Herb Greene
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Herb Greene is an American photographer best known for his iconic images of 1960s rock musicians, particularly the Grateful Dead and other San Francisco bands.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Herb Greene canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6057695 — 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: Herb Greene Context triple: [In the Dark, hasCoverArtBy, Herb Greene]
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A.
Garland Greene
Garland Greene is a notorious, eerily soft-spoken serial killer character from the action film "Con Air," portrayed by Steve Buscemi.
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B.
Melvin Gregg
Melvin Gregg is an American actor and former Vine personality known for his roles in film and television, including the series "Nine Perfect Strangers."
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C.
W. Howard Greene
W. Howard Greene was an American cinematographer noted for his pioneering work in early Technicolor films and multiple Academy Award–recognized achievements in color cinematography.
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D.
Gilroy Roberts
Gilroy Roberts was an American sculptor and engraver best known as the ninth Chief Engraver of the U.S. Mint and for creating the obverse portrait of President John F. Kennedy on the Kennedy half dollar.
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E.
Alfred E. Green
Alfred E. Green was an American film director active from the silent era through the mid-20th century, known for directing numerous Hollywood features across a variety of genres.
- 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: Herb Greene Target entity description: Herb Greene is an American photographer best known for his iconic images of 1960s rock musicians, particularly the Grateful Dead and other San Francisco bands.
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A.
Garland Greene
Garland Greene is a notorious, eerily soft-spoken serial killer character from the action film "Con Air," portrayed by Steve Buscemi.
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B.
Melvin Gregg
Melvin Gregg is an American actor and former Vine personality known for his roles in film and television, including the series "Nine Perfect Strangers."
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C.
W. Howard Greene
W. Howard Greene was an American cinematographer noted for his pioneering work in early Technicolor films and multiple Academy Award–recognized achievements in color cinematography.
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D.
Gilroy Roberts
Gilroy Roberts was an American sculptor and engraver best known as the ninth Chief Engraver of the U.S. Mint and for creating the obverse portrait of President John F. Kennedy on the Kennedy half dollar.
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E.
Alfred E. Green
Alfred E. Green was an American film director active from the silent era through the mid-20th century, known for directing numerous Hollywood features across a variety of genres.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
person
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photographer ⓘ rock music photographer ⓘ |
| activeIn | San Francisco NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | 1960s ⓘ |
| basedIn | San Francisco Bay Area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
music industry photography
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photography ⓘ |
| genre |
music photography
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portrait photography ⓘ |
| knownFor |
black-and-white portraits of rock musicians
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documenting the 1960s San Francisco music scene ⓘ |
| movement | San Francisco rock scene ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
photographs of 1960s rock musicians
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photographs of San Francisco rock bands ⓘ photographs of the Grateful Dead ⓘ |
| notableWork |
iconic images of the Grateful Dead
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photographic portraits of 1960s San Francisco musicians ⓘ |
| occupation | photographer ⓘ |
| photographed |
1960s rock musicians
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Grateful Dead NERFINISHED ⓘ San Francisco rock bands ⓘ members of the Grateful Dead ⓘ |
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: Herb Greene Description of subject: Herb Greene is an American photographer best known for his iconic images of 1960s rock musicians, particularly the Grateful Dead and other San Francisco bands.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.