The Persistence of Memory
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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.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Persistence of Memory canonical | 8 |
| the persistence of memory | 2 |
| La persistencia de la memoria | 1 |
| The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory | 1 |
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
painting
ⓘ
surrealist painting ⓘ |
| artForm | oil on canvas ⓘ |
| collection | Museum of Modern Art ⓘ |
| colorPalette |
blue sky
ⓘ
earth tones ⓘ |
| copyrightStatus | under copyright in many jurisdictions ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Spain ⓘ |
| creator | Salvador Dalí ⓘ |
| creatorBirthCountry | Spain ⓘ |
| creatorBirthPlace | Figueres ⓘ |
| creatorNationality | Spanish ⓘ |
| depicts |
ants
ⓘ
desert landscape ⓘ distorted face-like form ⓘ horizon ⓘ melting clocks ⓘ pocket watches ⓘ rocky cliff ⓘ sea ⓘ tree branch ⓘ |
| describedAs |
dreamlike
ⓘ
iconic ⓘ symbolic representation of time ⓘ |
| genre | Surrealism ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn |
popular culture
ⓘ
surrealist imagery in media ⓘ |
| hasPart |
hard surfaces
ⓘ
insects ⓘ organic form ⓘ soft watches ⓘ |
| inception | 1931 ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
New York City
ⓘ
surface form:
New York
New York City ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| location | Museum of Modern Art ⓘ |
| mainSubject | melting clocks ⓘ |
| materialUsed | oil paint ⓘ |
| movement | Surrealism ⓘ |
| movementSymbolized | fluidity of time ⓘ |
| notableWorkOf | Salvador Dalí ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | N/A ⓘ |
| owner | Museum of Modern Art ⓘ |
| partOf |
20th-century art
ⓘ
modern art ⓘ |
| significantEvent | acquired by Museum of Modern Art ⓘ |
| surface | canvas ⓘ |
| title |
The Persistence of Memory
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
La persistencia de la memoria
The Persistence of Memory self-link ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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 Persistence of Memory Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
La persistencia de la memoria
this entity surface form:
The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory
subject surface form:
Salvador Dalí
this entity surface form:
the persistence of memory
this entity surface form:
the persistence of memory