Yinka Shonibare
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Yinka Shonibare is a British-Nigerian contemporary artist known for exploring colonialism, race, and identity through installations and sculptures that often incorporate brightly colored Dutch wax fabrics.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yinka Shonibare canonical | 9 |
| Yinka Shonibare CBE | 3 |
| Shonibare | 2 |
| Yinka Shonibare oeuvre | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T845866 — 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: Yinka Shonibare Context triple: [The Phillips Collection, hasWorkBy, Yinka Shonibare]
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A.
Grayson Perry
Grayson Perry is a British contemporary artist and Turner Prize-winning ceramicist known for his elaborate vases, tapestries, and his cross-dressing alter ego, Claire.
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B.
El Anatsui
El Anatsui is a Ghanaian sculptor renowned for his monumental wall-hanging installations made from discarded bottle caps and metal fragments, which explore themes of history, consumption, and transformation.
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C.
William Kentridge
William Kentridge is a South African artist renowned for his animated films, charcoal drawings, and politically charged works addressing apartheid and memory.
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D.
Kara Walker
Kara Walker is an American contemporary artist renowned for her provocative black cut-paper silhouettes and installations that explore race, gender, sexuality, and the legacy of slavery in the United States.
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E.
Glenn Ligon
Glenn Ligon is an American conceptual artist known for his text-based paintings and installations that explore race, language, identity, and the politics of representation.
- 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: Yinka Shonibare Target entity description: Yinka Shonibare is a British-Nigerian contemporary artist known for exploring colonialism, race, and identity through installations and sculptures that often incorporate brightly colored Dutch wax fabrics.
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A.
Grayson Perry
Grayson Perry is a British contemporary artist and Turner Prize-winning ceramicist known for his elaborate vases, tapestries, and his cross-dressing alter ego, Claire.
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B.
El Anatsui
El Anatsui is a Ghanaian sculptor renowned for his monumental wall-hanging installations made from discarded bottle caps and metal fragments, which explore themes of history, consumption, and transformation.
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C.
William Kentridge
William Kentridge is a South African artist renowned for his animated films, charcoal drawings, and politically charged works addressing apartheid and memory.
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D.
Kara Walker
Kara Walker is an American contemporary artist renowned for her provocative black cut-paper silhouettes and installations that explore race, gender, sexuality, and the legacy of slavery in the United States.
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E.
Glenn Ligon
Glenn Ligon is an American conceptual artist known for his text-based paintings and installations that explore race, language, identity, and the politics of representation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
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
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Input
Subject: Yinka Shonibare Description of subject: Yinka Shonibare is a British-Nigerian contemporary artist known for exploring colonialism, race, and identity through installations and sculptures that often incorporate brightly colored Dutch wax fabrics.
Referenced by (15)
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