Map
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Map is a 1961 painting by American artist Jasper Johns that depicts a large, abstracted map of the United States using his characteristic blend of recognizable imagery and painterly experimentation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Map canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2097603 — 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: Map Context triple: [Jasper Johns, notableWork, Map]
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A.
MAP
MAP was the abbreviated name used for the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Aircraft Production, the World War II government department responsible for overseeing and increasing aircraft manufacturing.
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B.
Mapam
Mapam was a left-wing socialist Zionist political party in Israel that played a significant role in the early decades of the state, particularly within the kibbutz movement and peace-oriented politics.
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C.
Map Room
The Map Room is a historic room in the White House used for displaying maps and serving as a private meeting and communications space for the President.
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D.
#MAPA
#MAPA is a hashtag used within the Fridays for Future movement to highlight and organize climate activism by communities in the Most Affected People and Areas.
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E.
Mapah
Mapah is Rabbi Moses Isserles’s glosses on the Shulchan Aruch, integrating Ashkenazi customs and rulings into that foundational Jewish legal code.
- 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: Map Target entity description: Map is a 1961 painting by American artist Jasper Johns that depicts a large, abstracted map of the United States using his characteristic blend of recognizable imagery and painterly experimentation.
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A.
MAP
MAP was the abbreviated name used for the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Aircraft Production, the World War II government department responsible for overseeing and increasing aircraft manufacturing.
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B.
Mapam
Mapam was a left-wing socialist Zionist political party in Israel that played a significant role in the early decades of the state, particularly within the kibbutz movement and peace-oriented politics.
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C.
Map Room
The Map Room is a historic room in the White House used for displaying maps and serving as a private meeting and communications space for the President.
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D.
#MAPA
#MAPA is a hashtag used within the Fridays for Future movement to highlight and organize climate activism by communities in the Most Affected People and Areas.
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E.
Mapah
Mapah is Rabbi Moses Isserles’s glosses on the Shulchan Aruch, integrating Ashkenazi customs and rulings into that foundational Jewish legal code.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
painting
ⓘ
work of art ⓘ |
| artist | Jasper Johns ⓘ |
| colorPalette |
primary colors
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varied tonal contrasts ⓘ vivid colors ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| creator | Jasper Johns ⓘ |
| creatorBirthYear | 1930 ⓘ |
| creatorNationality | American ⓘ |
| depicts |
U.S. states
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map of the United States ⓘ state boundaries ⓘ |
| exploresTheme |
American identity
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perception of familiar symbols ⓘ relationship between image and object ⓘ systems of representation ⓘ |
| genre | abstract art ⓘ |
| hasArtisticStyle |
all-over composition
ⓘ
gestural brushwork ⓘ painterly abstraction ⓘ |
| hasCulturalContext |
early 1960s United States
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postwar American art ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
fragmented representation of the U.S. map
ⓘ
layered surface ⓘ overlapping and obscured boundaries ⓘ state names inscribed on the surface ⓘ visible drips and brushstrokes ⓘ |
| hasOriginalTitleLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasWorkTitle | Map ⓘ |
| inception | 1961 ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Abstract Expressionism
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linked to:
Abstract expressionism
American popular culture ⓘ |
| languageOfText | English ⓘ |
| medium | mixed media on canvas ⓘ |
| movement |
Neo-Dada
ⓘ
Pop art ⓘ |
| notableFor |
combination of recognizable imagery and abstraction
ⓘ
experimental painterly surface ⓘ use of a U.S. map as a pre-existing image ⓘ |
| partOf | Jasper Johns’ series of map paintings ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
American geography
ⓘ
cartographic imagery ⓘ recognizable popular imagery ⓘ |
| usesTechnique |
collage
ⓘ
encaustic ⓘ oil paint ⓘ |
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: Map Description of subject: Map is a 1961 painting by American artist Jasper Johns that depicts a large, abstracted map of the United States using his characteristic blend of recognizable imagery and painterly experimentation.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Map