Richard C. Kratina
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Richard C. Kratina was a cinematographer best known for his work on the 1977 horror film "The Sentinel."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Richard C. Kratina canonical | 4 |
| Richard Kratina | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3859990 — 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: Richard C. Kratina Context triple: [The Sentinel, cinematographyBy, Richard C. Kratina]
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A.
Robert J. Kolenkow
Robert J. Kolenkow is a physicist and educator best known as the co-author of the influential undergraduate textbook "An Introduction to Mechanics."
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B.
Donald J. Kutyna
Donald J. Kutyna is a U.S. Air Force general and aerospace engineer who served as a key member of the Rogers Commission investigating the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
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C.
Richard F. Natonski
Richard F. Natonski is a retired U.S. Marine Corps lieutenant general known for his leadership of Marine forces during major operations in the Iraq War, including the First Battle of Fallujah.
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D.
Andrew G. Vajna
Andrew G. Vajna was a Hungarian-American film producer best known for backing major action franchises such as the Rambo and Terminator series.
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E.
Karl C. Mamola
Karl C. Mamola is a distinguished physics educator recognized for his significant contributions to physics teaching and learning.
- 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: Richard C. Kratina Target entity description: Richard C. Kratina was a cinematographer best known for his work on the 1977 horror film "The Sentinel."
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A.
Robert J. Kolenkow
Robert J. Kolenkow is a physicist and educator best known as the co-author of the influential undergraduate textbook "An Introduction to Mechanics."
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B.
Donald J. Kutyna
Donald J. Kutyna is a U.S. Air Force general and aerospace engineer who served as a key member of the Rogers Commission investigating the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
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C.
Richard F. Natonski
Richard F. Natonski is a retired U.S. Marine Corps lieutenant general known for his leadership of Marine forces during major operations in the Iraq War, including the First Battle of Fallujah.
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D.
Andrew G. Vajna
Andrew G. Vajna was a Hungarian-American film producer best known for backing major action franchises such as the Rambo and Terminator series.
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E.
Karl C. Mamola
Karl C. Mamola is a distinguished physics educator recognized for his significant contributions to physics teaching and learning.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cinematographer
ⓘ
person ⓘ |
| activeIn | film industry ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Richard C. Kratina ⓘ |
| countryOfWork |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| genreSpecialization | horror film cinematography ⓘ |
| knownFor | The Sentinel (1977 film) ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Sentinel (1977 film) ⓘ |
| occupation | cinematographer ⓘ |
| workedOn | The Sentinel (1977 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: Richard C. Kratina Description of subject: Richard C. Kratina was a cinematographer best known for his work on the 1977 horror film "The Sentinel."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.