River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West
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River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West is a historical and cultural study that explores photographer Eadweard Muybridge’s role in the emergence of modern visual technology and the transformation of the American West.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T18576860 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West Context triple: [Rebecca Solnit, notableWork, River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West]
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The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies
The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies is a comprehensive historical and critical survey of cinema by renowned film critic David Thomson.
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The Story the Biograph Told
The Story the Biograph Told is an early American silent short film directed by pioneering filmmaker Wallace McCutcheon Sr.
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C.
The Horse in Motion
The Horse in Motion is a pioneering series of photographic images by Eadweard Muybridge that captured a horse’s gait in rapid succession, helping to prove that all four of a horse’s hooves leave the ground simultaneously and advancing both motion studies and early cinema.
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D.
A Life on Film
A Life on Film is the autobiography of classic Hollywood actress Mary Astor, recounting her long career and personal life in the film industry.
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E.
Kino-Eye
Kino-Eye was a Soviet avant-garde film movement led by Dziga Vertov that championed documentary realism and the use of the camera as a tool to reveal truth through innovative editing and non-fiction 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: River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West Target entity description: River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West is a historical and cultural study that explores photographer Eadweard Muybridge’s role in the emergence of modern visual technology and the transformation of the American West.
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A.
The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies
The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies is a comprehensive historical and critical survey of cinema by renowned film critic David Thomson.
-
B.
The Story the Biograph Told
The Story the Biograph Told is an early American silent short film directed by pioneering filmmaker Wallace McCutcheon Sr.
-
C.
The Horse in Motion
The Horse in Motion is a pioneering series of photographic images by Eadweard Muybridge that captured a horse’s gait in rapid succession, helping to prove that all four of a horse’s hooves leave the ground simultaneously and advancing both motion studies and early cinema.
-
D.
A Life on Film
A Life on Film is the autobiography of classic Hollywood actress Mary Astor, recounting her long career and personal life in the film industry.
-
E.
Kino-Eye
Kino-Eye was a Soviet avant-garde film movement led by Dziga Vertov that championed documentary realism and the use of the camera as a tool to reveal truth through innovative editing and non-fiction imagery.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Rebecca Solnit
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River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West
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