Alan Mak
E729996
Alan Mak is a Hong Kong film director and screenwriter best known for co-directing the acclaimed crime thriller "Infernal Affairs" and its sequels.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alan Mak canonical | 17 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8384994 — 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: Alan Mak Context triple: [Infernal Affairs, director, Alan Mak]
-
A.
David Mack
David Mack is an American author best known for his numerous Star Trek tie-in novels and related science fiction works.
-
B.
Michael Greenwood
Michael Greenwood is a member of the Greenwood family, known primarily as a son of British politician Hamar Greenwood, 1st Viscount Greenwood.
-
C.
Mark Sanger
Mark Sanger is a British film editor best known for his Academy Award–winning work on the science fiction thriller "Gravity."
-
D.
Alan Ereira
Alan Ereira is a British historian, broadcaster, and documentary filmmaker known for his work on medieval history and indigenous cultures.
-
E.
Phil Johnston
Phil Johnston is an American screenwriter and filmmaker known for co-writing animated hits such as Disney's "Zootopia" and "Wreck-It Ralph."
- 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: Alan Mak Target entity description: Alan Mak is a Hong Kong film director and screenwriter best known for co-directing the acclaimed crime thriller "Infernal Affairs" and its sequels.
-
A.
David Mack
David Mack is an American author best known for his numerous Star Trek tie-in novels and related science fiction works.
-
B.
Michael Greenwood
Michael Greenwood is a member of the Greenwood family, known primarily as a son of British politician Hamar Greenwood, 1st Viscount Greenwood.
-
C.
Mark Sanger
Mark Sanger is a British film editor best known for his Academy Award–winning work on the science fiction thriller "Gravity."
-
D.
Alan Ereira
Alan Ereira is a British historian, broadcaster, and documentary filmmaker known for his work on medieval history and indigenous cultures.
-
E.
Phil Johnston
Phil Johnston is an American screenwriter and filmmaker known for co-writing animated hits such as Disney's "Zootopia" and "Wreck-It Ralph."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film director
ⓘ
person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| citizenship |
Hong Kong
ⓘ
linked to:
Hong Kong, China
|
| coDirected |
Infernal Affairs
ⓘ
Infernal Affairs II ⓘ Infernal Affairs III ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | China ⓘ |
| coWriterOf |
Infernal Affairs
ⓘ
Infernal Affairs II ⓘ Infernal Affairs III ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film directing
ⓘ
screenwriting ⓘ |
| genre |
crime film
ⓘ
thriller film ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Infernal Affairs film series
ⓘ
linked to:
Infernal Affairs
|
| languageOfWorkOrName |
Cantonese
ⓘ
Chinese ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Hong Kong crime cinema
ⓘ
linked to:
Hong Kong cinema
|
| notableWork |
Infernal Affairs
ⓘ
Infernal Affairs II ⓘ Infernal Affairs III ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
ⓘ
screenwriter ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Hong Kong
ⓘ
linked to:
Hong Kong, China
|
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: Alan Mak Description of subject: Alan Mak is a Hong Kong film director and screenwriter best known for co-directing the acclaimed crime thriller "Infernal Affairs" and its sequels.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.