A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
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A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby is a large-scale, site-specific installation by artist Kara Walker featuring a monumental sugar-coated sphinx-like figure that critiques the histories of slavery, race, and the sugar trade.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby canonical | 3 |
| A Subtlety | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2886121 — 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: A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby Context triple: [Kara Walker, notableWork, A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby]
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A.
The Splendid Things We Planned
The Splendid Things We Planned is a memoir by biographer Blake Bailey that recounts his troubled relationship with his brother and their dysfunctional family.
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B.
Tender Lover
Tender Lover is a 1989 R&B album by Babyface that helped establish him as a leading singer, songwriter, and producer.
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C.
The Water Dancer
The Water Dancer is a debut novel by Ta-Nehisi Coates that blends historical fiction and magical realism to explore slavery, memory, and freedom in the antebellum American South.
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D.
Stingo
Stingo is the young Southern writer and narrator in William Styron’s novel "Sophie’s Choice," through whose perspective the tragic story unfolds.
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E.
The Golden House
The Golden House is a lesser-known 19th-century novel by American essayist and humorist Charles Dudley Warner.
- 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: A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby Target entity description: A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby is a large-scale, site-specific installation by artist Kara Walker featuring a monumental sugar-coated sphinx-like figure that critiques the histories of slavery, race, and the sugar trade.
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A.
The Splendid Things We Planned
The Splendid Things We Planned is a memoir by biographer Blake Bailey that recounts his troubled relationship with his brother and their dysfunctional family.
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B.
Tender Lover
Tender Lover is a 1989 R&B album by Babyface that helped establish him as a leading singer, songwriter, and producer.
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C.
The Water Dancer
The Water Dancer is a debut novel by Ta-Nehisi Coates that blends historical fiction and magical realism to explore slavery, memory, and freedom in the antebellum American South.
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D.
Stingo
Stingo is the young Southern writer and narrator in William Styron’s novel "Sophie’s Choice," through whose perspective the tragic story unfolds.
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E.
The Golden House
The Golden House is a lesser-known 19th-century novel by American essayist and humorist Charles Dudley Warner.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
art installation
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contemporary artwork ⓘ site-specific installation ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Marvelous Sugar Baby ⓘ |
| artForm | public art ⓘ |
| commissionedBy | Creative Time ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| creator | Kara Walker ⓘ |
| criticizes |
capitalism
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histories of slavery ⓘ racial exploitation ⓘ sugar industry ⓘ |
| depicts |
Black female figure
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mammy stereotype ⓘ sphinx-like figure ⓘ |
| exhibitedBy | Creative Time ⓘ |
| exhibitionStart | 2014 ⓘ |
| exhibitionType | temporary installation ⓘ |
| genre |
conceptual art
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installation art ⓘ political art ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn |
discourse on race in contemporary art
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public art addressing slavery ⓘ |
| inception | 2014 ⓘ |
| languageOfTitle | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Brooklyn
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New York City ⓘ |
| location |
Domino Sugar Refinery
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linked to:
Domino Sugar Refinery site
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| mainSubject |
African diaspora
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colonialism ⓘ race ⓘ slavery ⓘ sugar trade ⓘ |
| materialProperty | sugar-coated ⓘ |
| medium |
molasses
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styrofoam ⓘ sugar ⓘ |
| movement | contemporary art ⓘ |
| notableFor | monumental sugar-coated sphinx ⓘ |
| partOf | Kara Walker oeuvre ⓘ |
| scale | large-scale ⓘ |
| siteSpecificTo |
Domino Sugar Refinery
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linked to:
Domino Sugar Refinery site
|
| theme |
Black womanhood
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commodification of bodies ⓘ industrial history ⓘ labor exploitation ⓘ |
| title | A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby ⓘ |
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Subject: A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby Description of subject: A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby is a large-scale, site-specific installation by artist Kara Walker featuring a monumental sugar-coated sphinx-like figure that critiques the histories of slavery, race, and the sugar trade.
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