The Scream
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The Scream is an iconic late-19th-century painting by Edvard Munch that powerfully depicts existential angst and has become one of the most recognizable images in modern art.
All labels observed (7)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T558232 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Scream Context triple: [Expressionism, notableWork, The Scream]
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Scream
Scream is a 2009 studio album by American rock musician Chris Cornell that explores a more pop and electronic-influenced sound produced in collaboration with Timbaland.
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B.
Blacker
Blacker is a comparative form of the color term "black," indicating a greater degree of darkness or blackness.
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C.
Misery
Misery is the first major section of the Heidelberg Catechism, focusing on humanity’s sinfulness and need for redemption.
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D.
Misery
Misery is a psychological horror novel by Stephen King about a famous author held captive by his deranged “number one fan.”
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E.
Pinhead Gunpowder
Pinhead Gunpowder is an American punk rock band known for its raw, melodic sound and featuring Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong.
- 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 Scream Target entity description: The Scream is an iconic late-19th-century painting by Edvard Munch that powerfully depicts existential angst and has become one of the most recognizable images in modern art.
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A.
Scream
Scream is a 2009 studio album by American rock musician Chris Cornell that explores a more pop and electronic-influenced sound produced in collaboration with Timbaland.
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B.
Blacker
Blacker is a comparative form of the color term "black," indicating a greater degree of darkness or blackness.
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C.
Misery
Misery is the first major section of the Heidelberg Catechism, focusing on humanity’s sinfulness and need for redemption.
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D.
Misery
Misery is a psychological horror novel by Stephen King about a famous author held captive by his deranged “number one fan.”
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E.
Pinhead Gunpowder
Pinhead Gunpowder is an American punk rock band known for its raw, melodic sound and featuring Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Expressionist painting
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artwork ⓘ painting ⓘ |
| artHistoricalPeriod | Modern art ⓘ |
| artist | Edvard Munch ⓘ |
| collection |
Munch Museum collection
ⓘ
National Gallery of Norway ⓘ |
| colorCharacteristic | vivid contrasting colors ⓘ |
| country | Norway ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Norway ⓘ |
| createdIn | 1893 ⓘ |
| creator | Edvard Munch ⓘ |
| depicts |
a blood-red sky
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a bridge ⓘ a figure with a distorted face ⓘ a fjord landscape ⓘ anxiety ⓘ existential angst ⓘ |
| genre | symbolist art ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
alienation
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death ⓘ existential crisis ⓘ fear ⓘ |
| hasVersion |
The Scream
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
The Scream (1893 pastel)
The Scream self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
The Scream (1893 tempera and crayon on cardboard)
The Scream self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
The Scream (1895 pastel)
The Scream self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
The Scream (1910 tempera version)
The Scream self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
The Scream (lithograph)
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| inception | 1893 ⓘ |
| influenced |
modern art
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popular culture ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Norwegian landscape
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Symbolism ⓘ personal anxiety of Edvard Munch ⓘ |
| lineCharacteristic | swirling, curvilinear lines ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Oslo ⓘ |
| location |
Munch Museum
ⓘ
surface form:
Munch Museum, Oslo
National Gallery of Norway ⓘ
surface form:
National Gallery, Oslo
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| medium |
lithograph
ⓘ
oil, tempera and pastel on cardboard ⓘ pastel on board ⓘ tempera on cardboard ⓘ |
| movement | Expressionism ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of the most recognizable images in modern art
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iconic depiction of existential dread ⓘ |
| originalLanguageTitle |
Scream
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surface form:
Skrik
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| originalTitleLanguage |
Norwegian language
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surface form:
Norwegian
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| partOfSeries | The Frieze of Life ⓘ |
| period | late 19th century ⓘ |
| series | The Frieze of Life ⓘ |
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: The Scream Description of subject: The Scream is an iconic late-19th-century painting by Edvard Munch that powerfully depicts existential angst and has become one of the most recognizable images in modern art.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Scream (1893 tempera and crayon on cardboard)
this entity surface form:
The Scream (1893 pastel)
this entity surface form:
The Scream (1895 pastel)
this entity surface form:
The Scream (1910 tempera version)
this entity surface form:
The Scream (lithograph)
subject surface form:
National Museum (Norway)
this entity surface form:
The Scream by Edvard Munch (version)