A Small Thing but My Own
E443884
A Small Thing but My Own is a vibrant, emotionally charged abstract painting by British artist Howard Hodgkin, exemplifying his distinctive use of bold color and gestural brushwork.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| A Small Thing but My Own canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4482437 — 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 Small Thing but My Own Context triple: [Howard Hodgkin, notableWork, A Small Thing but My Own]
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A.
All the Small Things
"All the Small Things" is a 1999 pop-punk hit by Blink-182 known for its catchy melody, humorous music video, and mainstream breakthrough success.
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B.
These Things Too
"These Things Too" is a comic collection from the satirical newspaper strip Pearls Before Swine by cartoonist Stephan Pastis.
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C.
The Small Kindnesses
The Small Kindnesses is a short chapter of the Qur’an that emphasizes the importance of sincere faith expressed through caring for orphans, the needy, and performing even the smallest acts of charity.
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D.
Into My Own Thing
"Into My Own Thing" is a funk track by Sly & The Family Stone, best known today as a sampled source in later electronic and dance music productions.
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E.
Our Very Own
"Our Very Own" is a 1950 American drama film starring Ann Blyth and Jane Wyatt that explores the emotional upheaval of a teenager who discovers she is adopted.
- 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 Small Thing but My Own Target entity description: A Small Thing but My Own is a vibrant, emotionally charged abstract painting by British artist Howard Hodgkin, exemplifying his distinctive use of bold color and gestural brushwork.
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A.
All the Small Things
"All the Small Things" is a 1999 pop-punk hit by Blink-182 known for its catchy melody, humorous music video, and mainstream breakthrough success.
-
B.
These Things Too
"These Things Too" is a comic collection from the satirical newspaper strip Pearls Before Swine by cartoonist Stephan Pastis.
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C.
The Small Kindnesses
The Small Kindnesses is a short chapter of the Qur’an that emphasizes the importance of sincere faith expressed through caring for orphans, the needy, and performing even the smallest acts of charity.
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D.
Into My Own Thing
"Into My Own Thing" is a funk track by Sly & The Family Stone, best known today as a sampled source in later electronic and dance music productions.
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E.
Our Very Own
"Our Very Own" is a 1950 American drama film starring Ann Blyth and Jane Wyatt that explores the emotional upheaval of a teenager who discovers she is adopted.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
abstract painting
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painting ⓘ |
| artForm | painting ⓘ |
| artisticApproach | expressive abstraction ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Howard Hodgkin oeuvre ⓘ |
| colorCharacteristic | bold palette ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creator | Howard Hodgkin ⓘ |
| creatorNationality | British ⓘ |
| depicts | non-figurative subject matter ⓘ |
| genre | abstract art ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceFrom | modern abstract painting ⓘ |
| hasQuality |
emotionally charged
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gestural ⓘ vibrant ⓘ |
| inception | 20th century ⓘ |
| languageOfTitle | English ⓘ |
| medium | paint ⓘ |
| movement |
British abstract art
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contemporary art ⓘ |
| style | Howard Hodgkin’s distinctive style ⓘ |
| title | A Small Thing but My Own ⓘ |
| titleType | work title ⓘ |
| usesFeature | bold color ⓘ |
| usesTechnique | gestural brushwork ⓘ |
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: A Small Thing but My Own Description of subject: A Small Thing but My Own is a vibrant, emotionally charged abstract painting by British artist Howard Hodgkin, exemplifying his distinctive use of bold color and gestural brushwork.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.