The Appraisal
E182452
The Appraisal is a 1931 painting by American Regionalist artist Grant Wood that depicts a farm woman and a livestock buyer engaged in the quiet drama of a rural cattle transaction.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Appraisal canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1621747 — 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 Appraisal Context triple: [Grant Wood, notableWork, The Appraisal]
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A.
About the House
"About the House" is a 1965 poetry collection by W. H. Auden that reflects on domestic life, memory, and the passage of time through the organizing metaphor of a house.
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B.
The Analytical Review
The Analytical Review was an influential late 18th-century English periodical known for its radical political stance and extensive coverage of contemporary literature, philosophy, and politics.
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C.
Considerations by the Way
"Considerations by the Way" is an essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson that reflects on practical ethics and the conduct of everyday life, included as part of his collection "The Conduct of Life."
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D.
The Price
The Price is a 1968 play by American dramatist Arthur Miller that explores family conflict, memory, and the cost of choices through the story of two estranged brothers dividing their late father's possessions.
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E.
A Woman's Worth
"A Woman's Worth" is a soulful R&B ballad by Alicia Keys that celebrates female value and respect, released as a single from her debut album "Songs in A Minor."
- 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 Appraisal Target entity description: The Appraisal is a 1931 painting by American Regionalist artist Grant Wood that depicts a farm woman and a livestock buyer engaged in the quiet drama of a rural cattle transaction.
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A.
About the House
"About the House" is a 1965 poetry collection by W. H. Auden that reflects on domestic life, memory, and the passage of time through the organizing metaphor of a house.
-
B.
The Analytical Review
The Analytical Review was an influential late 18th-century English periodical known for its radical political stance and extensive coverage of contemporary literature, philosophy, and politics.
-
C.
Considerations by the Way
"Considerations by the Way" is an essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson that reflects on practical ethics and the conduct of everyday life, included as part of his collection "The Conduct of Life."
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D.
The Price
The Price is a 1968 play by American dramatist Arthur Miller that explores family conflict, memory, and the cost of choices through the story of two estranged brothers dividing their late father's possessions.
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E.
A Woman's Worth
"A Woman's Worth" is a soulful R&B ballad by Alicia Keys that celebrates female value and respect, released as a single from her debut album "Songs in A Minor."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
painting
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work of art ⓘ |
| artist | Grant Wood ⓘ |
| artisticStyle |
careful composition
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detailed realism ⓘ |
| copyrightStatus | copyrighted ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| creator | Grant Wood ⓘ |
| creatorNationality | American ⓘ |
| depicts |
Iowa farm life
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barnyard setting ⓘ cow ⓘ farm woman ⓘ livestock buyer ⓘ rural cattle transaction ⓘ |
| depictsTimePeriod | early 20th-century rural America ⓘ |
| genre | American Regionalism ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | none ⓘ |
| hasTitleLanguage | English ⓘ |
| inception | 1931 ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
agricultural trade
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rural economy ⓘ |
| materialUsed | oil paint ⓘ |
| movement | Regionalism ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | quiet drama of negotiation ⓘ |
| partOf | Grant Wood oeuvre ⓘ |
| surface | canvas ⓘ |
| theme |
economic exchange
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rural life ⓘ social relations in farming communities ⓘ |
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 Appraisal Description of subject: The Appraisal is a 1931 painting by American Regionalist artist Grant Wood that depicts a farm woman and a livestock buyer engaged in the quiet drama of a rural cattle transaction.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.