Photography
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Photography is the art, science, and practice of creating images by recording light, typically with cameras, for purposes ranging from documentation and communication to artistic expression.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Digital photography | 1 |
| Photography canonical | 1 |
| contemporary photography | 1 |
| straight photography | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7900683 — 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: Photography Context triple: [Precisionism, influencedBy, Photography]
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A.
Photography and beyond
"Photography and beyond" is an experimental film and art project by Heinz Emigholz that explores architecture, space, and perception through unconventional cinematic and photographic techniques.
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B.
Photograph
"Photograph" is a hit rock song by the English band Def Leppard, widely recognized as one of their signature tracks from the 1980s.
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C.
Photograph
"Photograph" is a 1973 hit song by Ringo Starr, co-written with George Harrison, known for its melodic pop-rock style and reflective lyrics.
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D.
Photos
Photos is Apple's built-in photo management and editing application for macOS that organizes, syncs, and enhances users' image and video libraries.
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E.
Pictures for Photographs
Pictures for Photographs is a photography book by British fashion photographer Miles Aldridge, showcasing his highly stylized, cinematic, and vividly colored imagery.
- 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: Photography Target entity description: Photography is the art, science, and practice of creating images by recording light, typically with cameras, for purposes ranging from documentation and communication to artistic expression.
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A.
Photography and beyond
"Photography and beyond" is an experimental film and art project by Heinz Emigholz that explores architecture, space, and perception through unconventional cinematic and photographic techniques.
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B.
Photograph
"Photograph" is a hit rock song by the English band Def Leppard, widely recognized as one of their signature tracks from the 1980s.
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C.
Photograph
"Photograph" is a 1973 hit song by Ringo Starr, co-written with George Harrison, known for its melodic pop-rock style and reflective lyrics.
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D.
Photos
Photos is Apple's built-in photo management and editing application for macOS that organizes, syncs, and enhances users' image and video libraries.
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E.
Pictures for Photographs
Pictures for Photographs is a photography book by British fashion photographer Miles Aldridge, showcasing his highly stylized, cinematic, and vividly colored imagery.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (91)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Art form
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Communication medium ⓘ Creative practice ⓘ Visual medium ⓘ |
| fieldOf |
Art
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Science ⓘ Technology ⓘ |
| hasElement |
Aperture
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Color ⓘ Contrast ⓘ Depth of field ⓘ Dynamic range ⓘ Focal length ⓘ ISO sensitivity ⓘ Lighting ⓘ Perspective ⓘ Shutter speed ⓘ White balance ⓘ |
| hasMedium |
Digital sensor
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Film ⓘ Paper print ⓘ Screen display ⓘ |
| hasOutput |
Digital image
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Photograph ⓘ Print ⓘ |
| hasPurpose |
Advertising
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Artistic expression ⓘ Communication ⓘ Documentation ⓘ Journalism ⓘ Personal memory keeping ⓘ Scientific recording ⓘ Storytelling ⓘ |
| hasTechnique |
Aerial photography
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Architectural photography ⓘ Astrophotography ⓘ Black-and-white photography ⓘ Candid photography ⓘ Conceptual photography ⓘ
linked to:
Conceptual art
Digital photography ⓘ
linked to:
Photography
Documentary photography ⓘ Event photography ⓘ Fashion photography ⓘ Film photography ⓘ Fine art photography ⓘ Food photography ⓘ Forensic photography ⓘ HDR photography ⓘ High-speed photography ⓘ Instant photography ⓘ Landscape photography ⓘ Long exposure photography ⓘ Macro photography ⓘ Medical photography ⓘ Panoramic photography ⓘ Photojournalism ⓘ Portrait photography ⓘ Product photography ⓘ Scientific photography ⓘ Sports photography ⓘ Street photography ⓘ Studio photography ⓘ Time-lapse photography ⓘ Underwater photography ⓘ Wildlife photography ⓘ |
| historicallyUsedMedium |
Daguerreotype
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Glass plate negatives ⓘ Silver gelatin print ⓘ Wet plate collodion ⓘ |
| involvesProcess |
Composition
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Exposure control ⓘ Focusing ⓘ Image capture ⓘ Post-processing ⓘ Printing ⓘ |
| practicedBy | Photographers ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Cinematography
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Graphic design ⓘ Painting ⓘ Visual communication ⓘ |
| requiresSkill |
Artistic vision
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Editing ⓘ Observation ⓘ Technical control ⓘ |
| subclassOf |
Imaging
ⓘ
Visual arts ⓘ |
| uses |
Cameras
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Image sensors ⓘ Lenses ⓘ Light ⓘ Photographic film ⓘ |
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: Photography Description of subject: Photography is the art, science, and practice of creating images by recording light, typically with cameras, for purposes ranging from documentation and communication to artistic expression.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Photography
linked to: Photography