Perro semihundido (The Dog)
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Perro semihundido (The Dog) is a haunting, enigmatic painting by Francisco Goya that depicts a small dog seemingly sinking into a vast, empty expanse, often interpreted as a powerful symbol of isolation and existential despair.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Perro semihundido | 1 |
| Perro semihundido (The Dog) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2737404 — 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: Perro semihundido (The Dog) Context triple: [The Black Paintings, notableWorkInSeries, Perro semihundido (The Dog)]
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A.
The Bridegroom Was a Dog
The Bridegroom Was a Dog is a surreal, folkloric novella by Yoko Tawada that blends everyday life with myth and animal-human transformations to explore identity, desire, and otherness.
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B.
One Man Dog
One Man Dog is a 1972 folk-rock album by singer-songwriter James Taylor that blends introspective ballads with more experimental, loosely structured tracks.
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C.
The Dog Pound
The Dog Pound is the passionate student cheering section known for creating an energetic home-ice atmosphere at Boston University Terriers men's hockey games.
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D.
Red Dog
Red Dog is a 2011 Australian comedy-drama film based on the true story of a wandering kelpie that unites a remote mining community in Western Australia.
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E.
The Twa Dogs
The Twa Dogs is a satirical poem by Robert Burns in which two dogs discuss and contrast the lives of the rich and the poor in 18th-century Scotland.
- 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: Perro semihundido (The Dog) Target entity description: Perro semihundido (The Dog) is a haunting, enigmatic painting by Francisco Goya that depicts a small dog seemingly sinking into a vast, empty expanse, often interpreted as a powerful symbol of isolation and existential despair.
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A.
The Bridegroom Was a Dog
The Bridegroom Was a Dog is a surreal, folkloric novella by Yoko Tawada that blends everyday life with myth and animal-human transformations to explore identity, desire, and otherness.
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B.
One Man Dog
One Man Dog is a 1972 folk-rock album by singer-songwriter James Taylor that blends introspective ballads with more experimental, loosely structured tracks.
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C.
The Dog Pound
The Dog Pound is the passionate student cheering section known for creating an energetic home-ice atmosphere at Boston University Terriers men's hockey games.
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D.
Red Dog
Red Dog is a 2011 Australian comedy-drama film based on the true story of a wandering kelpie that unites a remote mining community in Western Australia.
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E.
The Twa Dogs
The Twa Dogs is a satirical poem by Robert Burns in which two dogs discuss and contrast the lives of the rich and the poor in 18th-century Scotland.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Romantic painting
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artwork ⓘ painting ⓘ |
| approximateInception |
1819
ⓘ
1823 ⓘ |
| backgroundColor |
earth tones
ⓘ
ochre ⓘ |
| cityOfCurrentLocation | Madrid ⓘ |
| collection |
Prado Museum
ⓘ
surface form:
Museo Nacional del Prado collection
|
| countryOfCurrentLocation | Spain ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Spain ⓘ |
| creator | Francisco Goya ⓘ |
| creatorBirthName |
Francisco Goya
ⓘ
surface form:
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
|
| creatorNationality | Spanish ⓘ |
| currentLocation |
Prado Museum
ⓘ
surface form:
Museo del Prado
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| depicts |
dog
ⓘ
sloping ground or mound ⓘ vast empty space ⓘ |
| genre | symbolic painting ⓘ |
| hasQuality |
enigmatic
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expressive brushwork ⓘ haunting ⓘ minimalist composition ⓘ |
| inceptionPeriod | 1819–1823 ⓘ |
| interpretation |
allegory of human suffering
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image of helplessness ⓘ symbol of existential despair ⓘ symbol of isolation ⓘ |
| languageOfAlternativeTitle | English ⓘ |
| languageOfTitle | Spanish ⓘ |
| locatedInMuseumDepartment | 19th-century painting department of Museo del Prado ⓘ |
| mainSubjectPosition | lower part of the composition ⓘ |
| materialUsed |
oil paint
ⓘ
plaster transferred to canvas ⓘ |
| movement | Romanticism ⓘ |
| notableFor |
influence on modern art
ⓘ
psychological intensity ⓘ radical abstraction ⓘ |
| originalLocation | Quinta del Sordo ⓘ |
| originalSupport | wall plaster ⓘ |
| partOfSeries |
The Black Paintings
ⓘ
surface form:
Black Paintings
|
| seriesContext | one of Goya's Black Paintings painted on the walls of his house ⓘ |
| support | canvas ⓘ |
| technique | oil painting ⓘ |
| title |
The Dog
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surface form:
El perro
Perro semihundido ⓘ The Dog ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Perro semihundido (The Dog) Description of subject: Perro semihundido (The Dog) is a haunting, enigmatic painting by Francisco Goya that depicts a small dog seemingly sinking into a vast, empty expanse, often interpreted as a powerful symbol of isolation and existential despair.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Mujeres riendo
this entity surface form:
Perro semihundido