Saul Steinberg
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Saul Steinberg was a Romanian-American artist and illustrator best known for his witty, surreal drawings and long association with The New Yorker magazine.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Saul Steinberg canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4567238 — 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: Saul Steinberg Context triple: [Steinberg, hasNotableBearer, Saul Steinberg]
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A.
Milton Glaser
Milton Glaser was an influential American graphic designer best known for iconic works such as the “I ❤ NY” logo and the psychedelic Bob Dylan poster.
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B.
Al Hirschfeld
Al Hirschfeld was a renowned American caricaturist best known for his distinctive line drawings of Broadway and Hollywood celebrities.
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C.
Fred Done
Fred Done is a British businessman and bookmaker best known as the co-founder and driving force behind the Betfred betting empire.
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D.
J. C. Leyendecker
J. C. Leyendecker was a prominent early 20th-century American illustrator famed for his stylish, highly polished magazine covers and advertising art, particularly for The Saturday Evening Post.
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E.
Peter Suschitzky
Peter Suschitzky is a renowned British cinematographer best known for his long-time collaboration with director David Cronenberg and his visually distinctive work on films such as The Empire Strikes Back.
- 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: Saul Steinberg Target entity description: Saul Steinberg was a Romanian-American artist and illustrator best known for his witty, surreal drawings and long association with The New Yorker magazine.
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A.
Milton Glaser
Milton Glaser was an influential American graphic designer best known for iconic works such as the “I ❤ NY” logo and the psychedelic Bob Dylan poster.
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B.
Al Hirschfeld
Al Hirschfeld was a renowned American caricaturist best known for his distinctive line drawings of Broadway and Hollywood celebrities.
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C.
Fred Done
Fred Done is a British businessman and bookmaker best known as the co-founder and driving force behind the Betfred betting empire.
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D.
J. C. Leyendecker
J. C. Leyendecker was a prominent early 20th-century American illustrator famed for his stylish, highly polished magazine covers and advertising art, particularly for The Saturday Evening Post.
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E.
Peter Suschitzky
Peter Suschitzky is a renowned British cinematographer best known for his long-time collaboration with director David Cronenberg and his visually distinctive work on films such as The Empire Strikes Back.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
artist
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cartoonist ⓘ illustrator ⓘ person ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | natural causes ⓘ |
| citizenship |
Romania
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Hedda Sterne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Romania NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1914-06-15 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1999-05-12 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Politecnico di Milano NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | The New Yorker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | Jewish ⓘ |
| familyName | Steinberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cartooning
ⓘ
drawing ⓘ illustration ⓘ printmaking ⓘ |
| fullName | Saul Steinberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
satire
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surrealism ⓘ visual humor ⓘ |
| givenName | Saul NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWorkType |
cartoon
ⓘ
drawing ⓘ magazine cover ⓘ print ⓘ |
| influenced |
American cartooning
ⓘ
conceptual illustration ⓘ |
| language |
English
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Italian ⓘ Romanian ⓘ |
| movement | modern art ⓘ |
| notableAssociation | The New Yorker magazine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
conceptual cartoons
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surreal drawings ⓘ witty drawings ⓘ |
| notableWork |
The New Yorker covers
ⓘ
View of the World from 9th Avenue NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
artist
ⓘ
cartoonist ⓘ graphic designer ⓘ illustrator ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Râmnicu Sărat, Romania NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
New York City
ⓘ
surface form:
New York City, New York, United States
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| residence |
Milan, Italy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ
surface form:
New York City, New York, United States
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| spouse | Hedda Sterne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Saul Steinberg Description of subject: Saul Steinberg was a Romanian-American artist and illustrator best known for his witty, surreal drawings and long association with The New Yorker magazine.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.