David Smith

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David Smith was an influential American sculptor best known for his large-scale abstract steel works that helped redefine modern sculpture in the 20th century.

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Label Occurrences
David Smith canonical 3

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf abstract artist
artist
human
sculptor
artisticTechnique assemblage
welding
causeOfDeath car accident
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1906-03-09
dateOfDeath 1965-05-23
educatedAt Art Students League of New York
exhibitedAt Museum of Modern Art
surface form: Museum of Modern Art, New York

Venice Biennale
Whitney Museum of American Art
familyName Smith
fieldOfWork abstract art
modern art
sculpture
gender male
genre abstract sculpture
givenName David
influenced modern sculpture
postwar American sculpture
influencedBy Cubism
Julio González
Pablo Picasso
Surrealism
movement Abstract expressionism
surface form: Abstract Expressionism

Modernism
name David Smith
nationality American
notableFor large-scale abstract steel sculptures
welded metal sculpture
notableWork Agricola
surface form: Agricola series

Cubi series
Hudson River Landscape
Tanktotem series
Voltri series
occupation painter
sculptor
placeOfBirth Decatur, Indiana
surface form: Decatur, Indiana, United States
placeOfDeath Bennington, Vermont
surface form: Bennington, Vermont, United States
spouse Dorothy Dehner
Kelly Freas
surface form: Jean Freas
usedMaterial stainless steel
steel
welded iron
workLocation Bolton, New York
surface form: Bolton Landing, New York

New York City

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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.
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Subject: David Smith
Description of subject: David Smith was an influential American sculptor best known for his large-scale abstract steel works that helped redefine modern sculpture in the 20th century.

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