Variant/Adobe series
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The Variant/Adobe series is a group of abstract paintings by Josef Albers that explore color relationships through stacked, rectilinear forms inspired by adobe architecture.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Variant/Adobe | 1 |
| Variant/Adobe series canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1972123 — 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: Variant/Adobe series Context triple: [Josef Albers, notableWork, Variant/Adobe series]
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A.
Adobe PageMaker
Adobe PageMaker was one of the first widely used desktop publishing applications, popular in the 1980s and 1990s for creating professional-quality printed documents such as brochures, newsletters, and books.
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B.
Acrobat
"Acrobat" is a song by the Irish rock band U2 from their 1991 album *Achtung Baby*, known for its dark, introspective lyrics and atmospheric guitar work.
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C.
PostScript
PostScript is a page description and programming language widely used in desktop publishing and printing to precisely define the layout and appearance of text and graphics.
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D.
Adobe Inc.
Adobe Inc. is a multinational software company best known for its creative and multimedia products such as Photoshop, Illustrator, and Acrobat, widely used in digital media and design industries.
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E.
Adobe Fonts
Adobe Fonts is a subscription-based online font library and management service offering thousands of high-quality typefaces for use across desktop and web design projects.
- 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: Variant/Adobe series Target entity description: The Variant/Adobe series is a group of abstract paintings by Josef Albers that explore color relationships through stacked, rectilinear forms inspired by adobe architecture.
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A.
Adobe PageMaker
Adobe PageMaker was one of the first widely used desktop publishing applications, popular in the 1980s and 1990s for creating professional-quality printed documents such as brochures, newsletters, and books.
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B.
Acrobat
"Acrobat" is a song by the Irish rock band U2 from their 1991 album *Achtung Baby*, known for its dark, introspective lyrics and atmospheric guitar work.
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C.
PostScript
PostScript is a page description and programming language widely used in desktop publishing and printing to precisely define the layout and appearance of text and graphics.
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D.
Adobe Inc.
Adobe Inc. is a multinational software company best known for its creative and multimedia products such as Photoshop, Illustrator, and Acrobat, widely used in digital media and design industries.
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E.
Adobe Fonts
Adobe Fonts is a subscription-based online font library and management service offering thousands of high-quality typefaces for use across desktop and web design projects.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
abstract art series
ⓘ
series of paintings ⓘ |
| aimsTo | demonstrate relativity of color ⓘ |
| artist | Josef Albers ⓘ |
| associatedWithConcept |
color theory
ⓘ
optical interaction of colors ⓘ |
| associatedWithInstitution | Bauhaus legacy ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| creator | Josef Albers ⓘ |
| depicts | architectonic color structures ⓘ |
| followedBy | Homage to the Square ⓘ |
| formalCharacteristic |
asymmetrical compositions
ⓘ
limited drawing of depth ⓘ rectangular color blocks ⓘ |
| genre | abstract painting ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn |
color field painting
ⓘ
minimalist painting ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Adobe Inc.
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surface form:
Adobe
Variant ⓘ |
| inception |
1940s
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1950s ⓘ |
| inspiredBy |
Mexican architecture
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adobe architecture ⓘ |
| locationOfExhibition |
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
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Museum of Modern Art ⓘ
surface form:
The Museum of Modern Art
Yale University Art Gallery ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
color relationships
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geometric forms ⓘ perception of color ⓘ |
| movement |
Abstract art
ⓘ
Geometric abstraction ⓘ Modernism ⓘ |
| notableWorkOf | Josef Albers ⓘ |
| partOf |
Josef Albers
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surface form:
Josef Albers oeuvre
|
| periodInArtistCareer | pre–Homage to the Square phase ⓘ |
| relatedWorkSeries | Homage to the Square ⓘ |
| usesTechnique |
flat color planes
ⓘ
oil paint ⓘ stacked rectilinear forms ⓘ |
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: Variant/Adobe series Description of subject: The Variant/Adobe series is a group of abstract paintings by Josef Albers that explore color relationships through stacked, rectilinear forms inspired by adobe architecture.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Variant/Adobe