The Smiling Spider
E145712
The Smiling Spider is a famous Symbolist charcoal drawing by Odilon Redon depicting a fantastical, grinning arachnid that exemplifies his eerie, dreamlike imagery.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Smiling Spider canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1270373 — 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 Smiling Spider Context triple: [Odilon Redon, notableWork, The Smiling Spider]
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A.
The Squeaker
The Squeaker is a crime novel by Edgar Wallace centered on a mysterious underworld informant who betrays criminals to the police.
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B.
The Snail
The Snail is a late-career cut-out collage by Henri Matisse that arranges bold, colorful paper shapes into a semi-abstract spiral composition.
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C.
Tarantula
Tarantula is an experimental, stream-of-consciousness prose poetry book by Bob Dylan, reflecting his surreal and avant-garde literary style of the 1960s.
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D.
Daddy Long Legs
"Daddy Long Legs" is a 1955 musical film starring Fred Astaire as a wealthy American who becomes the secret benefactor of a French orphan, blending romance, dance, and song.
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E.
The Grouch
The Grouch is a song by the American punk rock band Green Day, featured on their 1997 album "Nimrod."
- 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 Smiling Spider Target entity description: The Smiling Spider is a famous Symbolist charcoal drawing by Odilon Redon depicting a fantastical, grinning arachnid that exemplifies his eerie, dreamlike imagery.
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A.
The Squeaker
The Squeaker is a crime novel by Edgar Wallace centered on a mysterious underworld informant who betrays criminals to the police.
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B.
The Snail
The Snail is a late-career cut-out collage by Henri Matisse that arranges bold, colorful paper shapes into a semi-abstract spiral composition.
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C.
Tarantula
Tarantula is an experimental, stream-of-consciousness prose poetry book by Bob Dylan, reflecting his surreal and avant-garde literary style of the 1960s.
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D.
Daddy Long Legs
"Daddy Long Legs" is a 1955 musical film starring Fred Astaire as a wealthy American who becomes the secret benefactor of a French orphan, blending romance, dance, and song.
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E.
The Grouch
The Grouch is a song by the American punk rock band Green Day, featured on their 1997 album "Nimrod."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Symbolist artwork
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artwork ⓘ drawing ⓘ |
| artForm | works on paper ⓘ |
| artHistoricalContext | late 19th century Symbolism ⓘ |
| artist | Odilon Redon ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Symbolist movement
ⓘ
linked to:
Symbolist movement in art
dream imagery ⓘ fantastic imagery ⓘ macabre themes ⓘ |
| colorMode | black and white ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| creator | Odilon Redon ⓘ |
| creatorNationality | French ⓘ |
| depicts |
fantastical creature
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grinning arachnid ⓘ spider ⓘ |
| genre | Symbolism ⓘ |
| hasArtisticGoal |
evoke inner visions and dreams
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suggest psychological states ⓘ |
| hasMood |
dreamlike
ⓘ
mysterious ⓘ uncanny ⓘ |
| hasSubjectMatter |
anthropomorphic spider
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surreal creature ⓘ |
| hasVisualStyle |
dreamlike
ⓘ
eerie ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Symbolist aesthetics ⓘ |
| isFamousFor |
contribution to Symbolist graphic art
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strange smiling spider figure ⓘ |
| languageOfTitle | English ⓘ |
| medium | charcoal ⓘ |
| movement | Symbolism ⓘ |
| notableFor |
eerie atmosphere
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fantastical representation of a spider ⓘ grinning facial expression of the spider ⓘ |
| originalTitleLanguage | French ⓘ |
| partOf | Odilon Redon’s series of fantastical creatures ⓘ |
| relatedWorkCreator | Odilon Redon ⓘ |
| technique | charcoal drawing ⓘ |
| workType | symbolic representation ⓘ |
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: The Smiling Spider Description of subject: The Smiling Spider is a famous Symbolist charcoal drawing by Odilon Redon depicting a fantastical, grinning arachnid that exemplifies his eerie, dreamlike imagery.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.