Arthur Rothstein
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Arthur Rothstein was a prominent American photojournalist best known for his powerful Dust Bowl and Great Depression-era images that documented rural life and hardship.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Arthur Rothstein canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T419471 — 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: Arthur Rothstein Context triple: [Farm Security Administration photographers, hasPart, Arthur Rothstein]
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Allan Pinkerton
Allan Pinkerton was a 19th-century Scottish-American detective and spy who founded one of the first and most influential private detective agencies in the United States.
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Eugene E. Covert
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J. Edgar Hoover
J. Edgar Hoover was the long-serving and controversial first Director of the FBI, known for shaping modern American law enforcement and for his extensive domestic intelligence operations.
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Carroll D. Wright
Carroll D. Wright was a prominent American statistician and social reformer who served as the first U.S. Commissioner of Labor and became influential for his pioneering work in labor statistics and industrial relations.
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John R. Steelman
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- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Arthur Rothstein Target entity description: Arthur Rothstein was a prominent American photojournalist best known for his powerful Dust Bowl and Great Depression-era images that documented rural life and hardship.
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A.
Allan Pinkerton
Allan Pinkerton was a 19th-century Scottish-American detective and spy who founded one of the first and most influential private detective agencies in the United States.
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B.
Eugene E. Covert
Eugene E. Covert was an American aeronautical engineer and MIT professor who served as the chief scientist of the U.S. Air Force and was a noted expert in fluid mechanics and aerospace technology.
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C.
J. Edgar Hoover
J. Edgar Hoover was the long-serving and controversial first Director of the FBI, known for shaping modern American law enforcement and for his extensive domestic intelligence operations.
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D.
Carroll D. Wright
Carroll D. Wright was a prominent American statistician and social reformer who served as the first U.S. Commissioner of Labor and became influential for his pioneering work in labor statistics and industrial relations.
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E.
John R. Steelman
John R. Steelman was an American administrator and labor mediator who served as a top aide to President Harry S. Truman and became one of the most influential behind-the-scenes figures in the postwar White House.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
documentary photographer
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human ⓘ photographer ⓘ photojournalist ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1915-07-17 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1985-11-11 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Columbia University ⓘ |
| employer |
Resettlement Administration
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surface form:
Farm Security Administration
Look magazine ⓘ Office of War Information ⓘ Parade magazine ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish Americans ⓘ |
| familyName | Rothstein ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
documentary photography
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photojournalism ⓘ |
| genre |
documentary photography
ⓘ
social documentary photography ⓘ |
| givenName | Arthur ⓘ |
| hasPhotographed |
American farmers
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Dust storms ⓘ rural poverty in the United States ⓘ sharecroppers ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | New Deal photography ⓘ |
| notableFor |
photographs documenting rural hardship in the United States
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photographs of the Dust Bowl ⓘ photographs of the Great Depression ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Farm Security Administration photographers
ⓘ
surface form:
Dust Bowl photographs
Farm Security Administration photographers ⓘ
surface form:
Great Depression rural life photographs
Oklahoma dust storm photograph ⓘ |
| occupation |
editor
ⓘ
photographer ⓘ photojournalist ⓘ |
| participantIn |
Farm Security Administration photographs
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surface form:
Farm Security Administration photography project
Great Depression documentation projects ⓘ World War II home-front documentation ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Manhattan
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New York City ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | New Rochelle, New York ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
director of photography at Look magazine
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director of photography at Parade magazine ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| stateOfBirth | New York ⓘ |
| stateOfDeath | New York ⓘ |
| workLocation |
New York City
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Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
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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.
Subject: Arthur Rothstein Description of subject: Arthur Rothstein was a prominent American photojournalist best known for his powerful Dust Bowl and Great Depression-era images that documented rural life and hardship.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.