The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things
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The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things is a multimedia performance and video installation by artist Joan Jonas that layers drawing, movement, sound, and projected imagery to explore perception, memory, and the natural environment.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8843432 — 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: The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things Context triple: [Joan Jonas, notableWork, The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things]
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A.
The Sense of Smell
The Sense of Smell is a Baroque genre painting by Flemish artist Theodoor Rombouts, depicting figures engaged in everyday activities to personify the human sense of smell.
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B.
The Sense of Sight
"The Sense of Sight" is a Baroque genre painting by Flemish artist Theodoor Rombouts, depicting figures engaged in activities that emphasize and allegorize the human sense of vision.
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C.
Tender Buttons
Tender Buttons is an experimental 1914 prose-poetry collection by Gertrude Stein, known for its radical use of language and fragmented, cubist-inspired descriptions of everyday objects, food, and rooms.
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D.
The Connection of the Senses
The Connection of the Senses is a philosophical work by P. F. Strawson that explores how different sensory modalities contribute to our unified experience of the world.
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E.
On the Senses
On the Senses is an ancient philosophical treatise by Theophrastus that examines the nature and functioning of human perception and the five senses.
- 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: The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things Target entity description: The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things is a multimedia performance and video installation by artist Joan Jonas that layers drawing, movement, sound, and projected imagery to explore perception, memory, and the natural environment.
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A.
The Sense of Smell
The Sense of Smell is a Baroque genre painting by Flemish artist Theodoor Rombouts, depicting figures engaged in everyday activities to personify the human sense of smell.
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B.
The Sense of Sight
"The Sense of Sight" is a Baroque genre painting by Flemish artist Theodoor Rombouts, depicting figures engaged in activities that emphasize and allegorize the human sense of vision.
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C.
Tender Buttons
Tender Buttons is an experimental 1914 prose-poetry collection by Gertrude Stein, known for its radical use of language and fragmented, cubist-inspired descriptions of everyday objects, food, and rooms.
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D.
The Connection of the Senses
The Connection of the Senses is a philosophical work by P. F. Strawson that explores how different sensory modalities contribute to our unified experience of the world.
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E.
On the Senses
On the Senses is an ancient philosophical treatise by Theophrastus that examines the nature and functioning of human perception and the five senses.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
multimedia performance
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video installation ⓘ |
| artForm |
installation art
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time-based art ⓘ |
| artist | Joan Jonas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedArtist | Joan Jonas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | contemporary multimedia practice ⓘ |
| creator | Joan Jonas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| exploresTheme |
collective memory
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human perception ⓘ individual memory ⓘ landscape ⓘ relationship to nature ⓘ sensory experience ⓘ |
| genre |
contemporary art
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performance art ⓘ video art ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
performance
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video installation ⓘ |
| hasMedium |
drawing
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movement ⓘ projected imagery ⓘ sound ⓘ |
| hasTitle | The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfTitle | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
memory
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natural environment ⓘ perception ⓘ |
| movementType | live performance ⓘ |
| soundType |
live sound
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recorded sound ⓘ |
| usesTechnique |
choreographed movement
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layering of media ⓘ live drawing ⓘ projection ⓘ soundscape ⓘ |
| visualElement |
drawn imagery
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installation environment ⓘ projected video ⓘ |
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: The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things Description of subject: The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things is a multimedia performance and video installation by artist Joan Jonas that layers drawing, movement, sound, and projected imagery to explore perception, memory, and the natural environment.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.