Bill Owens
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Bill Owens is an American photographer and photojournalist best known for his influential 1972 book "Suburbia," which documented the lives and culture of suburban middle-class Americans.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bill Owens canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9435808 — 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)
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Target entity: Bill Owens Context triple: [Bill Owens, name, Bill Owens]
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A.
Bill Owens
Bill Owens is an American television producer best known for leading the long-running CBS news magazine program "60 Minutes."
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B.
Bill Thomas
Bill Thomas was an American costume designer known for his work on numerous Hollywood films, including classic melodramas of the 1950s.
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C.
Hal Greer
Hal Greer was a Hall of Fame shooting guard renowned for his scoring consistency and leadership, primarily with the Syracuse Nationals/Philadelphia 76ers, and is considered one of the NBA’s great early stars.
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D.
Bill Cartwright
Bill Cartwright is a former American NBA center best known for winning three championships with the Chicago Bulls alongside Michael Jordan in the early 1990s.
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E.
Wes Unseld
Wes Unseld was a Hall of Fame NBA center renowned for his rebounding, outlet passing, and leadership with the Washington Bullets franchise.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: Bill Owens Target entity description: Bill Owens is an American photographer and photojournalist best known for his influential 1972 book "Suburbia," which documented the lives and culture of suburban middle-class Americans.
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A.
Bill Owens
Bill Owens is an American television producer best known for leading the long-running CBS news magazine program "60 Minutes."
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B.
Bill Thomas
Bill Thomas was an American costume designer known for his work on numerous Hollywood films, including classic melodramas of the 1950s.
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C.
Hal Greer
Hal Greer was a Hall of Fame shooting guard renowned for his scoring consistency and leadership, primarily with the Syracuse Nationals/Philadelphia 76ers, and is considered one of the NBA’s great early stars.
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D.
Bill Cartwright
Bill Cartwright is a former American NBA center best known for winning three championships with the Chicago Bulls alongside Michael Jordan in the early 1990s.
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E.
Wes Unseld
Wes Unseld was a Hall of Fame NBA center renowned for his rebounding, outlet passing, and leadership with the Washington Bullets franchise.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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photographer ⓘ photojournalist ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod |
20th century
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21st century ⓘ |
| basedIn | San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | American ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
photography
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photojournalism ⓘ |
| genre | documentary photography ⓘ |
| hasCreativeWork | Suburbia ⓘ |
| hasExhibitedAt |
galleries internationally
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museums in the United States ⓘ |
| hasPhotographicStyle |
black-and-white photography
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environmental portraiture ⓘ snapshot aesthetic ⓘ |
| hasPhotographicTechnique |
candid photography
ⓘ
use of captions with images ⓘ |
| hasRecognition |
critical acclaim for Suburbia
ⓘ
influential American photography book lists ⓘ |
| hasSeries |
Leisure series
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Our Kind of People series ⓘ
linked to:
Our Kind of People
Suburbia series ⓘ Working series ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
American domestic life
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community rituals ⓘ consumer culture ⓘ family life in suburbs ⓘ |
| hasWorkSubject |
middle-class Americans
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postwar American suburbs ⓘ suburban life in the United States ⓘ |
| influenced |
contemporary documentary photographers
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visual culture studies of suburbia ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | social documentary photography ⓘ |
| notableFor |
1970s suburban culture documentation
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depicting suburban middle-class American life ⓘ pioneering photographic study of American suburbia ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Leisure
ⓘ
Our Kind of People ⓘ Suburbia ⓘ
linked to:
SubUrbia
Working ⓘ |
| occupation |
photographer
ⓘ
photojournalist ⓘ |
| publicationDateOfWork | Suburbia (1972) ⓘ |
| workLocation |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
|
How these facts were elicited
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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: Bill Owens Description of subject: Bill Owens is an American photographer and photojournalist best known for his influential 1972 book "Suburbia," which documented the lives and culture of suburban middle-class Americans.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.