Realism
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Realism is a literary and artistic movement that focuses on depicting everyday life and ordinary people with truthful, unembellished detail.
All labels observed (24)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Realism canonical | 390 |
| American realism | 119 |
| American Realism | 61 |
| Russian realism | 14 |
| Naturalism | 4 |
| realism | 4 |
| American literary realism | 3 |
| French Realism | 3 |
| Georgian realism | 3 |
| Verism | 2 |
| verismo | 2 |
| American realist writers | 1 |
| American theatrical realism | 1 |
| British realism | 1 |
| Egyptian realism | 1 |
| English realism | 1 |
| German realism | 1 |
| Neorealism | 1 |
| Norwegian realism | 1 |
| Realism (art movement) | 1 |
| Realism (literature) | 1 |
| Realist painters | 1 |
| Realists | 1 |
| Victorian realism | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T29398 — 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: Realism Context triple: [Mark Twain, movement, Realism]
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A.
American Romantic nationalism
American Romantic nationalism was a 19th-century cultural and artistic movement in the United States that celebrated the nation’s revolutionary past, heroic leaders, and unique landscape to foster a distinct American identity.
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B.
International Style
International Style is a modernist architectural movement characterized by functional design, minimal ornamentation, and the use of glass, steel, and concrete in simple geometric forms.
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C.
Beaux-Arts
Beaux-Arts is a grand, highly ornamented architectural style rooted in classical Greek and Roman forms, popularized in the late 19th and early 20th centuries through the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
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D.
Gilded Age
The Gilded Age was a late 19th-century period in the United States marked by rapid industrialization, vast wealth accumulation, stark social inequality, and influential business magnates like Andrew Carnegie.
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Art Deco
Art Deco is a decorative visual arts and architectural style from the early 20th century characterized by bold geometric forms, rich colors, and lavish ornamentation that symbolized modernity and luxury.
- 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: Realism Target entity description: Realism is a literary and artistic movement that focuses on depicting everyday life and ordinary people with truthful, unembellished detail.
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A.
American Romantic nationalism
American Romantic nationalism was a 19th-century cultural and artistic movement in the United States that celebrated the nation’s revolutionary past, heroic leaders, and unique landscape to foster a distinct American identity.
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B.
International Style
International Style is a modernist architectural movement characterized by functional design, minimal ornamentation, and the use of glass, steel, and concrete in simple geometric forms.
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C.
Beaux-Arts
Beaux-Arts is a grand, highly ornamented architectural style rooted in classical Greek and Roman forms, popularized in the late 19th and early 20th centuries through the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
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D.
Gilded Age
The Gilded Age was a late 19th-century period in the United States marked by rapid industrialization, vast wealth accumulation, stark social inequality, and influential business magnates like Andrew Carnegie.
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E.
Art Deco
Art Deco is a decorative visual arts and architectural style from the early 20th century characterized by bold geometric forms, rich colors, and lavish ornamentation that symbolized modernity and luxury.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
aesthetic concept
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art movement ⓘ literary movement ⓘ |
| aim |
to critique social structures through depiction of everyday life
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to represent life as it is perceived ⓘ |
| artForm |
literature
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opera ⓘ painting ⓘ photography ⓘ sculpture ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| emergedAfter | Romanticism ⓘ |
| emphasizes |
truthful representation
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unembellished detail ⓘ |
| influenced |
20th-century narrative fiction
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Modernism ⓘ documentary photography ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Industrial Revolution
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scientific positivism ⓘ social change in 19th-century Europe ⓘ |
| mainFocus |
depiction of everyday life
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ordinary people ⓘ |
| notableProponent |
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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George Eliot ⓘ Gustave Courbet ⓘ Honoré de Balzac ⓘ Leo Tolstoy ⓘ William Dean Howells ⓘ Émile Zola ⓘ |
| opposes | Romanticism ⓘ |
| originatedIn | France ⓘ |
| philosophicalAspect |
focus on observable reality
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interest in social conditions ⓘ |
| rejects |
heroic subject matter as a norm
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idealization ⓘ sentimentalism ⓘ |
| relatedMovement |
Critical realism
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Realism self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Naturalism
Social realism ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
contemporary life
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middle class ⓘ social problems ⓘ working class ⓘ |
| technique |
accurate perspective and anatomy in painting
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colloquial language in literature ⓘ detailed description ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| value |
objectivity
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plausible causality in narrative ⓘ verisimilitude ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Realism Description of subject: Realism is a literary and artistic movement that focuses on depicting everyday life and ordinary people with truthful, unembellished detail.
Referenced by (618)
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