Kay Sage
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Kay Sage was an American Surrealist painter and poet known for her desolate, architectural dreamscapes and significant role in the mid-20th-century Surrealist movement.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kay Sage canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8344755 — 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: Kay Sage Context triple: [Yves Tanguy, spouse, Kay Sage]
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A.
Gwendolyn Bennett
Gwendolyn Bennett was an influential Harlem Renaissance poet, writer, and visual artist whose work explored Black identity and culture in early 20th-century America.
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B.
Mina Loy
Mina Loy was a modernist poet, artist, and writer known for her avant-garde style and involvement in early 20th-century literary and artistic circles.
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C.
Helen Hartnett
Helen Hartnett is a notable individual who shares the Hartnett surname, recognized among the distinguished bearers of that family name.
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D.
Joy Sexton
Joy Sexton is the daughter of Pulitzer Prize–winning American confessional poet Anne Sexton.
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E.
Bee Spears
Bee Spears was an American bassist best known for his long-time work with Willie Nelson and contributions to classic country recordings.
- 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: Kay Sage Target entity description: Kay Sage was an American Surrealist painter and poet known for her desolate, architectural dreamscapes and significant role in the mid-20th-century Surrealist movement.
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A.
Gwendolyn Bennett
Gwendolyn Bennett was an influential Harlem Renaissance poet, writer, and visual artist whose work explored Black identity and culture in early 20th-century America.
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B.
Mina Loy
Mina Loy was a modernist poet, artist, and writer known for her avant-garde style and involvement in early 20th-century literary and artistic circles.
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C.
Helen Hartnett
Helen Hartnett is a notable individual who shares the Hartnett surname, recognized among the distinguished bearers of that family name.
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D.
Joy Sexton
Joy Sexton is the daughter of Pulitzer Prize–winning American confessional poet Anne Sexton.
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E.
Bee Spears
Bee Spears was an American bassist best known for his long-time work with Willie Nelson and contributions to classic country recordings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Surrealist artist
ⓘ
human ⓘ painter ⓘ poet ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| artisticStyle | desolate architectural dreamscapes ⓘ |
| birthName | Katherine Linn Sage NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Woodbury, Connecticut, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | suicide ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1898-06-25 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1963-01-08 ⓘ |
| employer | self-employed as an artist ⓘ |
| familyName | Sage NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
painting
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poetry ⓘ |
| genre | Surrealist painting ⓘ |
| givenName | Katherine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWorkInCollection |
Art Institute of Chicago
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Metropolitan Museum of Art NERFINISHED ⓘ Museum of Modern Art NERFINISHED ⓘ San Francisco Museum of Modern Art NERFINISHED ⓘ Whitney Museum of American Art NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Giorgio de Chirico
NERFINISHED
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Yves Tanguy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languagesSpokenWrittenOrSigned |
English
ⓘ
French ⓘ |
| memberOf | Surrealist movement NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | Surrealism ⓘ |
| name | Kay Sage NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
desolate, architectural dreamscapes
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role in American Surrealism ⓘ |
| notableWork |
I Saw Three Cities
NERFINISHED
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No Passing NERFINISHED ⓘ On the Contrary NERFINISHED ⓘ The Answer Is No NERFINISHED ⓘ The Fourteen Daggers NERFINISHED ⓘ Tomorrow is Never NERFINISHED ⓘ Unusual Thursday NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
painter
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poet ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Albany, New York, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Woodbury, Connecticut, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Paris
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surface form:
Paris, France
Woodbury, Connecticut, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Yves Tanguy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Kay Sage Description of subject: Kay Sage was an American Surrealist painter and poet known for her desolate, architectural dreamscapes and significant role in the mid-20th-century Surrealist movement.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.