Lillian Zapruder
E170101
Lillian Zapruder was the wife of Abraham Zapruder, the amateur cameraman whose film famously captured the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lillian Zapruder canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1471444 — 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: Lillian Zapruder Context triple: [Abraham Zapruder, spouse, Lillian Zapruder]
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A.
Abraham Zapruder
Abraham Zapruder was an American clothing manufacturer and amateur filmmaker best known for capturing the most famous home-movie footage of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas in 1963.
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B.
Leslie Stevens
Leslie Stevens was an American writer, director, and producer best known as the creator of the 1960s science fiction television series "The Outer Limits."
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C.
Frances Dana Barker Gage
Frances Dana Barker Gage was a 19th-century American reformer, writer, and orator known for her prominent activism in the abolitionist and women’s rights movements.
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D.
Eve Arnold
Eve Arnold was a pioneering American photojournalist best known for her intimate portraits of celebrities and powerful documentary work capturing social and political life in the 20th century.
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E.
Roy Stryker
Roy Stryker was an American economist and government official best known for directing the Farm Security Administration’s landmark documentary photography project 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: Lillian Zapruder Target entity description: Lillian Zapruder was the wife of Abraham Zapruder, the amateur cameraman whose film famously captured the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy.
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A.
Abraham Zapruder
Abraham Zapruder was an American clothing manufacturer and amateur filmmaker best known for capturing the most famous home-movie footage of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas in 1963.
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B.
Leslie Stevens
Leslie Stevens was an American writer, director, and producer best known as the creator of the 1960s science fiction television series "The Outer Limits."
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C.
Frances Dana Barker Gage
Frances Dana Barker Gage was a 19th-century American reformer, writer, and orator known for her prominent activism in the abolitionist and women’s rights movements.
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D.
Eve Arnold
Eve Arnold was a pioneering American photojournalist best known for her intimate portraits of celebrities and powerful documentary work capturing social and political life in the 20th century.
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E.
Roy Stryker
Roy Stryker was an American economist and government official best known for directing the Farm Security Administration’s landmark documentary photography project during the Great Depression.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (8)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 20th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| hasConnectionTo | John F. Kennedy assassination ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of Abraham Zapruder ⓘ |
| relative | Abraham Zapruder ⓘ |
| spouse | Abraham Zapruder ⓘ |
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: Lillian Zapruder Description of subject: Lillian Zapruder was the wife of Abraham Zapruder, the amateur cameraman whose film famously captured the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Zapruder family