Ema (Nude on a Staircase)
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Ema (Nude on a Staircase) is a 1966 photorealistic oil painting by Gerhard Richter depicting a nude woman descending a staircase, often seen as a modern dialogue with Marcel Duchamp’s iconic work on the same theme.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ema (Nude on a Staircase) canonical | 2 |
| Ema (Akt auf einer Treppe) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2060315 — 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: Ema (Nude on a Staircase) Context triple: [Gerhard Richter, notableWork, Ema (Nude on a Staircase)]
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A.
Blue Nude
Blue Nude is a famous early 20th-century painting by Henri Matisse that exemplifies his bold use of color and simplified forms within the Fauvist movement.
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B.
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon is a groundbreaking 1907 painting by Pablo Picasso that helped launch Cubism and radically transformed the course of modern art.
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C.
La Maja Desnuda
La Maja Desnuda is a famous late-18th-century oil painting by Francisco Goya depicting a reclining nude woman, notable for its sensual realism and for challenging the artistic and moral conventions of its time.
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D.
Autoportrait au chapeau de paille
Autoportrait au chapeau de paille is a self-portrait painting by Vincent van Gogh depicting himself wearing a straw hat.
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E.
The Painter and His Model
The Painter and His Model is a painting by Pablo Picasso that exemplifies his late-career exploration of the artist–muse relationship and is housed in Madrid’s Museo Reina Sofía.
- 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: Ema (Nude on a Staircase) Target entity description: Ema (Nude on a Staircase) is a 1966 photorealistic oil painting by Gerhard Richter depicting a nude woman descending a staircase, often seen as a modern dialogue with Marcel Duchamp’s iconic work on the same theme.
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A.
Blue Nude
Blue Nude is a famous early 20th-century painting by Henri Matisse that exemplifies his bold use of color and simplified forms within the Fauvist movement.
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B.
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon is a groundbreaking 1907 painting by Pablo Picasso that helped launch Cubism and radically transformed the course of modern art.
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C.
La Maja Desnuda
La Maja Desnuda is a famous late-18th-century oil painting by Francisco Goya depicting a reclining nude woman, notable for its sensual realism and for challenging the artistic and moral conventions of its time.
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D.
Autoportrait au chapeau de paille
Autoportrait au chapeau de paille is a self-portrait painting by Vincent van Gogh depicting himself wearing a straw hat.
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E.
The Painter and His Model
The Painter and His Model is a painting by Pablo Picasso that exemplifies his late-career exploration of the artist–muse relationship and is housed in Madrid’s Museo Reina Sofía.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
oil painting
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painting ⓘ photorealistic painting ⓘ |
| artForm | painting ⓘ |
| basedOn | photograph ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Germany ⓘ |
| creator | Gerhard Richter ⓘ |
| depicts |
nude woman
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woman descending a staircase ⓘ |
| describedAs | modern dialogue with Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase ⓘ |
| genre |
figurative art
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nude art ⓘ |
| hasPart | staircase ⓘ |
| inception | 1966 ⓘ |
| inspiredBy |
Marcel Duchamp
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Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 ⓘ |
| languageOfTitle | German ⓘ |
| mainSubject | Ema Richter ⓘ |
| movement | Photorealism ⓘ |
| notableWorkOf | Gerhard Richter ⓘ |
| partOf | Gerhard Richter’s early photorealistic works ⓘ |
| style |
photorealism
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realism ⓘ |
| subjectGender | female ⓘ |
| technique | oil on canvas ⓘ |
| theme |
body
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movement ⓘ perception of the nude in modern art ⓘ |
| title |
Ema (Nude on a Staircase)
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Ema (Akt auf einer Treppe)
Ema (Nude on a Staircase) self-link ⓘ |
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: Ema (Nude on a Staircase) Description of subject: Ema (Nude on a Staircase) is a 1966 photorealistic oil painting by Gerhard Richter depicting a nude woman descending a staircase, often seen as a modern dialogue with Marcel Duchamp’s iconic work on the same theme.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Ema (Akt auf einer Treppe)