Doryphoros
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Classical Greek statue
Roman marble copy of Greek bronze original
ancient Greek sculpture
marble sculpture
Doryphoros is a famous Classical Greek sculpture of a spear-bearing athlete that exemplifies Polykleitos’ idealized canon of human proportions and contrapposto stance.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Doryphoros canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10087080 — 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: Doryphoros Context triple: [Polykleitos, knownFor, Doryphoros]
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A.
Antium kouros
The Antium kouros is an ancient Greek marble statue of a standing nude youth, notable as an early example of the kouros type found at the site of Antium in Italy.
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B.
Aphrodite of Knidos
Aphrodite of Knidos is an iconic 4th-century BCE marble statue by Praxiteles, celebrated as one of the first major representations of the nude female form in classical Greek art.
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C.
Charioteer of Delphi
The Charioteer of Delphi is a renowned ancient Greek bronze statue from around 470 BCE, celebrated for its realistic detail and serene expression, and considered a masterpiece of early Classical sculpture.
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D.
Venus de Milo
Venus de Milo is an ancient Greek marble statue, famed for its missing arms and idealized depiction of the goddess Aphrodite, and is one of the most celebrated masterpieces of classical sculpture.
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E.
Kritios and Nesiotes
Kritios and Nesiotes were early Classical Athenian sculptors renowned for creating influential bronze statues that marked a transition toward more naturalistic representation in Greek art.
- 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: Doryphoros Target entity description: Doryphoros is a famous Classical Greek sculpture of a spear-bearing athlete that exemplifies Polykleitos’ idealized canon of human proportions and contrapposto stance.
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A.
Antium kouros
The Antium kouros is an ancient Greek marble statue of a standing nude youth, notable as an early example of the kouros type found at the site of Antium in Italy.
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B.
Aphrodite of Knidos
Aphrodite of Knidos is an iconic 4th-century BCE marble statue by Praxiteles, celebrated as one of the first major representations of the nude female form in classical Greek art.
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C.
Charioteer of Delphi
The Charioteer of Delphi is a renowned ancient Greek bronze statue from around 470 BCE, celebrated for its realistic detail and serene expression, and considered a masterpiece of early Classical sculpture.
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D.
Venus de Milo
Venus de Milo is an ancient Greek marble statue, famed for its missing arms and idealized depiction of the goddess Aphrodite, and is one of the most celebrated masterpieces of classical sculpture.
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E.
Kritios and Nesiotes
Kritios and Nesiotes were early Classical Athenian sculptors renowned for creating influential bronze statues that marked a transition toward more naturalistic representation in Greek art.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Classical Greek statue
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Roman marble copy of Greek bronze original ⓘ ancient Greek sculpture ⓘ marble sculpture ⓘ |
| approximateDate | c. 440 BCE ⓘ |
| artHistoricalSignificance |
key work for defining Classical Greek sculpture
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paradigm of Polykleitan style ⓘ |
| artMovement | Classical Greek art NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Polykleitos’ treatise the Canon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bodyType | muscular but idealized physique ⓘ |
| copyMaterial | marble ⓘ |
| creator | Polykleitos NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| culturalContext |
Greek athletic culture
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Greek gymnasium and training ideals ⓘ |
| depicts |
idealized male athlete
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spear-bearer ⓘ |
| exemplifies |
Classical Greek ideal of beauty
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Polykleitan canon of proportions NERFINISHED ⓘ idealized human proportions ⓘ |
| function |
demonstration of ideal human proportions
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model for other sculptors ⓘ |
| gaze | calm and detached expression ⓘ |
| genre | Greek athletic sculpture ⓘ |
| hasLostOriginal | true ⓘ |
| hasNoInscription | true ⓘ |
| hasStyle | contrapposto ⓘ |
| headTurn | slight turn to the right ⓘ |
| iconographicAttribute | spear once held in left hand ⓘ |
| influenceOn |
Renaissance art theory
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Roman sculpture ⓘ later Greek sculpture ⓘ |
| knownThrough | Roman copies ⓘ |
| notableCopyLocation |
Minneapolis Institute of Art
NERFINISHED
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Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguageName | Greek ⓘ |
| originalLocation | ancient Greece NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalMaterial | bronze ⓘ |
| period | High Classical period of ancient Greece ⓘ |
| poseCharacteristic |
balanced tension between limbs and torso
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relaxed left leg ⓘ weight on right leg ⓘ |
| scholarlyTopic |
canon of proportions in ancient art
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development of contrapposto ⓘ |
| subjectType | nude male figure ⓘ |
| titleInGreek | Δορυφόρος NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| titleMeaning | spear-bearer ⓘ |
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: Doryphoros Description of subject: Doryphoros is a famous Classical Greek sculpture of a spear-bearing athlete that exemplifies Polykleitos’ idealized canon of human proportions and contrapposto stance.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.