Three Musicians
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Three Musicians is a famous 1921 Cubist painting by Pablo Picasso depicting three abstracted, brightly colored figures playing musical instruments.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Les Trois Musiciens | 1 |
| Three Musicians canonical | 1 |
| Three Musicians (MoMA version) | 1 |
| Three Musicians (Philadelphia version) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T276028 — 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: Three Musicians Context triple: [Pablo Picasso, notableWork, Three Musicians]
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A.
The Music Lesson
The Music Lesson is a 17th-century genre painting by Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer, depicting an intimate scene of music-making in a meticulously rendered domestic interior.
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B.
Matisse’s “Music”
Matisse’s “Music” is a large early 20th-century Fauvist painting by Henri Matisse that depicts simplified, vividly colored figures engaged in musical performance.
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C.
Nighthawks
Nighthawks is a famous 1942 painting by Edward Hopper that depicts a brightly lit late-night diner scene and is widely regarded as an iconic image of urban isolation in American art.
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D.
Café Terrace at Night
Café Terrace at Night is a famous 1888 oil painting by Vincent van Gogh depicting a brightly lit outdoor café scene under a starry night sky in Arles, France.
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E.
Swiss Psalm
The Swiss Psalm is the national anthem of Switzerland, known for its solemn, hymn-like melody and lyrics that praise the country's natural beauty and divine protection.
- 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: Three Musicians Target entity description: Three Musicians is a famous 1921 Cubist painting by Pablo Picasso depicting three abstracted, brightly colored figures playing musical instruments.
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A.
The Music Lesson
The Music Lesson is a 17th-century genre painting by Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer, depicting an intimate scene of music-making in a meticulously rendered domestic interior.
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B.
Matisse’s “Music”
Matisse’s “Music” is a large early 20th-century Fauvist painting by Henri Matisse that depicts simplified, vividly colored figures engaged in musical performance.
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C.
Nighthawks
Nighthawks is a famous 1942 painting by Edward Hopper that depicts a brightly lit late-night diner scene and is widely regarded as an iconic image of urban isolation in American art.
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D.
Café Terrace at Night
Café Terrace at Night is a famous 1888 oil painting by Vincent van Gogh depicting a brightly lit outdoor café scene under a starry night sky in Arles, France.
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E.
Swiss Psalm
The Swiss Psalm is the national anthem of Switzerland, known for its solemn, hymn-like melody and lyrics that praise the country's natural beauty and divine protection.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Cubist painting
ⓘ
painting ⓘ |
| artHistoricalSignificance | key example of Synthetic Cubism ⓘ |
| collection |
Museum of Modern Art
ⓘ
surface form:
Museum of Modern Art collection
Philadelphia Museum of Art collection ⓘ |
| colorScheme | warm and cool contrasts ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| creator | Pablo Picasso ⓘ |
| creatorBirthName |
Pablo Picasso
ⓘ
surface form:
Pablo Ruiz Picasso
|
| creatorNationality | Spanish ⓘ |
| depictionType | figurative abstraction ⓘ |
| depicts |
Pierrot
ⓘ
figures playing musical instruments ⓘ harlequin ⓘ monk ⓘ three musicians ⓘ |
| famousFor | being one of Picasso's best-known Cubist works ⓘ |
| genre | synthetic Cubism ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
costumed figures
ⓘ
musical instruments ⓘ |
| hasVersion |
Three Musicians
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Three Musicians (MoMA version)
Three Musicians self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Three Musicians (Philadelphia version)
|
| inception | 1921 ⓘ |
| influenced | later abstract art ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Cubism
ⓘ
surface form:
Analytic Cubism
|
| languageOfTitle | English ⓘ |
| location |
Museum of Modern Art
ⓘ
Philadelphia Museum of Art ⓘ |
| mainSubject | musicians ⓘ |
| materialUsed | oil paint ⓘ |
| movement | Cubism ⓘ |
| museumCity |
New York City
ⓘ
Philadelphia ⓘ |
| notableFor |
bold, contrasting colors
ⓘ
complex interlocking shapes ⓘ flat, collage-like appearance ⓘ |
| originalTitle |
Three Musicians
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Les Trois Musiciens
|
| originalTitleLanguage | French ⓘ |
| paintingAlignment | landscape format ⓘ |
| partOf | 20th-century modern art ⓘ |
| periodInArtistCareer | Synthetic Cubism period ⓘ |
| style |
abstract
ⓘ
geometric forms ⓘ |
| support | canvas ⓘ |
| useOfColor | bright colors ⓘ |
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: Three Musicians Description of subject: Three Musicians is a famous 1921 Cubist painting by Pablo Picasso depicting three abstracted, brightly colored figures playing musical instruments.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Three Musicians (MoMA version)
this entity surface form:
Three Musicians (Philadelphia version)
this entity surface form:
Les Trois Musiciens