John William Waterhouse
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John William Waterhouse was a British painter renowned for his romantic, mythological, and literary-themed works that continued and popularized the Pre-Raphaelite style into the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John William Waterhouse canonical | 50 |
| J. W. Waterhouse | 1 |
| John William Waterhouse oeuvre | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T267530 — 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: John William Waterhouse Context triple: [Pre-Raphaelite art, hasNotableArtist, John William Waterhouse]
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A.
William Holman Hunt
William Holman Hunt was a founding member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, renowned for his highly detailed, symbolically rich Victorian paintings.
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B.
Edward Burne-Jones
Edward Burne-Jones was a British Victorian painter and designer associated with the later phase of the Pre-Raphaelite movement, renowned for his romantic, medieval-inspired works and contributions to the decorative arts.
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C.
John Everett Millais
John Everett Millais was a leading 19th-century British painter and founding member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, renowned for his highly detailed, emotionally charged works such as "Ophelia."
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D.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Dante Gabriel Rossetti was a 19th-century English poet, painter, and founding member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, known for his richly symbolic, medieval-inspired artworks and verse.
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E.
Ford Madox Brown
Ford Madox Brown was a 19th-century British painter closely associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement, known for his richly detailed, socially conscious historical and genre scenes.
- 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: John William Waterhouse Target entity description: John William Waterhouse was a British painter renowned for his romantic, mythological, and literary-themed works that continued and popularized the Pre-Raphaelite style into the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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A.
William Holman Hunt
William Holman Hunt was a founding member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, renowned for his highly detailed, symbolically rich Victorian paintings.
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B.
Edward Burne-Jones
Edward Burne-Jones was a British Victorian painter and designer associated with the later phase of the Pre-Raphaelite movement, renowned for his romantic, medieval-inspired works and contributions to the decorative arts.
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C.
John Everett Millais
John Everett Millais was a leading 19th-century British painter and founding member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, renowned for his highly detailed, emotionally charged works such as "Ophelia."
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D.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Dante Gabriel Rossetti was a 19th-century English poet, painter, and founding member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, known for his richly symbolic, medieval-inspired artworks and verse.
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E.
Ford Madox Brown
Ford Madox Brown was a 19th-century British painter closely associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement, known for his richly detailed, socially conscious historical and genre scenes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (65)
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: John William Waterhouse Description of subject: John William Waterhouse was a British painter renowned for his romantic, mythological, and literary-themed works that continued and popularized the Pre-Raphaelite style into the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Referenced by (52)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Lady of Shalott (painting)
subject surface form:
The Lady of Shalott (painting)
subject surface form:
Ophelia (1894 painting)
subject surface form:
La Belle Dame sans Merci (painting)
subject surface form:
La Belle Dame sans Merci (painting)
this entity surface form:
John William Waterhouse oeuvre
this entity surface form:
J. W. Waterhouse