Lustmord
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Lustmord is a text-based artwork by Jenny Holzer that confronts the brutality and trauma of wartime sexual violence through stark, unsettling language.
All labels observed (1)
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| Lustmord canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2620475 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Lustmord Context triple: [Jenny Holzer, notableWork, Lustmord]
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A.
The Capital Punisher
The Capital Punisher is the nickname of Frank Howard, a towering power-hitting Major League Baseball slugger best known for his time with the Washington Senators in the 1960s and early 1970s.
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B.
The Art of Cruelty
The Art of Cruelty is a critical work of cultural theory in which Maggie Nelson examines representations of violence and suffering in art, film, and literature, questioning their ethical and aesthetic implications.
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C.
The Child Killer
The Child Killer is the nickname of Scottish serial murderer Robert Black, notorious for abducting, sexually assaulting, and killing young girls across the UK during the 1970s and 1980s.
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D.
The Black Dahlia
The Black Dahlia is a 2006 neo-noir crime film, based on James Ellroy’s novel about the infamous 1947 Los Angeles murder, directed by Brian De Palma and starring Josh Hartnett.
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E.
Mystic Massacre
Mystic Massacre was a pivotal and brutal 1637 attack during the Pequot War in which English colonists and their Native allies destroyed a fortified Pequot village, killing hundreds and effectively breaking Pequot resistance in New England.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lustmord Target entity description: Lustmord is a text-based artwork by Jenny Holzer that confronts the brutality and trauma of wartime sexual violence through stark, unsettling language.
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A.
The Capital Punisher
The Capital Punisher is the nickname of Frank Howard, a towering power-hitting Major League Baseball slugger best known for his time with the Washington Senators in the 1960s and early 1970s.
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B.
The Art of Cruelty
The Art of Cruelty is a critical work of cultural theory in which Maggie Nelson examines representations of violence and suffering in art, film, and literature, questioning their ethical and aesthetic implications.
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C.
The Child Killer
The Child Killer is the nickname of Scottish serial murderer Robert Black, notorious for abducting, sexually assaulting, and killing young girls across the UK during the 1970s and 1980s.
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D.
The Black Dahlia
The Black Dahlia is a 2006 neo-noir crime film, based on James Ellroy’s novel about the infamous 1947 Los Angeles murder, directed by Brian De Palma and starring Josh Hartnett.
-
E.
Mystic Massacre
Mystic Massacre was a pivotal and brutal 1637 attack during the Pequot War in which English colonists and their Native allies destroyed a fortified Pequot village, killing hundreds and effectively breaking Pequot resistance in New England.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
artwork
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conceptual art piece ⓘ text-based artwork ⓘ |
| aim |
to bear witness to trauma
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to confront viewers with the brutality of wartime sexual violence ⓘ |
| artForm | text art ⓘ |
| artisticApproach |
appropriation of testimonial language
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installation-based text display ⓘ use of short textual fragments ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| creator | Jenny Holzer ⓘ |
| depicts |
experiences of wartime rape
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physical brutality ⓘ psychological trauma ⓘ |
| genre | conceptual art ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasTitleLanguage | German ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
brutality
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human rights abuses ⓘ trauma ⓘ violence against women ⓘ war ⓘ wartime sexual violence ⓘ |
| medium |
language-based art
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text ⓘ |
| movement |
contemporary art
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feminist art ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
perpetrators of violence
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victims of sexual violence ⓘ witnesses of violence ⓘ |
| notableFor |
direct engagement with sexual violence in war
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emotionally disturbing content ⓘ politically charged subject matter ⓘ |
| partOf | Jenny Holzer’s series addressing violence and power ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Bosnian War
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feminist critique of warfare ⓘ war crimes ⓘ |
| stylisticCharacteristic |
confrontational text
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minimalist presentation ⓘ stark language ⓘ unsettling language ⓘ |
| theme |
body and violation
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gendered violence ⓘ memory and testimony ⓘ power and domination ⓘ |
| titleMeaning | “lust murder” in German ⓘ |
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