Henry Zapruder
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Henry Zapruder is the son of Abraham Zapruder, the amateur filmmaker known for capturing the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy on film.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Henry Zapruder canonical | 3 |
| Myrna Zapruder | 1 |
| Zapruder | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1471446 — 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: Henry Zapruder Context triple: [Abraham Zapruder, child, Henry 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.
Lillian Zapruder
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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C.
William Kennedy Laurie Dickson
William Kennedy Laurie Dickson was a pioneering Scottish inventor and early motion picture engineer who worked with Thomas Edison to develop some of the first practical film cameras and viewing devices.
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D.
Zapruder film
The Zapruder film is a famous amateur 8mm home movie that captured the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963.
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E.
John Vachon
John Vachon was an American photographer best known for his poignant documentary images of rural and small-town life during the Great Depression and World War II.
- 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: Henry Zapruder Target entity description: Henry Zapruder is the son of Abraham Zapruder, the amateur filmmaker known for capturing the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy on film.
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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.
Lillian Zapruder
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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C.
William Kennedy Laurie Dickson
William Kennedy Laurie Dickson was a pioneering Scottish inventor and early motion picture engineer who worked with Thomas Edison to develop some of the first practical film cameras and viewing devices.
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D.
Zapruder film
The Zapruder film is a famous amateur 8mm home movie that captured the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963.
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E.
John Vachon
John Vachon was an American photographer best known for his poignant documentary images of rural and small-town life during the Great Depression and World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
President of the United States
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amateur filmmaker ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ person ⓘ |
| capturedOnFilm | assassination of John F. Kennedy ⓘ |
| child | Henry Zapruder ⓘ |
| familyName |
Zapruder
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linked to:
Henry Zapruder
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| father | Abraham Zapruder ⓘ |
| givenName | Henry ⓘ |
| notableFamily | Zapruder family ⓘ |
| victim | John F. Kennedy ⓘ |
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: Henry Zapruder Description of subject: Henry Zapruder is the son of Abraham Zapruder, the amateur filmmaker known for capturing the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy on film.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Henry Zapruder
subject linked to:
Henry Zapruder
subject linked to:
Zapruder family
subject linked to:
Zapruder family
linked to: Henry Zapruder