The World of Suzie Wong
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The World of Suzie Wong is a 1957 novel by Richard Mason, later adapted into a successful stage play and film, that tells the story of a romance between a British artist and a Chinese sex worker in Hong Kong.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The World of Suzie Wong canonical | 11 |
| Suzie Wong | 5 |
| The World of Suzie Wong (1960 film) | 2 |
| The World of Suzie Wong (1957 novel) | 1 |
| The World of Suzie Wong (novel) | 1 |
| The World of Suzie Wong (stage play) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T486132 — 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: The World of Suzie Wong Context triple: [Kermit Bloomgarden, notableWork, The World of Suzie Wong]
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A.
The Teahouse of the August Moon
The Teahouse of the August Moon is a Pulitzer Prize–winning Broadway comedy about post–World War II American occupation in Okinawa, later adapted into a successful film and musical.
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B.
Last Tango in Paris
Last Tango in Paris is a controversial 1972 erotic drama film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci and starring Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider, noted for its explicit sexual content and psychological intensity.
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C.
Broken Blossoms
Broken Blossoms is a 1919 silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith, renowned for its poignant interracial love story and innovative cinematic techniques.
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D.
The Sheik
The Sheik is a 1921 silent romantic drama film that became one of Rudolph Valentino’s most iconic roles and a defining work of early Hollywood stardom.
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E.
The Belle of New York
The Belle of New York is a 1952 Technicolor musical film starring Fred Astaire as a charming playboy whose pursuit of a devout Salvation Army worker leads to whimsical, dance-filled romance in turn-of-the-century New York City.
- 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: The World of Suzie Wong Target entity description: The World of Suzie Wong is a 1957 novel by Richard Mason, later adapted into a successful stage play and film, that tells the story of a romance between a British artist and a Chinese sex worker in Hong Kong.
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A.
The Teahouse of the August Moon
The Teahouse of the August Moon is a Pulitzer Prize–winning Broadway comedy about post–World War II American occupation in Okinawa, later adapted into a successful film and musical.
-
B.
Last Tango in Paris
Last Tango in Paris is a controversial 1972 erotic drama film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci and starring Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider, noted for its explicit sexual content and psychological intensity.
-
C.
Broken Blossoms
Broken Blossoms is a 1919 silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith, renowned for its poignant interracial love story and innovative cinematic techniques.
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D.
The Sheik
The Sheik is a 1921 silent romantic drama film that became one of Rudolph Valentino’s most iconic roles and a defining work of early Hollywood stardom.
-
E.
The Belle of New York
The Belle of New York is a 1952 Technicolor musical film starring Fred Astaire as a charming playboy whose pursuit of a devout Salvation Army worker leads to whimsical, dance-filled romance in turn-of-the-century New York City.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
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novel ⓘ |
| adaptationMedium |
cinema
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theatre ⓘ |
| adaptationSuccess |
commercially successful film
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commercially successful stage play ⓘ |
| adaptedAs |
feature film
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stage play ⓘ |
| author | Richard Mason ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| culturalImpact |
contributed to the Suzie Wong stereotype in popular culture
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influential in Western representations of Asian women ⓘ |
| femaleLeadOccupation | Chinese sex worker ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
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romantic novel ⓘ |
| hasTitleCharacter |
The World of Suzie Wong
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Suzie Wong
|
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Robert Lomax
ⓘ
The World of Suzie Wong self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Suzie Wong
|
| narrativePerspective | third-person narrative ⓘ |
| notableFor |
depiction of a relationship between a Western man and an Asian woman
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portrayal of Hong Kong nightlife ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| protagonistNationality | British ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | British artist ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1957 ⓘ |
| settingLocation |
Hong Kong, China
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surface form:
Hong Kong
|
| theme |
cross-cultural relationships
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interracial romance ⓘ postcolonial Hong Kong ⓘ sex work ⓘ social class ⓘ |
| timePeriodSetting | mid-20th century ⓘ |
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: The World of Suzie Wong Description of subject: The World of Suzie Wong is a 1957 novel by Richard Mason, later adapted into a successful stage play and film, that tells the story of a romance between a British artist and a Chinese sex worker in Hong Kong.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Suzie Wong
this entity surface form:
Suzie Wong
this entity surface form:
The World of Suzie Wong (novel)
this entity surface form:
The World of Suzie Wong (1960 film)
this entity surface form:
Suzie Wong
this entity surface form:
Suzie Wong
this entity surface form:
The World of Suzie Wong (1957 novel)
subject surface form:
The World of Suzie Wong
this entity surface form:
The World of Suzie Wong (1960 film)
subject surface form:
The World of Suzie Wong
this entity surface form:
The World of Suzie Wong (stage play)
this entity surface form:
Suzie Wong