Karel Teige
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Karel Teige was a leading Czech avant-garde theorist, critic, and designer associated with surrealism and modernist movements in early 20th-century Europe.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Karel Teige canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8042902 — 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: Karel Teige Context triple: [Surrealist Group in Paris, hasMember, Karel Teige]
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A.
Jan Stráský
Jan Stráský was a Czech politician who served in top governmental roles during the final years of Czechoslovakia and later in the Czech Republic.
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B.
Alois Jirásek
Alois Jirásek was a prominent Czech writer and playwright best known for his historical novels that helped shape modern Czech national identity.
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C.
Jiří Mucha
Jiří Mucha was a Czech writer and journalist known for his novels, memoirs, and for preserving and promoting the artistic legacy of his father, Art Nouveau painter Alphonse Mucha.
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D.
Karel Kramář
Karel Kramář was a Czech politician and statesman who played a key role in the creation of Czechoslovakia and became its first prime minister after World War I.
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E.
Vitezslav Lavicka
Vitezslav Lavicka is a Czech football manager and former player best known for coaching clubs such as Sydney FC and Sparta Prague.
- 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: Karel Teige Target entity description: Karel Teige was a leading Czech avant-garde theorist, critic, and designer associated with surrealism and modernist movements in early 20th-century Europe.
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A.
Jan Stráský
Jan Stráský was a Czech politician who served in top governmental roles during the final years of Czechoslovakia and later in the Czech Republic.
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B.
Alois Jirásek
Alois Jirásek was a prominent Czech writer and playwright best known for his historical novels that helped shape modern Czech national identity.
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C.
Jiří Mucha
Jiří Mucha was a Czech writer and journalist known for his novels, memoirs, and for preserving and promoting the artistic legacy of his father, Art Nouveau painter Alphonse Mucha.
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D.
Karel Kramář
Karel Kramář was a Czech politician and statesman who played a key role in the creation of Czechoslovakia and became its first prime minister after World War I.
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E.
Vitezslav Lavicka
Vitezslav Lavicka is a Czech football manager and former player best known for coaching clubs such as Sydney FC and Sparta Prague.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Czech person
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art critic ⓘ art theorist ⓘ graphic designer ⓘ human ⓘ poet ⓘ translator ⓘ typographer ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | heart attack ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Czech Republic
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Czechoslovakia ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1900-12-13 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1951-10-01 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Charles University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Czech ⓘ |
| familyName | Teige NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Karel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
Central European avant-garde
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Czech graphic design ⓘ Czech modernist architecture ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Constructivism
NERFINISHED
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Kazimir Malevich NERFINISHED ⓘ Le Corbusier NERFINISHED ⓘ Vladimir Mayakovsky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Czech ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Czechoslovak Surrealist Group
NERFINISHED
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Devětsil Art Association NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement |
Constructivism
NERFINISHED
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Czech avant-garde ⓘ Devětsil NERFINISHED ⓘ Functionalism NERFINISHED ⓘ Modernism ⓘ Poetism NERFINISHED ⓘ Surrealism ⓘ |
| name | Karel Teige NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Modern Architecture in Czechoslovakia
NERFINISHED
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Surrealism against the Current NERFINISHED ⓘ The Laughing One NERFINISHED ⓘ The Minimum Dwelling NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
art critic
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collage artist ⓘ editor ⓘ graphic designer ⓘ poet ⓘ theorist ⓘ translator ⓘ typographer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Kingdom of Bohemia
NERFINISHED
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Prague NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Prague NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryResidence | Prague NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: Karel Teige Description of subject: Karel Teige was a leading Czech avant-garde theorist, critic, and designer associated with surrealism and modernist movements in early 20th-century Europe.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.