Cremaster 4
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Cremaster 4 is an experimental art film by Matthew Barney, known for its surreal imagery, symbolic exploration of gender and transformation, and its role as part of the artist’s influential Cremaster Cycle.
All labels observed (1)
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| Cremaster 4 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4909476 — 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: Cremaster 4 Context triple: [Matthew Barney, notableWork, Cremaster 4]
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Cremaster 3
Cremaster 3 is an experimental, visually elaborate art film by Matthew Barney, known for its complex symbolism, non-linear narrative, and central place in his five-part Cremaster Cycle.
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Cremaster 1
Cremaster 1 is an experimental art film by Matthew Barney, known for its surreal, highly stylized imagery and its role as the first installment in his influential Cremaster Cycle.
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C.
Cremaster Cycle
Cremaster Cycle is a five-part avant-garde film and art project by Matthew Barney that blends surreal imagery, performance, and sculpture to explore themes of biology, sexuality, and transformation.
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D.
Tetro
Tetro is a 2009 drama film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, in which Maribel Verdú plays a key supporting role in a story about fractured family relationships and artistic rivalry in Buenos Aires.
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E.
Piriform
Piriform is a software company best known for creating the PC optimization tool CCleaner and related system utility applications.
- 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: Cremaster 4 Target entity description: Cremaster 4 is an experimental art film by Matthew Barney, known for its surreal imagery, symbolic exploration of gender and transformation, and its role as part of the artist’s influential Cremaster Cycle.
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A.
Cremaster 3
Cremaster 3 is an experimental, visually elaborate art film by Matthew Barney, known for its complex symbolism, non-linear narrative, and central place in his five-part Cremaster Cycle.
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B.
Cremaster 1
Cremaster 1 is an experimental art film by Matthew Barney, known for its surreal, highly stylized imagery and its role as the first installment in his influential Cremaster Cycle.
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C.
Cremaster Cycle
Cremaster Cycle is a five-part avant-garde film and art project by Matthew Barney that blends surreal imagery, performance, and sculpture to explore themes of biology, sexuality, and transformation.
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D.
Tetro
Tetro is a 2009 drama film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, in which Maribel Verdú plays a key supporting role in a story about fractured family relationships and artistic rivalry in Buenos Aires.
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E.
Piriform
Piriform is a software company best known for creating the PC optimization tool CCleaner and related system utility applications.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
art film
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experimental film ⓘ short film ⓘ surrealist film ⓘ |
| associatedWithArtist | Matthew Barney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| director | Matthew Barney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributionFormat |
limited theatrical screenings
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museum installations ⓘ |
| featuresTheme |
biological development
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gender ⓘ mythology ⓘ sexuality ⓘ transformation ⓘ |
| hasArtMovement |
contemporary art
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postmodern art ⓘ |
| hasCinematographyBy | Peter Streitmann NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGenre |
avant-garde
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experimental ⓘ fantasy ⓘ |
| hasMainCharacter | Loughton Candidate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMedium |
16 mm film
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35 mm film ⓘ |
| hasMotif |
biological forms
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horns ⓘ motorsport ⓘ underwater imagery ⓘ |
| hasMusicBy | Jonathan Bepler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRunningTime | approximately 42 minutes ⓘ |
| isFollowedByInSeries | Cremaster 5 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPrecededByInSeries | Cremaster 1 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
nonlinear narrative
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surreal imagery ⓘ symbolic visual language ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | Cremaster Cycle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfArtProject | Cremaster Cycle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Cremaster Cycle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portraysCharacter | Matthew Barney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Matthew Barney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1994 ⓘ |
| screeningContext |
art museums
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film festivals ⓘ galleries ⓘ |
| seriesOrder | 1 ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Isle of Man NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writer | Matthew Barney 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: Cremaster 4 Description of subject: Cremaster 4 is an experimental art film by Matthew Barney, known for its surreal imagery, symbolic exploration of gender and transformation, and its role as part of the artist’s influential Cremaster Cycle.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.