Les Automatistes
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Les Automatistes was a mid-20th-century Quebec avant-garde art movement and collective known for its abstract, expressive painting and its influential Refus global manifesto challenging conservative cultural norms.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Les Automatistes canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10746652 — 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: Les Automatistes Context triple: [Jean-Paul Riopelle, movement, Les Automatistes]
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Les Nabis
Les Nabis were a late 19th-century group of French avant-garde artists who sought to synthesize symbolism, decorative art, and spiritual themes into a new, modern visual language.
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B.
L’Esprit Nouveau
L’Esprit Nouveau was an influential early 20th-century avant-garde magazine co-founded by Le Corbusier that promoted modernist ideas in art, architecture, and design.
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C.
Week of Modern Art
The Week of Modern Art was a landmark 1922 cultural festival in São Paulo that revolutionized Brazilian literature, visual arts, and music by introducing and consolidating modernist ideas.
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La Révolution surréaliste
La Révolution surréaliste was an influential early Surrealist magazine published in Paris in the 1920s that served as a key platform for the movement’s manifestos, artworks, and experimental writings.
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E.
La Libre Esthétique
La Libre Esthétique was a progressive Brussels-based art society and exhibition group active at the turn of the 20th century, known for promoting avant-garde and neo-impressionist artists.
- 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: Les Automatistes Target entity description: Les Automatistes was a mid-20th-century Quebec avant-garde art movement and collective known for its abstract, expressive painting and its influential Refus global manifesto challenging conservative cultural norms.
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A.
Les Nabis
Les Nabis were a late 19th-century group of French avant-garde artists who sought to synthesize symbolism, decorative art, and spiritual themes into a new, modern visual language.
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B.
L’Esprit Nouveau
L’Esprit Nouveau was an influential early 20th-century avant-garde magazine co-founded by Le Corbusier that promoted modernist ideas in art, architecture, and design.
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C.
Week of Modern Art
The Week of Modern Art was a landmark 1922 cultural festival in São Paulo that revolutionized Brazilian literature, visual arts, and music by introducing and consolidating modernist ideas.
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D.
La Révolution surréaliste
La Révolution surréaliste was an influential early Surrealist magazine published in Paris in the 1920s that served as a key platform for the movement’s manifestos, artworks, and experimental writings.
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E.
La Libre Esthétique
La Libre Esthétique was a progressive Brussels-based art society and exhibition group active at the turn of the 20th century, known for promoting avant-garde and neo-impressionist artists.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Les Automatistes Description of subject: Les Automatistes was a mid-20th-century Quebec avant-garde art movement and collective known for its abstract, expressive painting and its influential Refus global manifesto challenging conservative cultural norms.
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