Victor Sen Yung
E226060
Victor Sen Yung was a Chinese American character actor best known for his roles as Hop Sing on the television series "Bonanza" and as Jimmy Chan in the Charlie Chan film series.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Victor Sen Yung canonical | 3 |
| Victor Sen Young | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2008720 — 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: Victor Sen Yung Context triple: [Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery, hasNotableBurial, Victor Sen Yung]
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A.
James Wong Howe
James Wong Howe was a pioneering Chinese-American cinematographer renowned for his innovative camera techniques and influential visual style in classic Hollywood cinema.
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B.
Lai-Sang Young
Lai-Sang Young is a prominent mathematician known for her influential work in dynamical systems and ergodic theory.
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C.
Richard Chew
Richard Chew is an American film editor best known for his Academy Award–winning work on influential films such as Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope.
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D.
Eddie Wu
Eddie Wu is a Chinese entrepreneur and technology executive best known as a co-founder and later CEO of Alibaba Group.
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E.
Keye Luke
Keye Luke was a Chinese-American actor and artist best known for his roles in the Charlie Chan films, the original "Kung Fu" TV series, and as Master Po in "Kung Fu."
- 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: Victor Sen Yung Target entity description: Victor Sen Yung was a Chinese American character actor best known for his roles as Hop Sing on the television series "Bonanza" and as Jimmy Chan in the Charlie Chan film series.
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A.
James Wong Howe
James Wong Howe was a pioneering Chinese-American cinematographer renowned for his innovative camera techniques and influential visual style in classic Hollywood cinema.
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B.
Lai-Sang Young
Lai-Sang Young is a prominent mathematician known for her influential work in dynamical systems and ergodic theory.
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C.
Richard Chew
Richard Chew is an American film editor best known for his Academy Award–winning work on influential films such as Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope.
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D.
Eddie Wu
Eddie Wu is a Chinese entrepreneur and technology executive best known as a co-founder and later CEO of Alibaba Group.
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E.
Keye Luke
Keye Luke was a Chinese-American actor and artist best known for his roles in the Charlie Chan films, the original "Kung Fu" TV series, and as Master Po in "Kung Fu."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Victor Sen Yung Description of subject: Victor Sen Yung was a Chinese American character actor best known for his roles as Hop Sing on the television series "Bonanza" and as Jimmy Chan in the Charlie Chan film series.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery, Chatsworth, California, United States
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hasNotableBurial
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Victor Sen Yung
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subject surface form:
Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery
this entity surface form:
Victor Sen Young