Cremaster 1
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Cremaster 1 is an experimental art film by Matthew Barney, known for its surreal, highly stylized imagery and its role as the first installment in his influential Cremaster Cycle.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cremaster 1 canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4909473 — 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: Cremaster 1 Context triple: [Matthew Barney, notableWork, Cremaster 1]
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A.
Dies Cinerum
Dies Cinerum is the Latin name for Ash Wednesday, the Christian holy day that marks the beginning of Lent with the imposition of ashes on the faithful.
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B.
Crimpshrine
Crimpshrine was an influential late-1980s East Bay punk band known for its melodic yet raw sound and for helping shape the Berkeley punk scene that later produced groups like Pinhead Gunpowder and Green Day.
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C.
Theaster
Theaster is an American artist and urban planner known for his socially engaged projects that revitalize neglected neighborhoods through art, architecture, and community development.
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D.
Shockwave
Shockwave is a now-discontinued multimedia platform and browser plugin developed by Macromedia (later Adobe) for delivering interactive web content, games, and animations.
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E.
Crakers
The Crakers are a group of genetically engineered post-human beings in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy, designed to be peaceful, environmentally harmonious replacements for humanity.
- 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: Cremaster 1 Target entity description: Cremaster 1 is an experimental art film by Matthew Barney, known for its surreal, highly stylized imagery and its role as the first installment in his influential Cremaster Cycle.
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A.
Dies Cinerum
Dies Cinerum is the Latin name for Ash Wednesday, the Christian holy day that marks the beginning of Lent with the imposition of ashes on the faithful.
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B.
Crimpshrine
Crimpshrine was an influential late-1980s East Bay punk band known for its melodic yet raw sound and for helping shape the Berkeley punk scene that later produced groups like Pinhead Gunpowder and Green Day.
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C.
Theaster
Theaster is an American artist and urban planner known for his socially engaged projects that revitalize neglected neighborhoods through art, architecture, and community development.
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D.
Shockwave
Shockwave is a now-discontinued multimedia platform and browser plugin developed by Macromedia (later Adobe) for delivering interactive web content, games, and animations.
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E.
Crakers
The Crakers are a group of genetically engineered post-human beings in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy, designed to be peaceful, environmentally harmonious replacements for humanity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
experimental art film
ⓘ
short film ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| creator | Matthew Barney ⓘ |
| director | Matthew Barney ⓘ |
| distributionModel | limited art-world distribution ⓘ |
| exhibitedAs |
gallery installation
ⓘ
museum screening ⓘ |
| followedBy | Cremaster 2 ⓘ |
| follows | none ⓘ |
| genre |
art film
ⓘ
avant-garde film ⓘ experimental film ⓘ |
| hasArtHistoricalContext |
1990s American art scene
ⓘ
rise of large-scale video installations ⓘ |
| hasFormat | color film ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn |
contemporary video art
ⓘ
installation art ⓘ |
| hasKeyConcept | cremaster muscle metaphor ⓘ |
| hasMedium | 16 mm film ⓘ |
| hasNarrativeForm |
nonlinear narrative
ⓘ
symbolic performance ⓘ |
| hasProductionContext | independent production ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
body and transformation
ⓘ
mythic symbolism ⓘ sexual differentiation ⓘ |
| hasVisualStyle |
choreographed movement
ⓘ
minimal dialogue ⓘ symbol-laden set design ⓘ tableau-like compositions ⓘ |
| hasWorkType | multi-channel art project component ⓘ |
| intendedAudience |
contemporary art audiences
ⓘ
experimental film audiences ⓘ |
| isCentralTo | reputation of Matthew Barney ⓘ |
| isConsidered | cult film in art world ⓘ |
| movement |
contemporary art
ⓘ
postmodern art ⓘ |
| notableFor |
highly stylized visual design
ⓘ
surreal imagery ⓘ symbolic narrative structure ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf |
Cremaster Cycle
ⓘ
contemporary art practice of Matthew Barney ⓘ |
| releasePeriod | 1990s ⓘ |
| seriesOrdinal | 1 ⓘ |
| writer | Matthew Barney ⓘ |
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: Cremaster 1 Description of subject: Cremaster 1 is an experimental art film by Matthew Barney, known for its surreal, highly stylized imagery and its role as the first installment in his influential Cremaster Cycle.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.