Anna May Wong
E17511
film actress
human
pioneer of Asian American cinema
silent film actor
stage actress
television actress
Anna May Wong was a pioneering Chinese American actress and international film star of the early 20th century, widely regarded as the first Asian American Hollywood movie star.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Anna May Wong canonical | 26 |
| Anna May Wong as Lan Ying Lin | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T120168 — 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: Anna May Wong Context triple: [The Thief of Bagdad (1924 film), starring, Anna May Wong]
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A.
Mary Pickford
Mary Pickford was a pioneering Canadian-American silent film actress, producer, and co-founder of United Artists, often called "America's Sweetheart" and regarded as one of early Hollywood's most influential stars.
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B.
Jane Wyatt
Jane Wyatt was an American actress best known for her roles in the film "Gentleman's Agreement" and the television series "Father Knows Best."
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C.
Dorothy McGuire
Dorothy McGuire was an American film and stage actress known for her sensitive, understated performances in classic mid-20th-century Hollywood dramas.
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D.
Fay Wray
Fay Wray was a Canadian-American actress best known for her iconic role as the damsel Ann Darrow in the classic 1933 film "King Kong."
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E.
Celeste Holm
Celeste Holm was an American actress best known for her Academy Award–winning performance in "Gentleman's Agreement" and her work on stage and screen during Hollywood's Golden Age.
- 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: Anna May Wong Target entity description: Anna May Wong was a pioneering Chinese American actress and international film star of the early 20th century, widely regarded as the first Asian American Hollywood movie star.
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A.
Mary Pickford
Mary Pickford was a pioneering Canadian-American silent film actress, producer, and co-founder of United Artists, often called "America's Sweetheart" and regarded as one of early Hollywood's most influential stars.
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B.
Jane Wyatt
Jane Wyatt was an American actress best known for her roles in the film "Gentleman's Agreement" and the television series "Father Knows Best."
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C.
Dorothy McGuire
Dorothy McGuire was an American film and stage actress known for her sensitive, understated performances in classic mid-20th-century Hollywood dramas.
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D.
Fay Wray
Fay Wray was a Canadian-American actress best known for her iconic role as the damsel Ann Darrow in the classic 1933 film "King Kong."
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E.
Celeste Holm
Celeste Holm was an American actress best known for her Academy Award–winning performance in "Gentleman's Agreement" and her work on stage and screen during Hollywood's Golden Age.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
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: Anna May Wong Description of subject: Anna May Wong was a pioneering Chinese American actress and international film star of the early 20th century, widely regarded as the first Asian American Hollywood movie star.
Referenced by (27)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Thief of Bagdad (1924 film)
this entity surface form:
Anna May Wong as Lan Ying Lin
subject surface form:
Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery