Francis Picabia
E171708
Francis Picabia was a French avant-garde painter and poet known for his influential role in early 20th-century modern art movements, particularly Dada and Surrealism.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Francis Picabia canonical | 41 |
| Francis-Marie Martinez de Picabia | 4 |
| Francis Picabia (longtime companion before marriage) | 1 |
| Francis Picabia (m. late in his life) | 1 |
| Francis Picabia oeuvre | 1 |
| Picabia | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1262440 — 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: Francis Picabia Context triple: [Cubism, hasMajorFigure, Francis Picabia]
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A.
Juan Gris
Juan Gris was a Spanish painter and sculptor best known as a leading figure of Cubism, noted for his precise, geometric compositions and innovative use of color.
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Gino Severini
Gino Severini was an Italian painter and key modernist who played a significant role in both the Cubist and Futurist movements, known especially for his dynamic depictions of urban life and movement.
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C.
Albert Gleizes
Albert Gleizes was a pioneering French painter, theorist, and writer who played a key role in developing and promoting Cubism in the early 20th century.
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D.
André Le Breton
André Le Breton was an 18th-century French printer and bookseller best known as one of the principal publishers of Denis Diderot’s Encyclopédie.
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E.
Félix Vallotton
Félix Vallotton was a Swiss-French painter and printmaker known for his bold, graphic woodcuts and his association with the Post-Impressionist group Les Nabis.
- 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: Francis Picabia Target entity description: Francis Picabia was a French avant-garde painter and poet known for his influential role in early 20th-century modern art movements, particularly Dada and Surrealism.
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A.
Juan Gris
Juan Gris was a Spanish painter and sculptor best known as a leading figure of Cubism, noted for his precise, geometric compositions and innovative use of color.
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B.
Gino Severini
Gino Severini was an Italian painter and key modernist who played a significant role in both the Cubist and Futurist movements, known especially for his dynamic depictions of urban life and movement.
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C.
Albert Gleizes
Albert Gleizes was a pioneering French painter, theorist, and writer who played a key role in developing and promoting Cubism in the early 20th century.
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D.
André Le Breton
André Le Breton was an 18th-century French printer and bookseller best known as one of the principal publishers of Denis Diderot’s Encyclopédie.
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E.
Félix Vallotton
Félix Vallotton was a Swiss-French painter and printmaker known for his bold, graphic woodcuts and his association with the Post-Impressionist group Les Nabis.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Francis Picabia Description of subject: Francis Picabia was a French avant-garde painter and poet known for his influential role in early 20th-century modern art movements, particularly Dada and Surrealism.
Referenced by (49)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Francis Picabia
linked to: Francis Picabia
linked to: Francis Picabia
linked to: Francis Picabia
linked to: Francis Picabia
linked to: Francis Picabia
linked to: Francis Picabia
linked to: Francis Picabia
subject linked to:
Galeries Dalmau, Barcelona
subject linked to:
Alfred Stieglitz’s 291 gallery