Vicente José de Oliveira Muniz
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Vicente José de Oliveira Muniz, better known as Vik Muniz, is a Brazilian contemporary artist renowned for creating intricate images using unconventional materials such as chocolate, sugar, garbage, and everyday objects.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Vicente José de Oliveira Muniz canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6147420 — 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: Vicente José de Oliveira Muniz Context triple: [Vik Muniz, birthName, Vicente José de Oliveira Muniz]
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A.
Jorge Machado Moreira
Jorge Machado Moreira was a prominent Brazilian modernist architect and urban planner known for his influential role in mid-20th-century Brazilian architecture.
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B.
Jorge Fernando Branco de Sampaio
Jorge Fernando Branco de Sampaio was a Portuguese lawyer and politician who served as President of Portugal from 1996 to 2006.
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C.
Waltercio Caldas
Waltercio Caldas is a Brazilian contemporary artist known for his minimalist, conceptual sculptures and installations that explore perception, space, and the relationship between objects and viewers.
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D.
Mário Filho
Mário Filho was a prominent Brazilian sports journalist whose influence on football culture was so great that Rio de Janeiro’s iconic Maracanã Stadium was named in his honor.
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E.
Ernesto Melo Antunes
Ernesto Melo Antunes was a Portuguese military officer, intellectual, and politician who played a key ideological and diplomatic role in the Carnation Revolution and the country’s transition to democracy.
- 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: Vicente José de Oliveira Muniz Target entity description: Vicente José de Oliveira Muniz, better known as Vik Muniz, is a Brazilian contemporary artist renowned for creating intricate images using unconventional materials such as chocolate, sugar, garbage, and everyday objects.
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A.
Jorge Machado Moreira
Jorge Machado Moreira was a prominent Brazilian modernist architect and urban planner known for his influential role in mid-20th-century Brazilian architecture.
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B.
Jorge Fernando Branco de Sampaio
Jorge Fernando Branco de Sampaio was a Portuguese lawyer and politician who served as President of Portugal from 1996 to 2006.
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C.
Waltercio Caldas
Waltercio Caldas is a Brazilian contemporary artist known for his minimalist, conceptual sculptures and installations that explore perception, space, and the relationship between objects and viewers.
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D.
Mário Filho
Mário Filho was a prominent Brazilian sports journalist whose influence on football culture was so great that Rio de Janeiro’s iconic Maracanã Stadium was named in his honor.
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E.
Ernesto Melo Antunes
Ernesto Melo Antunes was a Portuguese military officer, intellectual, and politician who played a key ideological and diplomatic role in the Carnation Revolution and the country’s transition to democracy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
contemporary artist
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human ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Vik Muniz ⓘ |
| artisticMovement | contemporary art ⓘ |
| basedIn |
Brazil
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United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| birthName | Vicente José de Oliveira Muniz ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Brazil ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Brazil ⓘ |
| creativeApproach |
reinterpreting iconic images with unusual materials
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transforming everyday materials into detailed compositions ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
contemporary art
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photographic art ⓘ visual arts ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasExhibitedIn |
contemporary art galleries
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international art museums ⓘ |
| hasGiven | lectures on contemporary art ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
photographic reproduction
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popular culture imagery ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
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Portuguese ⓘ |
| name | Vicente José de Oliveira Muniz ⓘ |
| nationality | Brazilian ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic |
large-scale material installations captured as photographs
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use of non-traditional art materials ⓘ |
| notableFor | creating images from unconventional materials ⓘ |
| notableWork |
series of images made from chocolate syrup
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series of images made from garbage ⓘ series of images made from sugar ⓘ |
| occupation |
artist
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photographer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | São Paulo ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| technique |
assembling materials to form images
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documenting material compositions through photography ⓘ |
| usesMaterial |
chocolate
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everyday objects ⓘ garbage ⓘ sugar ⓘ |
| usesMedium | photography ⓘ |
| workFocus |
perception and representation
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relationship between image and material ⓘ |
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Instruction
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