Whiteread
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Whiteread is the surname of Rachel Whiteread, a prominent British sculptor known for her large-scale casts of negative spaces in everyday architecture and objects.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Whiteread canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4641889 — 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: Whiteread Context triple: [Rachel Whiteread, familyName, Whiteread]
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A.
Schreiber Center
The Schreiber Center is a modern academic building that serves as the primary facility for Loyola University Chicago’s Quinlan School of Business.
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B.
Nolen-Swinburne
Nolen-Swinburne is an architectural firm known for its role in designing the modernist Robert C. Weaver Federal Building, headquarters of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in Washington, D.C.
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C.
Bridgman
Bridgman is a surname most notably associated with American physicist and Nobel laureate Percy Williams Bridgman, a pioneer in high-pressure physics.
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D.
Carnegie
Carnegie is a Scottish surname most famously associated with industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.
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E.
Taubman
Taubman is a surname most prominently associated with A. Alfred Taubman, the influential American real estate developer and philanthropist known for pioneering the modern shopping mall.
- 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: Whiteread Target entity description: Whiteread is the surname of Rachel Whiteread, a prominent British sculptor known for her large-scale casts of negative spaces in everyday architecture and objects.
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A.
Schreiber Center
The Schreiber Center is a modern academic building that serves as the primary facility for Loyola University Chicago’s Quinlan School of Business.
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B.
Nolen-Swinburne
Nolen-Swinburne is an architectural firm known for its role in designing the modernist Robert C. Weaver Federal Building, headquarters of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in Washington, D.C.
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C.
Bridgman
Bridgman is a surname most notably associated with American physicist and Nobel laureate Percy Williams Bridgman, a pioneer in high-pressure physics.
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D.
Carnegie
Carnegie is a Scottish surname most famously associated with industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.
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E.
Taubman
Taubman is a surname most prominently associated with A. Alfred Taubman, the influential American real estate developer and philanthropist known for pioneering the modern shopping mall.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
contemporary artist
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human ⓘ sculptor ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| artisticMedium |
concrete
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metal ⓘ plaster ⓘ polyurethane ⓘ resin ⓘ rubber ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire
NERFINISHED
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Turner Prize NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1963-04-20 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Brighton Polytechnic
NERFINISHED
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Slade School of Fine Art NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Whiteread NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
installation art
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sculpture ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Rachel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWorkInCollection |
Centre Pompidou
NERFINISHED
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Guggenheim Museum NERFINISHED ⓘ Museum of Modern Art NERFINISHED ⓘ Tate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| honorificTitle | Dame ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English language ⓘ |
| movement | Young British Artists NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Rachel Whiteread NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableFor |
casts of everyday architecture and objects
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large-scale casts of negative spaces ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Embankment
NERFINISHED
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Holocaust Memorial Vienna NERFINISHED ⓘ House NERFINISHED ⓘ Untitled (One Hundred Spaces) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Ilford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| representedBy |
Gagosian Gallery
NERFINISHED
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Luhring Augustine Gallery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
absence
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architecture ⓘ domestic space ⓘ memory ⓘ |
| workLocation |
London, England
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surface form:
London
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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: Whiteread Description of subject: Whiteread is the surname of Rachel Whiteread, a prominent British sculptor known for her large-scale casts of negative spaces in everyday architecture and objects.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.