The Address Book
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The Address Book is a conceptual art project and book by French artist Sophie Calle in which she investigates the life of a stranger solely through the contacts listed in his lost address book, exploring themes of privacy, voyeurism, and identity.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Address Book canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4793093 — 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: The Address Book Context triple: [Sophie Calle, notableWork, The Address Book]
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A.
Tinderbox
Tinderbox is a 1986 post-punk/gothic rock album by Siouxsie and the Banshees, noted for its atmospheric sound and the single "Cities in Dust."
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B.
Clearinghouse
Clearinghouse is a U.S. federal database that tracks commercial drivers’ drug and alcohol program violations to improve roadway safety and compliance.
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C.
The Client
"The Client" is a 1994 legal thriller film based on John Grisham's novel, starring Susan Sarandon and Tommy Lee Jones in a tense courtroom and mob drama.
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D.
A Friendly Call
"A Friendly Call" is an 1895 oil painting by American Impressionist William Merritt Chase, depicting two elegantly dressed women conversing in a refined domestic interior.
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E.
Blocket
Blocket is a major Swedish online classifieds marketplace for buying and selling goods and services, owned by the media group Schibsted.
- 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: The Address Book Target entity description: The Address Book is a conceptual art project and book by French artist Sophie Calle in which she investigates the life of a stranger solely through the contacts listed in his lost address book, exploring themes of privacy, voyeurism, and identity.
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A.
Tinderbox
Tinderbox is a 1986 post-punk/gothic rock album by Siouxsie and the Banshees, noted for its atmospheric sound and the single "Cities in Dust."
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B.
Clearinghouse
Clearinghouse is a U.S. federal database that tracks commercial drivers’ drug and alcohol program violations to improve roadway safety and compliance.
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C.
The Client
"The Client" is a 1994 legal thriller film based on John Grisham's novel, starring Susan Sarandon and Tommy Lee Jones in a tense courtroom and mob drama.
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D.
A Friendly Call
"A Friendly Call" is an 1895 oil painting by American Impressionist William Merritt Chase, depicting two elegantly dressed women conversing in a refined domestic interior.
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E.
Blocket
Blocket is a major Swedish online classifieds marketplace for buying and selling goods and services, owned by the media group Schibsted.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
artist's book
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conceptual art project ⓘ non-fiction book ⓘ |
| artisticApproach |
appropriation of found personal data
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investigative narrative ⓘ |
| author | Sophie Calle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | a lost address book found by Sophie Calle ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| creator | Sophie Calle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creatorNationality | French ⓘ |
| creatorOccupation | artist ⓘ |
| genre |
autobiographical art
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conceptual art ⓘ non-fiction ⓘ |
| hasInfluenced |
discourse on privacy in contemporary art
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later works on surveillance and data ⓘ |
| hasPart |
photographic elements
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series of interviews ⓘ textual narratives ⓘ |
| informationSource |
found personal document (address book)
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interviews with people listed in the address book ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
ethics
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identity ⓘ intimacy ⓘ privacy ⓘ surveillance ⓘ voyeurism ⓘ |
| medium |
book
ⓘ
conceptual performance ⓘ |
| methodology | investigating a person through their social network ⓘ |
| movement |
conceptual art
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contemporary art ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | a male stranger identified only through his contacts ⓘ |
| narrativeTechnique | third-person reconstruction of a life ⓘ |
| notableFor |
controversial treatment of privacy
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using only contacts in an address book to portray its owner ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| publicationFormat | serial publication before book compilation ⓘ |
| publisher | French press (periodical) prior to book form ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
Double Game
NERFINISHED
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Suite Vénitienne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
boundaries between public and private life
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construction of identity through others ⓘ ethics of looking ⓘ power dynamics between observer and observed ⓘ representation of strangers ⓘ |
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: The Address Book Description of subject: The Address Book is a conceptual art project and book by French artist Sophie Calle in which she investigates the life of a stranger solely through the contacts listed in his lost address book, exploring themes of privacy, voyeurism, and identity.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.