Leonora Carrington
E187468
British emigrant to Mexico
human
memoirist
novelist
painter
playwright
short story writer
surrealist artist
writer
Leonora Carrington was a British-born Mexican artist and writer renowned for her imaginative, feminist-inflected contributions to Surrealism in painting and literature.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Leonora Carrington canonical | 40 |
| Leonora Carrington (born Leonora Carrington, later Leonora Carrington Crosland in some records) | 1 |
| Mary Leonora Carrington | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1663908 — 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: Leonora Carrington Context triple: [Surrealism, hasKeyFigure, Leonora Carrington]
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Dora Maar
Dora Maar was a French photographer, painter, and poet associated with the Surrealist movement, known both for her own avant-garde work and her influential role in the artistic circle around Pablo Picasso.
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Marie Laurencin
Marie Laurencin was a French painter associated with the early 20th-century avant-garde, known for her delicate, pastel-hued portraits and depictions of women in dreamlike, lyrical settings.
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C.
Isa Genzken
Isa Genzken is a German contemporary artist renowned for her innovative sculptures, installations, and assemblages that often engage with architecture, urban space, and modern consumer culture.
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Mira Schendel
Mira Schendel was a Swiss-born Brazilian artist renowned for her innovative conceptual works that explored language, materiality, and perception, making her a central figure in postwar Latin American art.
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E.
Guillermo Kahlo
Guillermo Kahlo was a German-Mexican photographer best known as the father of painter Frida Kahlo and for his architectural and industrial photographs in early 20th-century Mexico.
- 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: Leonora Carrington Target entity description: Leonora Carrington was a British-born Mexican artist and writer renowned for her imaginative, feminist-inflected contributions to Surrealism in painting and literature.
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A.
Dora Maar
Dora Maar was a French photographer, painter, and poet associated with the Surrealist movement, known both for her own avant-garde work and her influential role in the artistic circle around Pablo Picasso.
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B.
Marie Laurencin
Marie Laurencin was a French painter associated with the early 20th-century avant-garde, known for her delicate, pastel-hued portraits and depictions of women in dreamlike, lyrical settings.
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C.
Isa Genzken
Isa Genzken is a German contemporary artist renowned for her innovative sculptures, installations, and assemblages that often engage with architecture, urban space, and modern consumer culture.
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D.
Mira Schendel
Mira Schendel was a Swiss-born Brazilian artist renowned for her innovative conceptual works that explored language, materiality, and perception, making her a central figure in postwar Latin American art.
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E.
Guillermo Kahlo
Guillermo Kahlo was a German-Mexican photographer best known as the father of painter Frida Kahlo and for his architectural and industrial photographs in early 20th-century Mexico.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
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: Leonora Carrington Description of subject: Leonora Carrington was a British-born Mexican artist and writer renowned for her imaginative, feminist-inflected contributions to Surrealism in painting and literature.
Referenced by (42)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Leonora Carrington
subject linked to:
Clayton Green, Lancashire, England
Crosland
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Leonora Carrington (born Leonora Carrington, later Leonora Carrington Crosland in some records)
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linked to: Leonora Carrington
subject linked to:
María de los Remedios Alicia Rodriga Varo y Uranga