Paul McCarthy
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Paul McCarthy is an American contemporary artist known for his provocative, often grotesque performance, video, and installation works that critique consumerism, popular culture, and the art world.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Paul McCarthy canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T845904 — 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: Paul McCarthy Context triple: [The Phillips Collection, hasWorkBy, Paul McCarthy]
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A.
Mike Kelley
Mike Kelley was an influential American contemporary artist known for his provocative multimedia works that explored memory, popular culture, and the darker undercurrents of American society.
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B.
Tavares Strachan
Tavares Strachan is a Bahamian-born conceptual artist known for his ambitious, research-driven projects that explore themes of identity, history, and the politics of visibility.
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C.
Bruce Nauman
Bruce Nauman is an American contemporary artist known for his pioneering and often provocative work in sculpture, video, performance, and conceptual art.
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D.
Sean Scully
Sean Scully is an Irish-born American painter renowned for his large-scale abstract works featuring bold, layered stripes and blocks of color.
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E.
Mark Bradford
Mark Bradford is an American contemporary artist renowned for his large-scale abstract mixed-media collages and installations that explore race, class, and urban experience.
- 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: Paul McCarthy Target entity description: Paul McCarthy is an American contemporary artist known for his provocative, often grotesque performance, video, and installation works that critique consumerism, popular culture, and the art world.
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A.
Mike Kelley
Mike Kelley was an influential American contemporary artist known for his provocative multimedia works that explored memory, popular culture, and the darker undercurrents of American society.
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B.
Tavares Strachan
Tavares Strachan is a Bahamian-born conceptual artist known for his ambitious, research-driven projects that explore themes of identity, history, and the politics of visibility.
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C.
Bruce Nauman
Bruce Nauman is an American contemporary artist known for his pioneering and often provocative work in sculpture, video, performance, and conceptual art.
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D.
Sean Scully
Sean Scully is an Irish-born American painter renowned for his large-scale abstract works featuring bold, layered stripes and blocks of color.
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E.
Mark Bradford
Mark Bradford is an American contemporary artist renowned for his large-scale abstract mixed-media collages and installations that explore race, class, and urban experience.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
contemporary artist
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human ⓘ installation artist ⓘ painter ⓘ performance artist ⓘ sculptor ⓘ video artist ⓘ |
| artisticMedium |
installation
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painting ⓘ performance ⓘ sculpture ⓘ video ⓘ |
| artisticTheme |
American popular culture
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consumer culture ⓘ sexuality and taboo ⓘ violence in mass media ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1945-08-04 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
California School of Fine Arts
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surface form:
San Francisco Art Institute
University of Utah ⓘ |
| employer | University of California, Los Angeles ⓘ |
| familyName | McCarthy ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
contemporary art
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installation art ⓘ painting ⓘ performance art ⓘ sculpture ⓘ video art ⓘ |
| givenName | Paul ⓘ |
| movement |
conceptual art
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contemporary art ⓘ performance art ⓘ postmodern art ⓘ |
| name | Paul McCarthy self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
provocative and grotesque performances
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works critiquing consumerism ⓘ works critiquing popular culture ⓘ works critiquing the art world ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Caribbean Pirates
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Complex Pile ⓘ Painter ⓘ Sailor’s Meat ⓘ Santa Chocolate Shop ⓘ WS (White Snow) ⓘ |
| occupation |
artist
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professor of art ⓘ university teacher ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Salt Lake City
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surface form:
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Paul McCarthy Description of subject: Paul McCarthy is an American contemporary artist known for his provocative, often grotesque performance, video, and installation works that critique consumerism, popular culture, and the art world.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.