Kodak Brownie camera
E284191
The Kodak Brownie camera is a simple, affordable box camera introduced in the early 20th century that popularized snapshot photography and brought amateur picture-taking to the mass market.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kodak Brownie camera canonical | 1 |
| Kodak Brownie series | 1 |
| Kodak camera | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2633252 — 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: Kodak Brownie camera Context triple: [Eastman Kodak Company, notableProduct, Kodak Brownie camera]
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A.
Leica rangefinder camera
The Leica rangefinder camera is a compact, high-precision 35mm camera renowned for its role in pioneering candid, street, and documentary photography.
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B.
Kodak All-American
Kodak All-American is a prestigious collegiate basketball honor recognizing the top women’s players in the United States, historically sponsored by Eastman Kodak Company.
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C.
Kinetograph
The Kinetograph was an early motion picture camera developed in the late 19th century by Thomas Edison and William Kennedy Laurie Dickson to record films for viewing in the Kinetoscope.
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D.
Kinetoscope
The Kinetoscope was an early motion picture exhibition device that allowed a single viewer to watch short films through a peephole, pioneering the commercial development of cinema in the 1890s.
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E.
Cooke
Cooke is a surname of English origin, often considered a variant spelling of "Cook."
- 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: Kodak Brownie camera Target entity description: The Kodak Brownie camera is a simple, affordable box camera introduced in the early 20th century that popularized snapshot photography and brought amateur picture-taking to the mass market.
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A.
Leica rangefinder camera
The Leica rangefinder camera is a compact, high-precision 35mm camera renowned for its role in pioneering candid, street, and documentary photography.
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B.
Kodak All-American
Kodak All-American is a prestigious collegiate basketball honor recognizing the top women’s players in the United States, historically sponsored by Eastman Kodak Company.
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C.
Kinetograph
The Kinetograph was an early motion picture camera developed in the late 19th century by Thomas Edison and William Kennedy Laurie Dickson to record films for viewing in the Kinetoscope.
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D.
Kinetoscope
The Kinetoscope was an early motion picture exhibition device that allowed a single viewer to watch short films through a peephole, pioneering the commercial development of cinema in the 1890s.
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E.
Cooke
Cooke is a surname of English origin, often considered a variant spelling of "Cook."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
box camera
ⓘ
consumer camera ⓘ still camera ⓘ |
| bodyMaterial |
cardboard
ⓘ
leatherette covering ⓘ |
| brand |
Eastman Kodak Company
ⓘ
surface form:
Kodak
|
| cameraType |
box camera
ⓘ
fixed-focus camera ⓘ |
| category | early 20th-century camera ⓘ |
| colorCapability | black-and-white photography ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| designedFor |
amateur photographers
ⓘ
mass market ⓘ snapshot photography ⓘ |
| family |
Kodak Brownie camera
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Kodak Brownie series
|
| filmFormat |
117 roll film
ⓘ
roll film ⓘ |
| focusType | fixed focus ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance |
icon of early amateur photography
ⓘ
one of the first truly mass-market cameras ⓘ |
| imageFormat | 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches ⓘ |
| impact |
democratized photography
ⓘ
increased popularity of personal photo albums ⓘ stimulated film sales for Kodak ⓘ |
| introduced | 1900 ⓘ |
| introducedBy | George Eastman ⓘ |
| lensType | simple meniscus lens ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Eastman Kodak Company ⓘ |
| marketedAs |
inexpensive camera
ⓘ
simple to use ⓘ |
| notableFor |
bringing photography to the masses
ⓘ
ease of operation ⓘ low purchase price ⓘ popularizing snapshot photography ⓘ |
| powerSource | mechanical ⓘ |
| priceAtIntroduction | 1 US dollar ⓘ |
| primaryMaterial | cardboard box ⓘ |
| productionStart | 1900 ⓘ |
| shutterSpeed | single fixed speed ⓘ |
| shutterType | simple rotary shutter ⓘ |
| sloganAssociated | You press the button, we do the rest ⓘ |
| successor | Brownie No. 2 ⓘ |
| targetMarket |
entry-level photographers
ⓘ
mass consumer market ⓘ |
| usedBy |
amateur photographers
ⓘ
children ⓘ |
| viewfinderType | brilliant finder ⓘ |
| viewingOrientation | waist-level viewing ⓘ |
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: Kodak Brownie camera Description of subject: The Kodak Brownie camera is a simple, affordable box camera introduced in the early 20th century that popularized snapshot photography and brought amateur picture-taking to the mass market.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Kodak camera
this entity surface form:
Kodak Brownie series