Sam Haskins
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Sam Haskins was a South African-born British photographer best known for his influential 1960s fashion and nude photography, particularly the book "Cowboy Kate & Other Stories."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sam Haskins canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4269104 — 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: Sam Haskins Context triple: [Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery, hasNotableBurial, Sam Haskins]
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A.
Cal Henderson
Cal Henderson is a British software engineer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and CTO of the workplace communication platform Slack.
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B.
Clem Haskins
Clem Haskins is an American former professional basketball player and college coach best known for his standout career at Western Kentucky, his NBA tenure in the late 1960s and 1970s, and his successful run as head coach of the University of Minnesota men's basketball team.
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C.
Anthony McHenry
Anthony McHenry is an American professional basketball player best known for his long, successful career in Japan’s B.League, particularly as a key contributor to the Ryukyu Golden Kings.
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D.
Ben Haggerty
Ben Haggerty, better known by his stage name Macklemore, is an American rapper and songwriter recognized for hits like "Thrift Shop" and "Can't Hold Us."
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E.
Joe Ricketts
Joe Ricketts is an American businessman best known as the founder of the online brokerage firm TD Ameritrade and a prominent member of the billionaire Ricketts family.
- 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: Sam Haskins Target entity description: Sam Haskins was a South African-born British photographer best known for his influential 1960s fashion and nude photography, particularly the book "Cowboy Kate & Other Stories."
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A.
Cal Henderson
Cal Henderson is a British software engineer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and CTO of the workplace communication platform Slack.
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B.
Clem Haskins
Clem Haskins is an American former professional basketball player and college coach best known for his standout career at Western Kentucky, his NBA tenure in the late 1960s and 1970s, and his successful run as head coach of the University of Minnesota men's basketball team.
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C.
Anthony McHenry
Anthony McHenry is an American professional basketball player best known for his long, successful career in Japan’s B.League, particularly as a key contributor to the Ryukyu Golden Kings.
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D.
Ben Haggerty
Ben Haggerty, better known by his stage name Macklemore, is an American rapper and songwriter recognized for hits like "Thrift Shop" and "Can't Hold Us."
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E.
Joe Ricketts
Joe Ricketts is an American businessman best known as the founder of the online brokerage firm TD Ameritrade and a prominent member of the billionaire Ricketts family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
art photographer
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fashion photographer ⓘ human ⓘ photobook ⓘ photobook ⓘ photobook ⓘ photobook ⓘ photobook ⓘ photographer ⓘ |
| author | Sam Haskins ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
South Africa
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| familyName | Haskins ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
fashion photography
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fine art photography ⓘ nude photography ⓘ |
| genre |
black-and-white photography
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erotic photography ⓘ fashion photography ⓘ nude photography ⓘ |
| givenName | Sam ⓘ |
| hasCreativeRole |
art director
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commercial photographer ⓘ photobook author ⓘ |
| influenced | contemporary fashion photography ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | 1960s fashion photography ⓘ |
| name | Sam Haskins ⓘ |
| notableFor |
graphic, high-contrast black-and-white imagery
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influential 1960s fashion imagery ⓘ innovative use of layout and sequencing in photo books ⓘ stylized nude photography ⓘ |
| notableWork |
African Image
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Cowboy Kate & Other Stories ⓘ Five Girls ⓘ Haskins Posters ⓘ November Girl ⓘ |
| occupation | photographer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | South Africa ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| residence |
London
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linked to:
London, England
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| workLocation |
London
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linked to:
London, England
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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: Sam Haskins Description of subject: Sam Haskins was a South African-born British photographer best known for his influential 1960s fashion and nude photography, particularly the book "Cowboy Kate & Other Stories."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.