Mary Boone
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Mary Boone is a prominent American art dealer best known for her influential New York gallery that helped launch the careers of major contemporary artists in the late 20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary Boone canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7099395 — 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: Mary Boone Context triple: [Boone, hasNotableBearer, Mary Boone]
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A.
Joan Mitchell
Joan Mitchell was an influential American abstract expressionist painter known for her large, gestural, and emotionally charged canvases.
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B.
Nancy Hoffman
Nancy Hoffman is a notable individual recognized for achievements significant enough to be distinctly associated with the surname Hoffman.
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C.
Barbara Chase
Barbara Chase was an American artist and writer best known as the second wife of psychologist and counterculture icon Timothy Leary.
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D.
Susan Macdowell Eakins
Susan Macdowell Eakins was an American painter and photographer associated with the realist tradition, known both for her own work and for preserving and promoting the legacy of her husband, artist Thomas Eakins.
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E.
Grace Hartigan
Grace Hartigan was an influential American Abstract Expressionist painter known for her bold, gestural style and for bridging abstraction with figurative imagery in the mid-20th century art scene.
- 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: Mary Boone Target entity description: Mary Boone is a prominent American art dealer best known for her influential New York gallery that helped launch the careers of major contemporary artists in the late 20th century.
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A.
Joan Mitchell
Joan Mitchell was an influential American abstract expressionist painter known for her large, gestural, and emotionally charged canvases.
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B.
Nancy Hoffman
Nancy Hoffman is a notable individual recognized for achievements significant enough to be distinctly associated with the surname Hoffman.
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C.
Barbara Chase
Barbara Chase was an American artist and writer best known as the second wife of psychologist and counterculture icon Timothy Leary.
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D.
Susan Macdowell Eakins
Susan Macdowell Eakins was an American painter and photographer associated with the realist tradition, known both for her own work and for preserving and promoting the legacy of her husband, artist Thomas Eakins.
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E.
Grace Hartigan
Grace Hartigan was an influential American Abstract Expressionist painter known for her bold, gestural style and for bridging abstraction with figurative imagery in the mid-20th century art scene.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
art dealer
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human ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod |
early 21st century
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late 20th century ⓘ |
| basedIn | New York City ⓘ |
| businessModel | commercial art gallery ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
art market
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contemporary art ⓘ |
| genre | contemporary art ⓘ |
| hasGender | female ⓘ |
| hasReputation |
controversial figure in the art market
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influential New York art dealer ⓘ |
| hasResidence | New York City ⓘ |
| industry | art trade ⓘ |
| influenced |
New York contemporary art market
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careers of Neo-Expressionist painters ⓘ |
| knownFor |
aggressive promotion of young artists
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high-profile gallery openings ⓘ influencing the 1980s New York art scene ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Mary Boone ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Mary Boone Gallery
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promoting contemporary art in New York City ⓘ |
| notableStudentOrClient |
Ai Weiwei
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Barbara Kruger ⓘ Brice Marden ⓘ Cindy Sherman ⓘ David Salle ⓘ Eric Fischl ⓘ Jean-Michel Basquiat ⓘ Jeff Koons ⓘ Julian Schnabel ⓘ Ross Bleckner ⓘ |
| notableWork | Mary Boone Gallery exhibition program ⓘ |
| occupation |
art dealer
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businessperson ⓘ gallerist ⓘ |
| operatedGalleryIn |
Midtown Manhattan
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SoHo, Manhattan ⓘ
linked to:
SoHo
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| socialRole | cultural tastemaker ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Manhattan
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New York City ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Mary Boone Description of subject: Mary Boone is a prominent American art dealer best known for her influential New York gallery that helped launch the careers of major contemporary artists in the late 20th century.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.