Jean Tinguely
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Jean Tinguely was a Swiss sculptor best known for his playful, kinetic mechanical sculptures and his role as a leading figure in postwar European avant-garde art.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jean Tinguely canonical | 10 |
| Tinguely | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
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NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jean Tinguely Context triple: [Nouveau Réalisme, hasMember, Jean Tinguely]
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A.
Günther Uecker
Günther Uecker is a German artist best known for his sculptural reliefs and installations featuring dense fields of hammered nails, associated with the ZERO movement.
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B.
Alexander Calder
Alexander Calder was an influential American sculptor best known for inventing the mobile and creating innovative kinetic and abstract sculptures.
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C.
Karl Spoerri
Karl Spoerri is a Swiss film producer and cultural entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and key driving force behind the Zurich Film Festival.
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D.
Oskar Schlemmer
Oskar Schlemmer was a German painter, sculptor, designer, and choreographer best known for his avant-garde stage works and his influential role in developing the Bauhaus school’s theater and performance art.
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E.
Thomas Schütte
Thomas Schütte is a contemporary German artist renowned for his diverse body of work spanning sculpture, architecture, and works on paper that often explore memory, monumentality, and the human condition.
- 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: Jean Tinguely Target entity description: Jean Tinguely was a Swiss sculptor best known for his playful, kinetic mechanical sculptures and his role as a leading figure in postwar European avant-garde art.
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A.
Günther Uecker
Günther Uecker is a German artist best known for his sculptural reliefs and installations featuring dense fields of hammered nails, associated with the ZERO movement.
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B.
Alexander Calder
Alexander Calder was an influential American sculptor best known for inventing the mobile and creating innovative kinetic and abstract sculptures.
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C.
Karl Spoerri
Karl Spoerri is a Swiss film producer and cultural entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and key driving force behind the Zurich Film Festival.
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D.
Oskar Schlemmer
Oskar Schlemmer was a German painter, sculptor, designer, and choreographer best known for his avant-garde stage works and his influential role in developing the Bauhaus school’s theater and performance art.
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E.
Thomas Schütte
Thomas Schütte is a contemporary German artist renowned for his diverse body of work spanning sculpture, architecture, and works on paper that often explore memory, monumentality, and the human condition.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Swiss artist
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human ⓘ kinetic artist ⓘ sculptor ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Nouveau Réalisme
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surface form:
Nouveau Réalistes
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| burialPlace |
Basel-Stadt
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surface form:
Basel, Switzerland
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| causeOfDeath | heart failure ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
Daniel Spoerri
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Niki de Saint Phalle ⓘ Yves Klein ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Switzerland ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1925-05-22 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1991-08-30 ⓘ |
| familyName |
Jean Tinguely
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Tinguely
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| fieldOfWork |
kinetic sculpture
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mechanical art ⓘ sculpture ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
installation art
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public art ⓘ |
| givenName | Jean ⓘ |
| hasWorkInCollection |
Centre Pompidou
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surface form:
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Museum Tinguely, Basel ⓘ Museum of Modern Art ⓘ
surface form:
Museum of Modern Art, New York
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| influenced | contemporary kinetic artists ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Constructivism
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Dada ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
French
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German ⓘ |
| movement |
Kinetic art
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Nouveau Réalisme ⓘ Avant-garde ⓘ
surface form:
Postwar European avant-garde
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| name | Jean Tinguely self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor |
playful kinetic mechanical sculptures
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self-destructing machines ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Cyclop
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Heureka, the Finnish Science Centre ⓘ
surface form:
Heureka
Homage to New York ⓘ La Vittoria ⓘ Mengele-Totentanz ⓘ Méta-Matics ⓘ Tinguely Fountain ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Fribourg
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surface form:
Fribourg, Switzerland
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| placeOfDeath | Bern, Switzerland ⓘ |
| residence |
Basel-Stadt
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surface form:
Basel, Switzerland
Paris ⓘ
surface form:
Paris, France
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| spouse | Niki de Saint Phalle ⓘ |
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Tinguely