The Gleaners
E125665
The Gleaners is an 1857 realist painting by Jean-François Millet that poignantly depicts three peasant women gleaning leftover grain in a field, symbolizing rural poverty and social inequality in 19th-century France.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Des glaneuses | 1 |
| The Gleaners canonical | 1 |
| gleaners | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1092609 — 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 Gleaners Context triple: [Jean-François Millet, notableWork, The Gleaners]
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A.
La Moisson
La Moisson is a painting by French Post-Impressionist artist Émile Bernard, exemplifying his early synthetist style and interest in rural, agrarian themes.
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B.
The Stone Breakers
The Stone Breakers is a pioneering 1849 realist painting by Gustave Courbet that starkly depicts manual laborers breaking stones, challenging romanticized portrayals of rural life.
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C.
The Potato Eaters
The Potato Eaters is a dark-toned 1885 oil painting by Vincent van Gogh depicting a peasant family sharing a humble meal, often regarded as one of his first major works.
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D.
L’Œuvre
L’Œuvre is a naturalist novel by Émile Zola that portrays the struggles of an ambitious painter in Paris whose obsessive pursuit of artistic perfection leads to personal and professional ruin.
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E.
Babette
Babette is a feminine given name, commonly used as a diminutive or variant of the name Barbara.
- 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 Gleaners Target entity description: The Gleaners is an 1857 realist painting by Jean-François Millet that poignantly depicts three peasant women gleaning leftover grain in a field, symbolizing rural poverty and social inequality in 19th-century France.
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A.
La Moisson
La Moisson is a painting by French Post-Impressionist artist Émile Bernard, exemplifying his early synthetist style and interest in rural, agrarian themes.
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B.
The Stone Breakers
The Stone Breakers is a pioneering 1849 realist painting by Gustave Courbet that starkly depicts manual laborers breaking stones, challenging romanticized portrayals of rural life.
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C.
The Potato Eaters
The Potato Eaters is a dark-toned 1885 oil painting by Vincent van Gogh depicting a peasant family sharing a humble meal, often regarded as one of his first major works.
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D.
L’Œuvre
L’Œuvre is a naturalist novel by Émile Zola that portrays the struggles of an ambitious painter in Paris whose obsessive pursuit of artistic perfection leads to personal and professional ruin.
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E.
Babette
Babette is a feminine given name, commonly used as a diminutive or variant of the name Barbara.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
oil painting
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painting ⓘ |
| colorPalette | earth tones ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| creator | Jean-François Millet ⓘ |
| depicts |
agricultural labor
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farm workers in the distance ⓘ gleaning ⓘ haystacks in the background ⓘ rural poverty ⓘ social inequality ⓘ three peasant women ⓘ wheat field ⓘ |
| describedBySource |
Musée d'Orsay catalog
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art history textbooks ⓘ |
| exhibitedAt | Salon of 1857 ⓘ |
| genre | genre painting ⓘ |
| hasInfluenced | later social realist artists ⓘ |
| hasPart |
bent female figure in foreground
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three figures forming a visual rhythm ⓘ |
| inception | 1857 ⓘ |
| influencedBy | rural life in 19th-century France ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | French ⓘ |
| locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity |
France
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Paris ⓘ |
| location | Musée d'Orsay ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
The Gleaners
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
gleaners
peasantry ⓘ |
| materialUsed | oil paint ⓘ |
| movement | Realism ⓘ |
| notableWorkOf | Jean-François Millet ⓘ |
| originalTitle |
The Gleaners
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Des glaneuses
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| partOf | French Realist painting tradition ⓘ |
| setInLocation | French countryside ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| significantEvent | initially criticized by upper-class viewers for its social message ⓘ |
| support | canvas ⓘ |
| theme |
class disparity
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dignity of labor ⓘ poverty ⓘ rural life ⓘ |
| timeOfDayDepicted | late afternoon ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Gleaners Description of subject: The Gleaners is an 1857 realist painting by Jean-François Millet that poignantly depicts three peasant women gleaning leftover grain in a field, symbolizing rural poverty and social inequality in 19th-century France.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Des glaneuses
this entity surface form:
gleaners