Poitras
E453959
Poitras is the surname of Laura Poitras, the American documentary filmmaker known for her work on post-9/11 politics, surveillance, and whistleblowers.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Poitras canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4579163 — 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: Poitras Context triple: [Laura Poitras, familyName, Poitras]
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A.
Rabaut
Rabaut is a French surname most notably associated with the revolutionary-era politician and Protestant pastor Jean-Paul Rabaut Saint-Étienne.
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B.
Jeanneret
Jeanneret is a Swiss surname most notably associated with architect Pierre Jeanneret, a key collaborator of Le Corbusier in modernist architecture.
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C.
Luriottis
Luriottis was a notable Philhellene known for supporting the Greek cause during the Greek War of Independence.
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D.
Aspremont
Aspremont is a small picturesque commune in southeastern France, situated in the hills above Nice in the Alpes-Maritimes department.
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E.
Desmarais
Desmarais is a French surname, often associated with notable families and individuals in business, politics, and the arts.
- 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: Poitras Target entity description: Poitras is the surname of Laura Poitras, the American documentary filmmaker known for her work on post-9/11 politics, surveillance, and whistleblowers.
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A.
Rabaut
Rabaut is a French surname most notably associated with the revolutionary-era politician and Protestant pastor Jean-Paul Rabaut Saint-Étienne.
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B.
Jeanneret
Jeanneret is a Swiss surname most notably associated with architect Pierre Jeanneret, a key collaborator of Le Corbusier in modernist architecture.
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C.
Luriottis
Luriottis was a notable Philhellene known for supporting the Greek cause during the Greek War of Independence.
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D.
Aspremont
Aspremont is a small picturesque commune in southeastern France, situated in the hills above Nice in the Alpes-Maritimes department.
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E.
Desmarais
Desmarais is a French surname, often associated with notable families and individuals in business, politics, and the arts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
documentary film
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documentary film ⓘ documentary film ⓘ documentary film ⓘ documentary film ⓘ documentary filmmaker ⓘ family name ⓘ human ⓘ journalist ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| director | Laura Poitras ⓘ |
| familyName | Poitras ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
documentary film
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politics ⓘ surveillance ⓘ whistleblowing ⓘ |
| givenName | Laura ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Laura Poitras ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | French ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Edward Snowden
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Iraq War ⓘ Julian Assange ⓘ Nan Goldin ⓘ War on terror ⓘ
linked to:
Global War on Terrorism
mass surveillance ⓘ opioid crisis in the United States ⓘ |
| notableWork |
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
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Citizenfour ⓘ My Country, My Country ⓘ Risk ⓘ The Oath ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
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: Poitras Description of subject: Poitras is the surname of Laura Poitras, the American documentary filmmaker known for her work on post-9/11 politics, surveillance, and whistleblowers.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Poitras