Yann Arthus-Bertrand
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Yann Arthus-Bertrand is a French photographer, filmmaker, and environmentalist best known for his aerial photography and ecological documentaries such as "Home."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Yann Arthus-Bertrand canonical | 21 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T216138 — 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: Yann Arthus-Bertrand Context triple: [Last Chance to See, illustrator, Yann Arthus-Bertrand]
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A.
Mark Carwardine
Mark Carwardine is a British zoologist, conservationist, and wildlife photographer best known for his popular wildlife books and documentaries, including collaborations with Douglas Adams.
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B.
Hugo van Lawick
Hugo van Lawick was a Dutch wildlife filmmaker and photographer renowned for documenting African wildlife and extensively filming Jane Goodall’s chimpanzee research in Gombe.
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C.
Jacques Piccard
Jacques Piccard was a Swiss oceanographer and engineer best known for co-piloting the bathyscaphe Trieste on the historic first crewed descent to the bottom of the Mariana Trench in 1960.
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D.
René Thomas
René Thomas was a Belgian biophysicist and geneticist known for pioneering work in the logical modeling of gene regulatory networks and dynamical systems in biology.
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E.
Robert Cailliau
Robert Cailliau is a Belgian computer scientist best known for co-developing the World Wide Web alongside Tim Berners-Lee at CERN.
- 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: Yann Arthus-Bertrand Target entity description: Yann Arthus-Bertrand is a French photographer, filmmaker, and environmentalist best known for his aerial photography and ecological documentaries such as "Home."
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A.
Mark Carwardine
Mark Carwardine is a British zoologist, conservationist, and wildlife photographer best known for his popular wildlife books and documentaries, including collaborations with Douglas Adams.
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B.
Hugo van Lawick
Hugo van Lawick was a Dutch wildlife filmmaker and photographer renowned for documenting African wildlife and extensively filming Jane Goodall’s chimpanzee research in Gombe.
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C.
Jacques Piccard
Jacques Piccard was a Swiss oceanographer and engineer best known for co-piloting the bathyscaphe Trieste on the historic first crewed descent to the bottom of the Mariana Trench in 1960.
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D.
René Thomas
René Thomas was a Belgian biophysicist and geneticist known for pioneering work in the logical modeling of gene regulatory networks and dynamical systems in biology.
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E.
Robert Cailliau
Robert Cailliau is a Belgian computer scientist best known for co-developing the World Wide Web alongside Tim Berners-Lee at CERN.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
aerial photographer
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documentary filmmaker ⓘ environmentalist ⓘ film director ⓘ human ⓘ photographer ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur
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surface form:
Knight of the Legion of Honour
Officer of the National Order of Merit (France) ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | France ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1946-03-13 ⓘ |
| familyName | Arthus-Bertrand ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cinema
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environmentalism ⓘ photography ⓘ |
| founded | GoodPlanet Foundation ⓘ |
| genre |
documentary film
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environmental documentary ⓘ nature photography ⓘ |
| givenName | Yann ⓘ |
| hasWebsite |
https://www.goodplanet.org
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https://www.yannarthusbertrand.org ⓘ |
| knownFor |
aerial photography
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environmental documentaries ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | French ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
biodiversity
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climate change ⓘ sustainable development ⓘ |
| movement | environmentalism ⓘ |
| name | Yann Arthus-Bertrand self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | French ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Earth from Above
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Home ⓘ Human ⓘ Planet Ocean ⓘ Earth ⓘ
surface form:
Terra
Woman ⓘ |
| occupation |
environmental activist
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film director ⓘ photographer ⓘ producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Paris ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
UN Goodwill Ambassador
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surface form:
Goodwill Ambassador of the United Nations Environment Programme
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| residence | France ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: Yann Arthus-Bertrand Description of subject: Yann Arthus-Bertrand is a French photographer, filmmaker, and environmentalist best known for his aerial photography and ecological documentaries such as "Home."
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Woman (film)
subject surface form:
Woman (film)