The Wheel of Life
E127080
The Wheel of Life is a prominent bronze sculpture by Gustav Vigeland symbolizing the human life cycle, located in Oslo’s Vigeland Sculpture Park.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Wheel of Life canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1100460 — 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 Wheel of Life Context triple: [Vigeland Sculpture Park, notableWorkContained, The Wheel of Life]
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A.
Dhvanyāloka
Dhvanyāloka is a foundational Sanskrit treatise on literary theory and poetics, especially known for formulating the influential doctrine of poetic suggestion (dhvani).
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B.
The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean
"The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean" is the opening episode of Carl Sagan’s documentary series *Cosmos: A Personal Voyage*, introducing viewers to the scale, structure, and wonder of the universe.
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C.
The Dance of Life
The Dance of Life is a famous 1899–1900 painting by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch that explores themes of love, anxiety, and the human life cycle through a symbolic seaside dance scene.
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D.
The Trials of Life
The Trials of Life is a landmark BBC nature documentary series presented by David Attenborough that explores animal behavior and the challenges of survival across different stages of life.
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E.
The Tao of Wu
The Tao of Wu is a philosophical and autobiographical book by RZA that blends Wu-Tang Clan history with lessons drawn from Eastern spirituality, Five Percent Nation teachings, and personal experience.
- 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 Wheel of Life Target entity description: The Wheel of Life is a prominent bronze sculpture by Gustav Vigeland symbolizing the human life cycle, located in Oslo’s Vigeland Sculpture Park.
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A.
Dhvanyāloka
Dhvanyāloka is a foundational Sanskrit treatise on literary theory and poetics, especially known for formulating the influential doctrine of poetic suggestion (dhvani).
-
B.
The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean
"The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean" is the opening episode of Carl Sagan’s documentary series *Cosmos: A Personal Voyage*, introducing viewers to the scale, structure, and wonder of the universe.
-
C.
The Dance of Life
The Dance of Life is a famous 1899–1900 painting by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch that explores themes of love, anxiety, and the human life cycle through a symbolic seaside dance scene.
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D.
The Trials of Life
The Trials of Life is a landmark BBC nature documentary series presented by David Attenborough that explores animal behavior and the challenges of survival across different stages of life.
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E.
The Tao of Wu
The Tao of Wu is a philosophical and autobiographical book by RZA that blends Wu-Tang Clan history with lessons drawn from Eastern spirituality, Five Percent Nation teachings, and personal experience.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
public artwork
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sculpture ⓘ |
| artForm | outdoor sculpture ⓘ |
| collection |
Vigeland Sculpture Park
ⓘ
surface form:
Frogner Park sculpture ensemble
|
| countryOfOrigin | Norway ⓘ |
| creator | Gustav Vigeland ⓘ |
| creatorNationality |
Norwegian language
ⓘ
surface form:
Norwegian
|
| depicts |
human life cycle
ⓘ
intertwined human figures ⓘ |
| genre | figurative sculpture ⓘ |
| hasArtisticMovement |
Expressionism
ⓘ
Symbolism ⓘ |
| hasColor | bronze ⓘ |
| hasCulturalContext | Norwegian cultural heritage ⓘ |
| hasShape | ring ⓘ |
| hasSignificance | symbol of the eternal cycle of life ⓘ |
| inception | 20th century ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Vigeland Sculpture Park
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surface form:
Vigeland Sculpture Park main axis
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| locatedIn |
Norway
ⓘ
Oslo ⓘ |
| location | Vigeland Sculpture Park ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
birth
ⓘ
death ⓘ eternity ⓘ life ⓘ |
| materialUsed | bronze ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
Oslo
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surface form:
City of Oslo
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| partOf | Vigeland installation ⓘ |
| publicAccess | yes ⓘ |
| touristAttraction | yes ⓘ |
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 Wheel of Life Description of subject: The Wheel of Life is a prominent bronze sculpture by Gustav Vigeland symbolizing the human life cycle, located in Oslo’s Vigeland Sculpture Park.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.