The Slave Ship
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The Slave Ship is a powerful 1840 Romantic-era painting by J. M. W. Turner that depicts a slave ship sailing into a storm as enslaved people are thrown overboard, serving as a searing indictment of the transatlantic slave trade.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Slave Ship canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T785943 — 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 Slave Ship Context triple: [J. M. W. Turner, notableWork, The Slave Ship]
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A.
The Ship
The Ship is an informal nickname for the TARDIS, the Doctor’s time-traveling spacecraft and time machine in the long-running British science fiction series Doctor Who.
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B.
The Slave
The Slave is a novel by Nobel Prize–winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer that explores themes of faith, love, and spiritual resilience in 17th-century Poland through the story of a Jewish man enslaved after a massacre.
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C.
The Wreck of the Hesperus
The Wreck of the Hesperus is a narrative poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that tells the tragic story of a shipwreck caused by a captain’s pride and a violent storm.
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D.
The American Claimant
The American Claimant is an 1892 comic novel by Mark Twain that satirizes American aristocratic pretensions and social class through a farcical tale of mistaken identity and inheritance.
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E.
Phantom Ship
Phantom Ship is a small, jagged island in Oregon’s Crater Lake that resembles a ghostly sailing ship and is one of the lake’s most iconic natural rock formations.
- 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 Slave Ship Target entity description: The Slave Ship is a powerful 1840 Romantic-era painting by J. M. W. Turner that depicts a slave ship sailing into a storm as enslaved people are thrown overboard, serving as a searing indictment of the transatlantic slave trade.
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A.
The Ship
The Ship is an informal nickname for the TARDIS, the Doctor’s time-traveling spacecraft and time machine in the long-running British science fiction series Doctor Who.
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B.
The Slave
The Slave is a novel by Nobel Prize–winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer that explores themes of faith, love, and spiritual resilience in 17th-century Poland through the story of a Jewish man enslaved after a massacre.
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C.
The Wreck of the Hesperus
The Wreck of the Hesperus is a narrative poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that tells the tragic story of a shipwreck caused by a captain’s pride and a violent storm.
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D.
The American Claimant
The American Claimant is an 1892 comic novel by Mark Twain that satirizes American aristocratic pretensions and social class through a farcical tale of mistaken identity and inheritance.
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E.
Phantom Ship
Phantom Ship is a small, jagged island in Oregon’s Crater Lake that resembles a ghostly sailing ship and is one of the lake’s most iconic natural rock formations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Romantic-era artwork
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painting ⓘ |
| alternativeTitle | Slavers Throwing overboard the Dead and Dying—Typhoon coming on ⓘ |
| artForm | oil on canvas ⓘ |
| artHistoricalSignificance |
key anti-slavery image in 19th-century art
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major example of Turner's late style ⓘ |
| artist | J. M. W. Turner ⓘ |
| artisticStyle |
dramatic light and color
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loose, expressive brushwork ⓘ |
| collection | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston ⓘ |
| colorPalette |
deep blues and blacks
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intense reds and oranges ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creator | J. M. W. Turner ⓘ |
| culturalContext | British abolitionist movement ⓘ |
| depictionType | allegorical representation of slavery ⓘ |
| depicts |
approaching typhoon
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enslaved people being thrown overboard ⓘ sea creatures attacking bodies ⓘ shackled limbs in the water ⓘ slave ship ⓘ stormy sea ⓘ sunset ⓘ |
| exhibitedAt |
Royal Academy of Arts
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surface form:
Royal Academy of Arts, London
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| firstExhibited | 1840 ⓘ |
| genre |
history painting
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marine painting ⓘ |
| hasPart |
distant ship silhouette
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figures of drowning enslaved people ⓘ turbulent waves ⓘ |
| inception | 1840 ⓘ |
| inspiredBy |
Zong massacre
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accounts of slave ship atrocities ⓘ |
| intendedAs | indictment of the slave trade ⓘ |
| languageOfTitle | English ⓘ |
| location | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
atrocities of slavery
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human suffering ⓘ moral condemnation of slavery ⓘ transatlantic slave trade ⓘ |
| materialUsed | oil paint ⓘ |
| movement | Romanticism ⓘ |
| notableWorkOf | J. M. W. Turner ⓘ |
| period | 19th century ⓘ |
| support | canvas ⓘ |
| theme |
human cruelty
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moral and spiritual judgment ⓘ nature’s power ⓘ sublime in nature ⓘ |
| title | The Slave Ship self-link ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Slave Ship Description of subject: The Slave Ship is a powerful 1840 Romantic-era painting by J. M. W. Turner that depicts a slave ship sailing into a storm as enslaved people are thrown overboard, serving as a searing indictment of the transatlantic slave trade.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Joseph Mallord William Turner