Los Angeles Public Library murals and iconographic program (supervision)

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architectural decorative program iconographic program public art program

The Los Angeles Public Library murals and iconographic program (supervision) is the coordinated decorative and symbolic artwork scheme created for the library’s interior, integrating murals and iconography into a unified architectural and cultural narrative.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Los Angeles Public Library iconographic scheme	1
Los Angeles Public Library interior murals	1
Los Angeles Public Library murals and iconographic program (supervision) canonical	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T36636 — 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: Los Angeles Public Library murals and iconographic program (supervision)
Context triple: [Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, designed, Los Angeles Public Library murals and iconographic program (supervision)]

A. Art Students League of New York
The Art Students League of New York is a renowned independent art school in Manhattan known for its influential role in training generations of prominent American artists.
B. Palace of Fine Arts
The Palace of Fine Arts is a monumental Beaux-Arts structure in San Francisco originally built for the 1915 Panama–Pacific International Exposition and now a popular cultural and scenic landmark.
C. Federal Art Project
The Federal Art Project was a New Deal initiative that employed thousands of artists across the United States to create public artworks, murals, posters, and art education programs during the Great Depression.
D. Crocker Art Museum
The Crocker Art Museum is a prominent art museum in Sacramento, California, known for its extensive collections of Californian art, European paintings, and international ceramics housed in both historic and modern gallery spaces.
E. Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument is an official designation by the City of Los Angeles that recognizes and protects buildings, sites, and landscapes of significant historic, architectural, or cultural value.
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: Los Angeles Public Library murals and iconographic program (supervision)
Target entity description: The Los Angeles Public Library murals and iconographic program (supervision) is the coordinated decorative and symbolic artwork scheme created for the library’s interior, integrating murals and iconography into a unified architectural and cultural narrative.

A. Art Students League of New York
The Art Students League of New York is a renowned independent art school in Manhattan known for its influential role in training generations of prominent American artists.
B. Palace of Fine Arts
The Palace of Fine Arts is a monumental Beaux-Arts structure in San Francisco originally built for the 1915 Panama–Pacific International Exposition and now a popular cultural and scenic landmark.
C. Federal Art Project
The Federal Art Project was a New Deal initiative that employed thousands of artists across the United States to create public artworks, murals, posters, and art education programs during the Great Depression.
D. Crocker Art Museum
The Crocker Art Museum is a prominent art museum in Sacramento, California, known for its extensive collections of Californian art, European paintings, and international ceramics housed in both historic and modern gallery spaces.
E. Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument is an official designation by the City of Los Angeles that recognizes and protects buildings, sites, and landscapes of significant historic, architectural, or cultural value.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (36)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	architectural decorative program ⓘ iconographic program ⓘ public art program ⓘ
appliesTo	interior spaces of Los Angeles Public Library ⓘ
audience	visitors of Los Angeles Public Library ⓘ
context	20th-century American public art ⓘ Los Angeles civic architecture ⓘ
country	United States ⓘ linked to: United States of America
describedAs	coordinated decorative and symbolic artwork scheme ⓘ unified mural and iconographic program for a public library ⓘ
function	aesthetic enhancement of library interior ⓘ symbolic representation of library mission ⓘ visual education ⓘ
goal	to communicate cultural and historical narratives through imagery ⓘ to integrate art and architecture in a public institution ⓘ
hasPart	Los Angeles Public Library iconographic scheme ⓘ linked to: Los Angeles Public Library murals and iconographic program (supervision) Los Angeles Public Library interior murals ⓘ linked to: Los Angeles Public Library murals and iconographic program (supervision) symbolic decorative elements of Los Angeles Public Library ⓘ
integrates	architectural decoration ⓘ iconography ⓘ murals ⓘ
location	Central Library, Los Angeles ⓘ linked to: Los Angeles Public Library Los Angeles, California ⓘ linked to: Los Angeles
medium	architectural ornament ⓘ mural painting ⓘ
partOf	Los Angeles Public Library ⓘ
purpose	to create a unified architectural and cultural narrative ⓘ
relatesTo	iconology ⓘ library architecture ⓘ muralism ⓘ
subjectOf	research on iconography in civic architecture ⓘ studies of public art in libraries ⓘ
theme	civic identity of Los Angeles ⓘ history and culture of Los Angeles ⓘ knowledge and learning ⓘ
usedIn	public library architecture ⓘ

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Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue → designed → Los Angeles Public Library murals and iconographic program (supervision) ⓘ

Los Angeles Public Library murals and iconographic program (supervision) → hasPart → Los Angeles Public Library interior murals ⓘ

linked to: Los Angeles Public Library murals and iconographic program (supervision)

Los Angeles Public Library murals and iconographic program (supervision) → hasPart → Los Angeles Public Library iconographic scheme ⓘ