Mercury Attaching his Talaria
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Mercury Attaching his Talaria is an 18th-century neoclassical sculpture by Jean-Baptiste Pigalle depicting the Roman god Mercury fastening his winged sandals in a dynamic, graceful pose.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mercury Attaching his Talaria canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3789276 — 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: Mercury Attaching his Talaria Context triple: [Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, notableWork, Mercury Attaching his Talaria]
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A.
Man and Pegasus
Man and Pegasus is a celebrated bronze sculpture by Swedish artist Carl Milles depicting a dynamic interaction between a human figure and the mythological winged horse Pegasus.
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B.
Theseus and the Minotaur
"Theseus and the Minotaur" is a renowned neoclassical marble sculpture by Antonio Canova depicting the Greek hero Theseus victorious over the slain Minotaur.
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C.
Icarus
Icarus is a figure from Greek mythology known for flying too close to the sun with wings made of feathers and wax, causing his fatal fall into the sea.
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D.
Children of Hermes
Children of Hermes are the mythological offspring of the Greek god Hermes, often associated with traits such as cunning, eloquence, and swiftness.
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E.
Hades’s helm of invisibility
Hades’s helm of invisibility is a mythical divine helmet from Greek mythology that grants its wearer complete invisibility, famously used by gods and heroes to move unseen.
- 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: Mercury Attaching his Talaria Target entity description: Mercury Attaching his Talaria is an 18th-century neoclassical sculpture by Jean-Baptiste Pigalle depicting the Roman god Mercury fastening his winged sandals in a dynamic, graceful pose.
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A.
Man and Pegasus
Man and Pegasus is a celebrated bronze sculpture by Swedish artist Carl Milles depicting a dynamic interaction between a human figure and the mythological winged horse Pegasus.
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B.
Theseus and the Minotaur
"Theseus and the Minotaur" is a renowned neoclassical marble sculpture by Antonio Canova depicting the Greek hero Theseus victorious over the slain Minotaur.
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C.
Icarus
Icarus is a figure from Greek mythology known for flying too close to the sun with wings made of feathers and wax, causing his fatal fall into the sea.
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D.
Children of Hermes
Children of Hermes are the mythological offspring of the Greek god Hermes, often associated with traits such as cunning, eloquence, and swiftness.
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E.
Hades’s helm of invisibility
Hades’s helm of invisibility is a mythical divine helmet from Greek mythology that grants its wearer complete invisibility, famously used by gods and heroes to move unseen.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
neoclassical sculpture
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sculptor ⓘ sculpture ⓘ |
| artForm | statue ⓘ |
| artisticStyle | neoclassical ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| creator | Jean-Baptiste Pigalle ⓘ |
| creatorNationality | French ⓘ |
| depicts |
Mercury
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Roman god ⓘ talaria ⓘ winged sandals ⓘ |
| depictsAction | Mercury fastening his winged sandals ⓘ |
| depictsDeity |
Mercury (Roman god)
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surface form:
Mercury (mythology)
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| depictsMythology |
Roman religion
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surface form:
Roman mythology
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| depictsPose |
dynamic pose
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graceful pose ⓘ |
| genre | Neoclassicism ⓘ |
| hasPart |
base
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figure of Mercury ⓘ talaria ⓘ |
| inception | 18th century ⓘ |
| languageOfTitle | French ⓘ |
| materialUsed | marble ⓘ |
| movement | Neoclassicism ⓘ |
| nationality | French ⓘ |
| subjectHeading |
Roman mythology in sculpture
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classical mythology in art ⓘ |
| titleLanguageVariant | Mercure attachant ses talonnières ⓘ |
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: Mercury Attaching his Talaria Description of subject: Mercury Attaching his Talaria is an 18th-century neoclassical sculpture by Jean-Baptiste Pigalle depicting the Roman god Mercury fastening his winged sandals in a dynamic, graceful pose.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.