Jacob Riis
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Jacob Riis was a pioneering Danish-American social reformer, journalist, and photographer whose stark images and writings about New York City’s tenement slums helped spur early 20th-century urban and housing reforms.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jacob Riis canonical | 4 |
| Jacob August Riis | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2508374 — 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.
Target entity: Jacob Riis Context triple: [Dorothea Lange, influencedBy, Jacob Riis]
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Lincoln Steffens
Lincoln Steffens was a prominent American muckraking journalist whose exposés of political corruption in city governments made him a leading voice of the Progressive Era reform movement.
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Upton Sinclair
Upton Sinclair was an American novelist and social reformer best known for his muckraking works like "The Jungle," which exposed industrial and social injustices in the early 20th century United States.
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C.
Max Nordau
Max Nordau was a Hungarian-born physician, social critic, and co-founder of the World Zionist Organization who became one of the leading intellectual figures of early political Zionism.
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Henry Jarvis Raymond
Henry Jarvis Raymond was a 19th-century American journalist and politician best known as a co-founder and early editor of The New York Times.
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Sydney Howard Gay
Sydney Howard Gay was a 19th-century American abolitionist, journalist, and editor known for his work on the Underground Railroad and his leadership at the National Anti-Slavery Standard.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Jacob Riis Target entity description: Jacob Riis was a pioneering Danish-American social reformer, journalist, and photographer whose stark images and writings about New York City’s tenement slums helped spur early 20th-century urban and housing reforms.
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A.
Lincoln Steffens
Lincoln Steffens was a prominent American muckraking journalist whose exposés of political corruption in city governments made him a leading voice of the Progressive Era reform movement.
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B.
Upton Sinclair
Upton Sinclair was an American novelist and social reformer best known for his muckraking works like "The Jungle," which exposed industrial and social injustices in the early 20th century United States.
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C.
Max Nordau
Max Nordau was a Hungarian-born physician, social critic, and co-founder of the World Zionist Organization who became one of the leading intellectual figures of early political Zionism.
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D.
Henry Jarvis Raymond
Henry Jarvis Raymond was a 19th-century American journalist and politician best known as a co-founder and early editor of The New York Times.
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E.
Sydney Howard Gay
Sydney Howard Gay was a 19th-century American abolitionist, journalist, and editor known for his work on the Underground Railroad and his leadership at the National Anti-Slavery Standard.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
author
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journalist ⓘ lecturer ⓘ muckraker ⓘ person ⓘ photographer ⓘ social reformer ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Riverside Cemetery, Barre, Massachusetts, United States ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | heart disease ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Denmark
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United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1849-05-03 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1914-05-26 ⓘ |
| employer |
New York Evening Sun
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New-York Tribune ⓘ
surface form:
New York Tribune
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| ethnicOrigin | Danish ⓘ |
| familyName | Riis ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
housing reform
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journalism ⓘ social reform ⓘ urban reform ⓘ |
| fullName |
Jacob Riis
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Jacob August Riis
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| genre |
photojournalism
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social documentary ⓘ |
| givenName | Jacob ⓘ |
| immigratedTo | United States of America ⓘ |
| influenced | Theodore Roosevelt ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Christian social ethics ⓘ |
| knownFor |
exposing living conditions in New York City tenements
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influencing Progressive Era housing legislation ⓘ pioneering flash photography in low-light urban environments ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
Danish
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English ⓘ |
| movement | Progressive Era reform movement ⓘ |
| notableWork |
How the Other Half Lives
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The Battle with the Slum ⓘ The Children of the Poor ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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journalist ⓘ photographer ⓘ police reporter ⓘ social reformer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Ribe
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surface form:
Ribe, Denmark
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| placeOfDeath |
Barre, Massachusetts
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surface form:
Barre, Massachusetts, United States
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| religion | Lutheranism ⓘ |
| residence |
New York City
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Ribe ⓘ
surface form:
Ribe, Denmark
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| spouse |
Elisabeth Gortz
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Mary Phillips ⓘ |
| yearOfImmigration | 1870 ⓘ |
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Subject: Jacob Riis Description of subject: Jacob Riis was a pioneering Danish-American social reformer, journalist, and photographer whose stark images and writings about New York City’s tenement slums helped spur early 20th-century urban and housing reforms.
Referenced by (5)
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