Ju Dou
E443065
Ju Dou is a 1990 Chinese drama film, co-directed by Zhang Yimou, renowned for its vivid cinematography and its tragic story of forbidden love and oppression in rural China.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ju Dou canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4459879 — 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: Ju Dou Context triple: [Zhang Yimou, notableWork, Ju Dou]
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A.
Jiang Baili
Jiang Baili was a prominent early 20th-century Chinese military strategist and reformer who played a key role in modernizing China's armed forces and influencing Republican-era military thought.
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B.
Wu Ta-You
Wu Ta-You was a prominent Chinese theoretical physicist often regarded as the father of modern Chinese physics.
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C.
He Long
He Long was a prominent Chinese Communist military leader and marshal who played a key role in early revolutionary campaigns and later in the People’s Liberation Army.
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D.
Zhu Youjiao
Zhu Youjiao, better known as the Tianqi Emperor, was a late Ming dynasty ruler whose short and troubled reign was dominated by the powerful eunuch Wei Zhongxian and marked by political corruption and decline.
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E.
Wu Jingyu
Wu Jingyu is a Chinese taekwondo athlete and multiple-time Olympic gold medalist renowned as one of the sport’s most successful competitors.
- 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: Ju Dou Target entity description: Ju Dou is a 1990 Chinese drama film, co-directed by Zhang Yimou, renowned for its vivid cinematography and its tragic story of forbidden love and oppression in rural China.
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A.
Jiang Baili
Jiang Baili was a prominent early 20th-century Chinese military strategist and reformer who played a key role in modernizing China's armed forces and influencing Republican-era military thought.
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B.
Wu Ta-You
Wu Ta-You was a prominent Chinese theoretical physicist often regarded as the father of modern Chinese physics.
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C.
He Long
He Long was a prominent Chinese Communist military leader and marshal who played a key role in early revolutionary campaigns and later in the People’s Liberation Army.
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D.
Zhu Youjiao
Zhu Youjiao, better known as the Tianqi Emperor, was a late Ming dynasty ruler whose short and troubled reign was dominated by the powerful eunuch Wei Zhongxian and marked by political corruption and decline.
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E.
Wu Jingyu
Wu Jingyu is a Chinese taekwondo athlete and multiple-time Olympic gold medalist renowned as one of the sport’s most successful competitors.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese film
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drama film ⓘ film ⓘ |
| academyAwardsCountrySubmission | China NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| academyAwardsEdition | 63rd Academy Awards NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| academyAwardsSubmissionFor | Best Foreign Language Film NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| authorOfSourceWork | Liu Heng NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Fuxi Fuxi
NERFINISHED
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novel ⓘ |
| censorshipStatus | initially banned in China ⓘ |
| cinematographer | Gu Changwei NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coDirector |
Yang Fengliang
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Zhang Yimou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| colorDesign | symbolic use of color in cinematography ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | China ⓘ |
| criticalReception | internationally acclaimed ⓘ |
| director |
Yang Fengliang
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Zhang Yimou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distribution | China Film Co. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | Fifth Generation Chinese cinema NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| festivalSection | Un Certain Regard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| festivalSelection | Cannes Film Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmFormat | color ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
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romantic drama ⓘ |
| historicalContext | Republican-era China NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| leadActor | Gong Li NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | love triangle ⓘ |
| notableFor |
depiction of oppression in rural China
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tragic story of forbidden love ⓘ vivid cinematography ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Mandarin Chinese ⓘ |
| partOf | filmography of Zhang Yimou ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Xi’an Film Studio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDateChina | 1990 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1990 ⓘ |
| runningTimeMinutes | 95 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Liu Heng NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation | rural China ⓘ |
| stars |
Gong Li
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Li Baotian NERFINISHED ⓘ Li Wei NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
domestic violence
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forbidden love ⓘ oppression ⓘ patriarchy ⓘ revenge ⓘ |
| title | Ju Dou 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: Ju Dou Description of subject: Ju Dou is a 1990 Chinese drama film, co-directed by Zhang Yimou, renowned for its vivid cinematography and its tragic story of forbidden love and oppression in rural China.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.