Alec Soth
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Alec Soth is an American photographer renowned for his large-format color images and lyrical documentary projects exploring life in the American Midwest and beyond.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alec Soth canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6437804 — 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: Alec Soth Context triple: [Magnum Photos, hasMember, Alec Soth]
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A.
Catherine Opie
Catherine Opie is an American fine-art photographer renowned for her powerful portraits and documentary-style images exploring identity, community, and the American social landscape.
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B.
Thomas Struth
Thomas Struth is a German photographer renowned for his large-scale color images of urban scenes, museum interiors, and family portraits that explore the relationship between people, architecture, and public space.
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C.
Stephen Shore
Stephen Shore is an American photographer renowned for pioneering the use of color in art photography and for his influential depictions of everyday life and vernacular landscapes.
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D.
Candida Höfer
Candida Höfer is a German photographer renowned for her large-format, meticulously composed images of empty public interiors that explore architecture, culture, and collective memory.
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E.
Wolfgang Tillmans
Wolfgang Tillmans is a German photographer and artist renowned for his innovative, often abstract and experimental approach to photography that blurs the boundaries between fine art and documentary.
- 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: Alec Soth Target entity description: Alec Soth is an American photographer renowned for his large-format color images and lyrical documentary projects exploring life in the American Midwest and beyond.
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A.
Catherine Opie
Catherine Opie is an American fine-art photographer renowned for her powerful portraits and documentary-style images exploring identity, community, and the American social landscape.
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B.
Thomas Struth
Thomas Struth is a German photographer renowned for his large-scale color images of urban scenes, museum interiors, and family portraits that explore the relationship between people, architecture, and public space.
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C.
Stephen Shore
Stephen Shore is an American photographer renowned for pioneering the use of color in art photography and for his influential depictions of everyday life and vernacular landscapes.
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D.
Candida Höfer
Candida Höfer is a German photographer renowned for her large-format, meticulously composed images of empty public interiors that explore architecture, culture, and collective memory.
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E.
Wolfgang Tillmans
Wolfgang Tillmans is a German photographer and artist renowned for his innovative, often abstract and experimental approach to photography that blurs the boundaries between fine art and documentary.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
documentary photographer
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human ⓘ photographer ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Guggenheim Fellowship
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Jerusalem International Book Fair award ⓘ |
| basedIn |
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Minneapolis
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| birthDate | 1969-01-01 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Minneapolis
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Soth ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
narrative photography
ⓘ
photographic books ⓘ |
| founded | Little Brown Mushroom ⓘ |
| genre |
documentary photography
ⓘ
fine-art photography ⓘ portrait photography ⓘ |
| givenName | Alec ⓘ |
| hasExhibitedAt |
Museum of Modern Art, New York
ⓘ
linked to:
Museum of Modern Art
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art ⓘ Walker Art Center ⓘ Whitney Museum of American Art ⓘ |
| hasSubjectMatter |
American small towns
ⓘ
intimate interiors ⓘ landscapes of the American Midwest ⓘ ordinary people ⓘ road trips ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement |
New American documentary photography
ⓘ
contemporary photography ⓘ |
| name | Alec Soth ⓘ |
| notableFor |
large-format color photography
ⓘ
lyrical documentary projects ⓘ photographic exploration of American social landscapes ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Broken Manual
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I Know How Furiously Your Heart Is Beating ⓘ Looking for Love, 1996 ⓘ Niagara ⓘ Sleeping by the Mississippi ⓘ Songbook ⓘ |
| occupation |
artist
ⓘ
photographer ⓘ |
| primaryRegionDepicted |
American Midwest
ⓘ
linked to:
Midwestern United States
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| usesCameraFormat | large-format camera ⓘ |
| usesMedium | color photography ⓘ |
| website | https://alecsoth.com ⓘ |
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: Alec Soth Description of subject: Alec Soth is an American photographer renowned for his large-format color images and lyrical documentary projects exploring life in the American Midwest and beyond.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.