Hans Holbein the Elder
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Hans Holbein the Elder was a prominent German painter of the late Gothic and early Renaissance periods, known for his religious altarpieces and detailed panel paintings in Augsburg.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hans Holbein the Elder canonical | 4 |
| Sigmund Holbein | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2192938 — 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: Hans Holbein the Elder Context triple: [Hans Holbein the Younger, father, Hans Holbein the Elder]
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Hans Holbein the Younger
Hans Holbein the Younger was a German Renaissance painter and printmaker renowned for his precise, realistic portraits, especially of the Tudor court of Henry VIII.
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B.
Albrecht Dürer
Albrecht Dürer was a German Renaissance artist renowned for his masterful engravings, woodcuts, and paintings that combined Northern detail with Italian humanist influences.
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C.
Hans Baldung
Hans Baldung was a German Renaissance painter and printmaker known for his vivid religious works, allegorical scenes, and striking depictions of witches and death.
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D.
Lucas Cranach the Elder
Lucas Cranach the Elder was a leading German painter and printmaker of the Northern Renaissance, renowned for his portraits of Protestant reformers and his distinctive, graceful depictions of biblical and mythological subjects.
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E.
Matthias Grünewald
Matthias Grünewald was a German painter renowned for his intensely emotional and expressive religious works, most famously the Isenheim Altarpiece, which stand out within the Northern Renaissance for their dramatic color and visionary imagery.
- 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: Hans Holbein the Elder Target entity description: Hans Holbein the Elder was a prominent German painter of the late Gothic and early Renaissance periods, known for his religious altarpieces and detailed panel paintings in Augsburg.
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A.
Hans Holbein the Younger
Hans Holbein the Younger was a German Renaissance painter and printmaker renowned for his precise, realistic portraits, especially of the Tudor court of Henry VIII.
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B.
Albrecht Dürer
Albrecht Dürer was a German Renaissance artist renowned for his masterful engravings, woodcuts, and paintings that combined Northern detail with Italian humanist influences.
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C.
Hans Baldung
Hans Baldung was a German Renaissance painter and printmaker known for his vivid religious works, allegorical scenes, and striking depictions of witches and death.
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D.
Lucas Cranach the Elder
Lucas Cranach the Elder was a leading German painter and printmaker of the Northern Renaissance, renowned for his portraits of Protestant reformers and his distinctive, graceful depictions of biblical and mythological subjects.
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E.
Matthias Grünewald
Matthias Grünewald was a German painter renowned for his intensely emotional and expressive religious works, most famously the Isenheim Altarpiece, which stand out within the Northern Renaissance for their dramatic color and visionary imagery.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Hans Holbein the Elder Description of subject: Hans Holbein the Elder was a prominent German painter of the late Gothic and early Renaissance periods, known for his religious altarpieces and detailed panel paintings in Augsburg.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Sigmund Holbein