The Sower (Arles version)
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The Sower (Arles version) is a vibrant 1888 painting by Vincent van Gogh that reinterprets Jean-François Millet’s sower motif with bold color and expressive brushwork to symbolize hope, labor, and the cycle of life.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Sower (Arles version) canonical | 1 |
| The Sower (Saint-Rémy version) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3657180 — 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 Sower (Arles version) Context triple: [Arles period of Vincent van Gogh, notableWorkCreated, The Sower (Arles version)]
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A.
Wheatfield with Cypresses
Wheatfield with Cypresses is a series of landscape paintings by Vincent van Gogh, created in 1889, depicting golden wheat fields, dark cypress trees, and turbulent skies near Saint-Rémy-de-Provence.
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B.
Yellow House, Arles
Yellow House, Arles was Vincent van Gogh’s rented residence in Arles, France, where he created some of his most famous works and briefly lived with Paul Gauguin.
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C.
Daubigny’s Garden
Daubigny’s Garden is a historic garden in Auvers-sur-Oise, France, famously painted by Vincent van Gogh and associated with the landscape painter Charles-François Daubigny.
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D.
The Gleaners
The Gleaners is an 1857 realist painting by Jean-François Millet that poignantly depicts three peasant women gleaning leftover grain in a field, symbolizing rural poverty and social inequality in 19th-century France.
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E.
Starry Night Over the Rhône
Starry Night Over the Rhône is an 1888 oil painting by Vincent van Gogh depicting a nocturnal view of the Rhône River in Arles under a star-filled sky, renowned for its expressive color and shimmering reflections.
- 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 Sower (Arles version) Target entity description: The Sower (Arles version) is a vibrant 1888 painting by Vincent van Gogh that reinterprets Jean-François Millet’s sower motif with bold color and expressive brushwork to symbolize hope, labor, and the cycle of life.
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A.
Wheatfield with Cypresses
Wheatfield with Cypresses is a series of landscape paintings by Vincent van Gogh, created in 1889, depicting golden wheat fields, dark cypress trees, and turbulent skies near Saint-Rémy-de-Provence.
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B.
Yellow House, Arles
Yellow House, Arles was Vincent van Gogh’s rented residence in Arles, France, where he created some of his most famous works and briefly lived with Paul Gauguin.
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C.
Daubigny’s Garden
Daubigny’s Garden is a historic garden in Auvers-sur-Oise, France, famously painted by Vincent van Gogh and associated with the landscape painter Charles-François Daubigny.
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D.
The Gleaners
The Gleaners is an 1857 realist painting by Jean-François Millet that poignantly depicts three peasant women gleaning leftover grain in a field, symbolizing rural poverty and social inequality in 19th-century France.
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E.
Starry Night Over the Rhône
Starry Night Over the Rhône is an 1888 oil painting by Vincent van Gogh depicting a nocturnal view of the Rhône River in Arles under a star-filled sky, renowned for its expressive color and shimmering reflections.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
painting
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work of art ⓘ |
| artForm | oil on canvas ⓘ |
| colorCharacteristic | vibrant palette ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| creator | Vincent van Gogh ⓘ |
| creatorNationality | Dutch ⓘ |
| depicts |
agricultural labor
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field ⓘ man sowing seeds ⓘ sun ⓘ tree ⓘ |
| genre | Post-Impressionism ⓘ |
| hasArtisticPeriod | Arles period of Vincent van Gogh ⓘ |
| hasBackground |
large setting sun
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tree silhouetted against the sky ⓘ |
| hasForeground | figure of the sower ⓘ |
| hasPerspective | side view of the sower ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
agricultural work
ⓘ
relationship between man and nature ⓘ rural life ⓘ spiritual symbolism ⓘ |
| inception | 1888 ⓘ |
| inspiredBy |
Jean-François Millet
ⓘ
The Sower ⓘ
surface form:
The Sower (Jean-François Millet)
|
| languageOfWork | none ⓘ |
| locationCreated |
Arles
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Arles ⓘ
surface form:
Arles, France
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| mainSubject |
peasant farmer
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sower ⓘ |
| materialUsed | oil paint ⓘ |
| motif | sower motif ⓘ |
| movement | Post-Impressionism ⓘ |
| partOfSeries |
Arles period of Vincent van Gogh
ⓘ
surface form:
Van Gogh’s Arles paintings
Van Gogh’s Nuenen paintings ⓘ
surface form:
Van Gogh’s works after Millet
|
| surface | canvas ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
cycle of life
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hope ⓘ human connection to nature ⓘ labor ⓘ renewal ⓘ |
| timePeriodDepicted | 19th-century rural France ⓘ |
| usesTechnique |
bold color
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expressive brushwork ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Sower (Arles version) Description of subject: The Sower (Arles version) is a vibrant 1888 painting by Vincent van Gogh that reinterprets Jean-François Millet’s sower motif with bold color and expressive brushwork to symbolize hope, labor, and the cycle of life.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Sower (Saint-Rémy version)