Water Woman
E443948
Water Woman is a sculptural artwork by Kenyan-American artist Wangechi Mutu that reimagines a powerful, otherworldly female figure emerging from aquatic myth and Afrofuturist fantasy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Water Woman canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4482866 — 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: Water Woman Context triple: [Wangechi Mutu, notableWork, Water Woman]
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A.
Knife in the Water
Knife in the Water is a 1962 Polish psychological thriller film, Roman Polanski’s feature debut, noted for its tense three-character drama set largely on a sailboat.
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B.
Warrior Woman
Warrior Woman is a formidable female combatant renowned for fiercely opposing invading forces.
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C.
Paradise Waters
Paradise Waters is an affluent waterfront suburb on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia, known for its canal estates and luxury homes along the Nerang River.
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D.
This Woman
"This Woman" is a song featured on Kenny Rogers' 1983 country-pop album "Eyes That See in the Dark."
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E.
Naisos
Naisos is an alternative name for Naissus, the ancient city located at the site of modern-day Niš in Serbia, historically significant as a major Roman and Byzantine center.
- 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: Water Woman Target entity description: Water Woman is a sculptural artwork by Kenyan-American artist Wangechi Mutu that reimagines a powerful, otherworldly female figure emerging from aquatic myth and Afrofuturist fantasy.
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A.
Knife in the Water
Knife in the Water is a 1962 Polish psychological thriller film, Roman Polanski’s feature debut, noted for its tense three-character drama set largely on a sailboat.
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B.
Warrior Woman
Warrior Woman is a formidable female combatant renowned for fiercely opposing invading forces.
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C.
Paradise Waters
Paradise Waters is an affluent waterfront suburb on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia, known for its canal estates and luxury homes along the Nerang River.
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D.
This Woman
"This Woman" is a song featured on Kenny Rogers' 1983 country-pop album "Eyes That See in the Dark."
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E.
Naisos
Naisos is an alternative name for Naissus, the ancient city located at the site of modern-day Niš in Serbia, historically significant as a major Roman and Byzantine center.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
artwork
ⓘ
public art ⓘ sculpture ⓘ |
| artForm | outdoor sculpture ⓘ |
| artistNationality | Kenyan-American ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
African diasporic narratives
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contemporary African art ⓘ feminist art ⓘ |
| color | blue-green ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| creator |
Wangechi Mutu
NERFINISHED
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Wangechi Mutu (born 1972) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| depictionStyle |
figurative
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mythic ⓘ |
| depicts |
aquatic figure
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female figure ⓘ mythical being ⓘ |
| exhibitedAt | Brooklyn Bridge Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | Afrofuturism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBodyOf | hybrid human-aquatic form ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
Black femininity
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environment ⓘ female power ⓘ hybridity ⓘ mythology ⓘ otherworldliness ⓘ transformation ⓘ |
| inspiredBy |
African mythologies
NERFINISHED
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Afrofuturist fantasy ⓘ aquatic myth ⓘ |
| installedIn | 2018 ⓘ |
| languageOfTitle | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Brooklyn
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ |
| location | Brooklyn Bridge Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| materialUsed |
bronze
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patina ⓘ |
| movement | Afrofuturism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Mutu’s sculptural explorations of female bodies ⓘ |
| portrays |
otherworldly being
ⓘ
powerful female presence ⓘ |
| subjectGender | female ⓘ |
| title | Water Woman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Water Woman Description of subject: Water Woman is a sculptural artwork by Kenyan-American artist Wangechi Mutu that reimagines a powerful, otherworldly female figure emerging from aquatic myth and Afrofuturist fantasy.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.