Matthew Barney
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Matthew Barney is an American contemporary artist and filmmaker best known for his elaborate, multimedia works that blend sculpture, performance, and mythic narrative, including the acclaimed "Cremaster" cycle.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Matthew Barney canonical | 45 |
| Matthew Barney Studio | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T845898 — 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: Matthew Barney Context triple: [The Phillips Collection, hasWorkBy, Matthew Barney]
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Julian Schnabel
Julian Schnabel is an American painter and filmmaker known for his large-scale, neo-expressionist works and acclaimed films such as "Basquiat" and "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly."
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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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C.
Thomas Demand
Thomas Demand is a contemporary German artist known for his meticulously constructed life-sized paper models that he photographs to explore themes of memory, media, and representation.
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El Anatsui
El Anatsui is a Ghanaian sculptor renowned for his monumental wall-hanging installations made from discarded bottle caps and metal fragments, which explore themes of history, consumption, and transformation.
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Theaster Gates
Theaster Gates is an American artist and urban planner known for his socially engaged practice that combines sculpture, installation, performance, and community revitalization, particularly on Chicago’s South Side.
- 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: Matthew Barney Target entity description: Matthew Barney is an American contemporary artist and filmmaker best known for his elaborate, multimedia works that blend sculpture, performance, and mythic narrative, including the acclaimed "Cremaster" cycle.
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A.
Julian Schnabel
Julian Schnabel is an American painter and filmmaker known for his large-scale, neo-expressionist works and acclaimed films such as "Basquiat" and "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly."
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B.
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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C.
Thomas Demand
Thomas Demand is a contemporary German artist known for his meticulously constructed life-sized paper models that he photographs to explore themes of memory, media, and representation.
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D.
El Anatsui
El Anatsui is a Ghanaian sculptor renowned for his monumental wall-hanging installations made from discarded bottle caps and metal fragments, which explore themes of history, consumption, and transformation.
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E.
Theaster Gates
Theaster Gates is an American artist and urban planner known for his socially engaged practice that combines sculpture, installation, performance, and community revitalization, particularly on Chicago’s South Side.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
How these facts were elicited
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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: Matthew Barney Description of subject: Matthew Barney is an American contemporary artist and filmmaker best known for his elaborate, multimedia works that blend sculpture, performance, and mythic narrative, including the acclaimed "Cremaster" cycle.
Referenced by (46)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Drawing Restraint series
subject linked to:
Drawing Restraint series
linked to: Matthew Barney