Glenn Ligon
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Glenn Ligon is an American conceptual artist known for his text-based paintings and installations that explore race, language, identity, and the politics of representation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Glenn Ligon canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T845855 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Glenn Ligon Context triple: [The Phillips Collection, hasWorkBy, Glenn Ligon]
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A.
Kara Walker
Kara Walker is an American contemporary artist renowned for her provocative black cut-paper silhouettes and installations that explore race, gender, sexuality, and the legacy of slavery in the United States.
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B.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Jean-Michel Basquiat was an influential American artist whose raw, neo-expressionist paintings and graffiti-inspired works made him a central figure in the 1980s New York art scene.
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C.
Archibald Motley
Archibald Motley was an influential African American painter renowned for his vibrant depictions of Black urban life and culture in early 20th-century America.
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D.
Tavares Strachan
Tavares Strachan is a Bahamian-born conceptual artist known for his ambitious, research-driven projects that explore themes of identity, history, and the politics of visibility.
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E.
Jacob Lawrence
Jacob Lawrence was a prominent 20th-century African American painter known for his dynamic, narrative series depicting Black history and contemporary life in a modernist style.
- 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: Glenn Ligon Target entity description: Glenn Ligon is an American conceptual artist known for his text-based paintings and installations that explore race, language, identity, and the politics of representation.
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A.
Kara Walker
Kara Walker is an American contemporary artist renowned for her provocative black cut-paper silhouettes and installations that explore race, gender, sexuality, and the legacy of slavery in the United States.
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B.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Jean-Michel Basquiat was an influential American artist whose raw, neo-expressionist paintings and graffiti-inspired works made him a central figure in the 1980s New York art scene.
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C.
Archibald Motley
Archibald Motley was an influential African American painter renowned for his vibrant depictions of Black urban life and culture in early 20th-century America.
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D.
Tavares Strachan
Tavares Strachan is a Bahamian-born conceptual artist known for his ambitious, research-driven projects that explore themes of identity, history, and the politics of visibility.
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E.
Jacob Lawrence
Jacob Lawrence was a prominent 20th-century African American painter known for his dynamic, narrative series depicting Black history and contemporary life in a modernist style.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
conceptual artist
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human ⓘ visual artist ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Wesleyan University
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Whitney Museum of American Art ⓘ
surface form:
Whitney Museum Independent Study Program
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| ethnicGroup |
Black Americans
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surface form:
African American
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| familyName | Ligon ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
conceptual art
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contemporary art ⓘ installation art ⓘ text-based art ⓘ |
| genre |
appropriation art
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installation art ⓘ text-based painting ⓘ |
| givenName | Glenn ⓘ |
| hasWorkExhibitedAt |
Museum of Modern Art
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Tate Modern ⓘ Walker Art Center ⓘ Whitney Museum of American Art ⓘ |
| hasWorkInCollection |
Museum of Modern Art
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art ⓘ Tate Modern ⓘ Whitney Museum of American Art ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
James Baldwin
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Jean Genet ⓘ Zora Neale Hurston ⓘ American civil rights movement ⓘ
surface form:
civil rights movement
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| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
history of representation in the United States
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identity ⓘ language ⓘ race ⓘ sexuality ⓘ |
| movement |
conceptual art
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contemporary art ⓘ postmodern art ⓘ |
| name | Glenn Ligon self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
appropriation and repetition of text
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exploration of race and identity through language ⓘ politics of representation ⓘ use of literary texts in visual art ⓘ |
| notableWork |
America (neon sculpture)
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Runaways ⓘ Stranger in the Village ⓘ
surface form:
Stranger in the Village series
I AM A MAN ⓘ
surface form:
Untitled (I Am a Man)
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| occupation |
artist
ⓘ
conceptual artist ⓘ painter ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation | New York City ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Referenced by (5)
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