Walking Man
E41980
Walking Man is a prominent outdoor sculpture installed at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, recognized for its stylized depiction of a human figure in motion.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Walking Man canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T329504 — 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: Walking Man Context triple: [Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, notableWorkOnSite, Walking Man]
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A.
Thunder Road
Thunder Road is a critically acclaimed 1975 rock song by Bruce Springsteen that opens his album "Born to Run" and is celebrated for its cinematic storytelling and anthemic sound.
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B.
Get Away
"Get Away" is a 1993 R&B single by American singer Bobby Brown, known for its new jack swing style and energetic production.
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C.
The Thrill Is Gone
"The Thrill Is Gone" is a classic blues song popularized by B.B. King that became one of his signature hits and a defining anthem of modern electric blues.
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D.
Mr. Tambourine Man
"Mr. Tambourine Man" is a landmark 1960s folk-rock song, written and first recorded by Bob Dylan and later popularized by The Byrds, known for its poetic, surreal lyrics and influential sound.
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E.
I’m Sitting on Top of the World
"I'm Sitting on Top of the World" is a popular early 20th-century American song that became a standard, widely recorded by various artists across jazz and popular music.
- 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: Walking Man Target entity description: Walking Man is a prominent outdoor sculpture installed at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, recognized for its stylized depiction of a human figure in motion.
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A.
Thunder Road
Thunder Road is a critically acclaimed 1975 rock song by Bruce Springsteen that opens his album "Born to Run" and is celebrated for its cinematic storytelling and anthemic sound.
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B.
Get Away
"Get Away" is a 1993 R&B single by American singer Bobby Brown, known for its new jack swing style and energetic production.
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C.
The Thrill Is Gone
"The Thrill Is Gone" is a classic blues song popularized by B.B. King that became one of his signature hits and a defining anthem of modern electric blues.
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D.
Mr. Tambourine Man
"Mr. Tambourine Man" is a landmark 1960s folk-rock song, written and first recorded by Bob Dylan and later popularized by The Byrds, known for its poetic, surreal lyrics and influential sound.
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E.
I’m Sitting on Top of the World
"I'm Sitting on Top of the World" is a popular early 20th-century American song that became a standard, widely recorded by various artists across jazz and popular music.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
outdoor sculpture
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public artwork ⓘ sculpture ⓘ |
| artForm | three-dimensional sculpture ⓘ |
| artisticStyle | stylized representation ⓘ |
| category |
outdoor sculptures in Missouri
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public art in Kansas City, Missouri ⓘ |
| collection |
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
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surface form:
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art sculpture collection
|
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| depicts |
human figure
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person walking ⓘ |
| displayContext | museum grounds ⓘ |
| exhibitionType | permanent installation ⓘ |
| function | public art ⓘ |
| genre | figurative sculpture ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
depiction of motion
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elongated human figure ⓘ stylized form ⓘ |
| hasPart |
stylized head
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stylized legs ⓘ stylized torso ⓘ |
| installationSite | outdoor grounds of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art ⓘ |
| location | Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art ⓘ |
| material | metal ⓘ |
| movement | modern sculpture ⓘ |
| setting |
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
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surface form:
Kansas City, Missouri
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| subjectHeading | human motion in art ⓘ |
| theme |
human body in motion
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movement ⓘ |
| visibility | publicly accessible ⓘ |
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: Walking Man Description of subject: Walking Man is a prominent outdoor sculpture installed at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, recognized for its stylized depiction of a human figure in motion.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.