Target with Four Faces
E233553
Target with Four Faces is a 1955 mixed-media painting by Jasper Johns that combines a bullseye target motif with fragmented human faces to challenge traditional notions of representation and perception in art.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Target with Four Faces canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2097601 — 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: Target with Four Faces Context triple: [Jasper Johns, notableWork, Target with Four Faces]
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A.
Five Hundred Faces
Five Hundred Faces is a song featured on the album "Harrow Songs."
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B.
Two Faces
Two Faces is a song by Bruce Springsteen from his 1987 album "Tunnel of Love," reflecting themes of inner conflict and emotional duality.
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C.
The Forty-Fours
The Forty-Fours are a small, remote group of rocky islets forming the easternmost part of New Zealand’s Chatham Islands archipelago.
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D.
Tell the Vision
"Tell the Vision" is a posthumous Pop Smoke track featured on Kanye West's album "Donda," known for its raw, lo-fi vocal delivery and emotional tribute tone.
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E.
Look to the Rainbow
"Look to the Rainbow" is a popular show tune from the 1947 musical *Finian's Rainbow*, known for its hopeful, inspirational lyrics and memorable melody.
- 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: Target with Four Faces Target entity description: Target with Four Faces is a 1955 mixed-media painting by Jasper Johns that combines a bullseye target motif with fragmented human faces to challenge traditional notions of representation and perception in art.
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A.
Five Hundred Faces
Five Hundred Faces is a song featured on the album "Harrow Songs."
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B.
Two Faces
Two Faces is a song by Bruce Springsteen from his 1987 album "Tunnel of Love," reflecting themes of inner conflict and emotional duality.
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C.
The Forty-Fours
The Forty-Fours are a small, remote group of rocky islets forming the easternmost part of New Zealand’s Chatham Islands archipelago.
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D.
Tell the Vision
"Tell the Vision" is a posthumous Pop Smoke track featured on Kanye West's album "Donda," known for its raw, lo-fi vocal delivery and emotional tribute tone.
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E.
Look to the Rainbow
"Look to the Rainbow" is a popular show tune from the 1947 musical *Finian's Rainbow*, known for its hopeful, inspirational lyrics and memorable melody.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
mixed-media artwork
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painting ⓘ |
| artForm |
encaustic painting
ⓘ
mixed media ⓘ |
| artHistoricalContext | early major work by Jasper Johns ⓘ |
| artworkSurface | wooden panel ⓘ |
| collection |
The Museum of Modern Art collection
ⓘ
linked to:
Museum of Modern Art
|
| colorPalette |
black
ⓘ
blue ⓘ red ⓘ white ⓘ yellow ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| creator | Jasper Johns ⓘ |
| creatorNationality | American ⓘ |
| depicts |
bullseye target
ⓘ
four faces ⓘ fragmented human faces ⓘ |
| exhibitionHistory | exhibited at Leo Castelli Gallery ⓘ |
| genre |
abstract art
ⓘ
conceptual art ⓘ |
| hasPart |
hinged shutters
ⓘ
lower panel with target ⓘ plaster face fragments ⓘ upper compartment with faces ⓘ |
| hasTitleLanguage | English ⓘ |
| inception | 1955 ⓘ |
| influenced |
Conceptual Art
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Pop Art ⓘ
linked to:
Pop art
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| influencedBy |
Abstract Expressionism
ⓘ
linked to:
Abstract expressionism
|
| languageOfWork | none (visual artwork) ⓘ |
| location |
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ⓘ
linked to:
Museum of Modern Art
|
| mainSubject |
human faces
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target motif ⓘ |
| materialUsed |
encaustic paint
ⓘ
newspaper collage ⓘ plaster casts ⓘ wood ⓘ |
| movement |
Neo-Dada
ⓘ
Proto-Pop Art ⓘ |
| notableFor |
challenge to traditional representation
ⓘ
combination of painting and sculpture ⓘ exploration of perception ⓘ integration of real objects into painting ⓘ use of everyday imagery ⓘ use of target motif ⓘ |
| numberOfFacesDepicted | 4 ⓘ |
| title | Target with Four Faces ⓘ |
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: Target with Four Faces Description of subject: Target with Four Faces is a 1955 mixed-media painting by Jasper Johns that combines a bullseye target motif with fragmented human faces to challenge traditional notions of representation and perception in art.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.