Modern art
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Modern art is a broad artistic movement from the late 19th to mid-20th century characterized by experimentation, abstraction, and a break from traditional forms and techniques.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Modern art canonical | 26 |
| Modern Art | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1123255 — 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: Modern art Context triple: [Alexander Calder, movement, Modern art]
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Pop art
Pop art is a mid-20th-century art movement that drew on imagery from mass media, advertising, and popular culture to blur the boundaries between high art and everyday life.
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Abstract art
Abstract art is a broad movement in modern art that emphasizes non-representational forms, colors, and shapes to convey ideas or emotions rather than depicting recognizable subjects.
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Cubism
Cubism is an early 20th-century avant-garde art movement, pioneered by artists like Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, that revolutionized visual representation by fragmenting subjects into geometric forms and depicting multiple viewpoints simultaneously.
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Modernism
Modernism is a broad 20th-century cultural and artistic movement characterized by a deliberate break with traditional forms and an embrace of innovation, abstraction, and new technologies in art, architecture, literature, and design.
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Bauhaus movement
The Bauhaus movement was an influential early 20th-century German art, design, and architecture school and style that fused fine arts with crafts and industrial design, helping to define the principles of modernism.
- 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: Modern art Target entity description: Modern art is a broad artistic movement from the late 19th to mid-20th century characterized by experimentation, abstraction, and a break from traditional forms and techniques.
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A.
Pop art
Pop art is a mid-20th-century art movement that drew on imagery from mass media, advertising, and popular culture to blur the boundaries between high art and everyday life.
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B.
Abstract art
Abstract art is a broad movement in modern art that emphasizes non-representational forms, colors, and shapes to convey ideas or emotions rather than depicting recognizable subjects.
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C.
Cubism
Cubism is an early 20th-century avant-garde art movement, pioneered by artists like Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, that revolutionized visual representation by fragmenting subjects into geometric forms and depicting multiple viewpoints simultaneously.
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D.
Modernism
Modernism is a broad 20th-century cultural and artistic movement characterized by a deliberate break with traditional forms and an embrace of innovation, abstraction, and new technologies in art, architecture, literature, and design.
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E.
Bauhaus movement
The Bauhaus movement was an influential early 20th-century German art, design, and architecture school and style that fused fine arts with crafts and industrial design, helping to define the principles of modernism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (56)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
art movement
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cultural movement ⓘ historical period in art ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
explore new visual languages
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explore subjective experience ⓘ redefine the nature of art ⓘ |
| emergedInContextOf |
decline of academic art institutions
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industrialization ⓘ social change ⓘ technological change ⓘ urbanization ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
abstraction
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emphasis on individual expression ⓘ experimentation ⓘ experimentation with color ⓘ experimentation with materials ⓘ experimentation with perspective ⓘ formalism ⓘ fragmentation of form ⓘ innovation in technique ⓘ non-representational imagery ⓘ questioning of academic art traditions ⓘ rejection of traditional forms ⓘ |
| hasEndTime | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn |
architecture
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contemporary art ⓘ graphic design ⓘ industrial design ⓘ visual culture ⓘ |
| hasMedium |
collage
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mixed media ⓘ painting ⓘ photography ⓘ printmaking ⓘ sculpture ⓘ |
| hasMovement |
Abstract expressionism
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surface form:
Abstract Expressionism
Bauhaus ⓘ Constructivism ⓘ Cubism ⓘ Dada ⓘ De Stijl ⓘ Expressionism ⓘ Fauvism ⓘ Futurism ⓘ Impressionism ⓘ Minimalism ⓘ Post-Impressionism ⓘ Suprematism ⓘ Surrealism ⓘ |
| hasRegionOfProminence |
Europe
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North America ⓘ |
| hasStartTime | late 19th century ⓘ |
| opposedTo |
academic art
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realism in art ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
avant-garde
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modernism ⓘ |
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: Modern art Description of subject: Modern art is a broad artistic movement from the late 19th to mid-20th century characterized by experimentation, abstraction, and a break from traditional forms and techniques.
Referenced by (27)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Modern Art