A Real Birmingham Family (public artwork unveiled in 2014)
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A Real Birmingham Family is a 2014 public sculpture by British artist Gillian Wearing that portrays an everyday local family to explore contemporary ideas of family and identity in Birmingham.
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| A Real Birmingham Family (public artwork unveiled in 2014) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: A Real Birmingham Family (public artwork unveiled in 2014) Context triple: [Gillian Wearing, notableWork, A Real Birmingham Family (public artwork unveiled in 2014)]
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Friends' burial ground, Birmingham
Friends' burial ground, Birmingham is a historic Quaker cemetery in Birmingham, England, associated with the local Religious Society of Friends community.
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Irwell Sculpture Trail
Irwell Sculpture Trail is a public art route in North West England featuring a series of contemporary sculptures installed along the River Irwell and its surrounding landscape.
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Birmingham Museums Trust
Birmingham Museums Trust is a charitable organization that operates and cares for Birmingham’s major museum sites and collections, preserving and presenting the city’s cultural and historical heritage.
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Banksy’s Mild Mild West mural
Banksy’s Mild Mild West mural is a famous street art piece depicting a teddy bear throwing a Molotov cocktail at riot police, widely regarded as one of the artist’s iconic early works in Bristol.
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Birmingham city centre pedestrian network
The Birmingham city centre pedestrian network is an interconnected system of walkways, streets, and public spaces that facilitates safe and convenient foot travel throughout Birmingham’s central urban area.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: A Real Birmingham Family (public artwork unveiled in 2014) Target entity description: A Real Birmingham Family is a 2014 public sculpture by British artist Gillian Wearing that portrays an everyday local family to explore contemporary ideas of family and identity in Birmingham.
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A.
Friends' burial ground, Birmingham
Friends' burial ground, Birmingham is a historic Quaker cemetery in Birmingham, England, associated with the local Religious Society of Friends community.
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B.
Irwell Sculpture Trail
Irwell Sculpture Trail is a public art route in North West England featuring a series of contemporary sculptures installed along the River Irwell and its surrounding landscape.
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C.
Birmingham Museums Trust
Birmingham Museums Trust is a charitable organization that operates and cares for Birmingham’s major museum sites and collections, preserving and presenting the city’s cultural and historical heritage.
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D.
Banksy’s Mild Mild West mural
Banksy’s Mild Mild West mural is a famous street art piece depicting a teddy bear throwing a Molotov cocktail at riot police, widely regarded as one of the artist’s iconic early works in Bristol.
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E.
Birmingham city centre pedestrian network
The Birmingham city centre pedestrian network is an interconnected system of walkways, streets, and public spaces that facilitates safe and convenient foot travel throughout Birmingham’s central urban area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
public artwork
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public sculpture ⓘ sculpture ⓘ |
| commissionedBy |
Birmingham City Council
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Birmingham Civic Society ⓘ Birmingham Museums Trust ⓘ Ikon Gallery ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creator | Gillian Wearing ⓘ |
| depicts |
contemporary family
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everyday local family ⓘ two adult women ⓘ two children ⓘ |
| genre | contemporary art ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | none (visual artwork) ⓘ |
| hasTitleLanguage | English ⓘ |
| inception | 2014 ⓘ |
| locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity | West Midlands ⓘ |
| location |
Birmingham
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Centenary Square ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Birmingham residents
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family ⓘ identity ⓘ |
| materialUsed | bronze ⓘ |
| notableWorkOf | Gillian Wearing ⓘ |
| partOf | public art in Birmingham ⓘ |
| purpose |
to explore contemporary ideas of family
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to explore contemporary ideas of identity ⓘ to represent the diversity of families in Birmingham ⓘ |
| subjectHasRole | representation of modern family ⓘ |
| unveiledIn | 2014 ⓘ |
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: A Real Birmingham Family (public artwork unveiled in 2014) Description of subject: A Real Birmingham Family is a 2014 public sculpture by British artist Gillian Wearing that portrays an everyday local family to explore contemporary ideas of family and identity in Birmingham.
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