Austin Osman Spare
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Austin Osman Spare was an English artist and occultist known for his distinctive, often esoteric drawings and paintings that influenced modern chaos magic and visionary art.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Austin Osman Spare canonical | 2 |
| Arthur Edward Waite | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2697179 — 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: Austin Osman Spare Context triple: [British War Memorials Committee, notableArtistCommissioned, Austin Osman Spare]
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A.
Eric Frank Russell
Eric Frank Russell was a British science fiction author known for his witty, humanistic stories and influential contributions to mid-20th-century speculative fiction.
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B.
Philip Vian
Philip Vian was a distinguished British Royal Navy admiral known for his aggressive leadership in destroyer actions and key naval engagements during the Second World War.
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C.
Ernest Merritt
Ernest Merritt was an American physicist and academic who co-founded the influential scientific journal Physical Review and helped shape early 20th-century physics research in the United States.
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D.
Alan Garner
Alan Garner is an English novelist renowned for his fantasy and children's literature rooted in folklore and the landscapes of Cheshire, particularly works like "The Weirdstone of Brisingamen" and "The Owl Service."
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E.
Alan Garner
Alan Garner is a socially awkward yet hilariously unpredictable member of the Wolfpack in the comedy film series "The Hangover," known for his bizarre behavior and absurd one-liners.
- 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: Austin Osman Spare Target entity description: Austin Osman Spare was an English artist and occultist known for his distinctive, often esoteric drawings and paintings that influenced modern chaos magic and visionary art.
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A.
Eric Frank Russell
Eric Frank Russell was a British science fiction author known for his witty, humanistic stories and influential contributions to mid-20th-century speculative fiction.
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B.
Philip Vian
Philip Vian was a distinguished British Royal Navy admiral known for his aggressive leadership in destroyer actions and key naval engagements during the Second World War.
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C.
Ernest Merritt
Ernest Merritt was an American physicist and academic who co-founded the influential scientific journal Physical Review and helped shape early 20th-century physics research in the United States.
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D.
Alan Garner
Alan Garner is an English novelist renowned for his fantasy and children's literature rooted in folklore and the landscapes of Cheshire, particularly works like "The Weirdstone of Brisingamen" and "The Owl Service."
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E.
Alan Garner
Alan Garner is a socially awkward yet hilariously unpredictable member of the Wolfpack in the comedy film series "The Hangover," known for his bizarre behavior and absurd one-liners.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Austin Osman Spare Description of subject: Austin Osman Spare was an English artist and occultist known for his distinctive, often esoteric drawings and paintings that influenced modern chaos magic and visionary art.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Austin Osman Spare