I Want YOU for U.S. Army poster
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The "I Want YOU for U.S. Army" poster is a famous World War I-era American recruitment image featuring Uncle Sam pointing directly at the viewer, symbolizing a personal call to military service.
All labels observed (8)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T17389 — 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: I Want YOU for U.S. Army poster Context triple: [Uncle Sam, notableWork, I Want YOU for U.S. Army poster]
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A.
Uncle Sam
Uncle Sam is the iconic, bearded figure in a star-spangled top hat who personifies the United States in political cartoons, posters, and popular culture.
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B.
I Love You, California
"I Love You, California" is a patriotic song celebrating the landscapes and spirit of California, officially adopted as the state's song.
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C.
The Star-Spangled Banner
The Star-Spangled Banner is a patriotic American song, with lyrics written by Francis Scott Key during the War of 1812, that celebrates the resilience of the U.S. flag and is traditionally performed at public and sporting events.
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D.
D-Day
D-Day was the massive Allied amphibious invasion of Nazi-occupied France on June 6, 1944, that marked a decisive turning point in World War II in Western Europe.
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E.
"Day of Infamy" speech
The "Day of Infamy" speech is Franklin D. Roosevelt’s historic address to the U.S. Congress on December 8, 1941, calling for a declaration of war on Japan following the attack on Pearl Harbor.
- 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: I Want YOU for U.S. Army poster Target entity description: The "I Want YOU for U.S. Army" poster is a famous World War I-era American recruitment image featuring Uncle Sam pointing directly at the viewer, symbolizing a personal call to military service.
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A.
Uncle Sam
Uncle Sam is the iconic, bearded figure in a star-spangled top hat who personifies the United States in political cartoons, posters, and popular culture.
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B.
I Love You, California
"I Love You, California" is a patriotic song celebrating the landscapes and spirit of California, officially adopted as the state's song.
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C.
The Star-Spangled Banner
The Star-Spangled Banner is a patriotic American song, with lyrics written by Francis Scott Key during the War of 1812, that celebrates the resilience of the U.S. flag and is traditionally performed at public and sporting events.
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D.
D-Day
D-Day was the massive Allied amphibious invasion of Nazi-occupied France on June 6, 1944, that marked a decisive turning point in World War II in Western Europe.
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E.
"Day of Infamy" speech
The "Day of Infamy" speech is Franklin D. Roosevelt’s historic address to the U.S. Congress on December 8, 1941, calling for a declaration of war on Japan following the attack on Pearl Harbor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
World War I poster
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propaganda poster ⓘ recruitment poster ⓘ |
| artStyle | illustration ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
U.S. Army recruitment
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U.S. government propaganda ⓘ |
| backgroundColor | white ⓘ |
| characterBasedOn |
Uncle Sam
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surface form:
Uncle Sam personification of the United States
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| collection |
Library of Congress
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surface form:
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
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| colorScheme | red white and blue ⓘ |
| commissionedBy | United States Army ⓘ |
| commissionedYear | 1916 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| creator | James Montgomery Flagg ⓘ |
| depicts | Uncle Sam ⓘ |
| depictsAge | older man ⓘ |
| depictsGender | male figure ⓘ |
| designerUsedSelfAsModel | true ⓘ |
| featuresText | Nearest recruiting station ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
I Want YOU for U.S. Army poster
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Leslie’s Weekly July 6 1916 cover
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| format | vertical poster ⓘ |
| genre | war propaganda ⓘ |
| hasCulturalImpact | widely parodied and imitated ⓘ |
| hasIconicStatus | true ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | Lord Kitchener Wants You poster ⓘ |
| intendedDisplayLocation |
public spaces
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recruiting stations ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| locationOfCreation | New York City ⓘ |
| medium | color lithograph ⓘ |
| model | James Montgomery Flagg ⓘ |
| notableFor | direct gaze and pointing gesture ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1917 ⓘ |
| publisher | Leslie’s Weekly ⓘ |
| purpose | military recruitment ⓘ |
| reproducedIn |
books
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magazines ⓘ posters ⓘ |
| slogan |
I Want YOU for U.S. Army poster
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
I Want YOU for U.S. Army
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| subjectWears |
blue jacket
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red bow tie ⓘ top hat with stars ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
American patriotism
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personal call to service ⓘ |
| targetAudience | potential U.S. Army volunteers ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 1910s ⓘ |
| usedDuringConflict |
World War I
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World War II ⓘ |
| visualMotive | figure pointing at viewer ⓘ |
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: I Want YOU for U.S. Army poster Description of subject: The "I Want YOU for U.S. Army" poster is a famous World War I-era American recruitment image featuring Uncle Sam pointing directly at the viewer, symbolizing a personal call to military service.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
I Want YOU for U.S. Army poster
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slogan
→
I Want YOU for U.S. Army poster
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
I Want YOU for U.S. Army
I Want YOU for U.S. Army poster
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firstAppearance
→
I Want YOU for U.S. Army poster
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Leslie’s Weekly July 6 1916 cover
this entity surface form:
I Want YOU for U.S. Army
this entity surface form:
Uncle Sam Wants You recruitment poster
this entity surface form:
World War I U.S. Army recruitment poster
this entity surface form:
Uncle Sam I Want You poster
subject surface form:
James Montgomery Flagg
this entity surface form:
I Want YOU for U.S. Army
this entity surface form:
Uncle Sam recruitment posters
this entity surface form:
I Want You for U.S. Army