked to:
Yellow Peril trope
|
| author | Thomas Burke ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| genre |
fiction
ⓘ
short stories ⓘ urban fiction ⓘ |
| hasFormat | print ⓘ |
| hasMediaType | book ⓘ |
| hasNotableStory |
Beryl and the Croucher
ⓘ
The Bird ⓘ The Chink and the Child ⓘ The Cue ⓘ The Father of Yoto ⓘ The Hand of the Mandarin Quong ⓘ The Paw ⓘ The Sign of the Lamp ⓘ The Song of Ho Ling ⓘ |
| hasPageCountApprox | about 300 pages ⓘ |
| hasReception |
commercial success on publication
ⓘ
critical controversy for racial portrayals ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
crime
ⓘ
cross-cultural encounters ⓘ exoticism ⓘ melodrama ⓘ poverty ⓘ racial stereotyping ⓘ sexual exploitation ⓘ urban alienation ⓘ violence ⓘ |
| influenced | cinematic depictions of London’s Chinatown ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | early 20th-century British literature ⓘ |
| portrays |
Chinese community in London
ⓘ
London underworld ⓘ working-class life in Limehouse ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1916 ⓘ |
| publisher | Grant Richards ⓘ |
| setting |
East End of London
ⓘ
Limehouse ⓘ London ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
|
| timePeriodDepicted | early 20th-century London ⓘ |
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