Holzer
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Holzer is the surname of Jenny Holzer, an American conceptual artist renowned for her text-based public art installations and provocative use of language.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Holzer canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2620458 — 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: Holzer Context triple: [Jenny Holzer, familyName, Holzer]
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A.
Riedholz
Riedholz is a small Swiss municipality located in the canton of Solothurn.
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B.
Emigholz
Emigholz is a German surname most notably associated with filmmaker and artist Heinz Emigholz.
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C.
Baumwerder
Baumwerder is a small island located in Tegeler See, a lake in the Berlin district of Reinickendorf, Germany.
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D.
How Wood
How Wood is a residential suburb and railway-served locality near St Albans in Hertfordshire, England.
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E.
Plauen
Plauen is a historic town in eastern Germany known for its textile industry and intricate lace production.
- 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: Holzer Target entity description: Holzer is the surname of Jenny Holzer, an American conceptual artist renowned for her text-based public art installations and provocative use of language.
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A.
Riedholz
Riedholz is a small Swiss municipality located in the canton of Solothurn.
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B.
Emigholz
Emigholz is a German surname most notably associated with filmmaker and artist Heinz Emigholz.
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C.
Baumwerder
Baumwerder is a small island located in Tegeler See, a lake in the Berlin district of Reinickendorf, Germany.
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D.
How Wood
How Wood is a residential suburb and railway-served locality near St Albans in Hertfordshire, England.
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E.
Plauen
Plauen is a historic town in eastern Germany known for its textile industry and intricate lace production.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
conceptual artist
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family name ⓘ human ⓘ surname ⓘ visual artist ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| genre | public art ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Holzer self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Jenny Holzer ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | German ⓘ |
| movement | conceptual art ⓘ |
| notableFor |
text-based public art installations
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use of provocative language in art ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Inflammatory Essays
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Protect Me From What I Want ⓘ Survival Series ⓘ
surface form:
Survival series
Truisms series ⓘ |
| occupation |
artist
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conceptual artist ⓘ |
| usesMedium |
LED displays
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posters ⓘ projections ⓘ text ⓘ |
| workFocus |
feminism
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language and power ⓘ politics ⓘ social critique ⓘ violence ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
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: Holzer Description of subject: Holzer is the surname of Jenny Holzer, an American conceptual artist renowned for her text-based public art installations and provocative use of language.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Jenny Holzer