2046
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2046 is a visually stylized, melancholic romantic drama and science-fiction film by Wong Kar-wai that explores memory, longing, and lost love through interwoven stories set between 1960s Hong Kong and a futuristic train to the year 2046.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 2046 canonical | 3 |
| 2046 (film) | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8626582 — 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: 2046 Context triple: [Wong Kar-wai, directed, 2046]
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A.
Shanghai Noon
Shanghai Noon is a 2000 action-comedy Western film starring Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson, blending martial arts with cowboy adventure in the American Old West.
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B.
Elle Hong Kong
Elle Hong Kong is the Hong Kong edition of the international fashion and lifestyle magazine Elle, featuring local and global coverage of style, beauty, and culture.
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C.
Lust, Caution
Lust, Caution is a 2007 espionage erotic thriller film directed by Ang Lee, set in Japanese-occupied Shanghai and known for its intense psychological drama and explicit content.
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D.
House of Flying Daggers
House of Flying Daggers is a visually stunning 2004 Chinese wuxia romance film renowned for its elaborate martial arts choreography and lush cinematography.
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E.
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a critically acclaimed wuxia martial arts film renowned for its poetic storytelling, balletic fight choreography, and international impact on world cinema.
- 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: 2046 Target entity description: 2046 is a visually stylized, melancholic romantic drama and science-fiction film by Wong Kar-wai that explores memory, longing, and lost love through interwoven stories set between 1960s Hong Kong and a futuristic train to the year 2046.
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A.
Shanghai Noon
Shanghai Noon is a 2000 action-comedy Western film starring Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson, blending martial arts with cowboy adventure in the American Old West.
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B.
Elle Hong Kong
Elle Hong Kong is the Hong Kong edition of the international fashion and lifestyle magazine Elle, featuring local and global coverage of style, beauty, and culture.
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C.
Lust, Caution
Lust, Caution is a 2007 espionage erotic thriller film directed by Ang Lee, set in Japanese-occupied Shanghai and known for its intense psychological drama and explicit content.
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D.
House of Flying Daggers
House of Flying Daggers is a visually stunning 2004 Chinese wuxia romance film renowned for its elaborate martial arts choreography and lush cinematography.
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E.
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a critically acclaimed wuxia martial arts film renowned for its poetic storytelling, balletic fight choreography, and international impact on world cinema.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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science fiction film ⓘ |
| characterPlayedBy | Chow Mo-wan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy |
Christopher Doyle
NERFINISHED
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Kwan Pun-leung NERFINISHED ⓘ Lai Yiu-fai NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| costumeDesigner | William Chang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Hong Kong NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| director | Wong Kar-wai NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor |
Block 2 Pictures
NERFINISHED
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Jet Tone Films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | William Chang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| follows | In the Mood for Love NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
art film
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melodrama ⓘ romantic drama ⓘ science fiction ⓘ |
| hasFictionalSetting | futuristic train to the year 2046 ⓘ |
| hasMainCharacter | Chow Mo-wan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| leadActor | Tony Leung Chiu-wai NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy |
Peer Raben
NERFINISHED
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Shigeru Umebayashi NERFINISHED ⓘ Zbigniew Preisner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
longing
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lost love ⓘ memory ⓘ |
| notableFor |
melancholic tone
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nonlinear narrative structure ⓘ visually stylized cinematography ⓘ |
| originalLanguage |
Cantonese
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English ⓘ Japanese ⓘ Mandarin Chinese NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Wong Kar-wai informal trilogy with Days of Being Wild and In the Mood for Love ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Tony Leung Chiu-wai NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionDesigner | William Chang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2004 ⓘ |
| screenedInSection | Cannes Film Festival main competition NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInTimePeriod | 1960s ⓘ |
| stars |
Carina Lau
NERFINISHED
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Faye Wong NERFINISHED ⓘ Gong Li NERFINISHED ⓘ Kimura Takuya NERFINISHED ⓘ Maggie Cheung NERFINISHED ⓘ Tony Leung Chiu-wai NERFINISHED ⓘ Zhang Ziyi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | 2046 ⓘ |
| worldPremiereAt | 2004 Cannes Film Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writer | Wong Kar-wai 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: 2046 Description of subject: 2046 is a visually stylized, melancholic romantic drama and science-fiction film by Wong Kar-wai that explores memory, longing, and lost love through interwoven stories set between 1960s Hong Kong and a futuristic train to the year 2046.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
2046 (film)
this entity surface form:
2046 (film)
this entity surface form:
2046 (film)