Dorothea Tanning
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Dorothea Tanning was an American painter, sculptor, and writer renowned for her imaginative, dreamlike works that made her a significant figure in the Surrealist movement.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dorothea Tanning canonical | 20 |
| Dorothea Tanning oeuvre | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1663909 — 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: Dorothea Tanning Context triple: [Surrealism, hasKeyFigure, Dorothea Tanning]
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Leonora Carrington
Leonora Carrington was a British-born Mexican artist and writer renowned for her imaginative, feminist-inflected contributions to Surrealism in painting and literature.
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Isabel Bishop
Isabel Bishop was a prominent American painter and printmaker associated with the 20th-century realist tradition, best known for her depictions of everyday urban life in New York City.
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C.
Grace Hartigan
Grace Hartigan was an influential American Abstract Expressionist painter known for her bold, gestural style and for bridging abstraction with figurative imagery in the mid-20th century art scene.
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D.
Isa Genzken
Isa Genzken is a German contemporary artist renowned for her innovative sculptures, installations, and assemblages that often engage with architecture, urban space, and modern consumer culture.
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E.
Agnes Martin
Agnes Martin was a Canadian-born American abstract painter renowned for her serene, grid-based and striped canvases that explore subtle variations of line, color, and light.
- 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: Dorothea Tanning Target entity description: Dorothea Tanning was an American painter, sculptor, and writer renowned for her imaginative, dreamlike works that made her a significant figure in the Surrealist movement.
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A.
Leonora Carrington
Leonora Carrington was a British-born Mexican artist and writer renowned for her imaginative, feminist-inflected contributions to Surrealism in painting and literature.
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B.
Isabel Bishop
Isabel Bishop was a prominent American painter and printmaker associated with the 20th-century realist tradition, best known for her depictions of everyday urban life in New York City.
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C.
Grace Hartigan
Grace Hartigan was an influential American Abstract Expressionist painter known for her bold, gestural style and for bridging abstraction with figurative imagery in the mid-20th century art scene.
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D.
Isa Genzken
Isa Genzken is a German contemporary artist renowned for her innovative sculptures, installations, and assemblages that often engage with architecture, urban space, and modern consumer culture.
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E.
Agnes Martin
Agnes Martin was a Canadian-born American abstract painter renowned for her serene, grid-based and striped canvases that explore subtle variations of line, color, and light.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Dorothea Tanning Description of subject: Dorothea Tanning was an American painter, sculptor, and writer renowned for her imaginative, dreamlike works that made her a significant figure in the Surrealist movement.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Dorothea Tanning
subject linked to:
Maximilian Maria Ernst
subject linked to:
Maximilian Maria Ernst