Richard Serra
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Richard Serra was an influential American sculptor renowned for his monumental, site-specific steel works that explore space, balance, and the viewer’s physical experience.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Richard Serra canonical | 42 |
| Works by Richard Serra | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T845892 — 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: Richard Serra Context triple: [The Phillips Collection, hasWorkBy, Richard Serra]
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Donald Judd
Donald Judd was an influential American artist and leading figure of Minimalism, known for his precise, industrially fabricated geometric sculptures and installations.
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Sol LeWitt
Sol LeWitt was an influential American artist and key figure in Minimalism and Conceptual art, best known for his systematic wall drawings and modular structures.
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Frank Stella
Frank Stella is an American painter and printmaker known for his pioneering role in minimalism and abstract art, particularly his geometric, hard-edged compositions and shaped canvases.
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Antony Gormley
Antony Gormley is a British sculptor renowned for his large-scale public artworks and explorations of the human body in space, such as the iconic "Angel of the North."
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E.
Dan Flavin
Dan Flavin was an American minimalist artist best known for his pioneering installations of fluorescent light fixtures that transform architectural space with color and illumination.
- 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: Richard Serra Target entity description: Richard Serra was an influential American sculptor renowned for his monumental, site-specific steel works that explore space, balance, and the viewer’s physical experience.
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A.
Donald Judd
Donald Judd was an influential American artist and leading figure of Minimalism, known for his precise, industrially fabricated geometric sculptures and installations.
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B.
Sol LeWitt
Sol LeWitt was an influential American artist and key figure in Minimalism and Conceptual art, best known for his systematic wall drawings and modular structures.
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C.
Frank Stella
Frank Stella is an American painter and printmaker known for his pioneering role in minimalism and abstract art, particularly his geometric, hard-edged compositions and shaped canvases.
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D.
Antony Gormley
Antony Gormley is a British sculptor renowned for his large-scale public artworks and explorations of the human body in space, such as the iconic "Angel of the North."
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E.
Dan Flavin
Dan Flavin was an American minimalist artist best known for his pioneering installations of fluorescent light fixtures that transform architectural space with color and illumination.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Richard Serra Description of subject: Richard Serra was an influential American sculptor renowned for his monumental, site-specific steel works that explore space, balance, and the viewer’s physical experience.
Referenced by (43)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Monumenta art installations
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Dia Beacon contemporary art museum
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The Matter of Time by Richard Serra
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The Matter of Time by Richard Serra
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The Matter of Time by Richard Serra
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Snake
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“Anti-Form” (1968 essay and related exhibitions)