The Camera
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The Camera is a seminal photography book by Ansel Adams that explores the technical and artistic use of cameras in creating expressive photographs.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Camera canonical | 3 |
| L’Appareil-photo | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4901256 — 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: The Camera Context triple: [Ansel Adams, notableWork, The Camera]
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A.
Camira
Camira is a compact family car model produced by Holden, the Australian subsidiary of General Motors, during the 1980s.
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B.
I Am a Camera
"I Am a Camera" is a 1981 synth-pop song by British new wave duo The Buggles, known for its futuristic sound and lyrical themes of observation and media.
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C.
I Am a Camera
I Am a Camera is a 1951 play by John Van Druten, adapted from Christopher Isherwood’s Berlin Stories and best known as the stage precursor to the musical Cabaret.
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D.
Kwamera
Kwamera is an Oceanic language spoken by indigenous communities on Tanna Island in Vanuatu.
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E.
Aperture
Aperture was Apple’s professional photo editing and management application for macOS, aimed at photographers needing advanced workflow and image processing tools.
- 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: The Camera Target entity description: The Camera is a seminal photography book by Ansel Adams that explores the technical and artistic use of cameras in creating expressive photographs.
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A.
Camira
Camira is a compact family car model produced by Holden, the Australian subsidiary of General Motors, during the 1980s.
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B.
I Am a Camera
"I Am a Camera" is a 1981 synth-pop song by British new wave duo The Buggles, known for its futuristic sound and lyrical themes of observation and media.
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C.
I Am a Camera
I Am a Camera is a 1951 play by John Van Druten, adapted from Christopher Isherwood’s Berlin Stories and best known as the stage precursor to the musical Cabaret.
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D.
Kwamera
Kwamera is an Oceanic language spoken by indigenous communities on Tanna Island in Vanuatu.
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E.
Aperture
Aperture was Apple’s professional photo editing and management application for macOS, aimed at photographers needing advanced workflow and image processing tools.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
non-fiction book
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photography book ⓘ |
| author | Ansel Adams ⓘ |
| coAuthor | Robert Baker ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
|
| covers |
35mm cameras
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apertures ⓘ camera controls ⓘ camera types ⓘ exposure ⓘ lenses ⓘ medium-format cameras ⓘ shutters ⓘ view cameras ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
artistic use of cameras
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expressive photography ⓘ technical use of cameras ⓘ |
| followedBy |
The Negative
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The Print ⓘ |
| genre |
art instruction book
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technical manual ⓘ |
| hasIllustrations |
black-and-white photographs
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diagrams ⓘ |
| hasRevisedEditions | yes ⓘ |
| influenced | photography education ⓘ |
| intendedAudience |
photography students
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professional photographers ⓘ serious amateur photographers ⓘ |
| isbn | 0821221841 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mediaType |
hardcover
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paperback ⓘ print ⓘ |
| notableFor |
clear technical explanations
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integration of technique and aesthetics ⓘ |
| originalPublicationDate | 1980 ⓘ |
| pageCount | about 200 pages ⓘ |
| partOf |
Ansel Adams instructional trilogy
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linked to:
The Ansel Adams Photography Series
|
| partOfSeries | The Ansel Adams Photography Series ⓘ |
| publisher | Little, Brown and Company ⓘ |
| seriesNumber | 1 ⓘ |
| subject |
cameras
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photographic technique ⓘ photography ⓘ |
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: The Camera Description of subject: The Camera is a seminal photography book by Ansel Adams that explores the technical and artistic use of cameras in creating expressive photographs.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Camera