Bauhaustreppe
E205062
Bauhaustreppe is a famous 1932 painting by Oskar Schlemmer that depicts figures ascending a staircase at the Bauhaus, exemplifying the school’s modernist aesthetic and focus on geometry and movement.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bauhaustreppe canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1853132 — 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: Bauhaustreppe Context triple: [Oskar Schlemmer, notableWork, Bauhaustreppe]
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A.
Cordonata staircase
The Cordonata staircase is a gently sloping monumental ramp in Rome designed by Michelangelo to provide a grand processional approach to the Capitoline Hill.
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B.
Librarian’s Service Staircase
The Librarian’s Service Staircase is an internal, staff-oriented stairway within the Library of Congress’s historic Thomas Jefferson Building, used to access and support its library operations.
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C.
Potemkin Stairs
Potemkin Stairs is a monumental 19th-century seaside staircase in Odesa, Ukraine, famed as a symbol of the city and for its iconic appearance in Sergei Eisenstein’s film "Battleship Potemkin."
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D.
Bauhaus Dessau building
The Bauhaus Dessau building is an iconic modernist architectural complex in Dessau, Germany, designed by Walter Gropius as the main campus of the Bauhaus school and celebrated for its pioneering functionalist design and glass curtain walls.
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E.
Bauhaus Weimar
Bauhaus Weimar was the original campus of the influential Bauhaus art, design, and architecture school founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar, Germany in 1919.
- 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: Bauhaustreppe Target entity description: Bauhaustreppe is a famous 1932 painting by Oskar Schlemmer that depicts figures ascending a staircase at the Bauhaus, exemplifying the school’s modernist aesthetic and focus on geometry and movement.
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A.
Cordonata staircase
The Cordonata staircase is a gently sloping monumental ramp in Rome designed by Michelangelo to provide a grand processional approach to the Capitoline Hill.
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B.
Librarian’s Service Staircase
The Librarian’s Service Staircase is an internal, staff-oriented stairway within the Library of Congress’s historic Thomas Jefferson Building, used to access and support its library operations.
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C.
Potemkin Stairs
Potemkin Stairs is a monumental 19th-century seaside staircase in Odesa, Ukraine, famed as a symbol of the city and for its iconic appearance in Sergei Eisenstein’s film "Battleship Potemkin."
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D.
Bauhaus Dessau building
The Bauhaus Dessau building is an iconic modernist architectural complex in Dessau, Germany, designed by Walter Gropius as the main campus of the Bauhaus school and celebrated for its pioneering functionalist design and glass curtain walls.
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E.
Bauhaus Weimar
Bauhaus Weimar was the original campus of the influential Bauhaus art, design, and architecture school founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar, Germany in 1919.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
painting
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work of art ⓘ |
| artStyle |
figurative abstraction
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geometric abstraction ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Bauhaus Dessau building
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Bauhaus school of design ⓘ
surface form:
Bauhaus art school
|
| colorCharacteristic |
contrasting light and shadow
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muted palette ⓘ |
| compositionCharacteristic |
emphasis on vertical and horizontal lines
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overlapping figures ⓘ strong diagonal of staircase ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Germany ⓘ |
| creator | Oskar Schlemmer ⓘ |
| creatorNationality | German ⓘ |
| creatorRole | painter ⓘ |
| depictionForm | oil painting ⓘ |
| depicts |
architectural interior
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figures ascending a staircase ⓘ geometric human figures ⓘ staircase at the Bauhaus ⓘ |
| genre | modernist painting ⓘ |
| hasPart |
multiple stylized figures
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railing ⓘ staircase ⓘ |
| hasTitleTranslation | Bauhaus Stairway ⓘ |
| inception | 1932 ⓘ |
| languageOfTitle | German ⓘ |
| locationOfCreation |
Bauhaus Dessau building
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surface form:
Bauhaus Dessau
|
| mainSubject |
Bauhaus school of design
ⓘ
surface form:
Bauhaus school
geometry ⓘ human figure ⓘ movement ⓘ |
| movement |
Bauhaus
ⓘ
Modernism ⓘ |
| notableFor |
focus on geometry and movement
ⓘ
iconic image of the Bauhaus era ⓘ representation of Bauhaus modernist aesthetic ⓘ |
| theme |
human interaction with modern architecture
ⓘ
order and proportion ⓘ rhythm of movement in space ⓘ |
| titleInOriginalLanguage | Bauhaustreppe self-link ⓘ |
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: Bauhaustreppe Description of subject: Bauhaustreppe is a famous 1932 painting by Oskar Schlemmer that depicts figures ascending a staircase at the Bauhaus, exemplifying the school’s modernist aesthetic and focus on geometry and movement.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.