A Better Tomorrow
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A Better Tomorrow is a landmark 1986 Hong Kong action film that helped define the heroic bloodshed genre and launched director John Woo and star Chow Yun-fat to international fame.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| A Better Tomorrow canonical | 4 |
| A Better Tomorrow II | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9802151 — 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: A Better Tomorrow Context triple: [John Woo, directed, A Better Tomorrow]
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A.
A Better Tomorrow
"A Better Tomorrow" is a socially conscious, reflective track by the Wu-Tang Clan that emphasizes hope, unity, and overcoming struggle.
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B.
The Man from Hong Kong
The Man from Hong Kong is a 1975 Australian–Hong Kong action film known for its high-energy martial arts sequences and for featuring former James Bond actor George Lazenby in a villainous role.
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C.
Police Story
Police Story is a landmark 1985 Hong Kong action film starring and directed by Jackie Chan, renowned for its innovative stunts, blend of martial arts and comedy, and major influence on the action genre.
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D.
A Brighter Summer Day
A Brighter Summer Day is a critically acclaimed 1991 Taiwanese coming-of-age crime drama film directed by Edward Yang, renowned for its epic scope and nuanced portrayal of youth and political turmoil in 1960s Taipei.
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E.
Drunken Master
Drunken Master is a 1978 Hong Kong martial arts comedy film that helped establish Jackie Chan’s signature blend of acrobatic kung fu and slapstick humor.
- 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: A Better Tomorrow Target entity description: A Better Tomorrow is a landmark 1986 Hong Kong action film that helped define the heroic bloodshed genre and launched director John Woo and star Chow Yun-fat to international fame.
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A.
A Better Tomorrow
"A Better Tomorrow" is a socially conscious, reflective track by the Wu-Tang Clan that emphasizes hope, unity, and overcoming struggle.
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B.
The Man from Hong Kong
The Man from Hong Kong is a 1975 Australian–Hong Kong action film known for its high-energy martial arts sequences and for featuring former James Bond actor George Lazenby in a villainous role.
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C.
Police Story
Police Story is a landmark 1985 Hong Kong action film starring and directed by Jackie Chan, renowned for its innovative stunts, blend of martial arts and comedy, and major influence on the action genre.
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D.
A Brighter Summer Day
A Brighter Summer Day is a critically acclaimed 1991 Taiwanese coming-of-age crime drama film directed by Edward Yang, renowned for its epic scope and nuanced portrayal of youth and political turmoil in 1960s Taipei.
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E.
Drunken Master
Drunken Master is a 1978 Hong Kong martial arts comedy film that helped establish Jackie Chan’s signature blend of acrobatic kung fu and slapstick humor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hong Kong film
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action film ⓘ film ⓘ heroic bloodshed film ⓘ |
| basedOn | Story by Leung Yiu-ting ⓘ |
| boxOfficeRegion | Hong Kong NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Wong Wing-hang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Hong Kong NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| director | John Woo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Cinema City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | David Wu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedBy |
A Better Tomorrow II
NERFINISHED
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A Better Tomorrow III NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
action
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crime ⓘ drama ⓘ |
| hasRemake | A Better Tomorrow (2010 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
Hong Kong action cinema
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heroic bloodshed films ⓘ |
| leadActor |
Chow Yun-fat
NERFINISHED
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Leslie Cheung NERFINISHED ⓘ Ti Lung NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Mark Lee
NERFINISHED
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Sung Tse-ho NERFINISHED ⓘ Sung Tse-kit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Joseph Koo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
helping define the heroic bloodshed genre
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launching Chow Yun-fat to international fame ⓘ launching John Woo to international fame NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Cantonese ⓘ |
| originalReleaseDate | 1986-08-02 ⓘ |
| portrays |
police officer
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triad members ⓘ |
| producer |
John Woo
NERFINISHED
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Tsui Hark NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Cinema City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1986 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 95 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Chan Hing-kai
NERFINISHED
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John Woo NERFINISHED ⓘ Leung Suk-wah NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setIn | Hong Kong NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Chow Yun-fat
NERFINISHED
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Emily Chu NERFINISHED ⓘ Leslie Cheung NERFINISHED ⓘ Ti Lung NERFINISHED ⓘ Waise Lee 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: A Better Tomorrow Description of subject: A Better Tomorrow is a landmark 1986 Hong Kong action film that helped define the heroic bloodshed genre and launched director John Woo and star Chow Yun-fat to international fame.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.