The Cyclops
E144590
The Cyclops is a symbolist painting by Odilon Redon depicting a solitary, dreamlike one-eyed giant gazing tenderly at a sleeping nymph in a fantastical landscape.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Cyclops canonical | 3 |
| Le Cyclope | 1 |
| the Cyclops | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1270367 — 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 Cyclops Context triple: [Odilon Redon, notableWork, The Cyclops]
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A.
Cattle of Geryon
The Cattle of Geryon are the mythic herd of the three-bodied giant Geryon that Heracles was tasked with stealing as one of his Twelve Labors in Greek mythology.
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B.
Cyclopes
The Cyclopes are one-eyed giants from Greek mythology renowned as master craftsmen who forged Zeus’s thunderbolts and other divine weapons.
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C.
Polyphemus
Polyphemus is the one-eyed Cyclops in Greek mythology best known for trapping Odysseus and his men in a cave and being outwitted and blinded by them.
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D.
King of Ithaca
The King of Ithaca is the legendary Greek monarch best known as Odysseus, the cunning hero of Homer’s Odyssey and leader of the island kingdom of Ithaca.
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E.
Pillars of Hercules
The Pillars of Hercules is the ancient name for the two promontories flanking the entrance to the Mediterranean Sea at the Strait of Gibraltar, long regarded as the symbolic boundary of the known world in classical antiquity.
- 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 Cyclops Target entity description: The Cyclops is a symbolist painting by Odilon Redon depicting a solitary, dreamlike one-eyed giant gazing tenderly at a sleeping nymph in a fantastical landscape.
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A.
Cattle of Geryon
The Cattle of Geryon are the mythic herd of the three-bodied giant Geryon that Heracles was tasked with stealing as one of his Twelve Labors in Greek mythology.
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B.
Cyclopes
The Cyclopes are one-eyed giants from Greek mythology renowned as master craftsmen who forged Zeus’s thunderbolts and other divine weapons.
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C.
Polyphemus
Polyphemus is the one-eyed Cyclops in Greek mythology best known for trapping Odysseus and his men in a cave and being outwitted and blinded by them.
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D.
King of Ithaca
The King of Ithaca is the legendary Greek monarch best known as Odysseus, the cunning hero of Homer’s Odyssey and leader of the island kingdom of Ithaca.
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E.
Pillars of Hercules
The Pillars of Hercules is the ancient name for the two promontories flanking the entrance to the Mediterranean Sea at the Strait of Gibraltar, long regarded as the symbolic boundary of the known world in classical antiquity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
painting
ⓘ
symbolist painting ⓘ |
| artHistoricalPeriod | late 19th century ⓘ |
| artStyle | symbolist ⓘ |
| basedOn | Greek mythology ⓘ |
| colorPalette |
rich
ⓘ
vibrant ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| creator | Odilon Redon ⓘ |
| creatorNationality | French ⓘ |
| depicts |
Cyclops
ⓘ
fantastical landscape ⓘ one-eyed giant ⓘ sleeping nymph ⓘ |
| genre | mythological painting ⓘ |
| hasArtisticGoal | evoke imagination rather than depict reality ⓘ |
| hasBodyOrientation | Cyclops head emerging from behind hill ⓘ |
| hasElement |
colorful sky
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distant town or buildings ⓘ vegetation ⓘ |
| hasEyeFeature | single eye ⓘ |
| hasFigurePose | reclining nymph ⓘ |
| hasMainFigure | Cyclops ⓘ |
| hasMood |
dreamlike
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tender ⓘ |
| hasPerspective | vertical composition ⓘ |
| hasSecondaryFigure | nymph ⓘ |
| hasSetting |
hillside
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rocky landscape ⓘ |
| hasSymbolism |
dream state
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forbidden desire ⓘ inner vision ⓘ unconscious mind ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
dream
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eroticism ⓘ fantasy ⓘ myth ⓘ otherness ⓘ voyeurism ⓘ |
| influencedByMovement | Symbolism ⓘ |
| languageOfTitle | French ⓘ |
| movement | Symbolism ⓘ |
| notableWorkOf | Odilon Redon ⓘ |
| originalTitle |
The Cyclops
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Le Cyclope
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| portraysRelationship | giant gazing at nymph ⓘ |
| surface | canvas ⓘ |
| technique | oil painting ⓘ |
| visualFocus | single large eye ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Cyclops Description of subject: The Cyclops is a symbolist painting by Odilon Redon depicting a solitary, dreamlike one-eyed giant gazing tenderly at a sleeping nymph in a fantastical landscape.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Odilon Redon
this entity surface form:
Le Cyclope
subject surface form:
Odilon Redon
this entity surface form:
the Cyclops