Clair Popkin
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Clair Popkin is a cinematographer best known for his work on the acclaimed rock-climbing documentary film "Free Solo."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Clair Popkin canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2967843 — 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: Clair Popkin Context triple: [Free Solo, cinematographyBy, Clair Popkin]
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A.
Polly Parrish
Polly Parrish is the main character in the 1939 romantic comedy film "Bachelor Mother," portrayed as a salesgirl who becomes entangled in comedic misunderstandings after being mistaken for an abandoned baby's mother.
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B.
Jeanne Fisher
Jeanne Fisher is best known as the wife of John Ehrlichman, a key domestic affairs adviser to U.S. President Richard Nixon during the Watergate era.
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C.
Dorothy Comingore
Dorothy Comingore was an American film actress best known for her acclaimed performance as Susan Alexander Kane in Orson Welles's classic film "Citizen Kane."
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D.
Edith Atwater
Edith Atwater was an American character actress known for her work in mid-20th-century film, television, and theater.
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E.
Dorys Madden
Dorys Madden is best known as the wife of Basketball Hall of Famer Julius "Dr. J" Erving.
- 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: Clair Popkin Target entity description: Clair Popkin is a cinematographer best known for his work on the acclaimed rock-climbing documentary film "Free Solo."
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A.
Polly Parrish
Polly Parrish is the main character in the 1939 romantic comedy film "Bachelor Mother," portrayed as a salesgirl who becomes entangled in comedic misunderstandings after being mistaken for an abandoned baby's mother.
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B.
Jeanne Fisher
Jeanne Fisher is best known as the wife of John Ehrlichman, a key domestic affairs adviser to U.S. President Richard Nixon during the Watergate era.
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C.
Dorothy Comingore
Dorothy Comingore was an American film actress best known for her acclaimed performance as Susan Alexander Kane in Orson Welles's classic film "Citizen Kane."
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D.
Edith Atwater
Edith Atwater was an American character actress known for her work in mid-20th-century film, television, and theater.
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E.
Dorys Madden
Dorys Madden is best known as the wife of Basketball Hall of Famer Julius "Dr. J" Erving.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cinematographer
ⓘ
person ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
Alex Honnold
ⓘ
Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi ⓘ Jimmy Chin ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| employer | National Geographic Documentary Films ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | cinematography ⓘ |
| genre | documentary film ⓘ |
| hasWorkedOn |
Free Solo
ⓘ
Free Solo: Live ⓘ The Rescue ⓘ |
| industry |
film industry
ⓘ
television industry ⓘ |
| knownFor | Free Solo ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography for a Nonfiction Program ⓘ |
| notableAward | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography for a Nonfiction Program ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Free Solo
ⓘ
Free Solo ⓘ
surface form:
Free Solo: Live
The Rescue ⓘ |
| occupation | cinematographer ⓘ |
| partOf | Free Solo (film) crew ⓘ |
| specializesIn |
adventure sports cinematography
ⓘ
documentary cinematography ⓘ location photography ⓘ |
| workLocation |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
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: Clair Popkin Description of subject: Clair Popkin is a cinematographer best known for his work on the acclaimed rock-climbing documentary film "Free Solo."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.