Realism

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aesthetic concept art movement literary movement

Realism is a literary and artistic movement that focuses on depicting everyday life and ordinary people with truthful, unembellished detail.

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All labels observed (24)

Label	Occurrences
Realism canonical	390
American realism	119
American Realism	61
Russian realism	14
Naturalism	4
realism	4
American literary realism	3
French Realism	3
Georgian realism	3
Verism	2
verismo	2
American realist writers	1
American theatrical realism	1
British realism	1
Egyptian realism	1
English realism	1
German realism	1
Neorealism	1
Norwegian realism	1
Realism (art movement)	1
Realism (literature)	1
Realist painters	1
Realists	1
Victorian realism	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T29398 — 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: Realism
Context triple: [Mark Twain, movement, Realism]

A. American Romantic nationalism
American Romantic nationalism was a 19th-century cultural and artistic movement in the United States that celebrated the nation’s revolutionary past, heroic leaders, and unique landscape to foster a distinct American identity.
B. International Style
International Style is a modernist architectural movement characterized by functional design, minimal ornamentation, and the use of glass, steel, and concrete in simple geometric forms.
C. Beaux-Arts
Beaux-Arts is a grand, highly ornamented architectural style rooted in classical Greek and Roman forms, popularized in the late 19th and early 20th centuries through the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
D. Gilded Age
The Gilded Age was a late 19th-century period in the United States marked by rapid industrialization, vast wealth accumulation, stark social inequality, and influential business magnates like Andrew Carnegie.
E. Art Deco
Art Deco is a decorative visual arts and architectural style from the early 20th century characterized by bold geometric forms, rich colors, and lavish ornamentation that symbolized modernity and luxury.
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: Realism
Target entity description: Realism is a literary and artistic movement that focuses on depicting everyday life and ordinary people with truthful, unembellished detail.

A. American Romantic nationalism
American Romantic nationalism was a 19th-century cultural and artistic movement in the United States that celebrated the nation’s revolutionary past, heroic leaders, and unique landscape to foster a distinct American identity.
B. International Style
International Style is a modernist architectural movement characterized by functional design, minimal ornamentation, and the use of glass, steel, and concrete in simple geometric forms.
C. Beaux-Arts
Beaux-Arts is a grand, highly ornamented architectural style rooted in classical Greek and Roman forms, popularized in the late 19th and early 20th centuries through the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
D. Gilded Age
The Gilded Age was a late 19th-century period in the United States marked by rapid industrialization, vast wealth accumulation, stark social inequality, and influential business magnates like Andrew Carnegie.
E. Art Deco
Art Deco is a decorative visual arts and architectural style from the early 20th century characterized by bold geometric forms, rich colors, and lavish ornamentation that symbolized modernity and luxury.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	aesthetic concept ⓘ art movement ⓘ literary movement ⓘ
aim	to critique social structures through depiction of everyday life ⓘ to represent life as it is perceived ⓘ
artForm	literature ⓘ opera ⓘ painting ⓘ photography ⓘ sculpture ⓘ theatre ⓘ
emergedAfter	Romanticism ⓘ
emphasizes	truthful representation ⓘ unembellished detail ⓘ
influenced	20th-century narrative fiction ⓘ Modernism ⓘ documentary photography ⓘ
influencedBy	Industrial Revolution ⓘ scientific positivism ⓘ social change in 19th-century Europe ⓘ
mainFocus	depiction of everyday life ⓘ ordinary people ⓘ
notableProponent	Fyodor Dostoevsky ⓘ George Eliot ⓘ Gustave Courbet ⓘ Honoré de Balzac ⓘ Leo Tolstoy ⓘ William Dean Howells ⓘ Émile Zola ⓘ
opposes	Romanticism ⓘ
originatedIn	France ⓘ
philosophicalAspect	focus on observable reality ⓘ interest in social conditions ⓘ
rejects	heroic subject matter as a norm ⓘ idealization ⓘ sentimentalism ⓘ
relatedMovement	Critical realism ⓘ Realism self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Naturalism Social realism ⓘ
subjectMatter	contemporary life ⓘ middle class ⓘ social problems ⓘ working class ⓘ
technique	accurate perspective and anatomy in painting ⓘ colloquial language in literature ⓘ detailed description ⓘ
timePeriod	19th century ⓘ
value	objectivity ⓘ plausible causality in narrative ⓘ verisimilitude ⓘ

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Referenced by (618)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

The Indian Hunter → movement → Realism ⓘ

A Lady and Gentleman in Black → movement → Realism ⓘ

At Tortoni’s → movement → Realism ⓘ

Gabriel von Max → movement → Realism ⓘ

Wilhelm Leibl → movement → Realism ⓘ

Vasily Vereshchagin → movement → Realism ⓘ

Vincent van Gogh Nuenen period → movement → Realism ⓘ

Van Gogh’s Nuenen paintings → movement → Realism ⓘ

Millet’s peasant series → movement → Realism ⓘ

Le Vanneur → movement → Realism ⓘ

Hans von Marées → movement → Realism ⓘ

Kielland family → movement → Realism ⓘ

subject surface form: Alexander Kielland

Édouard Castres → movement → Realism ⓘ

Franz von Lenbach → movement → Realism ⓘ

Alexandros Papadiamantis → movement → Realism ⓘ

Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller → movement → Realism ⓘ

Henry Ossawa Tanner → movement → Realism ⓘ

Fanatikerne → movement → Realism ⓘ

Harriet Backer → movement → Realism ⓘ

Isabel Quintanilla → movement → Realism ⓘ

Eilif Peterssen → movement → Realism ⓘ

Christian Krohg → movement → Realism ⓘ

Millet’s village of Barbizon → movement → Realism ⓘ

Conrad Ferdinand Meyer → movement → Realism ⓘ

Millet → movement → Realism ⓘ

subject surface form: Jean-François Millet

Vasily Perov → movement → Realism ⓘ

Anna Klumpke → movement → Realism ⓘ

Emmanuel Frémiet → movement → Realism ⓘ

Pietro Magni → movement → Realism ⓘ

Anton Mauve → movement → Realism ⓘ

Zinaida Serebriakova → movement → Realism ⓘ

Luks → movement → Realism ⓘ

subject surface form: George Luks

Willem Maris → movement → Realism ⓘ

Albin Egger-Lienz → movement → Realism ⓘ

Trata de blancas → movement → Realism ⓘ

Eduard von Grützner → movement → Realism ⓘ

The Bridge at Narni → movement → Realism ⓘ

View of the Forum in Rome → movement → Realism ⓘ

Orpheus Leading Eurydice from the Underworld → movement → Realism ⓘ

Alfredo Valenzuela Puelma → movement → Realism ⓘ

Les Bords de l’Oise → movement → Realism ⓘ

Ivana Kobilca → movement → Realism ⓘ

Kofetarica → movement → Realism ⓘ

Maria Konopnicka → movement → Realism ⓘ

William Hahn → movement → Realism ⓘ

Ernest Meissonier → movement → Realism ⓘ

Constantin Meunier → movement → Realism ⓘ

Portraits of the Insane → movement → Realism ⓘ

Ivan Kramskoi → movement → Realism ⓘ

Georg Brandes → movement → Realism ⓘ

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Referenced by (618)

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