Yaacov Agam
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Yaacov Agam is an Israeli sculptor and experimental artist renowned as a pioneer of kinetic and optical art.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yaacov Agam canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7184349 — 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: Yaacov Agam Context triple: [Dizengoff Square, publicArtworkBy, Yaacov Agam]
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A.
Leo Kahn
Leo Kahn was an American entrepreneur and retail pioneer best known as a co-founder of the office-supplies giant Staples.
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B.
Leon Breiner
Leon Breiner was a white neighbor who was shot and killed during the 1925 Ossian Sweet incident in Detroit, a racially charged confrontation that led to a landmark civil rights trial.
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C.
Eli Attie
Eli Attie is an American television writer and producer best known for his work on political dramas such as "The West Wing" and "House."
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D.
Serge Chermayeff
Serge Chermayeff was a prominent 20th-century architect and industrial designer known for his contributions to modernist architecture in Britain and the United States.
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E.
Ivan Chermayeff
Ivan Chermayeff was a prominent American graphic designer and artist renowned for his influential corporate logos and visual identities, including work for major institutions and global brands.
- 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: Yaacov Agam Target entity description: Yaacov Agam is an Israeli sculptor and experimental artist renowned as a pioneer of kinetic and optical art.
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A.
Leo Kahn
Leo Kahn was an American entrepreneur and retail pioneer best known as a co-founder of the office-supplies giant Staples.
-
B.
Leon Breiner
Leon Breiner was a white neighbor who was shot and killed during the 1925 Ossian Sweet incident in Detroit, a racially charged confrontation that led to a landmark civil rights trial.
-
C.
Eli Attie
Eli Attie is an American television writer and producer best known for his work on political dramas such as "The West Wing" and "House."
-
D.
Serge Chermayeff
Serge Chermayeff was a prominent 20th-century architect and industrial designer known for his contributions to modernist architecture in Britain and the United States.
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E.
Ivan Chermayeff
Ivan Chermayeff was a prominent American graphic designer and artist renowned for his influential corporate logos and visual identities, including work for major institutions and global brands.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
artist
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optical artist ⓘ painter ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activeIn |
20th century
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21st century ⓘ |
| artStyle |
abstract art
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geometric abstraction ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Jan Amos Comenius Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Yaakov Gibstein NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Israel ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1928-05-11 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
NERFINISHED
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Kunstgewerbeschule Zürich NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
kinetic art
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optical art ⓘ painting ⓘ sculpture ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasSignatureTechnique |
polymorphic images
ⓘ
viewer-dependent compositions ⓘ |
| hasWorkInCollection |
Centre Pompidou
NERFINISHED
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Museum of Modern Art, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ Tel Aviv Museum of Art NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Bauhaus
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Constructivism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
lenticular prints
ⓘ
optical art ⓘ pioneering kinetic art ⓘ transformable images ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
French
ⓘ
Hebrew ⓘ |
| movement |
Kinetic art
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Op art NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Yaacov Agam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Israeli ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Agamograph series
NERFINISHED
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Fire and Water Fountain, Tel Aviv NERFINISHED ⓘ Fontaine Agam, La Défense NERFINISHED ⓘ Salon Agam at the Élysée Palace NERFINISHED ⓘ Star of Peace NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Rishon LeZion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| residence | Paris ⓘ |
| website | https://www.agam.org ⓘ |
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: Yaacov Agam Description of subject: Yaacov Agam is an Israeli sculptor and experimental artist renowned as a pioneer of kinetic and optical art.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.