Dora Maar au Chat
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Dora Maar au Chat is a famous 1941 oil painting by Pablo Picasso depicting his muse Dora Maar seated with a small cat, celebrated as a key work of his Surrealist-influenced portraiture.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dora Maar au Chat canonical | 2 |
| Portrait of Dora Maar | 2 |
| Dora Maar with Cat | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T276032 — 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: Dora Maar au Chat Context triple: [Pablo Picasso, notableWork, Dora Maar au Chat]
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A.
André Le Breton
André Le Breton was an 18th-century French printer and bookseller best known as one of the principal publishers of Denis Diderot’s Encyclopédie.
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B.
Marie Mosquini
Marie Mosquini was an American silent film actress best known for her work in Hal Roach comedies during the 1910s and 1920s.
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C.
Autoportrait au chapeau de paille
Autoportrait au chapeau de paille is a self-portrait painting by Vincent van Gogh depicting himself wearing a straw hat.
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D.
Lee Krasner
Lee Krasner was an influential American abstract expressionist painter known for her innovative collages and for helping shape the New York School of modern art.
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E.
Pierrette
Pierrette is a French feminine given name, traditionally considered the female form of Pierre.
- 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: Dora Maar au Chat Target entity description: Dora Maar au Chat is a famous 1941 oil painting by Pablo Picasso depicting his muse Dora Maar seated with a small cat, celebrated as a key work of his Surrealist-influenced portraiture.
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A.
André Le Breton
André Le Breton was an 18th-century French printer and bookseller best known as one of the principal publishers of Denis Diderot’s Encyclopédie.
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B.
Marie Mosquini
Marie Mosquini was an American silent film actress best known for her work in Hal Roach comedies during the 1910s and 1920s.
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C.
Autoportrait au chapeau de paille
Autoportrait au chapeau de paille is a self-portrait painting by Vincent van Gogh depicting himself wearing a straw hat.
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D.
Lee Krasner
Lee Krasner was an influential American abstract expressionist painter known for her innovative collages and for helping shape the New York School of modern art.
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E.
Pierrette
Pierrette is a French feminine given name, traditionally considered the female form of Pierre.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
oil painting
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painting ⓘ work of art ⓘ |
| artHistoricalSignificance |
important example of Surrealist-influenced portraiture
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important example of late Cubist tendencies ⓘ key work of Picasso’s wartime period ⓘ major portrait of Dora Maar by Picasso ⓘ |
| associatedTheme |
female muse
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psychological complexity ⓘ wartime anxiety ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Picasso’s personal relationship with Dora Maar ⓘ |
| cataloguedAs | portrait of Dora Maar with cat ⓘ |
| colorCharacteristic | vivid colors ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| creator | Pablo Picasso ⓘ |
| depicts |
Dora Maar
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cat ⓘ decorated chair ⓘ interior setting ⓘ small cat on the back of the chair ⓘ striped dress ⓘ woman seated on a chair ⓘ |
| genre | portrait ⓘ |
| iconographyNote |
cat as symbol of tension and unpredictability
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sharp fingernails emphasizing psychological intensity ⓘ |
| inception | 1941 ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Surrealism ⓘ |
| mainSubject | Dora Maar ⓘ |
| medium | oil on canvas ⓘ |
| movement |
Cubism
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Surrealism ⓘ |
| periodInArtistCareer | Picasso’s Dora Maar period ⓘ |
| recordSale | one of the most expensive paintings ever sold at auction ⓘ |
| relatedWorkByArtist |
Dora Maar au Chat
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Portrait of Dora Maar
The Weeping Woman ⓘ
surface form:
Weeping Woman
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| salePriceApproximate | 95 million US dollars ⓘ |
| salePriceCurrency | US dollar ⓘ |
| saleYear | 2006 ⓘ |
| significantFigureInArtistLife | Dora Maar ⓘ |
| soldAtAuction |
Sotheby’s
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surface form:
Sotheby’s New York
|
| styleCharacteristic |
distorted forms
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exaggerated features ⓘ fragmented planes ⓘ |
| titleLanguage | French ⓘ |
| titleTranslation |
Dora Maar au Chat
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Dora Maar with Cat
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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: Dora Maar au Chat Description of subject: Dora Maar au Chat is a famous 1941 oil painting by Pablo Picasso depicting his muse Dora Maar seated with a small cat, celebrated as a key work of his Surrealist-influenced portraiture.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Dora Maar with Cat
this entity surface form:
Portrait of Dora Maar
this entity surface form:
Portrait of Dora Maar