Paula Becker
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Paula Becker, better known as Paula Modersohn-Becker, was a pioneering German painter associated with early Expressionism and recognized as one of the first female artists to paint nude self-portraits.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Paula Becker canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9622285 — 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: Paula Becker Context triple: [Paula Modersohn-Becker, birthName, Paula Becker]
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A.
Paula Lutze
Paula Lutze was the wife of Viktor Lutze, a high-ranking Nazi official and head of the Sturmabteilung (SA) in Nazi Germany.
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B.
Paula Winkler
Paula Winkler was a German-Jewish writer and intellectual who collaborated closely with her husband, the philosopher and theologian Martin Buber.
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C.
Paula Wolff
Paula Wolff was the later-life alias of Paula Hitler, the younger sister of Adolf Hitler who lived a largely private and obscure life after World War II.
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D.
Regina Becker
Regina Becker is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Becker, though specific widely known biographical details are not clearly established.
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E.
Beverley Schäfer
Beverley Schäfer is a South African politician who serves as the Deputy Speaker of the Western Cape Provincial Parliament.
- 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: Paula Becker Target entity description: Paula Becker, better known as Paula Modersohn-Becker, was a pioneering German painter associated with early Expressionism and recognized as one of the first female artists to paint nude self-portraits.
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A.
Paula Lutze
Paula Lutze was the wife of Viktor Lutze, a high-ranking Nazi official and head of the Sturmabteilung (SA) in Nazi Germany.
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B.
Paula Winkler
Paula Winkler was a German-Jewish writer and intellectual who collaborated closely with her husband, the philosopher and theologian Martin Buber.
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C.
Paula Wolff
Paula Wolff was the later-life alias of Paula Hitler, the younger sister of Adolf Hitler who lived a largely private and obscure life after World War II.
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D.
Regina Becker
Regina Becker is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Becker, though specific widely known biographical details are not clearly established.
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E.
Beverley Schäfer
Beverley Schäfer is a South African politician who serves as the Deputy Speaker of the Western Cape Provincial Parliament.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Expressionist artist
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German painter ⓘ human ⓘ modern artist ⓘ painter ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Paula Modersohn-Becker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | pulmonary embolism ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
German Empire
NERFINISHED
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Germany ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1876-02-08 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1907-11-20 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Académie Colarossi
NERFINISHED
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Académie Julian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | painting ⓘ |
| genre |
genre painting
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landscape painting ⓘ nude painting ⓘ portrait painting ⓘ self-portrait ⓘ |
| hasMemorial | Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasOccupation | visual artist ⓘ |
| hasPartInCollection | Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
German Expressionism
NERFINISHED
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women artists in the 20th century ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
French modernism
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Paul Cézanne NERFINISHED ⓘ Paul Gauguin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | German ⓘ |
| movement |
Expressionism
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Worpswede school NERFINISHED ⓘ early Expressionism ⓘ modern art ⓘ |
| name | Paula Becker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
early nude self-portraits by a woman artist
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pioneering female Expressionist painting ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Girl in a Birch Forest
NERFINISHED
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Old Peasant Woman NERFINISHED ⓘ Self-Portrait on Her Sixth Wedding Anniversary NERFINISHED ⓘ Self-Portrait with Amber Necklace NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Dresden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBurial | Worpswede NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Worpswede NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Paris
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Worpswede NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Otto Modersohn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Paris
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Worpswede NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Paula Becker Description of subject: Paula Becker, better known as Paula Modersohn-Becker, was a pioneering German painter associated with early Expressionism and recognized as one of the first female artists to paint nude self-portraits.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.