Chan Wing-yan
E735424
Chan Wing-yan is the undercover police officer protagonist in the Hong Kong crime thriller series "Infernal Affairs," known for infiltrating the triads at great personal cost.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Chan Wing-yan canonical | 4 |
| Yan Wing-yan | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8385014 — 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: Chan Wing-yan Context triple: [Infernal Affairs, character, Chan Wing-yan]
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A.
Chan Kwong-wing
Chan Kwong-wing is a Hong Kong film composer best known for his scores for acclaimed movies such as the Infernal Affairs trilogy.
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B.
Alex Tse
Alex Tse is an American screenwriter and producer best known for co-writing the film adaptation of the graphic novel "Watchmen."
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C.
Savio Kwan
Savio Kwan is a business executive best known for his leadership roles at Alibaba Group, where he helped guide the company’s early growth and international expansion.
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D.
Yeung Ku-wan
Yeung Ku-wan was a late Qing dynasty Chinese revolutionary leader who played a key role in early anti-imperial movements and helped lay the groundwork for the 1911 Revolution.
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E.
Chan Yik-shun
Chan Yik-shun is the birth name of Eason Chan, a highly acclaimed Hong Kong singer and actor regarded as one of the leading figures in contemporary Cantopop.
- 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: Chan Wing-yan Target entity description: Chan Wing-yan is the undercover police officer protagonist in the Hong Kong crime thriller series "Infernal Affairs," known for infiltrating the triads at great personal cost.
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A.
Chan Kwong-wing
Chan Kwong-wing is a Hong Kong film composer best known for his scores for acclaimed movies such as the Infernal Affairs trilogy.
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B.
Alex Tse
Alex Tse is an American screenwriter and producer best known for co-writing the film adaptation of the graphic novel "Watchmen."
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C.
Savio Kwan
Savio Kwan is a business executive best known for his leadership roles at Alibaba Group, where he helped guide the company’s early growth and international expansion.
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D.
Yeung Ku-wan
Yeung Ku-wan was a late Qing dynasty Chinese revolutionary leader who played a key role in early anti-imperial movements and helped lay the groundwork for the 1911 Revolution.
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E.
Chan Yik-shun
Chan Yik-shun is the birth name of Eason Chan, a highly acclaimed Hong Kong singer and actor regarded as one of the leading figures in contemporary Cantopop.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ police officer ⓘ undercover cop ⓘ |
| affiliation | Hong Kong Police Force ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Infernal Affairs
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Infernal Affairs II ⓘ Infernal Affairs III ⓘ |
| basedOn | Billy Costigan (The Departed) (inverse inspiration) ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Hong Kong
ⓘ
linked to:
Hong Kong, China
|
| createdBy |
Alan Mak
ⓘ
Felix Chong ⓘ |
| enemy | Lau Kin-ming ⓘ |
| familyName | Chan ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Wing-yan ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
identity crisis
ⓘ
psychological trauma ⓘ |
| notableFor |
long-term infiltration of triads
ⓘ
sacrificing personal life for police work ⓘ |
| occupation | police officer ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Tony Leung Chiu-wai ⓘ |
| role |
protagonist
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undercover officer ⓘ |
| undercoverIn |
Hong Kong triads
ⓘ
linked to:
Organised Crime and Triad Bureau
|
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: Chan Wing-yan Description of subject: Chan Wing-yan is the undercover police officer protagonist in the Hong Kong crime thriller series "Infernal Affairs," known for infiltrating the triads at great personal cost.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Chan Wing-yan