exquisite corpse
E187470
Exquisite corpse is a collaborative, chance-based creative technique in which multiple participants contribute sequential parts to a composition without seeing the whole, producing unexpected and often surreal results.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| cadavre exquis | 1 |
| exquisite corpse canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1663955 — 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: exquisite corpse Context triple: [Surrealism, hasMethod, exquisite corpse]
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A.
Evocation (The Burial of Casagemas)
Evocation (The Burial of Casagemas) is a somber early-20th-century painting by Pablo Picasso that exemplifies his Blue Period through its melancholic depiction of his friend Carlos Casagemas’s death and spiritual ascent.
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B.
The Masque of the Red Death
The Masque of the Red Death is a Gothic short story by Edgar Allan Poe that allegorically explores themes of mortality and the inevitability of death through a prince’s doomed attempt to escape a deadly plague.
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C.
The Body Artist
The Body Artist is a short, introspective novel by Don DeLillo that explores grief, identity, and the fluid nature of time through the isolated life of a performance artist.
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D.
Funeral March of a Marionette
"Funeral March of a Marionette" is a light, macabre orchestral piece by Charles Gounod, best known today as the whimsical, suspenseful theme associated with Alfred Hitchcock.
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E.
L’Œuvre
L’Œuvre is a naturalist novel by Émile Zola that portrays the struggles of an ambitious painter in Paris whose obsessive pursuit of artistic perfection leads to personal and professional ruin.
- 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: exquisite corpse Target entity description: Exquisite corpse is a collaborative, chance-based creative technique in which multiple participants contribute sequential parts to a composition without seeing the whole, producing unexpected and often surreal results.
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A.
Evocation (The Burial of Casagemas)
Evocation (The Burial of Casagemas) is a somber early-20th-century painting by Pablo Picasso that exemplifies his Blue Period through its melancholic depiction of his friend Carlos Casagemas’s death and spiritual ascent.
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B.
The Masque of the Red Death
The Masque of the Red Death is a Gothic short story by Edgar Allan Poe that allegorically explores themes of mortality and the inevitability of death through a prince’s doomed attempt to escape a deadly plague.
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C.
The Body Artist
The Body Artist is a short, introspective novel by Don DeLillo that explores grief, identity, and the fluid nature of time through the isolated life of a performance artist.
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D.
Funeral March of a Marionette
"Funeral March of a Marionette" is a light, macabre orchestral piece by Charles Gounod, best known today as the whimsical, suspenseful theme associated with Alfred Hitchcock.
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E.
L’Œuvre
L’Œuvre is a naturalist novel by Émile Zola that portrays the struggles of an ambitious painter in Paris whose obsessive pursuit of artistic perfection leads to personal and professional ruin.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
chance-based composition method
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collaborative creative technique ⓘ surrealist game ⓘ |
| aimsFor |
disruption of conscious control
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surreal combinations ⓘ unexpected results ⓘ |
| encourages |
collaboration
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free association ⓘ improvisation ⓘ playfulness ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
exquisite corpse
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surface form:
cadavre exquis
exquisite cadaver ⓘ rotating corpse ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
collective authorship
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fragmented structure ⓘ nonlinear composition process ⓘ unpredictable final form ⓘ |
| hasCulturalRole |
iconic surrealist practice
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influence on experimental art forms ⓘ |
| hasMethod |
each participant adds to a composition in turn
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participants see only a limited portion of the previous contribution ⓘ |
| hasOutcome |
composite artwork
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composite text ⓘ often surreal imagery ⓘ unexpected narrative shifts ⓘ |
| involves |
multiple participants
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partial concealment of previous contributions ⓘ sequential contributions ⓘ |
| originatedInMovement | Surrealism ⓘ |
| relatedToConcept |
automatic writing
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collaborative storytelling ⓘ constraint-based art ⓘ generative art ⓘ parlor games ⓘ |
| typicalDomain |
collage
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drawing ⓘ literature ⓘ poetry ⓘ visual art ⓘ |
| usedIn |
art education
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creative writing workshops ⓘ team-building creative exercises ⓘ |
| usesPrinciple |
chance
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collective creation ⓘ restricted information ⓘ unexpected juxtaposition ⓘ |
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: exquisite corpse Description of subject: Exquisite corpse is a collaborative, chance-based creative technique in which multiple participants contribute sequential parts to a composition without seeing the whole, producing unexpected and often surreal results.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
cadavre exquis