Velázquez Prize for Plastic Arts

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Spanish national prize art award

The Velázquez Prize for Plastic Arts is a prestigious Spanish award that honors outstanding contributions to contemporary visual arts, often regarded as the Ibero-American equivalent of the Velázquez legacy in painting and sculpture.

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All labels observed (4)

Label	Occurrences
Velázquez Visual Arts Prize	2
Premio Velázquez de Artes Plásticas	1
Velázquez Prize for Plastic Arts canonical	1
Velázquez Prize for the Arts	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1159713 — 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: Velázquez Prize for Plastic Arts
Context triple: [Jaume Plensa, awardReceived, Velázquez Prize for Plastic Arts]

A. Prince of Asturias Award for Concord
The Prince of Asturias Award for Concord is a prestigious Spanish prize that honors individuals or institutions whose work promotes peace, understanding, and humanitarian cooperation on an international scale.
B. Prince of Asturias Award for Literature
The Prince of Asturias Award for Literature is a prestigious Spanish prize honoring outstanding literary contributions by writers of international renown.
C. Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research
The Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research is a prestigious Spanish prize that honors outstanding contributions and breakthroughs in science and technology on an international scale.
D. Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences
The Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences is a prestigious Spanish prize that honors outstanding contributions to the fields of social studies, law, political science, and related disciplines on an international scale.
E. Prince of Asturias Award for Sports
The Prince of Asturias Award for Sports is a prestigious Spanish honor recognizing individuals, teams, or organizations whose achievements in sports represent an exemplary model for others.
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: Velázquez Prize for Plastic Arts
Target entity description: The Velázquez Prize for Plastic Arts is a prestigious Spanish award that honors outstanding contributions to contemporary visual arts, often regarded as the Ibero-American equivalent of the Velázquez legacy in painting and sculpture.

A. Prince of Asturias Award for Concord
The Prince of Asturias Award for Concord is a prestigious Spanish prize that honors individuals or institutions whose work promotes peace, understanding, and humanitarian cooperation on an international scale.
B. Prince of Asturias Award for Literature
The Prince of Asturias Award for Literature is a prestigious Spanish prize honoring outstanding literary contributions by writers of international renown.
C. Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research
The Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research is a prestigious Spanish prize that honors outstanding contributions and breakthroughs in science and technology on an international scale.
D. Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences
The Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences is a prestigious Spanish prize that honors outstanding contributions to the fields of social studies, law, political science, and related disciplines on an international scale.
E. Prince of Asturias Award for Sports
The Prince of Asturias Award for Sports is a prestigious Spanish honor recognizing individuals, teams, or organizations whose achievements in sports represent an exemplary model for others.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Spanish national prize ⓘ art award ⓘ
administeredBy	Spanish government ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Velázquez Prize for Plastic Arts ⓘ surface form: Premio Velázquez de Artes Plásticas
awardedFor	lifetime achievement in plastic arts ⓘ outstanding contributions to contemporary visual arts ⓘ
continent	Europe ⓘ
country	Spain ⓘ
culturalSignificance	one of the most prestigious visual arts awards in the Spanish-speaking world ⓘ
eligibility	artists with significant career trajectory ⓘ living artists ⓘ
field	contemporary art ⓘ visual arts ⓘ
frequency	annual ⓘ
genre	plastic arts prize ⓘ
hasAwardCategory	individual artist ⓘ
hasMedium	installation art ⓘ painting ⓘ performance art ⓘ photography ⓘ sculpture ⓘ video art ⓘ
hasOfficialWebsite	official site of the Spanish Ministry of Culture ⓘ
headquartersLocation	Madrid ⓘ
inception	2002 ⓘ
languageOfName	Spanish ⓘ
monetaryValue	high-value cash prize ⓘ
namedAfter	Diego Velázquez ⓘ
notableRecipient	Antoni Tàpies ⓘ Antonio López García ⓘ Carmen Laffón ⓘ Cildo Meireles ⓘ Doris Salcedo ⓘ Esther Ferrer ⓘ Jaume Plensa ⓘ Juan Downey ⓘ Luis Gordillo ⓘ Martha Rosler ⓘ Miquel Barceló ⓘ
presentedBy	Spanish Ministry of Culture ⓘ surface form: Ministry of Culture of Spain
region	Latin America ⓘ surface form: Ibero-America
relatedTo	National Award for Plastic Arts of Spain ⓘ surface form: National Prize for Plastic Arts of Spain
relationToVelázquez	considered Ibero-American heir to Velázquez legacy in painting and sculpture ⓘ
scope	Ibero-American artists ⓘ
selectionProcess	jury decision ⓘ
sponsor	Spanish Ministry of Culture ⓘ surface form: Ministry of Culture of Spain
status	active ⓘ
typeOf	state cultural prize of Spain ⓘ

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Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Jaume Plensa → awardReceived → Velázquez Prize for Plastic Arts ⓘ

Antoni Tàpies → awardReceived → Velázquez Prize for Plastic Arts ⓘ

this entity surface form: Velázquez Prize for the Arts

Velázquez Prize for Plastic Arts → alsoKnownAs → Velázquez Prize for Plastic Arts ⓘ

this entity surface form: Premio Velázquez de Artes Plásticas

Antonio López García → awardReceived → Velázquez Prize for Plastic Arts ⓘ

this entity surface form: Velázquez Visual Arts Prize

Doris Salcedo → awardReceived → Velázquez Prize for Plastic Arts ⓘ