Gerda Taro
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Gerda Taro was a pioneering German-Jewish war photographer, best known for her frontline coverage of the Spanish Civil War and as one of the first female photojournalists killed in combat.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Gerda Taro canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4906443 — 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: Gerda Taro Context triple: [Robert Capa, partner, Gerda Taro]
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A.
Annemarie Schwarzenbach
Annemarie Schwarzenbach was a Swiss writer, journalist, photographer, and anti-fascist intellectual known for her androgynous persona, extensive travels, and vivid literary and photographic documentation of Europe and the Middle East in the 1930s.
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B.
Tina Modotti
Tina Modotti was an Italian-born photographer, model, actress, and revolutionary political activist known for her influential work in Mexico’s post-revolutionary art and communist movements.
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C.
Dora Maar
Dora Maar was a French photographer, painter, and poet associated with the Surrealist movement, known both for her own avant-garde work and her influential role in the artistic circle around Pablo Picasso.
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D.
Frida Uhl
Frida Uhl was an Austrian journalist and writer best known for her brief and turbulent marriage to Swedish playwright August Strindberg.
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E.
Berthe Josserand
Berthe Josserand is a fictional young bourgeois woman in Émile Zola’s novel "Pot-Bouille," whose constrained marriage and romantic entanglements exemplify the hypocrisies of Parisian middle-class society.
- 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: Gerda Taro Target entity description: Gerda Taro was a pioneering German-Jewish war photographer, best known for her frontline coverage of the Spanish Civil War and as one of the first female photojournalists killed in combat.
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A.
Annemarie Schwarzenbach
Annemarie Schwarzenbach was a Swiss writer, journalist, photographer, and anti-fascist intellectual known for her androgynous persona, extensive travels, and vivid literary and photographic documentation of Europe and the Middle East in the 1930s.
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B.
Tina Modotti
Tina Modotti was an Italian-born photographer, model, actress, and revolutionary political activist known for her influential work in Mexico’s post-revolutionary art and communist movements.
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C.
Dora Maar
Dora Maar was a French photographer, painter, and poet associated with the Surrealist movement, known both for her own avant-garde work and her influential role in the artistic circle around Pablo Picasso.
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D.
Frida Uhl
Frida Uhl was an Austrian journalist and writer best known for her brief and turbulent marriage to Swedish playwright August Strindberg.
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E.
Berthe Josserand
Berthe Josserand is a fictional young bourgeois woman in Émile Zola’s novel "Pot-Bouille," whose constrained marriage and romantic entanglements exemplify the hypocrisies of Parisian middle-class society.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
German Jew
ⓘ
human ⓘ photojournalist ⓘ war photographer ⓘ woman ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Gerda Pohorylle
NERFINISHED
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Gerda Taro Capa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Gerta Pohorylle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialCity | Paris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Père Lachaise Cemetery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | injuries from tank accident ⓘ |
| citizenship | German ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
David Seymour
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Robert Capa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflictCovered | Spanish Civil War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | German Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | Spain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1910-08-01 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1937-07-26 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish ⓘ |
| fledFrom | Nazi Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Gerta NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
French ⓘ German ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | killed in action ⓘ |
| movement | anti-fascism ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of the first female photojournalists killed in combat
ⓘ
frontline coverage of the Spanish Civil War ⓘ |
| occupation |
photographer
ⓘ
photojournalist ⓘ war correspondent ⓘ |
| partner | Robert Capa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Stuttgart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | El Escorial NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | anti-fascist ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| residence |
Leipzig
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Paris ⓘ Stuttgart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
biographical books
ⓘ
photographic exhibitions ⓘ |
| supportedSideInConflict | Spanish Republic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedFor |
Ce Soir
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Regards ⓘ |
| workedLocation |
France
NERFINISHED
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Spain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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
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Input
Subject: Gerda Taro Description of subject: Gerda Taro was a pioneering German-Jewish war photographer, best known for her frontline coverage of the Spanish Civil War and as one of the first female photojournalists killed in combat.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.