Ophelia
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Ophelia is a famous 1851–52 painting by John Everett Millais, emblematic of the Pre-Raphaelite movement and depicting Shakespeare’s tragic heroine floating in a stream surrounded by lush, detailed flora.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ophelia canonical | 4 |
| Ophelia (1851 painting by John Everett Millais) | 1 |
| Ophelia (Shakespearean character) | 1 |
| Ophelia (illustrations) | 1 |
| Ophelia (painting by John Everett Millais) | 1 |
| Ophelia (painting) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T267511 — 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: Ophelia Context triple: [Pre-Raphaelite art, notableWork, Ophelia]
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A.
Electra
Electra is a figure in Greek mythology, traditionally known as one of the Pleiades and a daughter of the Titan Atlas.
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B.
Jezebel
Jezebel is a feminist-leaning online magazine and blog known for its sharp commentary on gender, culture, and media.
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C.
Merope
Merope is one of the Pleiades in Greek mythology, a daughter of Atlas and Pleione who became a star in the constellation Taurus.
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D.
Leda
Leda is a figure in Greek mythology, a Spartan queen best known as the mother of Helen of Troy and the Dioscuri after being seduced by Zeus.
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E.
Hecate
Hecate is a Greek goddess associated with magic, crossroads, the night, and liminal spaces, often depicted as a powerful and mysterious protector and guide.
- 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: Ophelia Target entity description: Ophelia is a famous 1851–52 painting by John Everett Millais, emblematic of the Pre-Raphaelite movement and depicting Shakespeare’s tragic heroine floating in a stream surrounded by lush, detailed flora.
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A.
Electra
Electra is a figure in Greek mythology, traditionally known as one of the Pleiades and a daughter of the Titan Atlas.
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B.
Jezebel
Jezebel is a feminist-leaning online magazine and blog known for its sharp commentary on gender, culture, and media.
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C.
Merope
Merope is one of the Pleiades in Greek mythology, a daughter of Atlas and Pleione who became a star in the constellation Taurus.
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D.
Leda
Leda is a figure in Greek mythology, a Spartan queen best known as the mother of Helen of Troy and the Dioscuri after being seduced by Zeus.
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E.
Hecate
Hecate is a Greek goddess associated with magic, crossroads, the night, and liminal spaces, often depicted as a powerful and mysterious protector and guide.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
oil painting
ⓘ
painting ⓘ |
| artStyle |
Pre-Raphaelite art
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surface form:
Pre-Raphaelite
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| basedOn | Hamlet ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkBy | William Shakespeare ⓘ |
| collection | Tate ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
England
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creator | John Everett Millais ⓘ |
| depicts |
English countryside
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Ophelia self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Ophelia (Shakespearean character)
buttercups ⓘ crow flowers ⓘ daisies ⓘ drowning woman ⓘ flowers ⓘ forget-me-nots ⓘ lush vegetation ⓘ nettles ⓘ poppies ⓘ roses ⓘ stream ⓘ violets ⓘ weeping willow branches ⓘ willow tree ⓘ |
| genre |
Romanticism-influenced painting
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history painting ⓘ literary painting ⓘ |
| hasPart |
dense foliage background
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figure of Ophelia ⓘ floating flowers ⓘ riverbank ⓘ |
| inception |
1851
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1852 ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | none ⓘ |
| location | Tate Britain ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
death of Ophelia
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nature ⓘ tragedy ⓘ |
| materialUsed |
canvas
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oil paint ⓘ |
| movement |
Pre-Raphaelite art
ⓘ
surface form:
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
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| movementAssociatedWith | Victorian art ⓘ |
| notableFor |
detailed botanical accuracy
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faithful illustration of a Shakespearean scene ⓘ highly finished surface ⓘ vivid color palette ⓘ |
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: Ophelia Description of subject: Ophelia is a famous 1851–52 painting by John Everett Millais, emblematic of the Pre-Raphaelite movement and depicting Shakespeare’s tragic heroine floating in a stream surrounded by lush, detailed flora.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Ophelia (Shakespearean character)
this entity surface form:
Ophelia (illustrations)
this entity surface form:
Ophelia (painting by John Everett Millais)
this entity surface form:
Ophelia (painting)
subject surface form:
John Everett Millais
subject surface form:
Ophelia (1894 painting)
this entity surface form:
Ophelia (1851 painting by John Everett Millais)