Fairey
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Fairey is the surname of American contemporary street artist and graphic designer Shepard Fairey, known for his iconic "Obey Giant" campaign and the Barack Obama "Hope" poster.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Fairey canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2620412 — 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: Fairey Context triple: [Shepard Fairey, familyName, Fairey]
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A.
Hawker
Hawker is a surname of English origin borne by various notable individuals across fields such as aviation, politics, and the arts.
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B.
Fairey Fulmar
The Fairey Fulmar was a British carrier-borne fighter and reconnaissance aircraft used by the Royal Navy’s Fleet Air Arm during the early years of World War II.
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C.
Fairey Aviation Company
Fairey Aviation Company was a British aircraft manufacturer known for producing military aircraft, particularly for the Royal Air Force and Royal Navy, during the early to mid-20th century.
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D.
Fairey Firefly
The Fairey Firefly was a British World War II-era carrier-borne fighter and anti-submarine aircraft used primarily by the Royal Navy’s Fleet Air Arm.
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E.
Avro
Avro was a British aircraft manufacturer best known for producing iconic military aircraft such as the Avro Lancaster bomber during the 20th century.
- 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: Fairey Target entity description: Fairey is the surname of American contemporary street artist and graphic designer Shepard Fairey, known for his iconic "Obey Giant" campaign and the Barack Obama "Hope" poster.
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A.
Hawker
Hawker is a surname of English origin borne by various notable individuals across fields such as aviation, politics, and the arts.
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B.
Fairey Fulmar
The Fairey Fulmar was a British carrier-borne fighter and reconnaissance aircraft used by the Royal Navy’s Fleet Air Arm during the early years of World War II.
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C.
Fairey Aviation Company
Fairey Aviation Company was a British aircraft manufacturer known for producing military aircraft, particularly for the Royal Air Force and Royal Navy, during the early to mid-20th century.
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D.
Fairey Firefly
The Fairey Firefly was a British World War II-era carrier-borne fighter and anti-submarine aircraft used primarily by the Royal Navy’s Fleet Air Arm.
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E.
Avro
Avro is a row-oriented, schema-based data serialization format commonly used in big data processing and storage systems.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
contemporary artist
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graphic designer ⓘ human ⓘ street artist ⓘ |
| activeIn | Los Angeles, California, United States ⓘ |
| birthName |
Frank Shepard Fairey
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linked to:
Shepard Fairey
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1970-02-15 ⓘ |
| depicts |
André the Giant (in Obey Giant campaign)
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linked to:
André the Giant
|
| educatedAt | Rhode Island School of Design ⓘ |
| familyName | Fairey ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
graphic design
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poster design ⓘ public art ⓘ stencil art ⓘ street art ⓘ |
| founded |
OBEY Clothing
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linked to:
Obey Clothing
Studio Number One ⓘ |
| genre |
political art
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propaganda-style poster art ⓘ |
| givenName | Frank ⓘ |
| hasArtisticStyle |
bold graphic illustration
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propaganda-inspired graphic style ⓘ |
| hasMotto |
Obey
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linked to:
Obey Giant
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| hasSeries | Obey Giant campaign ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://obeygiant.com ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Soviet propaganda posters
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constructivist design ⓘ punk rock aesthetics ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Barack Obama "Hope" campaign poster
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linked to:
Barack Obama "Hope" poster
Obey Giant sticker campaign ⓘ appropriation of popular and political imagery ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| movement |
contemporary art
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pop art-influenced ⓘ street art ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Barack Obama "Hope" poster
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Obey Giant ⓘ |
| occupation |
activist
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artist ⓘ entrepreneur ⓘ graphic designer ⓘ illustrator ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Charleston, South Carolina, United States ⓘ |
| usesMedium |
screen printing
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stencils ⓘ stickers ⓘ wheatpaste posters ⓘ |
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: Fairey Description of subject: Fairey is the surname of American contemporary street artist and graphic designer Shepard Fairey, known for his iconic "Obey Giant" campaign and the Barack Obama "Hope" poster.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Fairey