L’Origine du monde
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L’Origine du monde is an 1866 oil painting by Gustave Courbet, famous for its explicit and realistic depiction of a woman's genitals and its provocative challenge to artistic and social norms.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| L’Origine du monde canonical | 2 |
| L'Origine du monde | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3280379 — 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: L’Origine du monde Context triple: [The Origin of the World, originalLanguageTitle, L’Origine du monde]
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A.
L’Après-midi d’un faune
L’Après-midi d’un faune is a symbolist poem by Stéphane Mallarmé that portrays the dreamy, sensual reverie of a faun reflecting on his encounters with nymphs.
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B.
The Joy of Life
The Joy of Life is a landmark Fauvist painting by Henri Matisse, celebrated for its vivid colors, fluid forms, and idyllic depiction of nude figures in a pastoral landscape.
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C.
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon is a groundbreaking 1907 painting by Pablo Picasso that helped launch Cubism and radically transformed the course of modern art.
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D.
La Grande Odalisque
La Grande Odalisque is a famous 1814 Neoclassical oil painting by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres depicting an elongated nude concubine in an exotic harem setting.
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E.
La Gerbe
La Gerbe is a colorful, abstract paper cut-out composition by Henri Matisse, exemplifying his late-career "cut-out" technique and dynamic sense of form and movement.
- 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: L’Origine du monde Target entity description: L’Origine du monde is an 1866 oil painting by Gustave Courbet, famous for its explicit and realistic depiction of a woman's genitals and its provocative challenge to artistic and social norms.
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A.
L’Après-midi d’un faune
L’Après-midi d’un faune is a symbolist poem by Stéphane Mallarmé that portrays the dreamy, sensual reverie of a faun reflecting on his encounters with nymphs.
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B.
The Joy of Life
The Joy of Life is a landmark Fauvist painting by Henri Matisse, celebrated for its vivid colors, fluid forms, and idyllic depiction of nude figures in a pastoral landscape.
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C.
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon is a groundbreaking 1907 painting by Pablo Picasso that helped launch Cubism and radically transformed the course of modern art.
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D.
La Grande Odalisque
La Grande Odalisque is a famous 1814 Neoclassical oil painting by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres depicting an elongated nude concubine in an exotic harem setting.
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E.
La Gerbe
La Gerbe is a colorful, abstract paper cut-out composition by Henri Matisse, exemplifying his late-career "cut-out" technique and dynamic sense of form and movement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
controversial artwork
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erotic art ⓘ oil painting ⓘ painting ⓘ |
| collection |
Musée d'Orsay
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surface form:
Musée d’Orsay collection
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| copyrightStatus | public domain ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| creator | Gustave Courbet ⓘ |
| creatorBirthPlace | Ornans ⓘ |
| creatorCountryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| creatorGender | male ⓘ |
| creatorNationality | French ⓘ |
| depictionStyle | naturalistic ⓘ |
| depicts |
female nude
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female torso ⓘ woman’s genitals ⓘ |
| depictsSex | female ⓘ |
| exhibitedAt |
Musée d'Orsay
ⓘ
surface form:
Musée d’Orsay
|
| genre | realism ⓘ |
| hasBeenSubjectOf |
art historical analysis
ⓘ
legal disputes over online censorship ⓘ |
| hasCreator | Gustave Courbet ⓘ |
| hasInfluenced |
debates on pornography and art
ⓘ
feminist art criticism ⓘ |
| hasPart |
close-up composition
ⓘ
cropped figure without head ⓘ |
| hasQuality |
explicit
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provocative ⓘ realistic ⓘ |
| inception | 1866 ⓘ |
| influencedBy | realist aesthetics ⓘ |
| locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity | Paris ⓘ |
| locatedInTheCountry | France ⓘ |
| location |
Musée d'Orsay
ⓘ
surface form:
Musée d’Orsay
|
| mainSubject |
female sexuality
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human body ⓘ |
| materialUsed | oil paint ⓘ |
| movement | Realism ⓘ |
| movementAssociatedWithCreator | Realism ⓘ |
| notableFor |
challenge to artistic norms
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challenge to social norms ⓘ explicit depiction of female genitals ⓘ |
| originalLanguageTitle | French ⓘ |
| partOf | 19th-century French painting ⓘ |
| significantEvent | censorship controversies ⓘ |
| support | canvas ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| title | L’Origine du monde self-link ⓘ |
| titleLanguage | French ⓘ |
| translatedTitle | The Origin of the World ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: L’Origine du monde Description of subject: L’Origine du monde is an 1866 oil painting by Gustave Courbet, famous for its explicit and realistic depiction of a woman's genitals and its provocative challenge to artistic and social norms.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
L'Origine du monde