Wearing
E471302
Wearing is a surname most prominently associated with British conceptual artist and photographer Gillian Wearing.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Wearing canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4821057 — 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: Wearing Context triple: [Gillian Wearing, familyName, Wearing]
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A.
Outfit
Outfit is a common nickname for the Chicago Outfit, a powerful Italian-American organized crime syndicate historically based in Chicago.
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B.
Tailo
Tailo is a widely used Latin-based romanization system for writing Taiwanese Hokkien, employed in education, literature, and language preservation.
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C.
Boots
Boots is a major British pharmacy-led health and beauty retailer and pharmacy chain with stores across the United Kingdom and other countries.
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D.
Boots
Boots is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer best known for his influential work on Beyoncé’s self-titled 2013 album.
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E.
Adorn
"Adorn" is a Grammy-winning R&B single by American singer Miguel, known for its smooth vocals and sensual, minimalist 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: Wearing Target entity description: Wearing is a surname most prominently associated with British conceptual artist and photographer Gillian Wearing.
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A.
Outfit
Outfit is a common nickname for the Chicago Outfit, a powerful Italian-American organized crime syndicate historically based in Chicago.
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B.
Tailo
Tailo is a widely used Latin-based romanization system for writing Taiwanese Hokkien, employed in education, literature, and language preservation.
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C.
Boots
Boots is a major British pharmacy-led health and beauty retailer and pharmacy chain with stores across the United Kingdom and other countries.
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D.
Boots
Boots is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer best known for his influential work on Beyoncé’s self-titled 2013 album.
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E.
Adorn
"Adorn" is a Grammy-winning R&B single by American singer Miguel, known for its smooth vocals and sensual, minimalist production.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Turner Prize winner
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family name ⓘ human ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Turner Prize NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| familyName | Wearing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
conceptual art
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photography ⓘ |
| genre | conceptual photography ⓘ |
| givenName | Gillian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Gillian Wearing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| movement | Young British Artists NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableWork |
10–16
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60 Minutes Silence NERFINISHED ⓘ Signs that say what you want them to say and not Signs that say what someone else wants you to say NERFINISHED ⓘ Trauma NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
conceptual artist
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photographer ⓘ |
| usedInCountry |
Australia
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Canada ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
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: Wearing Description of subject: Wearing is a surname most prominently associated with British conceptual artist and photographer Gillian Wearing.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.