Zao Wou-Ki
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Zao Wou-Ki was a Chinese-French painter renowned for his lyrical abstract works that fused Eastern calligraphic traditions with Western modernist techniques.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Zao Wou-Ki canonical | 15 |
| 趙無極 | 2 |
| Chinese-French abstract painter Zao Wou-Ki | 1 |
| Chu Teh-Chun | 1 |
| Zhao Wou-Ki | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2261238 — 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: Zao Wou-Ki Context triple: [Pierre Matisse, representedArtist, Zao Wou-Ki]
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A.
Yves Klein
Yves Klein was a French avant-garde artist best known for his monochrome paintings, especially his signature International Klein Blue, and his pioneering work in performance and conceptual art.
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B.
Zhang Huan
Zhang Huan is a contemporary Chinese artist known for his provocative performance art and large-scale sculptures that explore themes of identity, memory, and spirituality.
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C.
Tsuguharu Foujita
Tsuguharu Foujita was a Japanese–French painter and printmaker associated with the École de Paris, renowned for his distinctive ink-and-milk-white portraits, nudes, and depictions of cats.
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D.
Xu Bing
Xu Bing is a contemporary Chinese artist internationally recognized for his innovative use of language, printmaking, and installation to explore cultural identity and communication.
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E.
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.
- 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: Zao Wou-Ki Target entity description: Zao Wou-Ki was a Chinese-French painter renowned for his lyrical abstract works that fused Eastern calligraphic traditions with Western modernist techniques.
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A.
Yves Klein
Yves Klein was a French avant-garde artist best known for his monochrome paintings, especially his signature International Klein Blue, and his pioneering work in performance and conceptual art.
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B.
Zhang Huan
Zhang Huan is a contemporary Chinese artist known for his provocative performance art and large-scale sculptures that explore themes of identity, memory, and spirituality.
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C.
Tsuguharu Foujita
Tsuguharu Foujita was a Japanese–French painter and printmaker associated with the École de Paris, renowned for his distinctive ink-and-milk-white portraits, nudes, and depictions of cats.
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D.
Xu Bing
Xu Bing is a contemporary Chinese artist internationally recognized for his innovative use of language, printmaking, and installation to explore cultural identity and communication.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (56)
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: Zao Wou-Ki Description of subject: Zao Wou-Ki was a Chinese-French painter renowned for his lyrical abstract works that fused Eastern calligraphic traditions with Western modernist techniques.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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