This is propaganda
E444031
"This is propaganda" is a conceptual performance artwork by Tino Sehgal in which museum attendants repeatedly sing the work’s title to visitors, blurring the boundaries between exhibition, interaction, and institutional critique.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| This is propaganda canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4483382 — 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: This is propaganda Context triple: [Tino Sehgal, notableWork, This is propaganda]
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A.
Propaganda
Propaganda is a German synth-pop and electronic music group formed in the early 1980s, known for their avant-garde production and influential releases on the ZTT label.
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B.
Propaganda Films
Propaganda Films was a prominent American production company best known for its influential work in music videos, commercials, and stylish feature films during the late 1980s and 1990s.
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C.
Agitprop
Agitprop was the Soviet Union’s department responsible for shaping and spreading communist ideology through mass propaganda in culture, education, and the media.
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D.
Chinese Communist Party propaganda system
The Chinese Communist Party propaganda system is the centralized apparatus responsible for shaping public opinion, controlling information, and promoting party ideology across China’s media, education, and cultural institutions.
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E.
Bureau of Information and Propaganda
The Bureau of Information and Propaganda was a key wartime institution of the Polish resistance that coordinated underground press, information campaigns, and psychological warfare against occupying forces during World War II.
- 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: This is propaganda Target entity description: "This is propaganda" is a conceptual performance artwork by Tino Sehgal in which museum attendants repeatedly sing the work’s title to visitors, blurring the boundaries between exhibition, interaction, and institutional critique.
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A.
Propaganda
Propaganda is a German synth-pop and electronic music group formed in the early 1980s, known for their avant-garde production and influential releases on the ZTT label.
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B.
Propaganda Films
Propaganda Films was a prominent American production company best known for its influential work in music videos, commercials, and stylish feature films during the late 1980s and 1990s.
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C.
Agitprop
Agitprop was the Soviet Union’s department responsible for shaping and spreading communist ideology through mass propaganda in culture, education, and the media.
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D.
Chinese Communist Party propaganda system
The Chinese Communist Party propaganda system is the centralized apparatus responsible for shaping public opinion, controlling information, and promoting party ideology across China’s media, education, and cultural institutions.
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E.
Bureau of Information and Propaganda
The Bureau of Information and Propaganda was a key wartime institution of the Polish resistance that coordinated underground press, information campaigns, and psychological warfare against occupying forces during World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
conceptual artwork
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performance artwork ⓘ |
| artForm |
participatory art
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performance art ⓘ |
| artisticApproach |
dematerialized artwork
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instruction-based performance ⓘ non-object-based art ⓘ |
| blursBoundaryBetween |
artwork and institutional framework
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exhibition and performance ⓘ spectator and participant ⓘ |
| collectingMode |
acquired without material object
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sold as a set of oral instructions ⓘ |
| creator | Tino Sehgal ⓘ |
| documentationPolicy |
no photography allowed
ⓘ
no video recording allowed ⓘ |
| genre |
conceptual art
ⓘ
institutional critique ⓘ |
| hasTitle | This is propaganda ⓘ |
| involves |
direct address to visitors
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interaction with audience ⓘ live presence of performers ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainText | This is propaganda ⓘ |
| medium |
live performance
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vocal performance ⓘ |
| modeOfAddress | repeated singing of the title ⓘ |
| ontologicalStatus | immaterial artwork ⓘ |
| performedIn |
art museums
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contemporary art institutions ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
contemporary performance art
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practice of Tino Sehgal ⓘ |
| temporalForm | time-based art ⓘ |
| thematicFocus |
boundaries between artwork and exhibition
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institutional critique ⓘ museum as an institution ⓘ nature of propaganda ⓘ role of the spectator ⓘ |
| usesElement |
museum attendants
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repetition ⓘ sung text ⓘ |
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: This is propaganda Description of subject: "This is propaganda" is a conceptual performance artwork by Tino Sehgal in which museum attendants repeatedly sing the work’s title to visitors, blurring the boundaries between exhibition, interaction, and institutional critique.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.