Chris Ofili
E110194
Chris Ofili is a British painter known for his vibrant, multilayered works that often incorporate unconventional materials like elephant dung and explore themes of Black identity, religion, and popular culture.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Chris Ofili canonical | 5 |
| Chris Ofili: Afro Muses 1995–2005 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T845871 — 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: Chris Ofili Context triple: [The Phillips Collection, hasWorkBy, Chris Ofili]
-
A.
Yinka Shonibare
Yinka Shonibare is a British-Nigerian contemporary artist known for exploring colonialism, race, and identity through installations and sculptures that often incorporate brightly colored Dutch wax fabrics.
-
B.
Grayson Perry
Grayson Perry is a British contemporary artist and Turner Prize-winning ceramicist known for his elaborate vases, tapestries, and his cross-dressing alter ego, Claire.
-
C.
William Kentridge
William Kentridge is a South African artist renowned for his animated films, charcoal drawings, and politically charged works addressing apartheid and memory.
-
D.
El Anatsui
El Anatsui is a Ghanaian sculptor renowned for his monumental wall-hanging installations made from discarded bottle caps and metal fragments, which explore themes of history, consumption, and transformation.
-
E.
Damien Hirst
Damien Hirst is a British contemporary artist known for his provocative, concept-driven works involving preserved animals, pharmaceuticals, and explorations of death and consumerism.
- 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: Chris Ofili Target entity description: Chris Ofili is a British painter known for his vibrant, multilayered works that often incorporate unconventional materials like elephant dung and explore themes of Black identity, religion, and popular culture.
-
A.
Yinka Shonibare
Yinka Shonibare is a British-Nigerian contemporary artist known for exploring colonialism, race, and identity through installations and sculptures that often incorporate brightly colored Dutch wax fabrics.
-
B.
Grayson Perry
Grayson Perry is a British contemporary artist and Turner Prize-winning ceramicist known for his elaborate vases, tapestries, and his cross-dressing alter ego, Claire.
-
C.
William Kentridge
William Kentridge is a South African artist renowned for his animated films, charcoal drawings, and politically charged works addressing apartheid and memory.
-
D.
El Anatsui
El Anatsui is a Ghanaian sculptor renowned for his monumental wall-hanging installations made from discarded bottle caps and metal fragments, which explore themes of history, consumption, and transformation.
-
E.
Damien Hirst
Damien Hirst is a British contemporary artist known for his provocative, concept-driven works involving preserved animals, pharmaceuticals, and explorations of death and consumerism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
contemporary artist
ⓘ
painter ⓘ person ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Commander of the Order of the British Empire
ⓘ
South Bank Show Award for Visual Arts ⓘ Turner Prize ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1968-10-10 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Manchester, United Kingdom
ⓘ
surface form:
Manchester, England
|
| birthYear | 1968 ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Chelsea School of Art
ⓘ
Royal College of Art (Kensington campus) ⓘ
surface form:
Royal College of Art
|
| ethnicOrigin | Nigerian ⓘ |
| familyName | Ofili ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
drawing
ⓘ
painting ⓘ |
| genre |
contemporary art
ⓘ
figurative painting ⓘ |
| givenName | Chris ⓘ |
| hasExhibitedAt |
David Zwirner Gallery
ⓘ
New Museum, New York ⓘ Tate Britain ⓘ Tate Modern ⓘ Studio Museum in Harlem ⓘ
surface form:
The Studio Museum in Harlem
Victoria Miro Gallery ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
African art
ⓘ
hip hop culture ⓘ religious iconography ⓘ |
| knownFor |
exploration of Black identity
ⓘ
references to popular culture ⓘ religious and spiritual themes ⓘ use of elephant dung in paintings ⓘ use of glitter and resin ⓘ vibrant, multilayered compositions ⓘ |
| movement | Young British Artists ⓘ |
| name | Chris Ofili self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Turner Prize ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Afrodizzia
ⓘ
No Woman, No Cry ⓘ Virgin Mary ⓘ
surface form:
The Holy Virgin Mary
|
| residence | Trinidad and Tobago ⓘ |
| subjectOf | controversy over The Holy Virgin Mary in New York in 1999 ⓘ |
| theme |
Black British experience
ⓘ
race and representation ⓘ sexuality in popular culture ⓘ spirituality ⓘ |
| won |
Turner Prize
ⓘ
surface form:
Turner Prize 1998
|
| workLocation |
London, England
ⓘ
surface form:
London
Port of Spain ⓘ
surface form:
Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
|
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: Chris Ofili Description of subject: Chris Ofili is a British painter known for his vibrant, multilayered works that often incorporate unconventional materials like elephant dung and explore themes of Black identity, religion, and popular culture.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Chris Ofili: Afro Muses 1995–2005