Eight Bells
E30141
Eight Bells is a renowned 1886 maritime painting by American artist Winslow Homer, celebrated for its dramatic depiction of sailors taking a celestial reading at sea.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Eight Bells canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T235532 — 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: Eight Bells Context triple: [Winslow Homer, notableWork, Eight Bells]
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A.
Harrow Songs
Harrow Songs are a celebrated collection of traditional school songs closely associated with the culture and history of Harrow School in England.
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B.
The Eustace Diamonds
The Eustace Diamonds is a Victorian novel by Anthony Trollope that satirically explores greed, social ambition, and moral ambiguity through the controversy surrounding a disputed family heirloom.
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C.
Tales of a Wayside Inn
Tales of a Wayside Inn is a narrative poetry collection structured as a series of stories told by different characters gathered at a New England inn.
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D.
The Twelve
The Twelve is a collection of twelve shorter prophetic books in the Hebrew Bible, often treated as a single unified work within the Minor Prophets.
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E.
The Winslow Boy
The Winslow Boy is a 1946 stage play by Terence Rattigan that dramatizes a real Edwardian-era legal case in which a family sacrifices everything to clear their young son’s name.
- 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: Eight Bells Target entity description: Eight Bells is a renowned 1886 maritime painting by American artist Winslow Homer, celebrated for its dramatic depiction of sailors taking a celestial reading at sea.
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A.
Harrow Songs
Harrow Songs are a celebrated collection of traditional school songs closely associated with the culture and history of Harrow School in England.
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B.
The Eustace Diamonds
The Eustace Diamonds is a Victorian novel by Anthony Trollope that satirically explores greed, social ambition, and moral ambiguity through the controversy surrounding a disputed family heirloom.
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C.
Tales of a Wayside Inn
Tales of a Wayside Inn is a narrative poetry collection structured as a series of stories told by different characters gathered at a New England inn.
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D.
The Twelve
The Twelve is a collection of twelve shorter prophetic books in the Hebrew Bible, often treated as a single unified work within the Minor Prophets.
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E.
The Winslow Boy
The Winslow Boy is a 1946 stage play by Terence Rattigan that dramatizes a real Edwardian-era legal case in which a family sacrifices everything to clear their young son’s name.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
maritime painting
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painting ⓘ |
| artisticMedium |
canvas
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oil paint ⓘ |
| artStyleCharacteristic |
detailed rendering of figures
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dramatic lighting ⓘ dynamic seascape ⓘ |
| colorPalette | muted tones ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| creator | Winslow Homer ⓘ |
| creatorBirthDate | 1836 ⓘ |
| creatorBirthName | Winslow Homer ⓘ |
| creatorDeathDate | 1910 ⓘ |
| creatorField | marine painting ⓘ |
| creatorNationality | American ⓘ |
| creatorOccupation |
painter
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printmaker ⓘ |
| depicts |
celestial navigation
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ocean ⓘ sailor ⓘ sextant ⓘ ship ⓘ stormy sky ⓘ |
| depictsActivity | taking a sight with a sextant ⓘ |
| depictsTimeOfDay | late afternoon ⓘ |
| genre |
marine art
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realism ⓘ |
| hasPart |
cloudy sky
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two sailors on deck ⓘ waves ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Eight Bells self-link ⓘ |
| inception | 1886 ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | life at sea ⓘ |
| mainSubject | sailors taking a celestial reading at sea ⓘ |
| movement |
Realism
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surface form:
American Realism
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| narrativeFocus | navigation at sea ⓘ |
| notableWorkOf | Winslow Homer ⓘ |
| partOf | Winslow Homer’s marine paintings ⓘ |
| titleLanguage | English ⓘ |
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: Eight Bells Description of subject: Eight Bells is a renowned 1886 maritime painting by American artist Winslow Homer, celebrated for its dramatic depiction of sailors taking a celestial reading at sea.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.