Images à la sauvette
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Images à la sauvette is a seminal 1952 photography book by Henri Cartier-Bresson that helped define the concept of the “decisive moment” in street and documentary photography.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Images à la sauvette canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1977693 — 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: Images à la sauvette Context triple: [Henri Cartier-Bresson, notableWork, Images à la sauvette]
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Tu Foto
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I Am a Camera
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- 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: Images à la sauvette Target entity description: Images à la sauvette is a seminal 1952 photography book by Henri Cartier-Bresson that helped define the concept of the “decisive moment” in street and documentary photography.
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A.
Tu Foto
"Tu Foto" is a popular reggaeton/Latin trap song by Puerto Rican artist Ozuna that helped solidify his rise in the Latin urban music scene.
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B.
I Am a Camera
"I Am a Camera" is a 1981 synth-pop song by British new wave duo The Buggles, known for its futuristic sound and lyrical themes of observation and media.
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C.
Portrait in Sepia
Portrait in Sepia is a historical novel by Isabel Allende that follows a young woman’s search for identity and family secrets amid the social and political upheavals of late 19th- and early 20th-century Chile.
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D.
Graphilbum
Graphilbum is a genus of fungi in the family Ophiostomataceae, known for species often associated with bark beetles and wood-inhabiting ecological niches.
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E.
Rain on Lens
Rain on Lens is an experimental indie rock album by the American band Smog, known for its lo-fi production and introspective songwriting.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
art book
ⓘ
photography book ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Magnum Photos ⓘ |
| author | Henri Cartier-Bresson ⓘ |
| binding | hardcover ⓘ |
| contains | black-and-white photographs ⓘ |
| containsWorkBy | Henri Cartier-Bresson ⓘ |
| countryOfPublication | France ⓘ |
| coverDesigner | Henri Matisse ⓘ |
| era | post-World War II ⓘ |
| format | photobook ⓘ |
| genre |
documentary photography
ⓘ
street photography ⓘ |
| hasConcept | decisive moment ⓘ |
| hasCriticalReputation | landmark in photographic history ⓘ |
| hasDustJacketDesign | Henri Matisse ⓘ |
| hasEnglishEdition | The Decisive Moment ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn |
later photobooks
ⓘ
visual storytelling in photography ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
fleeting moments
ⓘ
humanist photography ⓘ spontaneity in photography ⓘ |
| influenced |
documentary photography
ⓘ
photojournalism ⓘ street photography ⓘ |
| isConsidered |
classic of 20th-century photography
ⓘ
seminal photobook ⓘ |
| language | French ⓘ |
| movement | humanist photography ⓘ |
| notableFor | popularizing the concept of the decisive moment ⓘ |
| originalMarket | European market ⓘ |
| photographer | Henri Cartier-Bresson ⓘ |
| photographicStyle | candid photography ⓘ |
| placeOfPublication | Paris ⓘ |
| printingProcess | heliogravure ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1952 ⓘ |
| publisher | Éditions Verve ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
framing in photography
ⓘ
geometry in composition ⓘ timing in photography ⓘ |
| subject |
everyday life
ⓘ
post-war Europe ⓘ street life ⓘ |
| timePeriodDepicted |
1930s
ⓘ
1940s ⓘ early 1950s ⓘ |
| titleTranslation | The Decisive Moment ⓘ |
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: Images à la sauvette Description of subject: Images à la sauvette is a seminal 1952 photography book by Henri Cartier-Bresson that helped define the concept of the “decisive moment” in street and documentary photography.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.