The Jerome Project
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The Jerome Project is a multimedia art series by Titus Kaphar that explores mass incarceration and the erasure of Black men from society through partially obscured, icon-like portraits based on mugshots.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Jerome Project canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4982222 — 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: The Jerome Project Context triple: [Titus Kaphar, notableWork, The Jerome Project]
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A.
Silk Road Project
Silk Road Project is a cultural and musical initiative founded by cellist Yo-Yo Ma that promotes cross-cultural collaboration inspired by the historic Silk Road trade routes.
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B.
The Encyclopedists
"The Encyclopedists" is a science fiction story by Isaac Asimov set in his Foundation universe, focusing on a group of scholars whose faith in pure knowledge is challenged by the political and social realities of a collapsing Galactic Empire.
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C.
Shrine of the Book
The Shrine of the Book is a wing of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem that houses and displays the Dead Sea Scrolls and other ancient biblical manuscripts.
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D.
Palimpsest
"Palimpsest" is a song by Smog (Bill Callahan), featured on his 2005 indie folk album *A River Ain't Too Much to Love*.
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E.
The Kraus Project
The Kraus Project is Jonathan Franzen’s annotated and translated collection of essays by the acerbic Austrian satirist Karl Kraus, exploring language, media, and modernity.
- 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: The Jerome Project Target entity description: The Jerome Project is a multimedia art series by Titus Kaphar that explores mass incarceration and the erasure of Black men from society through partially obscured, icon-like portraits based on mugshots.
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A.
Silk Road Project
Silk Road Project is a cultural and musical initiative founded by cellist Yo-Yo Ma that promotes cross-cultural collaboration inspired by the historic Silk Road trade routes.
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B.
The Encyclopedists
"The Encyclopedists" is a science fiction story by Isaac Asimov set in his Foundation universe, focusing on a group of scholars whose faith in pure knowledge is challenged by the political and social realities of a collapsing Galactic Empire.
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C.
Shrine of the Book
The Shrine of the Book is a wing of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem that houses and displays the Dead Sea Scrolls and other ancient biblical manuscripts.
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D.
Palimpsest
"Palimpsest" is a song by Smog (Bill Callahan), featured on his 2005 indie folk album *A River Ain't Too Much to Love*.
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E.
The Kraus Project
The Kraus Project is Jonathan Franzen’s annotated and translated collection of essays by the acerbic Austrian satirist Karl Kraus, exploring language, media, and modernity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
art series
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multimedia art project ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
address the erasure of Black men from public life
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connect religious iconography with contemporary social issues ⓘ critique mass incarceration in the United States ⓘ highlight the dehumanization of incarcerated Black men ⓘ |
| artForm |
installation art
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mixed media ⓘ painting ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| creator | Titus Kaphar ⓘ |
| depicts |
Black male subjects
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icon-like portraits ⓘ |
| exhibitionHistory | exhibited in museums in the United States ⓘ |
| genre |
contemporary art
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political art ⓘ social justice art ⓘ |
| hasPart |
installation elements
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series of panel paintings ⓘ video components ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
identity
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memory ⓘ racial inequality ⓘ religion and spirituality ⓘ state violence ⓘ visibility and invisibility ⓘ |
| inspiredBy |
incarceration records
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mugshots ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Black men
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criminal justice system ⓘ erasure of Black men from society ⓘ mass incarceration ⓘ systemic racism ⓘ |
| movement |
conceptual art
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contemporary African American art ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
halo-like gold backgrounds
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partially obscured faces ⓘ submerged portraits in tar-like substance ⓘ visual reference to religious icons ⓘ |
| relatedWork | Titus Kaphar’s series on criminal justice ⓘ |
| usesMaterial |
gold leaf
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oil paint ⓘ tar ⓘ wood panels ⓘ |
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: The Jerome Project Description of subject: The Jerome Project is a multimedia art series by Titus Kaphar that explores mass incarceration and the erasure of Black men from society through partially obscured, icon-like portraits based on mugshots.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.