Clyfford Still
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Clyfford Still was a pioneering American abstract expressionist painter known for his monumental, jagged color-field canvases that profoundly influenced postwar modern art.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Clyfford Still canonical | 31 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T845810 — 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: Clyfford Still Context triple: [The Phillips Collection, hasWorkBy, Clyfford Still]
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A.
Richard Diebenkorn
Richard Diebenkorn was a prominent 20th-century American painter known for his lyrical abstractions and the celebrated "Ocean Park" series, which bridged Abstract Expressionism and Color Field painting.
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B.
Barnett Newman
Barnett Newman was an influential American abstract expressionist painter known for his large color field canvases marked by vertical “zips” that helped define postwar modern art.
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C.
Mark Rothko
Mark Rothko was a Latvian-born American painter and leading figure of Abstract Expressionism, renowned for his large-scale color field paintings that explore profound emotional and spiritual themes.
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D.
Philip Guston
Philip Guston was a 20th-century Canadian American painter known for his evolution from abstract expressionism to a distinctive, cartoon-like figurative style that often addressed political and social themes.
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E.
Jackson Pollock
Jackson Pollock was an influential American abstract expressionist painter best known for his innovative drip painting technique that revolutionized modern 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: Clyfford Still Target entity description: Clyfford Still was a pioneering American abstract expressionist painter known for his monumental, jagged color-field canvases that profoundly influenced postwar modern art.
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A.
Richard Diebenkorn
Richard Diebenkorn was a prominent 20th-century American painter known for his lyrical abstractions and the celebrated "Ocean Park" series, which bridged Abstract Expressionism and Color Field painting.
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B.
Barnett Newman
Barnett Newman was an influential American abstract expressionist painter known for his large color field canvases marked by vertical “zips” that helped define postwar modern art.
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C.
Mark Rothko
Mark Rothko was a Latvian-born American painter and leading figure of Abstract Expressionism, renowned for his large-scale color field paintings that explore profound emotional and spiritual themes.
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D.
Philip Guston
Philip Guston was a 20th-century Canadian American painter known for his evolution from abstract expressionism to a distinctive, cartoon-like figurative style that often addressed political and social themes.
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E.
Jackson Pollock
Jackson Pollock was an influential American abstract expressionist painter best known for his innovative drip painting technique that revolutionized modern art.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Clyfford Still Description of subject: Clyfford Still was a pioneering American abstract expressionist painter known for his monumental, jagged color-field canvases that profoundly influenced postwar modern art.
Referenced by (31)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Still
subject linked to:
Grandin, North Dakota, United States
subject linked to:
Olitski
subject linked to:
Diebenkorn