About Looking
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About Looking is a collection of essays by art critic and writer John Berger that explores the ways we see and interpret images, animals, and the visual world.
All labels observed (1)
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| About Looking canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11063464 — 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: About Looking Context triple: [John Berger, notableWork, About Looking]
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A.
Looking: The Movie
Looking: The Movie is a feature-length continuation and conclusion of the HBO dramedy series "Looking," following a group of gay friends navigating love and identity in contemporary San Francisco.
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B.
Looking In
"Looking In" is a track from the Moody Blues' 1970 progressive rock album "A Question of Balance," written and sung by bassist John Lodge.
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C.
Whatchulookinat
"Whatchulookinat" is an R&B song by Whitney Houston, released as a single from her 2002 album "Just Whitney."
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D.
Best Look
Best Look is a style-focused award category at the MTV Europe Music Awards that recognizes the artist with the most notable fashion and visual presentation.
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E.
A Looking in View
"A Looking in View" is a heavy, darkly atmospheric song by Alice in Chains, released as a single from their 2009 comeback album "Black Gives Way to Blue."
- 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: About Looking Target entity description: About Looking is a collection of essays by art critic and writer John Berger that explores the ways we see and interpret images, animals, and the visual world.
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A.
Looking: The Movie
Looking: The Movie is a feature-length continuation and conclusion of the HBO dramedy series "Looking," following a group of gay friends navigating love and identity in contemporary San Francisco.
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B.
Looking In
"Looking In" is a track from the Moody Blues' 1970 progressive rock album "A Question of Balance," written and sung by bassist John Lodge.
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C.
Whatchulookinat
"Whatchulookinat" is an R&B song by Whitney Houston, released as a single from her 2002 album "Just Whitney."
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D.
Best Look
Best Look is a style-focused award category at the MTV Europe Music Awards that recognizes the artist with the most notable fashion and visual presentation.
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E.
A Looking in View
"A Looking in View" is a heavy, darkly atmospheric song by Alice in Chains, released as a single from their 2009 comeback album "Black Gives Way to Blue."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
essay collection
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non-fiction book ⓘ |
| author | John Berger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| explores |
human-animal relations in modern society
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politics of representation ⓘ relationship between seeing and knowing ⓘ |
| genre |
art criticism
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cultural criticism ⓘ |
| hasPart |
essay "A Man with Tousled Hair"
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essay "Appearances" NERFINISHED ⓘ essay "Between Two Colmars" NERFINISHED ⓘ essay "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye" NERFINISHED ⓘ essay "Paul Strand" NERFINISHED ⓘ essay "The Changing View of Man in the Portrait" NERFINISHED ⓘ essay "The Eyes of Claude Monet" NERFINISHED ⓘ essay "The Moment of Cubism" NERFINISHED ⓘ essay "The Production of the World" NERFINISHED ⓘ essay "The Suit and the Photograph" NERFINISHED ⓘ essay "The White Bird" NERFINISHED ⓘ essay "The Work of Art" NERFINISHED ⓘ essay "Understanding a Photograph" NERFINISHED ⓘ essay "Uses of Photography" ⓘ essay "Why Look at Animals?" ⓘ |
| hasPerspective |
Marxist
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humanist ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Marxist cultural theory
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art history ⓘ critical theory ⓘ |
| intendedAudience |
readers interested in art and visual culture
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students of art history and cultural studies ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | essay ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
animals in art and culture
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images ⓘ painting ⓘ photography ⓘ the visual world ⓘ visual perception ⓘ ways of seeing ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| notableFor |
critical reflections on photography
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exploring how people see and interpret images ⓘ linking animal imagery to human social relations ⓘ |
| publicationPeriod | 20th century ⓘ |
| publisher | Pantheon Books NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedWork | Ways of Seeing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workOf | John Berger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: About Looking Description of subject: About Looking is a collection of essays by art critic and writer John Berger that explores the ways we see and interpret images, animals, and the visual world.
Referenced by (1)
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