Polke
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Polke is a German surname most notably associated with the influential painter and photographer Sigmar Polke.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Polke canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4705369 — 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: Polke Context triple: [Sigmar Polke, familyName, Polke]
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A.
Perea
Perea was a region east of the Jordan River in the early 1st century CE, forming part of Herod Antipas’s tetrarchy within the broader territory of Roman-era Judea.
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B.
Pinales
Pinales is the botanical order of coniferous trees and shrubs that includes pines, firs, spruces, and related needle-leaved, cone-bearing plants.
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C.
Lymon
Lymon is a variant spelling of the given name and surname Lyman, used for people and occasionally fictional characters.
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D.
Elato
Elato is a small coral atoll and island community in Yap State of the Federated States of Micronesia, known for its traditional seafaring culture and remote Pacific setting.
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E.
Nolana
Nolana is a genus of flowering plants native mainly to coastal regions of South America, known for their showy, often blue, funnel-shaped blossoms.
- 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: Polke Target entity description: Polke is a German surname most notably associated with the influential painter and photographer Sigmar Polke.
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A.
Perea
Perea was a region east of the Jordan River in the early 1st century CE, forming part of Herod Antipas’s tetrarchy within the broader territory of Roman-era Judea.
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B.
Pinales
Pinales is the botanical order of coniferous trees and shrubs that includes pines, firs, spruces, and related needle-leaved, cone-bearing plants.
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C.
Lymon
Lymon is a variant spelling of the given name and surname Lyman, used for people and occasionally fictional characters.
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D.
Elato
Elato is a small coral atoll and island community in Yap State of the Federated States of Micronesia, known for its traditional seafaring culture and remote Pacific setting.
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E.
Nolana
Nolana is a genus of flowering plants native mainly to coastal regions of South America, known for their showy, often blue, funnel-shaped blossoms.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
German-language surname
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human ⓘ painter ⓘ photographer ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Golden Lion (Venice Biennale) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Germany ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Germany ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1941-02-13 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2010-06-10 ⓘ |
| employer | Kunstakademie Düsseldorf NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | German ⓘ |
| familyName | Polke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
experimental film
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painting ⓘ photography ⓘ printmaking ⓘ |
| genre | contemporary art ⓘ |
| givenName | Sigmar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWorkInCollection |
Centre Pompidou
NERFINISHED
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Museum Ludwig NERFINISHED ⓘ Museum of Modern Art NERFINISHED ⓘ Tate Modern NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Dada
NERFINISHED
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Pop art NERFINISHED ⓘ Surrealism ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | German ⓘ |
| movement |
Capitalist realism
NERFINISHED
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German contemporary art ⓘ |
| notableBearer | Sigmar Polke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Höhere Wesen befahlen: rechte obere Ecke schwarz malen!
NERFINISHED
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Rasterbilder (dot paintings) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Spirits That Lend Strength Are Invisible NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Oels, Lower Silesia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Cologne, Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | professor at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Cologne
NERFINISHED
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Düsseldorf NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Polke Description of subject: Polke is a German surname most notably associated with the influential painter and photographer Sigmar Polke.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.