Charlie Chan in City in Darkness
E800497
"Charlie Chan in City in Darkness" is a 1939 mystery film in the long-running Charlie Chan series, featuring the famous Chinese-American detective solving a murder case in wartime Paris.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Charlie Chan in City in Darkness canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9392674 — 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: Charlie Chan in City in Darkness Context triple: [Victor Sen Yung, appearedIn, Charlie Chan in City in Darkness]
-
A.
Charlie Chan in Honolulu
"Charlie Chan in Honolulu" is a 1938 mystery film in the long-running Charlie Chan series, featuring the famous Chinese-American detective solving a murder aboard a ship docked in Honolulu.
-
B.
Charlie Chan in Reno
"Charlie Chan in Reno" is a 1939 mystery-comedy film in the long-running Charlie Chan series, featuring the famous Chinese-American detective solving a murder case in Reno, Nevada.
-
C.
Charlie Chan at Treasure Island
Charlie Chan at Treasure Island is a 1939 mystery film in the long-running Charlie Chan series, set during a San Francisco exposition and involving the detective’s investigation of a sinister criminal organization.
-
D.
Charlie Chan at the Opera
Charlie Chan at the Opera is a 1936 mystery film in the long-running Charlie Chan series, notable for its opera-house setting and appearance by Boris Karloff.
-
E.
Detective Story
Detective Story is a 1951 American crime drama film, based on Sidney Kingsley’s play, that follows a rigid New York City detective whose moral absolutism is tested over the course of a single day in a busy precinct.
- 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: Charlie Chan in City in Darkness Target entity description: "Charlie Chan in City in Darkness" is a 1939 mystery film in the long-running Charlie Chan series, featuring the famous Chinese-American detective solving a murder case in wartime Paris.
-
A.
Charlie Chan in Honolulu
"Charlie Chan in Honolulu" is a 1938 mystery film in the long-running Charlie Chan series, featuring the famous Chinese-American detective solving a murder aboard a ship docked in Honolulu.
-
B.
Charlie Chan in Reno
"Charlie Chan in Reno" is a 1939 mystery-comedy film in the long-running Charlie Chan series, featuring the famous Chinese-American detective solving a murder case in Reno, Nevada.
-
C.
Charlie Chan at Treasure Island
Charlie Chan at Treasure Island is a 1939 mystery film in the long-running Charlie Chan series, set during a San Francisco exposition and involving the detective’s investigation of a sinister criminal organization.
-
D.
Charlie Chan at the Opera
Charlie Chan at the Opera is a 1936 mystery film in the long-running Charlie Chan series, notable for its opera-house setting and appearance by Boris Karloff.
-
E.
Detective Story
Detective Story is a 1951 American crime drama film, based on Sidney Kingsley’s play, that follows a rigid New York City detective whose moral absolutism is tested over the course of a single day in a busy precinct.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| featuresCharacter | Charlie Chan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | mystery ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
detective investigation
ⓘ
murder mystery ⓘ wartime intrigue ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainPlot | Charlie Chan investigates a murder case in wartime Paris ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Charlie Chan film series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1939 ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Paris ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | wartime Paris ⓘ |
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: Charlie Chan in City in Darkness Description of subject: "Charlie Chan in City in Darkness" is a 1939 mystery film in the long-running Charlie Chan series, featuring the famous Chinese-American detective solving a murder case in wartime Paris.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.