Gillian Wearing
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Gillian Wearing is a British conceptual artist known for her candid, often unsettling explorations of identity, confession, and public versus private selves through photography and video.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Gillian Wearing canonical | 46 |
| Gillian Wearing oeuvre | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T845918 — 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: Gillian Wearing Context triple: [The Phillips Collection, hasWorkBy, Gillian Wearing]
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Tracey Emin
Tracey Emin is a British contemporary artist known for her confessional, autobiographical works across mediums such as installation, drawing, painting, and neon text.
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Sarah Lucas
Sarah Lucas is a British artist associated with the Young British Artists movement, known for her provocative sculptures and installations that explore gender, sexuality, and the body.
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Sherrie Levine
Sherrie Levine is an American conceptual artist best known for her appropriation works that challenge ideas of originality, authorship, and authenticity in art.
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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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Peter Doig
Peter Doig is a contemporary Scottish-born painter renowned for his atmospheric, dreamlike landscapes that blend memory, photography, and art-historical references.
- 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: Gillian Wearing Target entity description: Gillian Wearing is a British conceptual artist known for her candid, often unsettling explorations of identity, confession, and public versus private selves through photography and video.
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A.
Tracey Emin
Tracey Emin is a British contemporary artist known for her confessional, autobiographical works across mediums such as installation, drawing, painting, and neon text.
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B.
Sarah Lucas
Sarah Lucas is a British artist associated with the Young British Artists movement, known for her provocative sculptures and installations that explore gender, sexuality, and the body.
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C.
Sherrie Levine
Sherrie Levine is an American conceptual artist best known for her appropriation works that challenge ideas of originality, authorship, and authenticity in art.
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D.
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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E.
Peter Doig
Peter Doig is a contemporary Scottish-born painter renowned for his atmospheric, dreamlike landscapes that blend memory, photography, and art-historical references.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (77)
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: Gillian Wearing Description of subject: Gillian Wearing is a British conceptual artist known for her candid, often unsettling explorations of identity, confession, and public versus private selves through photography and video.
Referenced by (47)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Gillian Wearing
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A Real Birmingham Family (sculpture)
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A Real Birmingham Family (sculpture)
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A Real Birmingham Family (sculpture)
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A Real Birmingham Family (public artwork in Centenary Square)
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A Real Birmingham Family (public artwork in Centenary Square)
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A Real Birmingham Family (public artwork unveiled in 2014)
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A Real Birmingham Family (public artwork unveiled in 2014)
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A Real Birmingham Family (public artwork commissioned by Ikon Gallery)
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A Real Birmingham Family (public artwork commissioned by Ikon Gallery)
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A Real Birmingham Family (public artwork representing a non‑nuclear family)
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A Real Birmingham Family (public artwork in bronze on a plinth)
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A Real Birmingham Family (public artwork in bronze on a plinth)
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A Real Birmingham Family (public artwork that attracted media attention)