Paul Cadmus
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Paul Cadmus was an American painter and printmaker known for his finely detailed, satirical depictions of social life and homoerotic imagery, often associated with the Social Realism movement.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Paul Cadmus canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5806883 — 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: Paul Cadmus Context triple: [Grand Central School of Art, notableStudent, Paul Cadmus]
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A.
John Sloan
John Sloan was a prominent American painter and printmaker associated with the Ashcan School, known for his gritty, realist depictions of early 20th-century urban life.
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B.
Rockwell Kent
Rockwell Kent was an American painter, printmaker, illustrator, and writer known for his rugged landscapes and distinctive book illustrations, including for Herman Melville’s "Moby-Dick."
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C.
Philip Guston
Philip Guston was a 20th-century Canadian American painter known for his evolution from abstract expressionism to a distinctive, cartoon-like figurative style that often addressed political and social themes.
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D.
Milton Avery
Milton Avery was a 20th-century American modern painter known for his simplified forms, bold color harmonies, and influential role bridging American Impressionism and Abstract Expressionism.
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E.
Reginald Marsh
Reginald Marsh was an American painter and printmaker best known for his vivid, crowded depictions of New York City’s urban life during the early 20th century.
- 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: Paul Cadmus Target entity description: Paul Cadmus was an American painter and printmaker known for his finely detailed, satirical depictions of social life and homoerotic imagery, often associated with the Social Realism movement.
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A.
John Sloan
John Sloan was a prominent American painter and printmaker associated with the Ashcan School, known for his gritty, realist depictions of early 20th-century urban life.
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B.
Rockwell Kent
Rockwell Kent was an American painter, printmaker, illustrator, and writer known for his rugged landscapes and distinctive book illustrations, including for Herman Melville’s "Moby-Dick."
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C.
Philip Guston
Philip Guston was a 20th-century Canadian American painter known for his evolution from abstract expressionism to a distinctive, cartoon-like figurative style that often addressed political and social themes.
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D.
Milton Avery
Milton Avery was a 20th-century American modern painter known for his simplified forms, bold color harmonies, and influential role bridging American Impressionism and Abstract Expressionism.
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E.
Reginald Marsh
Reginald Marsh was an American painter and printmaker best known for his vivid, crowded depictions of New York City’s urban life during the early 20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
artist
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human ⓘ painter ⓘ printmaker ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1904-12-17 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1999-12-12 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Art Students League of New York
NERFINISHED
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National Academy of Design NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
Public Works of Art Project
NERFINISHED
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Works Progress Administration NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Cadmus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
drawing
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egg tempera painting ⓘ painting ⓘ printmaking ⓘ |
| genre |
homoerotic art
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satire ⓘ social commentary art ⓘ |
| givenName | Paul ⓘ |
| influenced |
contemporary gay art
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late 20th-century figurative painters ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Italian Renaissance painters
NERFINISHED
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Renaissance art ⓘ social realism ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement |
American Realism
NERFINISHED
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Magic Realism NERFINISHED ⓘ Social Realism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Avenue A
NERFINISHED
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Coney Island NERFINISHED ⓘ Gilding the Acrobats NERFINISHED ⓘ Greenwich Village Cafeteria NERFINISHED ⓘ Shore Leave NERFINISHED ⓘ The Fleet’s In! NERFINISHED ⓘ The Seven Deadly Sins (series) NERFINISHED ⓘ What I Believe NERFINISHED ⓘ YMCA Locker Room NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partner |
Jared French
NERFINISHED
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Jon Andersson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
New York
NERFINISHED
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New York City ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Connecticut
NERFINISHED
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United States of America ⓘ Weston, Connecticut NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sexualOrientation | gay ⓘ |
| significantEvent | removal of "The Fleet’s In!" from a 1934 U.S. Navy exhibition due to controversy ⓘ |
| workLocation |
New York City
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Weston, Connecticut 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: Paul Cadmus Description of subject: Paul Cadmus was an American painter and printmaker known for his finely detailed, satirical depictions of social life and homoerotic imagery, often associated with the Social Realism movement.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.