Complex Pile
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Complex Pile is a large-scale, grotesque inflatable sculpture by American artist Paul McCarthy that satirically exaggerates bodily forms and functions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Complex Pile canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4982289 — 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: Complex Pile Context triple: [Paul McCarthy, notableWork, Complex Pile]
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A.
Patission complex
The Patission complex is the historic central campus of the National Technical University of Athens, housing its main neoclassical buildings in downtown Athens.
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B.
Complex A
Complex A is a major ceremonial architectural complex at the Olmec site of La Venta, notable for its early Mesoamerican pyramidal and plaza constructions.
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C.
Complex B
Complex B is a major ceremonial architectural group at the ancient Olmec site of La Venta, notable for its pyramidal structures and central role in religious and political activities.
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D.
PLEX
PLEX is a premium in-game currency item in EVE Online that can be bought with real money and traded or used to pay for game time and various services.
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E.
Stacked
Stacked is an American sitcom starring Pamela Anderson as a party girl who starts working in a bookstore, blending her comedic persona with a quirky workplace setting.
- 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: Complex Pile Target entity description: Complex Pile is a large-scale, grotesque inflatable sculpture by American artist Paul McCarthy that satirically exaggerates bodily forms and functions.
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A.
Patission complex
The Patission complex is the historic central campus of the National Technical University of Athens, housing its main neoclassical buildings in downtown Athens.
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B.
Complex A
Complex A is a major ceremonial architectural complex at the Olmec site of La Venta, notable for its early Mesoamerican pyramidal and plaza constructions.
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C.
Complex B
Complex B is a major ceremonial architectural group at the ancient Olmec site of La Venta, notable for its pyramidal structures and central role in religious and political activities.
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D.
PLEX
PLEX is a premium in-game currency item in EVE Online that can be bought with real money and traded or used to pay for game time and various services.
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E.
Stacked
Stacked is an American sitcom starring Pamela Anderson as a party girl who starts working in a bookstore, blending her comedic persona with a quirky workplace setting.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
contemporary artwork
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inflatable sculpture ⓘ |
| artForm |
installation art
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sculpture ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| creator | Paul McCarthy ⓘ |
| creatorNationality | American ⓘ |
| depicts |
bodily functions
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exaggerated bodily forms ⓘ |
| genre |
grotesque art
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satirical art ⓘ |
| hasQuality |
grotesque
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humorous ⓘ large-scale ⓘ provocative ⓘ satirical ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
body art
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performance art ⓘ satirical traditions in visual art ⓘ |
| intendedMeaning |
critique of cultural taboos about the body
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satire of the human body ⓘ |
| materialUsed | inflatable materials ⓘ |
| movement | contemporary art ⓘ |
| partOf |
Paul McCarthy oeuvre
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linked to:
Paul McCarthy
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| usesTechnique |
caricature
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exaggeration ⓘ inflatable construction ⓘ |
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: Complex Pile Description of subject: Complex Pile is a large-scale, grotesque inflatable sculpture by American artist Paul McCarthy that satirically exaggerates bodily forms and functions.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.