The Captive from Sterne
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The Captive from Sterne is a painting by Joseph Wright of Derby inspired by Laurence Sterne’s novel "A Sentimental Journey," depicting a melancholic prisoner in a dramatic chiaroscuro style.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Captive from Sterne canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6176706 — 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 Captive from Sterne Context triple: [Joseph Wright of Derby paintings, notableWork, The Captive from Sterne]
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A.
Vandover and the Brute
Vandover and the Brute is a naturalist novel by Frank Norris that explores a young man's moral and psychological degeneration in late 19th-century San Francisco.
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B.
Things as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams
Things as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams is a 1794 novel by William Godwin that combines political critique with a suspenseful narrative about persecution, power, and social injustice in late 18th-century England.
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C.
Stephen Hero
Stephen Hero is an early, unfinished autobiographical novel by James Joyce that served as a precursor to his later work A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, featuring the character Stephen Dedalus.
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D.
The Uncommercial Traveller
The Uncommercial Traveller is a collection of observational essays by Charles Dickens, in which he recounts his wanderings and social commentary under the persona of an “uncommercial” traveler.
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E.
Bertram; or, The Castle of St. Aldobrand
Bertram; or, The Castle of St. Aldobrand is a Gothic melodramatic tragedy in verse by Charles Maturin that achieved great popularity on the early 19th-century British stage.
- 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 Captive from Sterne Target entity description: The Captive from Sterne is a painting by Joseph Wright of Derby inspired by Laurence Sterne’s novel "A Sentimental Journey," depicting a melancholic prisoner in a dramatic chiaroscuro style.
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A.
Vandover and the Brute
Vandover and the Brute is a naturalist novel by Frank Norris that explores a young man's moral and psychological degeneration in late 19th-century San Francisco.
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B.
Things as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams
Things as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams is a 1794 novel by William Godwin that combines political critique with a suspenseful narrative about persecution, power, and social injustice in late 18th-century England.
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C.
Stephen Hero
Stephen Hero is an early, unfinished autobiographical novel by James Joyce that served as a precursor to his later work A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, featuring the character Stephen Dedalus.
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D.
The Uncommercial Traveller
The Uncommercial Traveller is a collection of observational essays by Charles Dickens, in which he recounts his wanderings and social commentary under the persona of an “uncommercial” traveler.
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E.
Bertram; or, The Castle of St. Aldobrand
Bertram; or, The Castle of St. Aldobrand is a Gothic melodramatic tragedy in verse by Charles Maturin that achieved great popularity on the early 19th-century British stage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | painting ⓘ |
| artist | Joseph Wright of Derby NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| artisticTechnique | oil on canvas ⓘ |
| basedOn | novel A Sentimental Journey ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creator | Joseph Wright of Derby NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| depictionStyle | chiaroscuro ⓘ |
| depicts |
figure seated in confinement
ⓘ
interior prison scene ⓘ melancholic prisoner ⓘ |
| genre | history painting ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
emotional suffering
ⓘ
imprisonment ⓘ melancholy ⓘ sensibility ⓘ |
| inspiredBy |
A Sentimental Journey
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Laurence Sterne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfTitle | English ⓘ |
| lightingStyle | dramatic chiaroscuro ⓘ |
| mainSubject | prisoner in a cell ⓘ |
| movement |
Enlightenment art
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Romanticism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeSource | Laurence Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Joseph Wright of Derby’s literary-inspired works ⓘ |
| title | The Captive from Sterne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Captive from Sterne Description of subject: The Captive from Sterne is a painting by Joseph Wright of Derby inspired by Laurence Sterne’s novel "A Sentimental Journey," depicting a melancholic prisoner in a dramatic chiaroscuro style.
Referenced by (1)
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