Looking Down Yosemite Valley
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Looking Down Yosemite Valley is a monumental 19th-century landscape painting by Albert Bierstadt that dramatically depicts California’s Yosemite Valley in the luminous, romantic style of the Hudson River School.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Looking Down Yosemite Valley canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2422626 — 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: Looking Down Yosemite Valley Context triple: [Albert Bierstadt, notableWork, Looking Down Yosemite Valley]
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A.
The Yosemite Guide-Book
The Yosemite Guide-Book is a 19th-century travel and geological guide to California’s Yosemite Valley and the surrounding Sierra Nevada, authored by geologist Josiah Whitney.
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B.
Gateway to Yosemite
Gateway to Yosemite is a nickname for the city of Merced, California, highlighting its role as a primary access point to Yosemite National Park.
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C.
Little Yosemite Valley
Little Yosemite Valley is a high-elevation glacial valley in Yosemite National Park, popular as a backcountry camping area and staging point for hikes to Half Dome and surrounding waterfalls.
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D.
Yosemite Valley
Yosemite Valley is a famous glacial valley in California’s Sierra Nevada, renowned for its towering granite cliffs, waterfalls, and central role as the scenic heart of Yosemite National Park.
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E.
Lower Yosemite Fall Trail
Lower Yosemite Fall Trail is a short, popular paved hiking path in Yosemite National Park that leads visitors through forested scenery to viewpoints at the base of the lower cascade of Yosemite Falls.
- 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: Looking Down Yosemite Valley Target entity description: Looking Down Yosemite Valley is a monumental 19th-century landscape painting by Albert Bierstadt that dramatically depicts California’s Yosemite Valley in the luminous, romantic style of the Hudson River School.
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A.
The Yosemite Guide-Book
The Yosemite Guide-Book is a 19th-century travel and geological guide to California’s Yosemite Valley and the surrounding Sierra Nevada, authored by geologist Josiah Whitney.
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B.
Gateway to Yosemite
Gateway to Yosemite is a nickname for the city of Merced, California, highlighting its role as a primary access point to Yosemite National Park.
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C.
Little Yosemite Valley
Little Yosemite Valley is a high-elevation glacial valley in Yosemite National Park, popular as a backcountry camping area and staging point for hikes to Half Dome and surrounding waterfalls.
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D.
Yosemite Valley
Yosemite Valley is a famous glacial valley in California’s Sierra Nevada, renowned for its towering granite cliffs, waterfalls, and central role as the scenic heart of Yosemite National Park.
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E.
Lower Yosemite Fall Trail
Lower Yosemite Fall Trail is a short, popular paved hiking path in Yosemite National Park that leads visitors through forested scenery to viewpoints at the base of the lower cascade of Yosemite Falls.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
landscape painting
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painting ⓘ |
| artForm | oil on canvas ⓘ |
| artHistoricalPeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| artisticTechnique |
atmospheric depth
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detailed naturalism ⓘ dramatic chiaroscuro ⓘ |
| collection | Birmingham Museum of Art ⓘ |
| colorPalette |
cool blue shadows
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warm golden light ⓘ |
| countryDepicted |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| creator | Albert Bierstadt ⓘ |
| depicts |
California, United States
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surface form:
California
Merced River ⓘ Yosemite Valley ⓘ atmospheric perspective ⓘ cloud-filled sky ⓘ dramatic light ⓘ granite cliffs ⓘ natural scenery ⓘ reflections in water ⓘ sunlit valley ⓘ towering cliffs ⓘ valley floor ⓘ wilderness ⓘ |
| describedAs |
luminous
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romantic ⓘ |
| genre | landscape art ⓘ |
| hasCreatorNationality | German-American ⓘ |
| hasPart |
distant mountains
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foreground trees ⓘ river bend ⓘ |
| inception | 1865 ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Hudson River School
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surface form:
Hudson River School aesthetics
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| languageOfTitle | English ⓘ |
| location | Birmingham Museum of Art ⓘ |
| mainSubject | Yosemite National Park ⓘ |
| materialUsed | oil paint ⓘ |
| movement |
Hudson River School
ⓘ
Romanticism ⓘ |
| notableWorkOf | Albert Bierstadt ⓘ |
| subjectHeading | American landscape painting ⓘ |
| surface | canvas ⓘ |
| title | Looking Down Yosemite Valley 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: Looking Down Yosemite Valley Description of subject: Looking Down Yosemite Valley is a monumental 19th-century landscape painting by Albert Bierstadt that dramatically depicts California’s Yosemite Valley in the luminous, romantic style of the Hudson River School.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Albert Bierstadt