Red Dust: A Path Through China
E684469
Red Dust: A Path Through China is a travel memoir in which Ma Jian recounts his transformative journey across China in the 1980s, offering a candid, often critical portrait of the country’s landscapes, people, and political realities.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Red Dust: A Path Through China canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7724442 — 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 Dust: A Path Through China Context triple: [Ma Jian (writer), notableWork, Red Dust: A Path Through China]
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A.
High Road to China
High Road to China is a 1983 adventure-romance film set in the 1920s, following a wealthy heiress and a rugged pilot on a perilous aerial journey to find her missing father.
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B.
China's Sorrow
China's Sorrow is a grim nickname for the Yellow River, reflecting its long history of catastrophic floods and devastation in China.
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C.
55 Days at Peking
55 Days at Peking is a 1963 historical epic film dramatizing the siege of foreign legations during the Boxer Rebellion in China.
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D.
In China (book)
"In China" is a photographic book by renowned Magnum photographer Eve Arnold that documents her extensive travels and visual observations across China.
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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
- 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 Dust: A Path Through China Target entity description: Red Dust: A Path Through China is a travel memoir in which Ma Jian recounts his transformative journey across China in the 1980s, offering a candid, often critical portrait of the country’s landscapes, people, and political realities.
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A.
High Road to China
High Road to China is a 1983 adventure-romance film set in the 1920s, following a wealthy heiress and a rugged pilot on a perilous aerial journey to find her missing father.
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B.
China's Sorrow
China's Sorrow is a grim nickname for the Yellow River, reflecting its long history of catastrophic floods and devastation in China.
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C.
55 Days at Peking
55 Days at Peking is a 1963 historical epic film dramatizing the siege of foreign legations during the Boxer Rebellion in China.
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D.
In China (book)
"In China" is a photographic book by renowned Magnum photographer Eve Arnold that documents her extensive travels and visual observations across China.
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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 (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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travel memoir ⓘ |
| author | Ma Jian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | China ⓘ |
| focus |
external journey across China
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internal journey ⓘ |
| genre |
memoir
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travel literature ⓘ |
| literaryForm | non-fiction ⓘ |
| mainLocation | China NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Chinese ⓘ |
| portrays |
Chinese landscapes
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Chinese people ⓘ Chinese political realities ⓘ |
| protagonist | Ma Jian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | 1980s ⓘ |
| theme |
individual vs state
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personal transformation ⓘ political critique ⓘ social commentary ⓘ travel and exploration ⓘ |
| timeOfJourney | post-Cultural Revolution era ⓘ |
| tone |
candid
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critical ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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 Dust: A Path Through China Description of subject: Red Dust: A Path Through China is a travel memoir in which Ma Jian recounts his transformative journey across China in the 1980s, offering a candid, often critical portrait of the country’s landscapes, people, and political realities.
Referenced by (1)
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