Bed
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Bed is a groundbreaking 1955 combine painting by Robert Rauschenberg that merges a real quilt, pillow, and sheet with expressive paint to blur the boundaries between painting and sculpture.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bed canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1897826 — 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: Bed Context triple: [Robert Rauschenberg, notableWork, Bed]
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A.
This Bed
"This Bed" is a soulful R&B ballad by Alicia Keys featured on her 2009 album "The Element of Freedom."
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B.
Maria's Bed
"Maria's Bed" is a song by Bruce Springsteen featured on his 2005 album *Devils & Dust*.
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C.
The Bedroom
The Bedroom is a famous painting by Vincent van Gogh depicting his simple, brightly colored bedroom in Arles, celebrated for its bold color, distorted perspective, and emotional intensity characteristic of Post-Impressionism.
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D.
Cobija
Cobija is a small Bolivian city in the Amazon rainforest near the border with Brazil, known as an important regional center for trade and rubber production.
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E.
Tent Room
The Tent Room is an elaborately decorated ceremonial space in Rideau Hall, often used for official receptions and state functions by the Governor General of Canada.
- 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: Bed Target entity description: Bed is a groundbreaking 1955 combine painting by Robert Rauschenberg that merges a real quilt, pillow, and sheet with expressive paint to blur the boundaries between painting and sculpture.
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A.
This Bed
"This Bed" is a soulful R&B ballad by Alicia Keys featured on her 2009 album "The Element of Freedom."
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B.
Maria's Bed
"Maria's Bed" is a song by Bruce Springsteen featured on his 2005 album *Devils & Dust*.
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C.
The Bedroom
The Bedroom is a famous painting by Vincent van Gogh depicting his simple, brightly colored bedroom in Arles, celebrated for its bold color, distorted perspective, and emotional intensity characteristic of Post-Impressionism.
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D.
Cobija
Cobija is a small Bolivian city in the Amazon rainforest near the border with Brazil, known as an important regional center for trade and rubber production.
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E.
Tent Room
The Tent Room is an elaborately decorated ceremonial space in Rideau Hall, often used for official receptions and state functions by the Governor General of Canada.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
artwork
ⓘ
combine painting ⓘ |
| artForm |
assemblage
ⓘ
painting ⓘ |
| artHistoricalSignificance | early and iconic example of Rauschenberg’s combines ⓘ |
| artisticMedium |
oil paint
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pencil ⓘ pillow ⓘ quilt ⓘ sheet ⓘ wooden support ⓘ |
| collection |
Museum of Modern Art
ⓘ
surface form:
Museum of Modern Art collection
|
| colorPalette |
blue
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predominantly red ⓘ white ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| creator | Robert Rauschenberg ⓘ |
| creatorNationality | American ⓘ |
| depicts | bed ⓘ |
| dimension |
191.1 cm height
ⓘ
20.3 cm depth ⓘ 80 cm width ⓘ |
| displayType | wall-mounted ⓘ |
| exhibitionHistory | exhibited at Museum of Modern Art ⓘ |
| genre | combine painting ⓘ |
| inception | 1955 ⓘ |
| influenced |
Conceptual art
ⓘ
Pop art ⓘ Postmodernism ⓘ
surface form:
Postmodern art
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| influencedBy |
Abstract expressionism
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surface form:
Abstract Expressionism
|
| locatedIn | New York City ⓘ |
| location | Museum of Modern Art ⓘ |
| movement |
Neo-Dada
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Pop art precursor ⓘ |
| notableFor |
blurring boundaries between painting and sculpture
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integration of everyday objects into fine art ⓘ |
| orientation | vertical ⓘ |
| subjectMatter | domestic object ⓘ |
| support | vertical wooden structure ⓘ |
| technique |
dripped paint
ⓘ
gestural brushwork ⓘ |
| theme |
collapse of high and low culture
ⓘ
everyday life in art ⓘ materiality of painting ⓘ |
| usesFoundObjects | true ⓘ |
| workSeriesRelation | early Rauschenberg combine ⓘ |
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: Bed Description of subject: Bed is a groundbreaking 1955 combine painting by Robert Rauschenberg that merges a real quilt, pillow, and sheet with expressive paint to blur the boundaries between painting and sculpture.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Milton Ernest Rauschenberg