Alexander Calder
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Alexander Calder was an influential American sculptor best known for inventing the mobile and creating innovative kinetic and abstract sculptures.
All labels observed (9)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alexander Calder canonical | 50 |
| Calder | 2 |
| Alexander Calder’s mobiles | 1 |
| Alexander Calder’s stabile “Elephant” | 1 |
| Alexander Calder’s stabiles | 1 |
| American artist Alexander Calder | 1 |
| Calder family of artists | 1 |
| Kinetic art | 1 |
| works by Alexander Calder | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T155899 — 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: Alexander Calder Context triple: [Art Students League of New York, notableAlumni, Alexander Calder]
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Henri Matisse
Henri Matisse was a pioneering French modernist painter and sculptor, best known for his bold use of color, expressive forms, and influential role in Fauvism.
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Jackson Pollock
Jackson Pollock was an influential American abstract expressionist painter best known for his innovative drip painting technique that revolutionized modern art.
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Barnett Newman
Barnett Newman was an influential American abstract expressionist painter known for his large color field canvases marked by vertical “zips” that helped define postwar modern art.
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Herbert Bayer
Herbert Bayer was an Austrian-American graphic designer, painter, photographer, and influential Bauhaus teacher known for pioneering modernist typography and visual communication.
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Robert Henri
Robert Henri was a leading American painter and influential teacher, best known as a central figure of the Ashcan School and for shaping early 20th-century American art through his instruction.
- 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: Alexander Calder Target entity description: Alexander Calder was an influential American sculptor best known for inventing the mobile and creating innovative kinetic and abstract sculptures.
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A.
Henri Matisse
Henri Matisse was a pioneering French modernist painter and sculptor, best known for his bold use of color, expressive forms, and influential role in Fauvism.
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B.
Jackson Pollock
Jackson Pollock was an influential American abstract expressionist painter best known for his innovative drip painting technique that revolutionized modern art.
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C.
Barnett Newman
Barnett Newman was an influential American abstract expressionist painter known for his large color field canvases marked by vertical “zips” that helped define postwar modern art.
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D.
Herbert Bayer
Herbert Bayer was an Austrian-American graphic designer, painter, photographer, and influential Bauhaus teacher known for pioneering modernist typography and visual communication.
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E.
Robert Henri
Robert Henri was a leading American painter and influential teacher, best known as a central figure of the Ashcan School and for shaping early 20th-century American art through his instruction.
- 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: Alexander Calder Description of subject: Alexander Calder was an influential American sculptor best known for inventing the mobile and creating innovative kinetic and abstract sculptures.
Referenced by (59)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Alexander Calder’s stabile “Elephant”
this entity surface form:
Calder
this entity surface form:
Kinetic art
this entity surface form:
Calder
this entity surface form:
Calder family of artists
Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne (1937)
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Alexander Calder
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subject surface form:
The Eagle (Olympic Sculpture Park)
this entity surface form:
American artist Alexander Calder
subject surface form:
Louisa James
subject surface form:
Louisa James
this entity surface form:
Alexander Calder’s stabiles
subject surface form:
Flamingo
this entity surface form:
Alexander Calder’s mobiles
this entity surface form:
works by Alexander Calder