Landscape with Obelisk
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Landscape with Obelisk is a 17th-century Dutch landscape painting, long misattributed to Rembrandt, that depicts a dramatic countryside scene dominated by a prominent stone obelisk.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Landscape with Obelisk canonical | 2 |
| Landscape with Ruins | 1 |
| Landscape with an Obelisk (attributed to Govaert Flinck) (stolen) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T630015 — 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: Landscape with Obelisk Context triple: [Govert Flinck, notableWork, Landscape with Obelisk]
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A.
Île de la Grande Jatte
Île de la Grande Jatte is a small island in the River Seine near Paris, France, famed as the setting of Georges Seurat’s iconic pointillist painting "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte."
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B.
The Painter's Studio
The Painter's Studio is a large, allegorical 1855 oil painting by Gustave Courbet that presents a symbolic panorama of mid-19th-century French society gathered around the artist at work.
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C.
Café Terrace at Night
Café Terrace at Night is a famous 1888 oil painting by Vincent van Gogh depicting a brightly lit outdoor café scene under a starry night sky in Arles, France.
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D.
The Stone Breakers
The Stone Breakers is a pioneering 1849 realist painting by Gustave Courbet that starkly depicts manual laborers breaking stones, challenging romanticized portrayals of rural life.
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E.
A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884
A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884 is Georges Seurat’s iconic pointillist masterpiece depicting Parisians relaxing in a riverside park, and one of the most celebrated paintings of the late 19th century.
- 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: Landscape with Obelisk Target entity description: Landscape with Obelisk is a 17th-century Dutch landscape painting, long misattributed to Rembrandt, that depicts a dramatic countryside scene dominated by a prominent stone obelisk.
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A.
Île de la Grande Jatte
Île de la Grande Jatte is a small island in the River Seine near Paris, France, famed as the setting of Georges Seurat’s iconic pointillist painting "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte."
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B.
The Painter's Studio
The Painter's Studio is a large, allegorical 1855 oil painting by Gustave Courbet that presents a symbolic panorama of mid-19th-century French society gathered around the artist at work.
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C.
Café Terrace at Night
Café Terrace at Night is a famous 1888 oil painting by Vincent van Gogh depicting a brightly lit outdoor café scene under a starry night sky in Arles, France.
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D.
The Stone Breakers
The Stone Breakers is a pioneering 1849 realist painting by Gustave Courbet that starkly depicts manual laborers breaking stones, challenging romanticized portrayals of rural life.
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E.
A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884
A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884 is Georges Seurat’s iconic pointillist masterpiece depicting Parisians relaxing in a riverside park, and one of the most celebrated paintings of the late 19th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
landscape painting
ⓘ
painting ⓘ |
| artForm | oil-on-canvas painting ⓘ |
| artMovement | Dutch Golden Age painting ⓘ |
| associatedArtist |
Rembrandt van Rijn
ⓘ
surface form:
Rembrandt
|
| associatedWith | Rembrandt school ⓘ |
| centuryOfCreation | 17th century ⓘ |
| collection |
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ⓘ
surface form:
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston collection
|
| countryOfOrigin | Dutch Republic ⓘ |
| creator | Govert Flinck ⓘ |
| currentAttribution | Govert Flinck ⓘ |
| depicts |
cloudy sky
ⓘ
countryside ⓘ dramatic lighting ⓘ rural road ⓘ stone obelisk ⓘ |
| genre |
history of art misattribution case
ⓘ
landscape painting ⓘ |
| hasProminentFeature | obelisk ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
dramatic sky
ⓘ
figures in a landscape ⓘ trees ⓘ |
| location | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston ⓘ |
| medium | oil paint ⓘ |
| misattributedTo |
Rembrandt van Rijn
ⓘ
surface form:
Rembrandt
|
| movement | Dutch Golden Age ⓘ |
| originalAttribution |
Rembrandt van Rijn
ⓘ
surface form:
Rembrandt
|
| style | Baroque ⓘ |
| support | canvas ⓘ |
| titleLanguage | English ⓘ |
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: Landscape with Obelisk Description of subject: Landscape with Obelisk is a 17th-century Dutch landscape painting, long misattributed to Rembrandt, that depicts a dramatic countryside scene dominated by a prominent stone obelisk.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Landscape with an Obelisk (attributed to Govaert Flinck) (stolen)
subject surface form:
Govert Flinck
this entity surface form:
Landscape with Ruins