Koudelka
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Koudelka is a Czech surname most prominently associated with Josef Koudelka, the renowned photographer known for his powerful black-and-white images documenting Roma communities and political upheaval.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Koudelka canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9214859 — 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: Koudelka Context triple: [Josef Koudelka, familyName, Koudelka]
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A.
Kája
Kája is a Czech diminutive form of the given name Karel.
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B.
Bechyně
Bechyně is a historic spa town in the Czech Republic known for its ceramics tradition and picturesque location above the Lužnice River.
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C.
Frunze
Frunze is a surname most notably associated with Mikhail Frunze, a prominent Bolshevik leader and Red Army commander during the Russian Civil War.
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D.
Husák
Husák is a Slovak surname most prominently associated with Gustáv Husák, the communist politician who served as president of Czechoslovakia during the normalization era.
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E.
Pavka
Pavka is a diminutive or affectionate nickname commonly used for the Slavic given name Pavel.
- 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: Koudelka Target entity description: Koudelka is a Czech surname most prominently associated with Josef Koudelka, the renowned photographer known for his powerful black-and-white images documenting Roma communities and political upheaval.
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A.
Kája
Kája is a Czech diminutive form of the given name Karel.
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B.
Bechyně
Bechyně is a historic spa town in the Czech Republic known for its ceramics tradition and picturesque location above the Lužnice River.
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C.
Frunze
Frunze is a surname most notably associated with Mikhail Frunze, a prominent Bolshevik leader and Red Army commander during the Russian Civil War.
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D.
Husák
Husák is a Slovak surname most prominently associated with Gustáv Husák, the communist politician who served as president of Czechoslovakia during the normalization era.
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E.
Pavka
Pavka is a diminutive or affectionate nickname commonly used for the Slavic given name Pavel.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Czech-language surname
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human ⓘ photographer ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Roma communities
NERFINISHED
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political upheaval ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Cornell Capa Award
NERFINISHED
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Grand Prix National de la Photographie NERFINISHED ⓘ Hasselblad Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Czechoslovakia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Czech Republic
ⓘ
France ⓘ |
| familyName | Koudelka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
black-and-white photography
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documentary photography ⓘ |
| givenName | Josef NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Josef Koudelka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Czech ⓘ |
| memberOf | Magnum Photos NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | humanist photography ⓘ |
| notableFor |
photographic documentation of the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia
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photographs of Roma communities ⓘ photographs of political upheaval ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Exiles
NERFINISHED
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Gypsies NERFINISHED ⓘ Invasion 68 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | photographer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Boskovice NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| style | high-contrast black-and-white imagery ⓘ |
| usesMedium | black-and-white photography ⓘ |
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: Koudelka Description of subject: Koudelka is a Czech surname most prominently associated with Josef Koudelka, the renowned photographer known for his powerful black-and-white images documenting Roma communities and political upheaval.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.