Silence = Death poster
E1011431
The "Silence = Death" poster is an iconic AIDS activist artwork featuring a pink triangle on a black background, created in the 1980s to protest government inaction and galvanize the LGBTQ+ community.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Silence = Death poster canonical | 2 |
| Silence = Death collective | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12930102 — 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: Silence = Death poster Context triple: [Avram Finkelstein, notableWork, Silence = Death poster]
-
A.
The Protester
The Protester is the collective title Time magazine gave in 2011 to individuals worldwide who participated in mass demonstrations and uprisings, symbolizing the power of grassroots activism in shaping global events.
-
B.
Placard
Placard is a Portuguese sports betting brand that serves as a major sponsor of national football competitions.
-
C.
One Minute of Silence
"One Minute of Silence" is a brief, likely experimental or atmospheric track featured on Soundgarden's debut full-length album *Ultramega OK*.
-
D.
Lord Kitchener Wants You poster
The "Lord Kitchener Wants You" poster is a famous British World War I recruitment image featuring War Secretary Lord Kitchener pointing directly at the viewer, which became an iconic model for later military propaganda posters.
-
E.
Your Courage, Your Cheerfulness, Your Resolution Will Bring Us Victory poster
The "Your Courage, Your Cheerfulness, Your Resolution Will Bring Us Victory" poster is a British World War II propaganda poster produced to boost civilian morale and encourage steadfastness on the home front.
- 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: Silence = Death poster Target entity description: The "Silence = Death" poster is an iconic AIDS activist artwork featuring a pink triangle on a black background, created in the 1980s to protest government inaction and galvanize the LGBTQ+ community.
-
A.
The Protester
The Protester is the collective title Time magazine gave in 2011 to individuals worldwide who participated in mass demonstrations and uprisings, symbolizing the power of grassroots activism in shaping global events.
-
B.
Placard
Placard is a Portuguese sports betting brand that serves as a major sponsor of national football competitions.
-
C.
One Minute of Silence
"One Minute of Silence" is a brief, likely experimental or atmospheric track featured on Soundgarden's debut full-length album *Ultramega OK*.
-
D.
Lord Kitchener Wants You poster
The "Lord Kitchener Wants You" poster is a famous British World War I recruitment image featuring War Secretary Lord Kitchener pointing directly at the viewer, which became an iconic model for later military propaganda posters.
-
E.
Your Courage, Your Cheerfulness, Your Resolution Will Bring Us Victory poster
The "Your Courage, Your Cheerfulness, Your Resolution Will Bring Us Victory" poster is a British World War II propaganda poster produced to boost civilian morale and encourage steadfastness on the home front.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
AIDS activist artwork
ⓘ
LGBTQ+ rights symbol ⓘ political poster ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
ACT UP
ⓘ
AIDS activism ⓘ LGBTQ+ rights movement ⓘ Silence = Death collective ⓘ
linked to:
Silence = Death poster
|
| backgroundColor | black ⓘ |
| cityOfOrigin | New York City ⓘ |
| collectedBy |
Museum of Modern Art
ⓘ
New-York Historical Society ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdInContextOf |
AIDS crisis
ⓘ
HIV/AIDS epidemic in the United States ⓘ |
| createdInDecade | 1980s ⓘ |
| createdInYear | 1987 ⓘ |
| createdTo |
demand government response to AIDS
ⓘ
galvanize the LGBTQ+ community ⓘ protest government inaction on AIDS ⓘ raise awareness of AIDS ⓘ |
| culturalStatus | icon of LGBTQ+ history ⓘ |
| depicts | pink triangle ⓘ |
| designedByCollective |
Silence = Death collective
ⓘ
linked to:
Silence = Death
|
| format | poster ⓘ |
| hasMotto | Silence = Death ⓘ |
| hasShape | equilateral triangle ⓘ |
| hasSymbolicOrigin | Nazi persecution of homosexuals ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Silence = Death ⓘ |
| influenced |
later AIDS awareness campaigns
ⓘ
visual language of queer activism ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium | offset lithograph ⓘ |
| movement |
AIDS activist art
ⓘ
Queer art ⓘ |
| notableFor |
becoming an international symbol of AIDS activism
ⓘ
concise and confrontational slogan ⓘ iconic use of the pink triangle ⓘ |
| reappropriatesSymbol | pink triangle used in Nazi concentration camps ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
exhibitions on AIDS and art
ⓘ
scholarly analysis in art history ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
life-or-death stakes of silence
ⓘ
queer visibility ⓘ resistance to oppression ⓘ urgency of speaking out about AIDS ⓘ |
| textColor | white ⓘ |
| triangleOrientation | pointing upward ⓘ |
| usedBy |
AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power
ⓘ
linked to:
ACT UP
|
| usedIn |
AIDS protest demonstrations
ⓘ
LGBTQ+ rights marches ⓘ |
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: Silence = Death poster Description of subject: The "Silence = Death" poster is an iconic AIDS activist artwork featuring a pink triangle on a black background, created in the 1980s to protest government inaction and galvanize the LGBTQ+ community.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Silence = Death poster