Marvelous Sugar Baby
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Marvelous Sugar Baby is a monumental sugar-coated sphinx sculpture by artist Kara Walker that critiques the history of slavery and the sugar trade.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Marvelous Sugar Baby canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Marvelous Sugar Baby Context triple: [A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby, alsoKnownAs, Marvelous Sugar Baby]
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A.
Sweetums
Sweetums is a large, shaggy, ogre-like Muppet character known for his imposing appearance and surprisingly gentle, lovable personality.
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B.
Sweetie
Sweetie is a 1989 Australian black comedy-drama film directed by Jane Campion that explores a dysfunctional family through darkly surreal and psychologically intense storytelling.
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C.
Sweet Candy
Sweet Candy is a track from AC/DC's 2014 hard rock album "Rock or Bust."
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D.
Sweet Lou
Sweet Lou is the nickname of Lou Johnson, an American Major League Baseball outfielder best known for his key role with the Los Angeles Dodgers in the mid-1960s.
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E.
Sweet Lou
Sweet Lou is the longtime nickname of Lou Piniella, a fiery former Major League Baseball outfielder and World Series–winning manager.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Marvelous Sugar Baby Target entity description: Marvelous Sugar Baby is a monumental sugar-coated sphinx sculpture by artist Kara Walker that critiques the history of slavery and the sugar trade.
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A.
Sweetums
Sweetums is a large, shaggy, ogre-like Muppet character known for his imposing appearance and surprisingly gentle, lovable personality.
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B.
Sweetie
Sweetie is a 1989 Australian black comedy-drama film directed by Jane Campion that explores a dysfunctional family through darkly surreal and psychologically intense storytelling.
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C.
Sweet Candy
Sweet Candy is a track from AC/DC's 2014 hard rock album "Rock or Bust."
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D.
Sweet Lou
Sweet Lou is the nickname of Lou Johnson, an American Major League Baseball outfielder best known for his key role with the Los Angeles Dodgers in the mid-1960s.
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E.
Sweet Lou
Sweet Lou is the longtime nickname of Lou Piniella, a fiery former Major League Baseball outfielder and World Series–winning manager.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
installation art
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public art ⓘ sculpture ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
A Subtlety
ⓘ
linked to:
A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
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| artist | Kara Walker ⓘ |
| artMovement |
African-American art
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contemporary art ⓘ |
| color | white ⓘ |
| commissionedBy | Creative Time ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| creator | Kara Walker ⓘ |
| dateOfDestruction | 2014 ⓘ |
| dateOfFirstExhibition | 2014 ⓘ |
| depicts |
Black female figure
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sphinx ⓘ |
| destroyed | true ⓘ |
| exhibitedAt |
Domino Sugar Refinery
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linked to:
Domino Sugar Refinery site
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| exhibitionType | temporary installation ⓘ |
| genre |
conceptual art
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installation art ⓘ political art ⓘ |
| hasEffect | provoked public debate on slavery and capitalism ⓘ |
| hasPart |
attendant boy sculptures
ⓘ
molasses-coated child figures ⓘ |
| inception | 2014 ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Brooklyn
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ |
| locationOfFirstPerformance |
Domino Sugar Refinery
ⓘ
linked to:
Domino Sugar Refinery site
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| mainSubject |
African diaspora
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colonialism ⓘ industrial history ⓘ labor ⓘ racial exploitation ⓘ slavery ⓘ sugar trade ⓘ |
| materialUsed |
molasses
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styrofoam ⓘ sugar ⓘ |
| notableFor |
monumental scale
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site-specific installation in former sugar refinery ⓘ use of sugar as primary material ⓘ |
| purpose |
critique of slavery
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critique of sugar industry ⓘ reflection on race and power ⓘ |
| sponsor | Creative Time ⓘ |
| theme |
commodification of bodies
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history of sugar production ⓘ sexualization of Black women ⓘ |
| title | A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby ⓘ |
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Subject: Marvelous Sugar Baby Description of subject: Marvelous Sugar Baby is a monumental sugar-coated sphinx sculpture by artist Kara Walker that critiques the history of slavery and the sugar trade.
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