Ip Man
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Ip Man was a renowned Chinese martial artist and Wing Chun grandmaster best known as the teacher of Bruce Lee.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ip Man canonical | 7 |
| Ip Man film series | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11528193 — 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: Ip Man Context triple: [Bruce Lee, influencedBy, Ip Man]
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A.
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.
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B.
Shaolin Kung Fu
Shaolin Kung Fu is a historic Chinese martial arts tradition renowned for its rigorous physical training, intricate techniques, and deep roots in Chan (Zen) Buddhism.
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C.
Kung Fu
Kung Fu is a 1970s American television series that blends martial arts action with Western drama, following a Shaolin monk’s spiritual and physical journey across the American Old West.
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D.
Master Z: Ip Man Legacy
Master Z: Ip Man Legacy is a 2018 Hong Kong martial arts film set in the Ip Man universe, following Wing Chun master Cheung Tin-chi as he faces new criminal threats after his defeat by Ip Man.
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E.
Man of Tai Chi
Man of Tai Chi is a 2013 martial arts film, directed by and co-starring Keanu Reeves, that follows a young fighter drawn into an underground fighting ring in modern-day Beijing.
- 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: Ip Man Target entity description: Ip Man was a renowned Chinese martial artist and Wing Chun grandmaster best known as the teacher of Bruce Lee.
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A.
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.
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B.
Shaolin Kung Fu
Shaolin Kung Fu is a historic Chinese martial arts tradition renowned for its rigorous physical training, intricate techniques, and deep roots in Chan (Zen) Buddhism.
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C.
Kung Fu
Kung Fu is a 1970s American television series that blends martial arts action with Western drama, following a Shaolin monk’s spiritual and physical journey across the American Old West.
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D.
Master Z: Ip Man Legacy
Master Z: Ip Man Legacy is a 2018 Hong Kong martial arts film set in the Ip Man universe, following Wing Chun master Cheung Tin-chi as he faces new criminal threats after his defeat by Ip Man.
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E.
Man of Tai Chi
Man of Tai Chi is a 2013 martial arts film, directed by and co-starring Keanu Reeves, that follows a young fighter drawn into an underground fighting ring in modern-day Beijing.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Wing Chun grandmaster
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human ⓘ martial artist ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1893-10-01 ⓘ |
| birthName | Ip Kai Man NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Foshan
NERFINISHED
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Guangdong NERFINISHED ⓘ Qing Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | throat cancer ⓘ |
| child |
Ip Ching
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ip Chun NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship |
British Hong Kong
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
China NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | China ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1972-12-02 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Hong Kong NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | 20th century ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Han Chinese ⓘ |
| familyName | Ip NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Kai Man NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
Bruce Lee
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jeet Kune Do NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| martialArt | Wing Chun NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement |
Hong Kong Wing Chun
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Wing Chun lineage of Foshan ⓘ |
| name |
Ip Man
NERFINISHED
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Yip Man NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nativeName | 葉問 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nativeNameLanguage | Chinese ⓘ |
| notableStudent |
Bruce Lee
NERFINISHED
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Chu Shong Tin NERFINISHED ⓘ Leung Sheung NERFINISHED ⓘ Leung Ting NERFINISHED ⓘ Lok Yiu NERFINISHED ⓘ Moy Yat NERFINISHED ⓘ William Cheung NERFINISHED ⓘ Wong Shun Leung NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | teaching Bruce Lee ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 4 ⓘ |
| occupation |
martial artist
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martial arts teacher ⓘ |
| portrayedBy |
Donnie Yen
NERFINISHED
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Tony Leung Chiu-wai NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Buddhism ⓘ |
| residence |
Foshan
NERFINISHED
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Hong Kong NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Cheung Wing-sing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectOf | Ip Man (film series) 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: Ip Man Description of subject: Ip Man was a renowned Chinese martial artist and Wing Chun grandmaster best known as the teacher of Bruce Lee.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Ip Man film series