Kerry James Marshall
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Kerry James Marshall is an acclaimed American contemporary artist known for his large-scale paintings that center Black figures and explore African American history and identity.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kerry James Marshall canonical | 28 |
| Kerry James Marshall: Mastry | 1 |
| Kerry James Marshall’s Souvenir series | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2239535 — 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: Kerry James Marshall Context triple: [David Zwirner Gallery, represents, Kerry James Marshall]
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Titus Kaphar
Titus Kaphar is a contemporary American artist known for reimagining and altering historical paintings to highlight overlooked Black figures and critique the narratives of Western art history.
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B.
Glenn Ligon
Glenn Ligon is an American conceptual artist known for his text-based paintings and installations that explore race, language, identity, and the politics of representation.
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Kehinde Wiley
Kehinde Wiley is a contemporary American artist renowned for his vibrant, large-scale portraits of Black subjects that reimagine and subvert traditional European portraiture.
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Charles White
Charles White was a prominent African American artist and muralist known for his powerful, socially conscious depictions of Black life and history.
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E.
Sam Gilliam
Sam Gilliam was an influential American abstract painter known for his innovative draped and unstretched canvases that helped redefine the possibilities of color field painting.
- 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: Kerry James Marshall Target entity description: Kerry James Marshall is an acclaimed American contemporary artist known for his large-scale paintings that center Black figures and explore African American history and identity.
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A.
Titus Kaphar
Titus Kaphar is a contemporary American artist known for reimagining and altering historical paintings to highlight overlooked Black figures and critique the narratives of Western art history.
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B.
Glenn Ligon
Glenn Ligon is an American conceptual artist known for his text-based paintings and installations that explore race, language, identity, and the politics of representation.
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C.
Kehinde Wiley
Kehinde Wiley is a contemporary American artist renowned for his vibrant, large-scale portraits of Black subjects that reimagine and subvert traditional European portraiture.
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D.
Charles White
Charles White was a prominent African American artist and muralist known for his powerful, socially conscious depictions of Black life and history.
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E.
Sam Gilliam
Sam Gilliam was an influential American abstract painter known for his innovative draped and unstretched canvases that helped redefine the possibilities of color field painting.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (80)
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: Kerry James Marshall Description of subject: Kerry James Marshall is an acclaimed American contemporary artist known for his large-scale paintings that center Black figures and explore African American history and identity.
Referenced by (30)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Kerry James Marshall
linked to: Kerry James Marshall