Elsie Driggs
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Elsie Driggs was an American painter associated with the Precisionist movement, known for her stylized depictions of industrial and urban landscapes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Elsie Driggs canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7900694 — 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: Elsie Driggs Context triple: [Precisionism, hasNotableArtist, Elsie Driggs]
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A.
Elsie Wheeler
Elsie Wheeler was the wife of Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, the pioneering American comic book publisher who founded the company that would become DC Comics.
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B.
Elsie Magoon
Elsie Magoon is a literary work by 19th-century American suffragist, abolitionist, and author Frances Dana Barker Gage.
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C.
Lillian Burns
Lillian Burns was an American acting and dialogue coach and studio executive best known for her influential work at MGM during Hollywood’s Golden Age.
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D.
Lillian Hodghead
Lillian Hodghead was an American musician and educator best known for co-founding the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, a leading institution for advanced musical training.
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E.
Florence McFadden
Florence McFadden was the wife of American actor and vaudevillian Jack Haley, best known for his role as the Tin Man in the classic film "The Wizard of Oz."
- 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: Elsie Driggs Target entity description: Elsie Driggs was an American painter associated with the Precisionist movement, known for her stylized depictions of industrial and urban landscapes.
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A.
Elsie Wheeler
Elsie Wheeler was the wife of Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, the pioneering American comic book publisher who founded the company that would become DC Comics.
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B.
Elsie Magoon
Elsie Magoon is a literary work by 19th-century American suffragist, abolitionist, and author Frances Dana Barker Gage.
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C.
Lillian Burns
Lillian Burns was an American acting and dialogue coach and studio executive best known for her influential work at MGM during Hollywood’s Golden Age.
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D.
Lillian Hodghead
Lillian Hodghead was an American musician and educator best known for co-founding the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, a leading institution for advanced musical training.
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E.
Florence McFadden
Florence McFadden was the wife of American actor and vaudevillian Jack Haley, best known for his role as the Tin Man in the classic film "The Wizard of Oz."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Precisionist painter
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artist ⓘ human ⓘ painter ⓘ |
| artisticStyle | Precisionism ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| creativeWork |
series of paintings depicting New York bridges
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series of paintings depicting Pittsburgh steel mills ⓘ |
| describedBySource | art historical literature on Precisionism ⓘ |
| familyName | Driggs ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | painting ⓘ |
| genre |
American modernist painting
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industrial landscape painting ⓘ urban landscape painting ⓘ |
| givenName | Elsie ⓘ |
| hasInfluenced | later American industrial landscape painters ⓘ |
| hasRole | woman artist in early 20th-century American art ⓘ |
| hasWorkInCollection |
Carnegie Museum of Art
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Smithsonian American Art Museum ⓘ Whitney Museum of American Art ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
American modernism
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industrial architecture ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | Precisionism ⓘ |
| name | Elsie Driggs ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
contributions to the Precisionist movement
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early 20th-century depictions of steel mills and bridges ⓘ stylized depictions of industrial structures ⓘ urban landscape paintings ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Aeroplane
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Blast Furnaces ⓘ Pittsburgh ⓘ
linked to:
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Queensborough Bridge ⓘ The Javits Center (series of urban/industrial works) ⓘ |
| occupation |
painter
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visual artist ⓘ |
| partOf | American modern art ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | United States of America ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Lee Gatch ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
museum retrospectives on Precisionism
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scholarly articles on American women artists ⓘ |
| workLocation |
New York City
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United States of America ⓘ |
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