Ken Price
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Ken Price was an influential American sculptor and ceramic artist known for his brightly colored, biomorphic forms that helped redefine contemporary ceramics in the 20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ken Price canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T919776 — 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: Ken Price Context triple: [Ferus Gallery, hostedExhibitionOf, Ken Price]
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A.
Michael Rogers
Michael Rogers is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and the arts, rather than referring to one singular widely recognized figure.
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B.
Marc Ewing
Marc Ewing is an American software engineer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the open-source software company Red Hat.
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C.
James Cutler
James Cutler is an architect best known for designing the Salem Witch Trials Memorial in Salem, Massachusetts.
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D.
Tim McClelland
Tim McClelland is a former Major League Baseball umpire known for his long tenure, distinctive strike zone, and involvement in several high-profile postseason games.
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E.
Kevin Yagher
Kevin Yagher is an American special effects and makeup artist and director best known for his work on horror and fantasy films and for creating iconic genre characters.
- 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: Ken Price Target entity description: Ken Price was an influential American sculptor and ceramic artist known for his brightly colored, biomorphic forms that helped redefine contemporary ceramics in the 20th century.
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A.
Michael Rogers
Michael Rogers is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and the arts, rather than referring to one singular widely recognized figure.
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B.
Marc Ewing
Marc Ewing is an American software engineer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the open-source software company Red Hat.
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C.
James Cutler
James Cutler is an architect best known for designing the Salem Witch Trials Memorial in Salem, Massachusetts.
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D.
Tim McClelland
Tim McClelland is a former Major League Baseball umpire known for his long tenure, distinctive strike zone, and involvement in several high-profile postseason games.
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E.
Kevin Yagher
Kevin Yagher is an American special effects and makeup artist and director best known for his work on horror and fantasy films and for creating iconic genre characters.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American artist
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ceramic artist ⓘ person ⓘ sculptor ⓘ |
| artForm | three-dimensional art ⓘ |
| artisticGoal | expanding the possibilities of ceramic sculpture ⓘ |
| artisticMedium |
ceramic
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clay ⓘ |
| artisticStyle |
abstract sculpture
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biomorphic abstraction ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
American contemporary art
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Los Angeles art scene ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity |
20th century
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21st century ⓘ |
| colorCharacteristic | brightly colored surfaces ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| creativeRole | artist ⓘ |
| familyName | Price ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
ceramics
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sculpture ⓘ |
| genre | abstract sculpture ⓘ |
| givenName | Ken ⓘ |
| hasWorkType |
ceramic sculpture
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small-scale sculpture ⓘ tabletop sculpture ⓘ |
| influenced |
contemporary ceramic sculpture
ⓘ
studio ceramics movement ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
West Coast contemporary art
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modern sculpture ⓘ |
| knownFor |
challenging the boundary between craft and fine art
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innovative surface treatments on ceramics ⓘ organic, biomorphic shapes ⓘ |
| materialUsed |
fired clay
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glaze ⓘ paint ⓘ |
| movement |
contemporary art
ⓘ
contemporary ceramics ⓘ |
| name | Ken Price self-link ⓘ |
| nationality |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| notableFor |
biomorphic ceramic forms
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brightly colored sculptural forms ⓘ redefining contemporary ceramics in the 20th century ⓘ |
| occupation |
ceramic artist
ⓘ
sculptor ⓘ visual artist ⓘ |
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: Ken Price Description of subject: Ken Price was an influential American sculptor and ceramic artist known for his brightly colored, biomorphic forms that helped redefine contemporary ceramics in the 20th century.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.