Ferryman
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Ferryman is a sculptural artwork by British artist Tony Cragg, exemplifying his innovative use of materials and abstract forms.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ferryman canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9468761 — 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: Ferryman Context triple: [Tony Cragg, notableWork, Ferryman]
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A.
The Ferryman
The Ferryman is a critically acclaimed stage play by Jez Butterworth, set in 1980s Northern Ireland during The Troubles, that explores family, loyalty, and political violence.
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B.
Midnight Ferry
"Midnight Ferry" is a song featured on the album *Rebel Soul* by American rock musician Kid Rock.
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C.
The Fishermen
The Fishermen is a notable mural artwork prominently displayed on Oslo’s former government building Y-blokka, recognized as part of Norway’s modernist public art heritage.
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D.
From the Other Shore
From the Other Shore is a collection of philosophical and political essays by Russian thinker Alexander Herzen, reflecting on European revolutions, socialism, and the fate of Russia in the mid-19th century.
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E.
The Fisherman’s Wake
The Fisherman’s Wake is a film produced by acclaimed Australian producer Jan Chapman, known for her work on character-driven, emotionally resonant cinema.
- 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: Ferryman Target entity description: Ferryman is a sculptural artwork by British artist Tony Cragg, exemplifying his innovative use of materials and abstract forms.
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A.
The Ferryman
The Ferryman is a critically acclaimed stage play by Jez Butterworth, set in 1980s Northern Ireland during The Troubles, that explores family, loyalty, and political violence.
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B.
Midnight Ferry
"Midnight Ferry" is a song featured on the album *Rebel Soul* by American rock musician Kid Rock.
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C.
The Fishermen
The Fishermen is a notable mural artwork prominently displayed on Oslo’s former government building Y-blokka, recognized as part of Norway’s modernist public art heritage.
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D.
From the Other Shore
From the Other Shore is a collection of philosophical and political essays by Russian thinker Alexander Herzen, reflecting on European revolutions, socialism, and the fate of Russia in the mid-19th century.
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E.
The Fisherman’s Wake
The Fisherman’s Wake is a film produced by acclaimed Australian producer Jan Chapman, known for her work on character-driven, emotionally resonant cinema.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
artwork
ⓘ
sculpture ⓘ |
| artForm | sculpture ⓘ |
| artisticMedium |
mixed media
ⓘ
sculptural materials ⓘ |
| associatedWithArtist | Tony Cragg ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creator | Tony Cragg ⓘ |
| genre | abstract art ⓘ |
| hasArtisticProcess |
abstract formal exploration
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material experimentation ⓘ |
| hasArtisticStyle | abstract form ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
innovative use of materials
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non-figurative composition ⓘ three-dimensional form ⓘ |
| hasCreatorNationality | British ⓘ |
| hasDimension | three-dimensional ⓘ |
| hasProductionType | unique artwork ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Tony Cragg’s interest in materiality
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experimentation with form ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | none (non-verbal visual artwork) ⓘ |
| movement | contemporary art ⓘ |
| partOf | Tony Cragg’s sculptural oeuvre ⓘ |
| subjectMatter | abstract ⓘ |
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: Ferryman Description of subject: Ferryman is a sculptural artwork by British artist Tony Cragg, exemplifying his innovative use of materials and abstract forms.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.