Jorge Selarón

E759575

artist person

Jorge Selarón was a Chilean-born artist best known for transforming Rio de Janeiro’s Escadaria Selarón into a world-famous, brightly tiled public artwork.

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Label	Occurrences
Jorge Selarón canonical	1

Statements (40)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	artist ⓘ person ⓘ
artisticMedium	ceramic tiles ⓘ paint ⓘ
associatedWith	Escadaria Selarón NERFINISHED ⓘ Lapa NERFINISHED ⓘ Santa Teresa NERFINISHED ⓘ
birthPlace	Chile NERFINISHED ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	Chile ⓘ
created	tile mosaics on Escadaria Selarón ⓘ
culturalImpact	contributed to Rio de Janeiro’s image as a city of vibrant street art ⓘ helped make Escadaria Selarón a major tourist attraction in Rio de Janeiro ⓘ
familyName	Selarón NERFINISHED ⓘ
fieldOfWork	mosaic art ⓘ public art ⓘ street art ⓘ
genre	decorative art ⓘ figurative art ⓘ
givenName	Jorge NERFINISHED ⓘ
influencedBy	Brazilian urban landscape ⓘ Latin American popular culture ⓘ
knownFor	colorful tile compositions ⓘ turning a public staircase into a large-scale artwork ⓘ
movement	contemporary art ⓘ public art movement ⓘ
name	Jorge Selarón NERFINISHED ⓘ
nationality	Chilean ⓘ
notableFor	transforming Escadaria Selarón into a brightly tiled public artwork ⓘ
notableWork	Escadaria Selarón NERFINISHED ⓘ
notableWorkLocation	Lapa neighborhood, Rio de Janeiro NERFINISHED ⓘ Santa Teresa neighborhood, Rio de Janeiro NERFINISHED ⓘ
occupation	ceramic artist ⓘ muralist ⓘ painter ⓘ
residence	Rio de Janeiro NERFINISHED ⓘ
subjectOf	documentaries about Escadaria Selarón ⓘ travel articles about Rio de Janeiro ⓘ
usedMaterial	donated tiles ⓘ reclaimed tiles ⓘ
workLocation	Rio de Janeiro 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: Jorge Selarón
Description of subject: Jorge Selarón was a Chilean-born artist best known for transforming Rio de Janeiro’s Escadaria Selarón into a world-famous, brightly tiled public artwork.

Referenced by (1)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Escadaria Selarón → creator → Jorge Selarón ⓘ