Maxfield Parrish
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Maxfield Parrish was a prominent American painter and illustrator known for his luminous, dreamlike landscapes and distinctive use of saturated colors in early 20th-century commercial art and book illustration.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Maxfield Parrish canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6102974 — 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: Maxfield Parrish Context triple: [Collier’s magazine, hasContributor, Maxfield Parrish]
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A.
Rockwell Kent
Rockwell Kent was an American painter, printmaker, illustrator, and writer known for his rugged landscapes and distinctive book illustrations, including for Herman Melville’s "Moby-Dick."
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B.
N. C. Wyeth
N. C. Wyeth was a prominent American illustrator and painter best known for his dramatic, narrative-rich illustrations for classic adventure and children's literature in the early 20th century.
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C.
J. C. Leyendecker
J. C. Leyendecker was a prominent early 20th-century American illustrator famed for his stylish, highly polished magazine covers and advertising art, particularly for The Saturday Evening Post.
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D.
Art Young
Art Young was an American political cartoonist and satirist best known for his socialist and anti-capitalist illustrations in early 20th-century radical publications.
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E.
Paul Cadmus
Paul Cadmus was an American painter and printmaker known for his finely detailed, satirical depictions of social life and homoerotic imagery, often associated with the Social Realism movement.
- 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: Maxfield Parrish Target entity description: Maxfield Parrish was a prominent American painter and illustrator known for his luminous, dreamlike landscapes and distinctive use of saturated colors in early 20th-century commercial art and book illustration.
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A.
Rockwell Kent
Rockwell Kent was an American painter, printmaker, illustrator, and writer known for his rugged landscapes and distinctive book illustrations, including for Herman Melville’s "Moby-Dick."
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B.
N. C. Wyeth
N. C. Wyeth was a prominent American illustrator and painter best known for his dramatic, narrative-rich illustrations for classic adventure and children's literature in the early 20th century.
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C.
J. C. Leyendecker
J. C. Leyendecker was a prominent early 20th-century American illustrator famed for his stylish, highly polished magazine covers and advertising art, particularly for The Saturday Evening Post.
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D.
Art Young
Art Young was an American political cartoonist and satirist best known for his socialist and anti-capitalist illustrations in early 20th-century radical publications.
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E.
Paul Cadmus
Paul Cadmus was an American painter and printmaker known for his finely detailed, satirical depictions of social life and homoerotic imagery, often associated with the Social Realism movement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
commercial artist
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human ⓘ illustrator ⓘ painter ⓘ |
| artisticStyle |
careful use of light and atmosphere
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highly saturated color palette ⓘ idealized neoclassical figures ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Plainfield, New Hampshire, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | natural causes ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1870-07-25 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1966-03-30 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Drexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry
NERFINISHED
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Haverford College NERFINISHED ⓘ Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Parrish NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
book illustration
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commercial advertising art ⓘ magazine illustration ⓘ |
| fullName | Frederick Maxfield Parrish NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
fantasy art
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landscape painting ⓘ |
| givenName | Frederick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
20th-century commercial art
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American illustration ⓘ |
| movement | Golden Age of American Illustration NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
dreamlike imagery
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luminous landscapes ⓘ saturated colors ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Collier’s magazine covers
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Daybreak NERFINISHED ⓘ Ecstasy NERFINISHED ⓘ Garden of Allah NERFINISHED ⓘ Life magazine covers ⓘ Scribner’s magazine illustrations NERFINISHED ⓘ The Arabian Nights illustrations NERFINISHED ⓘ The Dinky Bird NERFINISHED ⓘ The Knave of Hearts illustrations NERFINISHED ⓘ The Lantern Bearers NERFINISHED ⓘ The Pied Piper NERFINISHED ⓘ mural for the Curtis Publishing Company building ⓘ |
| occupation |
illustrator
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muralist ⓘ painter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Philadelphia
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surface form:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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| placeOfDeath | Plainfield, New Hampshire, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Plainfield, New Hampshire, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Lydia Austin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| technique | glazing with multiple transparent layers of oil color ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Maxfield Parrish Description of subject: Maxfield Parrish was a prominent American painter and illustrator known for his luminous, dreamlike landscapes and distinctive use of saturated colors in early 20th-century commercial art and book illustration.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.