Oei Hui-lan
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Oei Hui-lan was a prominent Chinese-Indonesian socialite and fashion icon who became internationally known as Madame Wellington Koo, the glamorous wife of Chinese diplomat V. K. Wellington Koo.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Oei Hui-lan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10206059 — 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: Oei Hui-lan Context triple: [V. K. Wellington Koo, spouse, Oei Hui-lan]
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A.
Wang Hui-ling
Wang Hui-ling is a Taiwanese screenwriter best known for co-writing acclaimed films such as "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and "Lust, Caution," often collaborating with director Ang Lee.
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B.
Wu Mei-ju
Wu Mei-ju is a Taiwanese public figure who served as First Lady of the Republic of China (Taiwan), accompanying and supporting the presidency through official and ceremonial duties.
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C.
Wang Jingjiu
Wang Jingjiu was a Chinese military officer best known for commanding the National Revolutionary Army’s 87th Division during the Republican era.
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D.
Tan Chingfen
Tan Chingfen is a philanthropist whose major charitable contributions led to a prominent naming recognition at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School.
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E.
Peng Tsu Ying
Peng Tsu Ying is an individual notable for bearing the Chinese surname Peng, though specific widely known public details about their life or achievements are not well documented.
- 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: Oei Hui-lan Target entity description: Oei Hui-lan was a prominent Chinese-Indonesian socialite and fashion icon who became internationally known as Madame Wellington Koo, the glamorous wife of Chinese diplomat V. K. Wellington Koo.
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A.
Wang Hui-ling
Wang Hui-ling is a Taiwanese screenwriter best known for co-writing acclaimed films such as "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and "Lust, Caution," often collaborating with director Ang Lee.
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B.
Wu Mei-ju
Wu Mei-ju is a Taiwanese public figure who served as First Lady of the Republic of China (Taiwan), accompanying and supporting the presidency through official and ceremonial duties.
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C.
Wang Jingjiu
Wang Jingjiu was a Chinese military officer best known for commanding the National Revolutionary Army’s 87th Division during the Republican era.
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D.
Tan Chingfen
Tan Chingfen is a philanthropist whose major charitable contributions led to a prominent naming recognition at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School.
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E.
Peng Tsu Ying
Peng Tsu Ying is an individual notable for bearing the Chinese surname Peng, though specific widely known public details about their life or achievements are not well documented.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese-Indonesian person
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diplomat's spouse ⓘ fashion icon ⓘ memoirist ⓘ socialite ⓘ |
| birthName | Oei Hui-lan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Dutch East Indies NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1889 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1992 ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Chinese-Indonesian ⓘ |
| familyName | Oei NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Oei Tiong Ham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fatherNationality | Chinese-Indonesian ⓘ |
| fatherOccupation | sugar magnate ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Hui-lan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| heritage | Peranakan Chinese ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being wife of Chinese diplomat V. K. Wellington Koo
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elegant fashion and style ⓘ international social life ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
Chinese
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English ⓘ |
| mother | Goei Bing-nio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name |
Madame V. K. Wellington Koo
NERFINISHED
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Madame Wellington Koo NERFINISHED ⓘ Oei Hui Lan NERFINISHED ⓘ Oei Hui-lan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality |
Chinese
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Indonesian ⓘ |
| notableRole | First Lady of the Republic of China in exile (de facto, as wife of Wellington Koo) ⓘ |
| notableWork | No Feast Lasts Forever NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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fashion icon ⓘ socialite ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Dutch East Indies
NERFINISHED
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Semarang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | New York City ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| residence |
London, England
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surface form:
London
New York City ⓘ Paris ⓘ Peking NERFINISHED ⓘ Shanghai NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| socialCircle | international diplomatic society ⓘ |
| spouse | V. K. Wellington Koo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wealthBackground | daughter of one of the richest men in the Dutch East Indies ⓘ |
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: Oei Hui-lan Description of subject: Oei Hui-lan was a prominent Chinese-Indonesian socialite and fashion icon who became internationally known as Madame Wellington Koo, the glamorous wife of Chinese diplomat V. K. Wellington Koo.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
V. K. Wellington Koo