Yu Lik-wai
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Yu Lik-wai is a Hong Kong cinematographer and film director best known for his long-time collaboration with Chinese auteur Jia Zhangke on critically acclaimed art-house films.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yu Lik-wai canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6372181 — 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: Yu Lik-wai Context triple: [Platform, cinematographyBy, Yu Lik-wai]
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A.
John Lee Ka-chiu
John Lee Ka-chiu is a Hong Kong politician and former security official who serves as the Chief Executive, the city's top leader.
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B.
Xuân Lãm
Xuân Lãm is the given name of Hoàng Xuân Lãm, a South Vietnamese lieutenant general who played a prominent role during the Vietnam War.
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C.
Ringo Lam
Ringo Lam was a renowned Hong Kong film director best known for his gritty, realistic crime thrillers such as "City on Fire," which heavily influenced the modern action and crime genre.
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D.
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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E.
Norman Chan
Norman Chan is a Hong Kong banker and civil servant best known for serving as Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority.
- 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: Yu Lik-wai Target entity description: Yu Lik-wai is a Hong Kong cinematographer and film director best known for his long-time collaboration with Chinese auteur Jia Zhangke on critically acclaimed art-house films.
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A.
John Lee Ka-chiu
John Lee Ka-chiu is a Hong Kong politician and former security official who serves as the Chief Executive, the city's top leader.
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B.
Xuân Lãm
Xuân Lãm is the given name of Hoàng Xuân Lãm, a South Vietnamese lieutenant general who played a prominent role during the Vietnam War.
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C.
Ringo Lam
Ringo Lam was a renowned Hong Kong film director best known for his gritty, realistic crime thrillers such as "City on Fire," which heavily influenced the modern action and crime genre.
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D.
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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E.
Norman Chan
Norman Chan is a Hong Kong banker and civil servant best known for serving as Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cinematographer
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film director ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activeIn | Chinese-language cinema ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1966-08-12 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Hong Kong NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship | Hong Kong NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith | Jia Zhangke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfEducation | Belgium NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| directed |
All Tomorrow’s Parties
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Love Will Tear Us Apart NERFINISHED ⓘ Plastic City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Belgium
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
INSAS (Institut National Supérieur des Arts du Spectacle et des Techniques de Diffusion) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Yu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmMovement | Sixth Generation of Chinese cinema NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | art-house cinema ⓘ |
| givenName | Lik-wai NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWorkedAs |
camera operator
ⓘ
producer ⓘ |
| knownFor | long-time collaboration with Jia Zhangke ⓘ |
| languageOfWork |
Cantonese
ⓘ
Mandarin Chinese ⓘ Portuguese ⓘ |
| name | Yu Lik-wai NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Chinese ⓘ |
| nativeName | 余力为 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
cinematography
ⓘ
collaboration with Jia Zhangke ⓘ |
| notableWork |
24 City
ⓘ
A Touch of Sin NERFINISHED ⓘ A Touch of Sin (as director of photography) ⓘ Mountains May Depart NERFINISHED ⓘ Platform NERFINISHED ⓘ Still Life NERFINISHED ⓘ Still Life (as director of photography) NERFINISHED ⓘ The World NERFINISHED ⓘ Unknown Pleasures NERFINISHED ⓘ Unknown Pleasures (as director of photography) NERFINISHED ⓘ Xiao Wu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
cinematographer
ⓘ
film director ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| region | Greater China NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| style |
long takes
ⓘ
naturalistic lighting ⓘ realist cinematography ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Hong Kong
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mainland 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: Yu Lik-wai Description of subject: Yu Lik-wai is a Hong Kong cinematographer and film director best known for his long-time collaboration with Chinese auteur Jia Zhangke on critically acclaimed art-house films.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Platform