Robert Capa
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Robert Capa was a renowned 20th-century war photographer and photojournalist, famous for his powerful images of major conflicts such as the Spanish Civil War and World War II.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Robert Capa canonical | 18 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T902063 — 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: Robert Capa Context triple: [Life, featuredPhotographer, Robert Capa]
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A.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Henri Cartier-Bresson was a pioneering French photographer and photojournalist, celebrated as a master of candid street photography and the concept of the “decisive moment.”
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B.
W. Eugene Smith
W. Eugene Smith was a pioneering American photojournalist renowned for his powerful, humanistic photo-essays in magazines like Life.
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C.
Joe Rosenthal
Joe Rosenthal was an American photojournalist best known for his iconic World War II photograph of U.S. Marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima.
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D.
Alfred Eisenstaedt
Alfred Eisenstaedt was a renowned German-born American photojournalist best known for his iconic candid images for Life magazine, including the famous Times Square V-J Day kiss photograph.
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E.
Walker Evans
Walker Evans was a prominent American photographer renowned for his stark, influential images of everyday life during the Great Depression.
- 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: Robert Capa Target entity description: Robert Capa was a renowned 20th-century war photographer and photojournalist, famous for his powerful images of major conflicts such as the Spanish Civil War and World War II.
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A.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Henri Cartier-Bresson was a pioneering French photographer and photojournalist, celebrated as a master of candid street photography and the concept of the “decisive moment.”
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B.
W. Eugene Smith
W. Eugene Smith was a pioneering American photojournalist renowned for his powerful, humanistic photo-essays in magazines like Life.
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C.
Joe Rosenthal
Joe Rosenthal was an American photojournalist best known for his iconic World War II photograph of U.S. Marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima.
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D.
Alfred Eisenstaedt
Alfred Eisenstaedt was a renowned German-born American photojournalist best known for his iconic candid images for Life magazine, including the famous Times Square V-J Day kiss photograph.
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E.
Walker Evans
Walker Evans was a prominent American photographer renowned for his stark, influential images of everyday life during the Great Depression.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (57)
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: Robert Capa Description of subject: Robert Capa was a renowned 20th-century war photographer and photojournalist, famous for his powerful images of major conflicts such as the Spanish Civil War and World War II.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.