Raoul Coutard
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Raoul Coutard was a renowned French cinematographer closely associated with the French New Wave, known for his innovative, naturalistic visual style in films by directors like Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut.
All labels observed (1)
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| Raoul Coutard canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8625714 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Raoul Coutard Context triple: [Breathless, cinematography, Raoul Coutard]
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A.
Jean Eustache
Jean Eustache was a French filmmaker known for his raw, introspective dramas and his influential post–New Wave masterpiece "The Mother and the Whore."
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B.
Claude Chabrol
Claude Chabrol was a pioneering French New Wave film director and screenwriter known for his psychologically complex, Hitchcockian thrillers that dissected bourgeois society.
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C.
Jacques Rivette
Jacques Rivette was a pioneering French film director and critic associated with the French New Wave, known for his innovative narrative structures and marathon-length, improvisational films.
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D.
Jean Rouch
Jean Rouch was a pioneering French filmmaker and anthropologist whose innovative documentary and ethnographic films strongly influenced the development of cinéma vérité and the French New Wave.
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E.
Louis Malle
Louis Malle was a French film director and screenwriter known for his innovative, often provocative works that bridged the French New Wave and more classical narrative cinema.
- 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: Raoul Coutard Target entity description: Raoul Coutard was a renowned French cinematographer closely associated with the French New Wave, known for his innovative, naturalistic visual style in films by directors like Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut.
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A.
Jean Eustache
Jean Eustache was a French filmmaker known for his raw, introspective dramas and his influential post–New Wave masterpiece "The Mother and the Whore."
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B.
Claude Chabrol
Claude Chabrol was a pioneering French New Wave film director and screenwriter known for his psychologically complex, Hitchcockian thrillers that dissected bourgeois society.
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C.
Jacques Rivette
Jacques Rivette was a pioneering French film director and critic associated with the French New Wave, known for his innovative narrative structures and marathon-length, improvisational films.
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D.
Jean Rouch
Jean Rouch was a pioneering French filmmaker and anthropologist whose innovative documentary and ethnographic films strongly influenced the development of cinéma vérité and the French New Wave.
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E.
Louis Malle
Louis Malle was a French film director and screenwriter known for his innovative, often provocative works that bridged the French New Wave and more classical narrative cinema.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cinematographer
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film director ⓘ human ⓘ photographer ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography
NERFINISHED
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César Award for Best Cinematography NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1924-09-16 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2016-11-08 ⓘ |
| employer | French Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Coutard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cinematography
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film direction ⓘ photography ⓘ |
| genre | black-and-white cinematography ⓘ |
| givenName | Raoul NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
innovative handheld camera work
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location shooting ⓘ naturalistic lighting ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | French ⓘ |
| militaryConflictCovered | First Indochina War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | French New Wave NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Raoul Coutard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | French ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Alphaville
NERFINISHED
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Breathless NERFINISHED ⓘ Contempt NERFINISHED ⓘ Hoa-Binh NERFINISHED ⓘ Jules and Jim NERFINISHED ⓘ Pierrot le Fou NERFINISHED ⓘ Shoot the Piano Player NERFINISHED ⓘ The 317th Platoon NERFINISHED ⓘ Weekend NERFINISHED ⓘ Z NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
cinematographer
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film director ⓘ photojournalist ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
France
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Paris ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
France
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Labenne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Labenne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Marie-Josèphe Yoyotte NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedWith |
Costa-Gavras
NERFINISHED
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François Truffaut NERFINISHED ⓘ Jacques Demy NERFINISHED ⓘ Jean-Luc Godard NERFINISHED ⓘ Pierre Schoendoerffer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Raoul Coutard Description of subject: Raoul Coutard was a renowned French cinematographer closely associated with the French New Wave, known for his innovative, naturalistic visual style in films by directors like Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Weekend (1967 film)