Venus and Adonis
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"Venus and Adonis" is a mythological painting by Dutch Golden Age artist Ferdinand Bol depicting the love story between the goddess Venus and the mortal Adonis.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Venus and Adonis canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T586526 — 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: Venus and Adonis Context triple: [Ferdinand Bol, notableWork, Venus and Adonis]
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A.
Troilus and Criseyde
Troilus and Criseyde is a Middle English narrative poem by Geoffrey Chaucer that retells the tragic love story of Troilus and Criseyde during the Trojan War.
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B.
The Legend of Good Women
The Legend of Good Women is a late 14th-century poem by Geoffrey Chaucer that presents a series of narratives about virtuous women from classical and medieval literature, framed by an allegorical prologue.
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C.
Metamorphosis of Narcissus
Metamorphosis of Narcissus is a 1937 surrealist painting by Salvador Dalí that depicts the myth of Narcissus through a double image transforming a human figure into a hand holding an egg.
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D.
For the Lovers
"For the Lovers" is a song featured on Whitney Houston's 2009 studio album "I Look to You."
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E.
The House of Fame
The House of Fame is a Middle English dream-vision poem by Geoffrey Chaucer that explores the nature of fame, rumor, and literary reputation through an allegorical journey.
- 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: Venus and Adonis Target entity description: "Venus and Adonis" is a mythological painting by Dutch Golden Age artist Ferdinand Bol depicting the love story between the goddess Venus and the mortal Adonis.
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A.
Troilus and Criseyde
Troilus and Criseyde is a Middle English narrative poem by Geoffrey Chaucer that retells the tragic love story of Troilus and Criseyde during the Trojan War.
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B.
The Legend of Good Women
The Legend of Good Women is a late 14th-century poem by Geoffrey Chaucer that presents a series of narratives about virtuous women from classical and medieval literature, framed by an allegorical prologue.
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C.
Metamorphosis of Narcissus
Metamorphosis of Narcissus is a 1937 surrealist painting by Salvador Dalí that depicts the myth of Narcissus through a double image transforming a human figure into a hand holding an egg.
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D.
For the Lovers
"For the Lovers" is a song featured on Whitney Houston's 2009 studio album "I Look to You."
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E.
The House of Fame
The House of Fame is a Middle English dream-vision poem by Geoffrey Chaucer that explores the nature of fame, rumor, and literary reputation through an allegorical journey.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
mythological painting
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painting ⓘ |
| artForm | oil painting ⓘ |
| artisticTheme |
beauty
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love ⓘ mythology ⓘ |
| basedOn |
classical mythology
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myth of Venus and Adonis ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Dutch Republic ⓘ |
| creator | Ferdinand Bol ⓘ |
| creatorNationality | Dutch ⓘ |
| culture | Dutch ⓘ |
| depicts |
Adonis
ⓘ
Venus ⓘ classical antiquity theme ⓘ goddess of love ⓘ interaction between deity and mortal ⓘ love story of Venus and Adonis ⓘ mortal youth ⓘ |
| genre | history painting ⓘ |
| hasGenre | mythological scene ⓘ |
| hasPart |
figure of Adonis
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figure of Venus ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Italian Renaissance painting
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Rembrandt school ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | visual art ⓘ |
| mainSubject | mythological love story ⓘ |
| movement | Dutch Golden Age painting ⓘ |
| narrativeLocation | mythological setting ⓘ |
| partOf | Ferdinand Bol’s mythological works ⓘ |
| period | 17th century ⓘ |
| schoolOfArtist | Dutch Golden Age ⓘ |
| subjectHeading |
Adonis
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surface form:
Adonis (mythology)
Aphrodite ⓘ
surface form:
Venus (mythology)
classical mythology in art ⓘ |
| title | Venus and Adonis self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
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: Venus and Adonis Description of subject: "Venus and Adonis" is a mythological painting by Dutch Golden Age artist Ferdinand Bol depicting the love story between the goddess Venus and the mortal Adonis.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Venus and Adonis (Ferdinand Bol)
subject surface form:
Works of William Shakespeare