Jerzy Lipman
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Jerzy Lipman was a Polish cinematographer best known for his influential work on early postwar Polish cinema, including Roman Polanski’s debut feature "Knife in the Water."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jerzy Lipman canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11235103 — 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: Jerzy Lipman Context triple: [Knife in the Water, cinematographer, Jerzy Lipman]
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A.
Jurek Becker
Jurek Becker was a Polish-born German-Jewish novelist and screenwriter best known for his Holocaust-themed novel "Jacob the Liar."
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B.
Zbigniew Religa
Zbigniew Religa was a pioneering Polish cardiac surgeon and politician, renowned for performing Poland’s first successful heart transplant and later serving as the country’s Minister of Health.
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C.
Gustaw Herling-Grudziński
Gustaw Herling-Grudziński was a Polish writer, essayist, and dissident best known for his harrowing accounts of Soviet labor camps and his broader reflections on totalitarianism and moral resistance.
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D.
Zbigniew Rybczyński
Zbigniew Rybczyński is a Polish experimental filmmaker and cinematographer renowned for his pioneering work in video art and his Academy Award-winning short film "Tango."
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E.
Jan Kucharzewski
Jan Kucharzewski was a Polish historian, lawyer, and politician who served as the first prime minister of the Regency Kingdom of Poland during World War I.
- 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: Jerzy Lipman Target entity description: Jerzy Lipman was a Polish cinematographer best known for his influential work on early postwar Polish cinema, including Roman Polanski’s debut feature "Knife in the Water."
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A.
Jurek Becker
Jurek Becker was a Polish-born German-Jewish novelist and screenwriter best known for his Holocaust-themed novel "Jacob the Liar."
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B.
Zbigniew Religa
Zbigniew Religa was a pioneering Polish cardiac surgeon and politician, renowned for performing Poland’s first successful heart transplant and later serving as the country’s Minister of Health.
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C.
Gustaw Herling-Grudziński
Gustaw Herling-Grudziński was a Polish writer, essayist, and dissident best known for his harrowing accounts of Soviet labor camps and his broader reflections on totalitarianism and moral resistance.
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D.
Zbigniew Rybczyński
Zbigniew Rybczyński is a Polish experimental filmmaker and cinematographer renowned for his pioneering work in video art and his Academy Award-winning short film "Tango."
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E.
Jan Kucharzewski
Jan Kucharzewski was a Polish historian, lawyer, and politician who served as the first prime minister of the Regency Kingdom of Poland during World War I.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Polish cinematographer
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cinematographer ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activeIn |
Polish cinema
ⓘ
film industry ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | myocardial infarction ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
Andrzej Wajda
ⓘ
Roman Polanski ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Poland ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Poland ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1922-04-10 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1986-11-05 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
National Film School in Łódź
ⓘ
linked to:
Łódź Film School
|
| era | post–World War II ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jews ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | cinematography ⓘ |
| genre | postwar Polish cinema ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| knownFor | influential work on early postwar Polish cinema ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Polish ⓘ |
| movement | Polish Film School ⓘ |
| name | Jerzy Lipman ⓘ |
| nationality | Polish ⓘ |
| notableFor | visual style in Polish Film School classics ⓘ |
| notableWork | Knife in the Water ⓘ |
| occupation | cinematographer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Warsaw ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Warsaw ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| residence | Warsaw ⓘ |
| spouse | Halina Lipman ⓘ |
| workedOn |
A Generation
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Ashes and Diamonds ⓘ Kanal ⓘ Knife in the Water ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Jerzy Lipman Description of subject: Jerzy Lipman was a Polish cinematographer best known for his influential work on early postwar Polish cinema, including Roman Polanski’s debut feature "Knife in the Water."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.