Zhao Xiaoding
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Zhao Xiaoding is a Chinese cinematographer best known for his visually striking work on major films such as "House of Flying Daggers" and other collaborations with director Zhang Yimou.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Zhao Xiaoding canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4459790 — 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: Zhao Xiaoding Context triple: [Police Story 2013, cinematographyBy, Zhao Xiaoding]
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Wu Han
Wu Han was a prominent Chinese historian and politician whose critical play about a Ming dynasty official became a key trigger for the Cultural Revolution.
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B.
Zhu Zhanji
Zhu Zhanji, better known as the Xuande Emperor, was a Ming dynasty ruler noted for consolidating imperial power, promoting cultural and artistic flourishing, and maintaining relative internal stability during his reign in the early 15th century.
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C.
Liang Xiaosheng
Liang Xiaosheng is a prominent Chinese writer and scholar best known for his realist novels depicting ordinary people's lives in contemporary China.
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D.
Zhu Zhanping
Zhu Zhanping was a Ming dynasty imperial prince, known primarily as a son of the Hongxi Emperor of China.
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E.
Bai Xianyong
Bai Xianyong is a prominent Chinese-American writer and scholar best known for his modernist fiction and influential short story collection "Taipei People."
- 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: Zhao Xiaoding Target entity description: Zhao Xiaoding is a Chinese cinematographer best known for his visually striking work on major films such as "House of Flying Daggers" and other collaborations with director Zhang Yimou.
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A.
Wu Han
Wu Han was a prominent Chinese historian and politician whose critical play about a Ming dynasty official became a key trigger for the Cultural Revolution.
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B.
Zhu Zhanji
Zhu Zhanji, better known as the Xuande Emperor, was a Ming dynasty ruler noted for consolidating imperial power, promoting cultural and artistic flourishing, and maintaining relative internal stability during his reign in the early 15th century.
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C.
Liang Xiaosheng
Liang Xiaosheng is a prominent Chinese writer and scholar best known for his realist novels depicting ordinary people's lives in contemporary China.
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D.
Zhu Zhanping
Zhu Zhanping was a Ming dynasty imperial prince, known primarily as a son of the Hongxi Emperor of China.
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E.
Bai Xianyong
Bai Xianyong is a prominent Chinese-American writer and scholar best known for his modernist fiction and influential short story collection "Taipei People."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese cinematographer
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cinematographer ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activeIn | 21st-century Chinese cinema ⓘ |
| awardNominationYear | 2005 Academy Awards (77th) for Best Cinematography NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith | Zhang Yimou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | China ⓘ |
| employerOrClient | Chinese film industry ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | film cinematography ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genreOfFilmography |
historical drama films
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wuxia films ⓘ |
| hasWorkedOn | large-scale Chinese historical epics ⓘ |
| knownFor | visually striking cinematography ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Chinese ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Academy Award for Best Cinematography ⓘ |
| nominatedForWork | House of Flying Daggers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableCollaboration | Zhang Yimou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | collaborations on Zhang Yimou’s big-budget productions ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Curse of the Golden Flower
NERFINISHED
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Hero (additional photography / camera work) ⓘ House of Flying Daggers NERFINISHED ⓘ Shadow NERFINISHED ⓘ The Flowers of War NERFINISHED ⓘ The Great Wall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | cinematographer ⓘ |
| styleCharacteristic |
elaborate lighting design
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highly choreographed camera movement ⓘ rich color palettes ⓘ |
| workLocation | China 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: Zhao Xiaoding Description of subject: Zhao Xiaoding is a Chinese cinematographer best known for his visually striking work on major films such as "House of Flying Daggers" and other collaborations with director Zhang Yimou.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.