L.H.O.O.Q.
E201409
L.H.O.O.Q. is Marcel Duchamp’s famous Dada artwork in which he irreverently altered a postcard of the Mona Lisa by adding a mustache and goatee, challenging traditional notions of art and authorship.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| L.H.O.O.Q. canonical | 1 |
| L.H.O.O.Q. (as signature in some versions) | 1 |
| LHOOQ | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1797735 — 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: L.H.O.O.Q. Context triple: [Marcel Duchamp, notableWork, L.H.O.O.Q.]
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A.
Autoportrait au chapeau de paille
Autoportrait au chapeau de paille is a self-portrait painting by Vincent van Gogh depicting himself wearing a straw hat.
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B.
Blue Nude
Blue Nude is a famous early 20th-century painting by Henri Matisse that exemplifies his bold use of color and simplified forms within the Fauvist movement.
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C.
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon is a groundbreaking 1907 painting by Pablo Picasso that helped launch Cubism and radically transformed the course of modern art.
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D.
Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear
Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear is a famous 1889 painting by Vincent van Gogh depicting himself after mutilating his ear, often interpreted as a powerful reflection of his psychological turmoil and artistic intensity.
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E.
Portrait of Picasso
Portrait of Picasso is a Cubist painting by Spanish artist Juan Gris depicting his friend and fellow painter Pablo Picasso in Gris’s distinctive geometric style.
- 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: L.H.O.O.Q. Target entity description: L.H.O.O.Q. is Marcel Duchamp’s famous Dada artwork in which he irreverently altered a postcard of the Mona Lisa by adding a mustache and goatee, challenging traditional notions of art and authorship.
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A.
Autoportrait au chapeau de paille
Autoportrait au chapeau de paille is a self-portrait painting by Vincent van Gogh depicting himself wearing a straw hat.
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B.
Blue Nude
Blue Nude is a famous early 20th-century painting by Henri Matisse that exemplifies his bold use of color and simplified forms within the Fauvist movement.
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C.
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon is a groundbreaking 1907 painting by Pablo Picasso that helped launch Cubism and radically transformed the course of modern art.
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D.
Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear
Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear is a famous 1889 painting by Vincent van Gogh depicting himself after mutilating his ear, often interpreted as a powerful reflection of his psychological turmoil and artistic intensity.
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E.
Portrait of Picasso
Portrait of Picasso is a Cubist painting by Spanish artist Juan Gris depicting his friend and fellow painter Pablo Picasso in Gris’s distinctive geometric style.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Dada artwork
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artwork ⓘ |
| artHistoricalSignificance |
important example of appropriation in art
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key work of Dada ⓘ precursor of conceptual art ⓘ |
| artisticIntention |
challenge traditional notions of art
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introduce irony and humor into art ⓘ question authorship ⓘ subvert artistic canon ⓘ |
| basedOn | Mona Lisa ⓘ |
| basedOnCreator | Leonardo da Vinci ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| creator | Marcel Duchamp ⓘ |
| depicts | Mona Lisa ⓘ |
| featureAdded |
goatee
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mustache ⓘ |
| genre |
appropriation art
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conceptual art ⓘ readymade ⓘ |
| hasReproductions | multiple versions and variants by Duchamp ⓘ |
| influenced |
appropriation artists
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later conceptual artists ⓘ postmodern critiques of authorship ⓘ |
| languageOfTitle | French ⓘ |
| medium |
graphite
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postcard ⓘ |
| movement | Dada ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic |
defacement of iconic Renaissance painting
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gender ambiguity of the sitter ⓘ use of cheap mass-produced postcard ⓘ |
| relatedWork | Fountain ⓘ |
| relatedWorkCreator | Marcel Duchamp ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
art historical analysis
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debates on originality in art ⓘ discussions of parody and pastiche ⓘ |
| titleMeaningInEnglish | She has a hot ass ⓘ |
| titlePunOn | Elle a chaud au cul ⓘ |
| yearCreated | 1919 ⓘ |
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: L.H.O.O.Q. Description of subject: L.H.O.O.Q. is Marcel Duchamp’s famous Dada artwork in which he irreverently altered a postcard of the Mona Lisa by adding a mustache and goatee, challenging traditional notions of art and authorship.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
LHOOQ
this entity surface form:
L.H.O.O.Q. (as signature in some versions)