The Voyage of Life
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The Voyage of Life is a famous series of four allegorical landscape paintings by Thomas Cole that depict the stages of human life from childhood to old age.
All labels observed (8)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T889750 — 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 Voyage of Life Context triple: [Thomas Cole, notableWork, The Voyage of Life]
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The Voyage of Life: Manhood
"The Voyage of Life: Manhood" is a mid-19th-century allegorical painting by Thomas Cole depicting the challenges and moral trials of adult life as part of his four-part series on the human journey from birth to eternity.
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The Voyage of Life: Old Age
"The Voyage of Life: Old Age" is the final painting in Thomas Cole’s allegorical series depicting a man’s spiritual journey through the stages of life, here portraying the twilight of life and the approach to eternity.
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The Joy of Life
The Joy of Life is a landmark Fauvist painting by Henri Matisse, celebrated for its vivid colors, fluid forms, and idyllic depiction of nude figures in a pastoral landscape.
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The Life
"The Life" is a song by Alicia Keys from her debut studio album "Songs in A Minor."
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Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
"Where I Lived, and What I Lived For" is a famous early chapter of Henry David Thoreau’s *Walden* in which he reflects on simple living, self-reliance, and the search for a more deliberate, meaningful life.
- 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 Voyage of Life Target entity description: The Voyage of Life is a famous series of four allegorical landscape paintings by Thomas Cole that depict the stages of human life from childhood to old age.
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A.
The Voyage of Life: Manhood
"The Voyage of Life: Manhood" is a mid-19th-century allegorical painting by Thomas Cole depicting the challenges and moral trials of adult life as part of his four-part series on the human journey from birth to eternity.
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B.
The Voyage of Life: Old Age
"The Voyage of Life: Old Age" is the final painting in Thomas Cole’s allegorical series depicting a man’s spiritual journey through the stages of life, here portraying the twilight of life and the approach to eternity.
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C.
The Joy of Life
The Joy of Life is a landmark Fauvist painting by Henri Matisse, celebrated for its vivid colors, fluid forms, and idyllic depiction of nude figures in a pastoral landscape.
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D.
The Life
"The Life" is a song by Alicia Keys from her debut studio album "Songs in A Minor."
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E.
Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
"Where I Lived, and What I Lived For" is a famous early chapter of Henry David Thoreau’s *Walden* in which he reflects on simple living, self-reliance, and the search for a more deliberate, meaningful life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
allegorical painting series
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painting series ⓘ |
| artHistoricalSignificance | key work of the Hudson River School ⓘ |
| commissionedBy | Samuel Ward ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| creator | Thomas Cole ⓘ |
| depicts |
Christian allegory of life
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adulthood ⓘ childhood ⓘ journey of the human soul ⓘ old age ⓘ relationship between humanity and the divine ⓘ stages of human life ⓘ youth ⓘ |
| features | guardian angel ⓘ |
| genre |
allegorical art
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landscape painting ⓘ |
| hasPart |
The Voyage of Life
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Childhood (The Voyage of Life)
The Voyage of Life: Manhood ⓘ
surface form:
Manhood (The Voyage of Life)
The Voyage of Life: Old Age ⓘ
surface form:
Old Age (The Voyage of Life)
The Voyage of Life self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Youth (The Voyage of Life)
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| hasTheme |
moral choice
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mortality ⓘ passage of time ⓘ spiritual journey ⓘ |
| hasVersion |
The Voyage of Life
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
The Voyage of Life (first set)
The Voyage of Life self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
The Voyage of Life (second set)
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| inception |
1840
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early 1840s ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Christian theology
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Romanticism ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | none (visual art) ⓘ |
| locationDepicted |
idealized natural landscapes
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river symbolizing the course of life ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | traveler in a boat ⓘ |
| movement | Hudson River School ⓘ |
| notableWorkOf | Thomas Cole ⓘ |
| numberOfWorks | 4 ⓘ |
| originallyExhibitedAt | New York ⓘ |
| partOf | American art history ⓘ |
| significantPlace | National Gallery of Art ⓘ |
| subjectHasRole | moral instruction about life’s stages ⓘ |
| usesSymbolism |
boat as human life
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landscape as spiritual condition ⓘ light and darkness as hope and peril ⓘ river as time ⓘ |
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Subject: The Voyage of Life Description of subject: The Voyage of Life is a famous series of four allegorical landscape paintings by Thomas Cole that depict the stages of human life from childhood to old age.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Voyage of Life: Youth
this entity surface form:
The Voyage of Life: Childhood
this entity surface form:
The Voyage of Life: Youth
this entity surface form:
Childhood (The Voyage of Life)
this entity surface form:
Youth (The Voyage of Life)
this entity surface form:
The Voyage of Life (first set)
this entity surface form:
The Voyage of Life (second set)
this entity surface form:
The Voyage of Life: Childhood
this entity surface form:
The Voyage of Life: Youth
this entity surface form:
The Voyage of Life: Childhood
this entity surface form:
The Voyage of Life: Youth
this entity surface form:
The Voyage of Life series