Keith Haring
E104382
Keith Haring was an American artist and social activist known for his bold, cartoon-like figures and graffiti-inspired works that addressed themes of sexuality, AIDS, and social justice.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Keith Haring canonical | 22 |
| Haring | 2 |
| Keith Allen Haring | 1 |
| Keith Haring visual vocabulary | 1 |
| Keith Haring's later murals | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T845843 — 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: Keith Haring Context triple: [The Phillips Collection, hasWorkBy, Keith Haring]
-
A.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Jean-Michel Basquiat was an influential American artist whose raw, neo-expressionist paintings and graffiti-inspired works made him a central figure in the 1980s New York art scene.
-
B.
Shepard Fairey
Shepard Fairey is an American contemporary street artist, graphic designer, and activist best known for his "Obey Giant" campaign and the iconic Barack Obama "Hope" poster.
-
C.
Jeff Koons
Jeff Koons is an American contemporary artist known for his large-scale, glossy sculptures of everyday objects and pop culture icons that blur the boundaries between high art and commercialism.
-
D.
Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol was a leading American Pop Art pioneer known for his iconic depictions of consumer goods and celebrities, such as his Campbell’s Soup Cans and Marilyn Monroe silkscreens.
-
E.
Claes Oldenburg
Claes Oldenburg was a Swedish-American sculptor best known for his large-scale public installations that transform everyday objects into monumental, often humorous works of Pop Art.
- 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: Keith Haring Target entity description: Keith Haring was an American artist and social activist known for his bold, cartoon-like figures and graffiti-inspired works that addressed themes of sexuality, AIDS, and social justice.
-
A.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Jean-Michel Basquiat was an influential American artist whose raw, neo-expressionist paintings and graffiti-inspired works made him a central figure in the 1980s New York art scene.
-
B.
Shepard Fairey
Shepard Fairey is an American contemporary street artist, graphic designer, and activist best known for his "Obey Giant" campaign and the iconic Barack Obama "Hope" poster.
-
C.
Jeff Koons
Jeff Koons is an American contemporary artist known for his large-scale, glossy sculptures of everyday objects and pop culture icons that blur the boundaries between high art and commercialism.
-
D.
Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol was a leading American Pop Art pioneer known for his iconic depictions of consumer goods and celebrities, such as his Campbell’s Soup Cans and Marilyn Monroe silkscreens.
-
E.
Claes Oldenburg
Claes Oldenburg was a Swedish-American sculptor best known for his large-scale public installations that transform everyday objects into monumental, often humorous works of Pop Art.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (61)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
artist
ⓘ
graffiti artist ⓘ human ⓘ painter ⓘ social activist ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York, United States ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | AIDS-related complications ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
Andy Warhol
ⓘ
Jean-Michel Basquiat ⓘ Yoko Ono ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1958-05-04 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1990-02-16 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | School of Visual Arts ⓘ |
| familyName |
Haring
ⓘ
linked to:
Keith Haring
|
| fieldOfWork |
AIDS awareness
ⓘ
LGBT rights activism ⓘ social activism ⓘ visual arts ⓘ |
| foundationDate | 1989 ⓘ |
| founded | Keith Haring Foundation ⓘ |
| fullName |
Keith Allen Haring
ⓘ
linked to:
Keith Haring
|
| genre |
drawing
ⓘ
mural ⓘ printmaking ⓘ public art ⓘ |
| givenName | Keith ⓘ |
| hasSignatureMotive |
Radiant Baby
ⓘ
barking dog ⓘ dancing figures ⓘ flying saucers ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Jean Dubuffet
ⓘ
New York City graffiti culture ⓘ Pierre Alechinsky ⓘ Robert Henri ⓘ William Burroughs ⓘ
linked to:
William S. Burroughs
|
| knownFor |
bold cartoon-like figures
ⓘ
graffiti-inspired imagery ⓘ public murals ⓘ subway drawings in New York City ⓘ |
| movement |
Graffiti art
ⓘ
Pop art ⓘ Street art ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Crack is Wack
ⓘ
Radiant Baby ⓘ Silence = Death imagery adaptations ⓘ Tuttomondo ⓘ Untitled (subway drawings) ⓘ |
| opened | Pop Shop ⓘ |
| openingDate | 1986 ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Reading, Pennsylvania, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Reading, Pennsylvania
|
| placeOfDeath |
New York City, New York, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
New York City
|
| PopShopLocation |
SoHo, Manhattan, New York City
ⓘ
linked to:
SoHo
|
| residence |
New York City, New York, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
New York City
|
| sexualOrientation | gay ⓘ |
| theme |
AIDS crisis
ⓘ
anti-apartheid ⓘ anti-drug messages ⓘ sexuality ⓘ social justice ⓘ |
| workLocation | New York City, New York, United States ⓘ |
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: Keith Haring Description of subject: Keith Haring was an American artist and social activist known for his bold, cartoon-like figures and graffiti-inspired works that addressed themes of sexuality, AIDS, and social justice.
Referenced by (27)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Keith Haring
linked to: Keith Haring
linked to: Keith Haring
linked to: Keith Haring
linked to: Keith Haring