The Weeping Woman
E37619
The Weeping Woman is a famous 1937 painting by Pablo Picasso that powerfully depicts a grief-stricken female figure in his Cubist style, often interpreted as a symbol of the suffering caused by war.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Weeping Woman canonical | 2 |
| Weeping Woman | 2 |
| Weeping Woman series | 1 |
| Weeping Woman with Handkerchief | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T276025 — 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: The Weeping Woman Context triple: [Pablo Picasso, notableWork, The Weeping Woman]
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A.
Guernica
Guernica is a town in northern Spain historically known for the devastating 1937 bombing during the Spanish Civil War and for inspiring Pablo Picasso’s famous anti-war painting of the same name.
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B.
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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C.
The Persistence of Memory
The Persistence of Memory is a famous 1931 surrealist painting by Salvador Dalí, renowned for its dreamlike landscape featuring melting clocks that symbolize the fluidity of time.
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D.
Dora Maar au Chat
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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E.
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.
- 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: The Weeping Woman Target entity description: The Weeping Woman is a famous 1937 painting by Pablo Picasso that powerfully depicts a grief-stricken female figure in his Cubist style, often interpreted as a symbol of the suffering caused by war.
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A.
Guernica
Guernica is a town in northern Spain historically known for the devastating 1937 bombing during the Spanish Civil War and for inspiring Pablo Picasso’s famous anti-war painting of the same name.
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B.
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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C.
The Persistence of Memory
The Persistence of Memory is a famous 1931 surrealist painting by Salvador Dalí, renowned for its dreamlike landscape featuring melting clocks that symbolize the fluidity of time.
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D.
Dora Maar au Chat
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
painting
ⓘ
work of art ⓘ |
| artForm | easel painting ⓘ |
| basedOn | Dora Maar ⓘ |
| collection |
Tate Modern
ⓘ
surface form:
Tate collection
|
| colorPalette |
contrasting tones
ⓘ
vivid colors ⓘ |
| copyrightStatus | under copyright in many jurisdictions ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Spain ⓘ |
| creator | Pablo Picasso ⓘ |
| depicts |
Dora Maar
ⓘ
grief-stricken female figure ⓘ weeping woman ⓘ |
| dimensionType | two-dimensional artwork ⓘ |
| genre | Cubism ⓘ |
| hasGenre | history painting (interpreted) ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn | interpretations of war imagery in modern art ⓘ |
| hasPart |
distorted face
ⓘ
fragmented facial features ⓘ handkerchief ⓘ tears ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
personal anguish
ⓘ
war and suffering ⓘ |
| inception | 1937 ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | Spanish Civil War ⓘ |
| interpretedAs |
allegory of grief
ⓘ
symbol of civilian suffering ⓘ symbol of suffering caused by war ⓘ |
| languageOfTitle | English ⓘ |
| location | Tate Modern ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
emotional pain
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female figure ⓘ grief ⓘ suffering ⓘ |
| materialUsed | oil paint ⓘ |
| movement | Cubist art ⓘ |
| notableFor |
association with Guernica
ⓘ
complex Cubist composition ⓘ portrayal of Dora Maar ⓘ powerful depiction of grief ⓘ |
| originalTitle | La femme qui pleure ⓘ |
| originalTitleLanguage | French ⓘ |
| partOfSeries |
The Weeping Woman
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Weeping Woman series
|
| relatedWork | Guernica ⓘ |
| style |
abstract
ⓘ
geometric fragmentation ⓘ |
| support | canvas ⓘ |
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: The Weeping Woman Description of subject: The Weeping Woman is a famous 1937 painting by Pablo Picasso that powerfully depicts a grief-stricken female figure in his Cubist style, often interpreted as a symbol of the suffering caused by war.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Weeping Woman
this entity surface form:
Weeping Woman series
this entity surface form:
Weeping Woman
this entity surface form:
Weeping Woman with Handkerchief