Wanderer above the Sea of Fog
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Wanderer above the Sea of Fog is a famous Romantic-era oil painting by Caspar David Friedrich depicting a lone figure standing atop a rocky precipice, gazing over a vast, mist-covered landscape.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Wanderer above the Mist | 1 |
| Wanderer above the Sea of Fog canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1933853 — 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: Wanderer above the Sea of Fog Context triple: [Caspar David Friedrich, notableWork, Wanderer above the Sea of Fog]
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A.
Evening Star
"Evening Star" is a song featured on the 1983 country album *Eyes That See in the Dark* by Kenny Rogers.
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B.
Café Terrace at Night
Café Terrace at Night is a famous 1888 oil painting by Vincent van Gogh depicting a brightly lit outdoor café scene under a starry night sky in Arles, France.
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C.
Daubigny’s Garden
Daubigny’s Garden is a historic garden in Auvers-sur-Oise, France, famously painted by Vincent van Gogh and associated with the landscape painter Charles-François Daubigny.
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D.
The Wind
"The Wind" is a song by the American rock band Emotions, likely featuring their signature soulful harmonies and emotive R&B style.
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E.
Clarel
Clarel is a long, philosophical narrative poem by Herman Melville that explores faith, doubt, and pilgrimage in the Holy Land.
- 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: Wanderer above the Sea of Fog Target entity description: Wanderer above the Sea of Fog is a famous Romantic-era oil painting by Caspar David Friedrich depicting a lone figure standing atop a rocky precipice, gazing over a vast, mist-covered landscape.
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A.
Evening Star
"Evening Star" is a song featured on the 1983 country album *Eyes That See in the Dark* by Kenny Rogers.
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B.
Café Terrace at Night
Café Terrace at Night is a famous 1888 oil painting by Vincent van Gogh depicting a brightly lit outdoor café scene under a starry night sky in Arles, France.
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C.
Daubigny’s Garden
Daubigny’s Garden is a historic garden in Auvers-sur-Oise, France, famously painted by Vincent van Gogh and associated with the landscape painter Charles-François Daubigny.
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D.
The Wind
"The Wind" is a song by the American rock band Emotions, likely featuring their signature soulful harmonies and emotive R&B style.
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E.
Clarel
Clarel is a long, philosophical narrative poem by Herman Melville that explores faith, doubt, and pilgrimage in the Holy Land.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Romantic painting
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oil painting ⓘ painting ⓘ |
| artForm | easel painting ⓘ |
| artist | Caspar David Friedrich ⓘ |
| artPeriod |
Romanticism
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surface form:
Romantic era
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| collection | Hamburger Kunsthalle ⓘ |
| completionDate | circa 1818 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Germany ⓘ |
| creator | Caspar David Friedrich ⓘ |
| depicts |
Rückenfigur
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back-turned figure ⓘ cliffs ⓘ clouds ⓘ distant mountains ⓘ dramatic sky ⓘ lone figure ⓘ man in dark coat ⓘ man with walking stick ⓘ mist-covered landscape ⓘ mountain peaks ⓘ rocky precipice ⓘ sea of fog ⓘ |
| genre | Romanticism ⓘ |
| hasArtisticStyle |
landscape painting
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symbolic landscape ⓘ |
| hasArtisticTheme |
contemplation of nature
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human insignificance ⓘ individualism ⓘ romantic hero ⓘ sublime in nature ⓘ |
| hasColorPalette |
browns
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grays ⓘ muted greens ⓘ |
| hasPerspective | elevated viewpoint ⓘ |
| inception | circa 1818 ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
German Romantic literature
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Romanticism ⓘ
surface form:
Romantic philosophy
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| languageOfTitle | German ⓘ |
| location | Hamburger Kunsthalle ⓘ |
| mainSubject | solitary man ⓘ |
| medium |
oil on canvas
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oil paint ⓘ |
| movement |
Jena Romanticism
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surface form:
German Romanticism
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| notableFor |
evocation of the sublime
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iconic image of Romanticism ⓘ use of back-facing figure ⓘ |
| titleHasTranslation |
Wanderer above the Sea of Fog
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Wanderer above the Mist
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| titleInGerman |
The Sea of Fog
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surface form:
Der Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer
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| usesCompositionDevice | Rückenfigur ⓘ |
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: Wanderer above the Sea of Fog Description of subject: Wanderer above the Sea of Fog is a famous Romantic-era oil painting by Caspar David Friedrich depicting a lone figure standing atop a rocky precipice, gazing over a vast, mist-covered landscape.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Wanderer above the Sea of Fog
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titleHasTranslation
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Wanderer above the Sea of Fog
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Wanderer above the Mist