An Object of Beauty
E668273
An Object of Beauty is a novel by comedian and writer Steve Martin that explores the glamorous yet cutthroat world of the New York art scene through the rise of an ambitious young art dealer.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| An Object of Beauty canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7502455 — 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: An Object of Beauty Context triple: [Stephen Glenn Martin, notableWork, An Object of Beauty]
-
A.
On Beauty
On Beauty is a 2005 novel by British author Zadie Smith that explores family, race, class, and academia through the intertwined lives of two rival intellectual families in a New England college town.
-
B.
On Beauty
On Beauty is a philosophical and cultural exploration of the concept of beauty by Italian scholar and novelist Umberto Eco, examining its evolution from antiquity to the modern era.
-
C.
Intimations
Intimations is a collection of personal essays by Zadie Smith reflecting on life, society, and the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic.
-
D.
Of Beauty
"Of Beauty" is a philosophical essay by Francis Bacon that reflects on the nature, perception, and value of physical beauty in human life.
-
E.
Collateral Beauty
Collateral Beauty is a 2016 American drama film starring Will Smith as a grieving father who begins writing letters to abstract concepts like Love, Time, and Death.
- 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: An Object of Beauty Target entity description: An Object of Beauty is a novel by comedian and writer Steve Martin that explores the glamorous yet cutthroat world of the New York art scene through the rise of an ambitious young art dealer.
-
A.
On Beauty
On Beauty is a 2005 novel by British author Zadie Smith that explores family, race, class, and academia through the intertwined lives of two rival intellectual families in a New England college town.
-
B.
On Beauty
On Beauty is a philosophical and cultural exploration of the concept of beauty by Italian scholar and novelist Umberto Eco, examining its evolution from antiquity to the modern era.
-
C.
Intimations
Intimations is a collection of personal essays by Zadie Smith reflecting on life, society, and the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic.
-
D.
Of Beauty
"Of Beauty" is a philosophical essay by Francis Bacon that reflects on the nature, perception, and value of physical beauty in human life.
-
E.
Collateral Beauty
Collateral Beauty is a 2016 American drama film starring Will Smith as a grieving father who begins writing letters to abstract concepts like Love, Time, and Death.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| author | Steve Martin ⓘ |
| authorOccupation |
actor
ⓘ
comedian ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| authorPreviousWork |
Shopgirl
ⓘ
The Pleasure of My Company ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| depicts |
art auctions
ⓘ
art dealing ⓘ contemporary art world ⓘ |
| explores |
cutthroat aspects of the art world
ⓘ
glamorous aspects of the art world ⓘ intersection of art and commerce ⓘ |
| follows | rise of an ambitious young art dealer ⓘ |
| genre |
art world fiction
ⓘ
fiction ⓘ literary fiction ⓘ satire ⓘ |
| hasCoverArtist | Chip Kidd ⓘ |
| hasCriticalReception | generally positive reviews ⓘ |
| hasIllustrations | reproductions of artworks ⓘ |
| hasIllustrationsBy | Steve Martin ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 9780446573641 ⓘ |
| hasSettingContext |
New York art market
ⓘ
linked to:
New York art scene
|
| hasTargetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Lacey Yeager ⓘ |
| mediaType |
hardcover
ⓘ
paperback ⓘ print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| narrator | Daniel Franks ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| pageCount | 304 ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 2010 ⓘ |
| publisher | Grand Central Publishing ⓘ |
| setIn |
Manhattan
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ |
| theme |
New York art scene
ⓘ
aesthetics ⓘ ambition ⓘ art market ⓘ greed ⓘ power dynamics ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
early 21st century
ⓘ
late 20th century ⓘ |
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: An Object of Beauty Description of subject: An Object of Beauty is a novel by comedian and writer Steve Martin that explores the glamorous yet cutthroat world of the New York art scene through the rise of an ambitious young art dealer.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.