The Child (plate)
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The Child (plate) is a specific woodcut from the "Dance of Death" series, depicting Death confronting or claiming a child as part of the allegorical cycle on mortality.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Child (plate) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10221881 — 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: The Child (plate) Context triple: [Dance of Death woodcuts, hasPart, The Child (plate)]
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A.
A Mother and Child with its Head in her Lap
"A Mother and Child with its Head in her Lap" is a domestic genre painting by Dutch Golden Age artist Pieter de Hooch, depicting an intimate, tender moment between a seated mother and her child in a carefully rendered interior setting.
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B.
Caroline Plate
The Caroline Plate is a small tectonic plate in the western Pacific Ocean, located north of New Guinea and interacting with several surrounding plates in a complex boundary zone.
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C.
Middle Park Plate
The Middle Park Plate is a historic British flat horse race for two-year-old thoroughbreds, traditionally run over six furlongs at Newmarket Racecourse.
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D.
The Virgin and Child
The Virgin and Child is a religious painting by German Renaissance artist Hans Baldung depicting the Madonna tenderly holding the infant Jesus.
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E.
Icarus (plate)
Icarus (plate) is a musical piece or movement featured within the jazz work "Jazz," likely serving as one of its distinct sections or compositions.
- 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 Child (plate) Target entity description: The Child (plate) is a specific woodcut from the "Dance of Death" series, depicting Death confronting or claiming a child as part of the allegorical cycle on mortality.
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A.
A Mother and Child with its Head in her Lap
"A Mother and Child with its Head in her Lap" is a domestic genre painting by Dutch Golden Age artist Pieter de Hooch, depicting an intimate, tender moment between a seated mother and her child in a carefully rendered interior setting.
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B.
Caroline Plate
The Caroline Plate is a small tectonic plate in the western Pacific Ocean, located north of New Guinea and interacting with several surrounding plates in a complex boundary zone.
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C.
Middle Park Plate
The Middle Park Plate is a historic British flat horse race for two-year-old thoroughbreds, traditionally run over six furlongs at Newmarket Racecourse.
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D.
The Virgin and Child
The Virgin and Child is a religious painting by German Renaissance artist Hans Baldung depicting the Madonna tenderly holding the infant Jesus.
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E.
Icarus (plate)
Icarus (plate) is a musical piece or movement featured within the jazz work "Jazz," likely serving as one of its distinct sections or compositions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
artwork
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woodcut print ⓘ |
| artForm | printmaking ⓘ |
| associatedConcept |
Danse Macabre
NERFINISHED
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late medieval attitudes toward death ⓘ |
| culturalContext | Christian Europe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| depicts |
Death confronting a child
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inevitability of death ⓘ mortality ⓘ |
| function |
didactic reminder of mortality
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moral instruction ⓘ |
| genre |
allegorical art
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memento mori ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Death
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
child ⓘ |
| movement | Northern Renaissance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | scene of a child claimed by Death ⓘ |
| partOf | Dance of Death NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| series | Dance of Death series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| seriesPosition | one scene among multiple social types in Dance of Death ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
death’s reach over all ages
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inevitability of death even for children ⓘ |
| technique | woodcut ⓘ |
| theme |
death of the innocent
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fragility of life ⓘ moral allegory ⓘ universality of death ⓘ |
| visualMotif |
confrontation between Death and the living
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personification of Death ⓘ small child ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Child (plate) Description of subject: The Child (plate) is a specific woodcut from the "Dance of Death" series, depicting Death confronting or claiming a child as part of the allegorical cycle on mortality.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.