Toyen
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Toyen was a Czech avant-garde painter and illustrator known for her distinctive contributions to surrealism and erotic art in 20th-century Europe.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Toyen canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8042900 — 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: Toyen Context triple: [Surrealist Group in Paris, hasMember, Toyen]
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A.
Tuyo
"Tuyo" is a bolero-style song by Rodrigo Amarante, best known as the haunting opening theme of the television series *Narcos*.
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B.
Tose
Tose is the surname of Leonard Tose, the former owner of the Philadelphia Eagles NFL franchise.
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C.
Tokkō
Tokkō was the colloquial name for Japan’s prewar and wartime Special Higher Police, a political police force tasked with suppressing dissent and ideological opposition.
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D.
Takara
Takara is a Japanese toy company best known for creating and producing Transformers and other popular action figures.
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E.
Tocho
Tocho is the common nickname for the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building, a prominent skyscraper complex in Shinjuku that houses Tokyo’s metropolitan administration and offers popular observation decks.
- 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: Toyen Target entity description: Toyen was a Czech avant-garde painter and illustrator known for her distinctive contributions to surrealism and erotic art in 20th-century Europe.
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A.
Tuyo
"Tuyo" is a bolero-style song by Rodrigo Amarante, best known as the haunting opening theme of the television series *Narcos*.
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B.
Tose
Tose is the surname of Leonard Tose, the former owner of the Philadelphia Eagles NFL franchise.
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C.
Tokkō
Tokkō was the colloquial name for Japan’s prewar and wartime Special Higher Police, a political police force tasked with suppressing dissent and ideological opposition.
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D.
Takara
Takara is a Japanese toy company best known for creating and producing Transformers and other popular action figures.
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E.
Tocho
Tocho is the common nickname for the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building, a prominent skyscraper complex in Shinjuku that houses Tokyo’s metropolitan administration and offers popular observation decks.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
avant-garde artist
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illustrator ⓘ painter ⓘ person ⓘ surrealist artist ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1980 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1920 ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Marie Čermín
NERFINISHED
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Marie Čermínová NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Marie Čermínová NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Cimetière parisien de Thiais NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
André Breton
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jindřich Štyrský NERFINISHED ⓘ Karel Teige NERFINISHED ⓘ Paul Éluard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Czech Republic
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Czechoslovakia ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1902-09-21 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1980-11-09 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Czech ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
book illustration
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erotic art ⓘ illustration ⓘ painting ⓘ |
| genderExpression | androgynous ⓘ |
| genderIdentity | non-binary ⓘ |
| influenced |
Czech surrealism
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European feminist art ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Dada
NERFINISHED
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Surrealism ⓘ |
| knownFor |
erotic illustration
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gender-nonconforming identity ⓘ surrealist painting ⓘ |
| languagesSpoken |
Czech
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French ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Czechoslovak Surrealist Group
NERFINISHED
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Surrealist Group in Paris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement |
Artificialism
NERFINISHED
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Czech avant-garde ⓘ Devětsil NERFINISHED ⓘ Surrealism ⓘ |
| notableWork |
The Message of the Forest
NERFINISHED
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The Myth of Light NERFINISHED ⓘ The Paravent NERFINISHED ⓘ The Shooting Gallery NERFINISHED ⓘ The Sleep NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Prague NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Paris ⓘ |
| residence |
Paris
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Prague NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexuality | queer ⓘ |
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: Toyen Description of subject: Toyen was a Czech avant-garde painter and illustrator known for her distinctive contributions to surrealism and erotic art in 20th-century Europe.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.