The Grandmaster
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The Grandmaster is a 2013 martial arts drama film by Wong Kar-wai that explores the life and legacy of Wing Chun master Ip Man through visually stylized, philosophical storytelling.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Grandmaster canonical | 10 |
| The Grandmaster (2013 film) | 1 |
| The Grandmaster (franchise) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8626563 — 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: The Grandmaster Context triple: [Wong Kar-wai, knownFor, The Grandmaster]
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A.
Farewell to the Master
"Farewell to the Master" is a 1940 science fiction short story by Harry Bates that introduced the alien visitor Klaatu and his robot Gnut, later adapted into the classic film "The Day the Earth Stood Still."
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B.
Footsteps of the Master
Footsteps of the Master is a religious and devotional work by Harriet Beecher Stowe that reflects on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
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C.
The Right Hand of the Grand Master
The Right Hand of the Grand Master is a historical novel by Georgian writer Konstantine Gamsakhurdia that explores themes of power, loyalty, and intrigue in medieval Georgia.
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D.
The Master
The Master is a recurring villainous Time Lord in the Doctor Who universe, known as the Doctor’s archenemy and a manipulative mastermind bent on chaos and domination.
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E.
The Master
The Master is an ancient, powerful vampire known as the central source of the vampiric plague and the primary force of evil in the horror series "The Strain."
- 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: The Grandmaster Target entity description: The Grandmaster is a 2013 martial arts drama film by Wong Kar-wai that explores the life and legacy of Wing Chun master Ip Man through visually stylized, philosophical storytelling.
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A.
Farewell to the Master
"Farewell to the Master" is a 1940 science fiction short story by Harry Bates that introduced the alien visitor Klaatu and his robot Gnut, later adapted into the classic film "The Day the Earth Stood Still."
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B.
Footsteps of the Master
Footsteps of the Master is a religious and devotional work by Harriet Beecher Stowe that reflects on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
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C.
The Right Hand of the Grand Master
The Right Hand of the Grand Master is a historical novel by Georgian writer Konstantine Gamsakhurdia that explores themes of power, loyalty, and intrigue in medieval Georgia.
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D.
The Master
The Master is a recurring villainous Time Lord in the Doctor Who universe, known as the Doctor’s archenemy and a manipulative mastermind bent on chaos and domination.
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E.
The Master
The Master is an ancient, powerful vampire known as the central source of the vampiric plague and the primary force of evil in the horror series "The Strain."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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martial arts film ⓘ |
| basedOn | life of Ip Man ⓘ |
| cinematographer | Philippe Le Sourd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
China
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Hong Kong NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| director | Wong Kar-wai NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editor | William Chang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
biographical film
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drama film ⓘ martial arts film ⓘ |
| hasVersion |
Chinese cut
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U.S. Weinstein Company cut ⓘ international cut ⓘ |
| leadActor | Tony Leung Chiu-wai NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| leadActress | Zhang Ziyi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainSubject | Ip Man NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy |
Nathaniel Méchaly
NERFINISHED
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Shigeru Umebayashi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nominatedFor |
Academy Award for Best Cinematography
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Academy Award for Best Costume Design NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
philosophical storytelling
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visually stylized cinematography ⓘ |
| originalLanguage |
Cantonese
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Mandarin ⓘ |
| portrays |
Chinese martial arts traditions
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Japanese invasion of China NERFINISHED ⓘ Sino-Japanese War era ⓘ Wing Chun NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portraysCharacter |
Gong Er
NERFINISHED
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Ip Man NERFINISHED ⓘ The Razor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| premiereEvent | 63rd Berlin International Film Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Wong Kar-wai NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2013 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Wong Kar-wai
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Xu Haofeng NERFINISHED ⓘ Zou Jingzhi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | Republican era China NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPlace |
Foshan
NERFINISHED
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Hong Kong NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Chang Chen
NERFINISHED
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Cung Le NERFINISHED ⓘ Julian Cheung NERFINISHED ⓘ Song Hye-kyo NERFINISHED ⓘ Tony Leung Chiu-wai NERFINISHED ⓘ Wang Qingxiang NERFINISHED ⓘ Xiao Shengyang NERFINISHED ⓘ Zhang Ziyi NERFINISHED ⓘ Zhao Benshan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: The Grandmaster Description of subject: The Grandmaster is a 2013 martial arts drama film by Wong Kar-wai that explores the life and legacy of Wing Chun master Ip Man through visually stylized, philosophical storytelling.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Grandmaster (2013 film)
this entity surface form:
The Grandmaster (franchise)