Roberto Matta
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Roberto Matta was a Chilean surrealist painter known for his large-scale, visionary abstractions that explored psychological and cosmic themes.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Roberto Matta canonical | 19 |
| Roberto Matta oeuvre | 1 |
| Roberto Sebastián Antonio Matta Echaurren | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2261233 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Roberto Matta Context triple: [Pierre Matisse, representedArtist, Roberto Matta]
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Wifredo Lam
Wifredo Lam was a Cuban modernist painter best known for his Afro-Cuban–inspired, Surrealist-influenced works that fused European avant-garde styles with Caribbean spiritual and cultural themes.
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B.
Jorge Oteiza
Jorge Oteiza was a pioneering Spanish Basque sculptor and theorist known for his influential abstract and minimalist works that deeply shaped 20th-century Spanish art.
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Jesús Rafael Soto
Jesús Rafael Soto was a Venezuelan kinetic and op art pioneer known for his immersive, participatory sculptures and installations that explore movement, perception, and optical vibration.
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D.
David Alfaro Siqueiros
David Alfaro Siqueiros was a prominent Mexican painter and muralist, known as one of the leading figures of the Mexican muralism movement alongside Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco.
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E.
Alberto Calderón
Alberto Calderón was an influential Argentine mathematician renowned for his foundational contributions to harmonic analysis and partial differential equations.
- 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: Roberto Matta Target entity description: Roberto Matta was a Chilean surrealist painter known for his large-scale, visionary abstractions that explored psychological and cosmic themes.
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A.
Wifredo Lam
Wifredo Lam was a Cuban modernist painter best known for his Afro-Cuban–inspired, Surrealist-influenced works that fused European avant-garde styles with Caribbean spiritual and cultural themes.
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B.
Jorge Oteiza
Jorge Oteiza was a pioneering Spanish Basque sculptor and theorist known for his influential abstract and minimalist works that deeply shaped 20th-century Spanish art.
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C.
Jesús Rafael Soto
Jesús Rafael Soto was a Venezuelan kinetic and op art pioneer known for his immersive, participatory sculptures and installations that explore movement, perception, and optical vibration.
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D.
David Alfaro Siqueiros
David Alfaro Siqueiros was a prominent Mexican painter and muralist, known as one of the leading figures of the Mexican muralism movement alongside Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco.
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E.
Alberto Calderón
Alberto Calderón was an influential Argentine mathematician renowned for his foundational contributions to harmonic analysis and partial differential equations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chilean artist
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human ⓘ painter ⓘ surrealist artist ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Praemium Imperiale ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1911-11-11 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Santiago, Chile
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linked to:
Santiago
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| burialPlace |
Tarquinia, Italy
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linked to:
Tarquinia
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| child | Gordon Matta-Clark ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Chile ⓘ |
| dateAwarded | 1995 ⓘ |
| deathDate | 2002-11-23 ⓘ |
| educatedAs | architect ⓘ |
| employer | Le Corbusier ⓘ |
| familyName | Matta ⓘ |
| field |
drawing
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painting ⓘ |
| fullName |
Roberto Sebastián Antonio Matta Echaurren
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linked to:
Roberto Matta
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| genre |
abstract painting
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surrealist painting ⓘ |
| givenName | Roberto ⓘ |
| hasRelative | Ramón Subercaseaux Vicuña ⓘ |
| influenced |
Abstract Expressionism
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linked to:
Abstract expressionism
American abstract painters ⓘ Latin American modern art ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
André Breton
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European modernism ⓘ Surrealist automatism ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
French
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Spanish ⓘ |
| movement |
Abstract art
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Surrealism ⓘ |
| notableFor |
cosmic and metaphysical imagery
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large-scale visionary abstractions ⓘ psychological themes in art ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Invasion of the Night
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Les Voix ⓘ The Disasters of Mysticism ⓘ |
| signatureWorkCharacteristic |
interlacing organic forms
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vast, nebulous spatial fields ⓘ |
| spouse | Anne Clark ⓘ |
| style |
automatic drawing
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biomorphic abstraction ⓘ |
| theme |
cosmic space
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inner psychological landscapes ⓘ political conflict ⓘ |
| workedIn |
New York City
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Paris ⓘ Rome ⓘ |
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Referenced by (21)
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