Red Sorghum
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Red Sorghum is a 1987 Chinese film directed by Zhang Yimou that blends romance and wartime drama in rural Shandong, and is widely credited with launching the Fifth Generation of Chinese cinema onto the world stage.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Red Sorghum canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4459878 — 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: Red Sorghum Context triple: [Zhang Yimou, notableWork, Red Sorghum]
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A.
Black Tiger Spring
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B.
Ordinary World
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C.
Summer and Smoke
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D.
The Wedding Banquet
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E.
Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness
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- 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: Red Sorghum Target entity description: Red Sorghum is a 1987 Chinese film directed by Zhang Yimou that blends romance and wartime drama in rural Shandong, and is widely credited with launching the Fifth Generation of Chinese cinema onto the world stage.
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A.
Black Tiger Spring
Black Tiger Spring is a renowned natural artesian spring in Jinan, China, celebrated for its clear waters, distinctive tiger-shaped stone outlets, and cultural significance as one of the city's most famous springs.
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B.
Ordinary World
"Ordinary World" is a song by Green Day from their 2016 album *Revolution Radio*, known for its reflective, melodic style and introspective lyrics.
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C.
Summer and Smoke
Summer and Smoke is a 1948 play by Tennessee Williams that explores the tension between spiritual purity and physical desire in a small Mississippi town.
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D.
The Wedding Banquet
The Wedding Banquet is a 1993 Taiwanese-American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Ang Lee that explores cultural clashes, family expectations, and gay identity through the story of a sham marriage.
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E.
Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness
Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness is a 1927 silent documentary-style adventure film set in the jungles of Siam, depicting a family's struggle for survival amid wild animals and natural dangers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese film
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film ⓘ romantic drama film ⓘ war film ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Golden Bear NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceivedFrom | Berlin International Film Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardYear | 1988 ⓘ |
| basedOn | Red Sorghum (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkBy | Mo Yan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographer | Gu Changwei NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | China ⓘ |
| depicts | Japanese invasion of China NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| director | Zhang Yimou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editor | Du Yuan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| festivalSelection | 38th Berlin International Film Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
historical drama
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romance film ⓘ war drama ⓘ |
| hasColorProcess | color ⓘ |
| hasFemaleLead | Gong Li NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSubfamily | Sinitic languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
love
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resistance ⓘ rural life ⓘ war ⓘ |
| marksDebut | Gong Li’s first major film role ⓘ |
| marksDirectorialDebut | Zhang Yimou’s feature directorial debut ⓘ |
| movement | Fifth Generation of Chinese cinema NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Zhao Jiping NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAspect |
blend of romance and wartime drama
ⓘ
striking color cinematography ⓘ |
| notableFor |
international recognition of Fifth Generation Chinese cinema
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launching Zhang Yimou’s directing career ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Mandarin Chinese NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrays | rural Chinese village life ⓘ |
| producer | Zhou Weiping NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Xi’an Film Studio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1987 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 91 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Zheng Yi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInCountry | China NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInLocation | Shandong NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Gong Li
NERFINISHED
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Jiang Wen NERFINISHED ⓘ Ten Rujun NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriodSetting |
1930s
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Second Sino-Japanese War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Red Sorghum Description of subject: Red Sorghum is a 1987 Chinese film directed by Zhang Yimou that blends romance and wartime drama in rural Shandong, and is widely credited with launching the Fifth Generation of Chinese cinema onto the world stage.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.