Yann Arthus-Bertrand
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Yann Arthus-Bertrand is a French photographer, filmmaker, and environmentalist best known for his aerial photography and ecological documentaries such as "Home."
All labels observed (1)
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| Yann Arthus-Bertrand canonical | 31 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T216138 — 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: Yann Arthus-Bertrand Context triple: [Last Chance to See, illustrator, Yann Arthus-Bertrand]
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A.
Mark Carwardine
Mark Carwardine is a British zoologist, conservationist, and wildlife photographer best known for his popular wildlife books and documentaries, including collaborations with Douglas Adams.
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B.
Hugo van Lawick
Hugo van Lawick was a Dutch wildlife filmmaker and photographer renowned for documenting African wildlife and extensively filming Jane Goodall’s chimpanzee research in Gombe.
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C.
Jacques Piccard
Jacques Piccard was a Swiss oceanographer and engineer best known for co-piloting the bathyscaphe Trieste on the historic first crewed descent to the bottom of the Mariana Trench in 1960.
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D.
René Thomas
René Thomas was a Belgian biophysicist and geneticist known for pioneering work in the logical modeling of gene regulatory networks and dynamical systems in biology.
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E.
Robert Cailliau
Robert Cailliau is a Belgian computer scientist best known for co-developing the World Wide Web alongside Tim Berners-Lee at CERN.
- 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: Yann Arthus-Bertrand Target entity description: Yann Arthus-Bertrand is a French photographer, filmmaker, and environmentalist best known for his aerial photography and ecological documentaries such as "Home."
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A.
Mark Carwardine
Mark Carwardine is a British zoologist, conservationist, and wildlife photographer best known for his popular wildlife books and documentaries, including collaborations with Douglas Adams.
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B.
Hugo van Lawick
Hugo van Lawick was a Dutch wildlife filmmaker and photographer renowned for documenting African wildlife and extensively filming Jane Goodall’s chimpanzee research in Gombe.
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C.
Jacques Piccard
Jacques Piccard was a Swiss oceanographer and engineer best known for co-piloting the bathyscaphe Trieste on the historic first crewed descent to the bottom of the Mariana Trench in 1960.
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D.
René Thomas
René Thomas was a Belgian biophysicist and geneticist known for pioneering work in the logical modeling of gene regulatory networks and dynamical systems in biology.
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E.
Robert Cailliau
Robert Cailliau is a Belgian computer scientist best known for co-developing the World Wide Web alongside Tim Berners-Lee at CERN.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
aerial photographer
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documentary filmmaker ⓘ environmentalist ⓘ film director ⓘ human ⓘ photographer ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Knight of the Legion of Honour
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linked to:
Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur
Officer of the National Order of Merit (France) ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | France ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1946-03-13 ⓘ |
| familyName | Arthus-Bertrand ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cinema
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environmentalism ⓘ photography ⓘ |
| founded | GoodPlanet Foundation ⓘ |
| genre |
documentary film
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environmental documentary ⓘ nature photography ⓘ |
| givenName | Yann ⓘ |
| hasWebsite |
https://www.goodplanet.org
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https://www.yannarthusbertrand.org ⓘ |
| knownFor |
aerial photography
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environmental documentaries ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | French ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
biodiversity
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climate change ⓘ sustainable development ⓘ |
| movement | environmentalism ⓘ |
| name | Yann Arthus-Bertrand ⓘ |
| nationality | French ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Earth from Above
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Home ⓘ Human ⓘ Planet Ocean ⓘ Terra ⓘ
linked to:
Earth
Woman ⓘ |
| occupation |
environmental activist
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film director ⓘ photographer ⓘ producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Paris ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Goodwill Ambassador of the United Nations Environment Programme
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linked to:
UN Goodwill Ambassador
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| residence | France ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Yann Arthus-Bertrand Description of subject: Yann Arthus-Bertrand is a French photographer, filmmaker, and environmentalist best known for his aerial photography and ecological documentaries such as "Home."
Referenced by (31)
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Woman
subject linked to:
Woman
subject linked to:
documentary series Earth from Above
subject linked to:
documentary series Earth from Above