circus performer

C5374
concept

A circus performer is an entertainer who demonstrates specialized physical or artistic skills—such as acrobatics, juggling, clowning, or animal training—within a circus setting to captivate and amuse an audience.

All labels observed (15)

Label Occurrences
clown 19
circus performer canonical 18
animal trainer 5

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: circus performer
Generated description
A circus performer is an entertainer who demonstrates specialized physical or artistic skills—such as acrobatics, juggling, clowning, or animal training—within a circus setting to captivate and amuse an audience.

Instances (55)

Instance Via concept surface
Wavy Gravy clown
Pierre Étaix clown
Holly Circus performer
The Great Sebastian trapeze artist
Enrico Truzzi
linked to: Marcello Truzzi
—
Bill Irwin clown
Red Skelton clown
James Thierrée contemporary circus performer
Calvero clown
Yuri Nikulin clown
Jean-Baptiste Thierrée —
Philippe Petit high-wire artist
1974 World Trade Center high-wire walk high-wire performance
Aurélia Thierrée —
Krusty the Clown clown
Maria Rasputin —
Tuck —
Roll —
Victoria Chaplin —
Kumar Pallana juggler
Emmett Kelly —
Ronald McDonald clown
Emilie Livingston contortionist
Clyde Beatty animal trainer
Clyde Beatty lion tamer
Karen Pryor animal trainer
Gilles Ste-Croix —
Charley Grapewin —
Don Reynolds (actor)
linked to: Don Reynolds
animal trainer
Marlena Rosenbluth —
Adans Lopez Peres —
Richard Bernard Skelton clown
James Spencer Henry Edmond Marcel Thierrée —
Yuri Nikulin
linked to: Nikulin
clown
Carlotta —
Thierry Le Portier animal trainer
Pinto Colvig
linked to: Pinto
—
Vance DeBar Colvig clown
John Aasen sideshow performer
Zeena Krumbein carnival performer
Blondine (circus performer) —
Michael Goudeau juggler
Roy Horn animal trainer
Lisa Giobbi aerialist
The Fool (La Strada) clown
Captain Spaulding clown
Herschel Shmoikel Pinchas Yerucham Krustofsky clown
Herschel Krustofsky
linked to: Herschel
clown
Hunter "Patch" Adams clown
Twisty the Clown clown