William-Adolphe Bouguereau
E293686
William-Adolphe Bouguereau was a 19th-century French academic painter renowned for his highly polished, realistic depictions of mythological, religious, and genre scenes.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| William-Adolphe Bouguereau canonical | 4 |
| Bouguereau | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2678992 — 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: William-Adolphe Bouguereau Context triple: [Paris Salon, notableArtistExhibited, William-Adolphe Bouguereau]
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A.
Léon Bonnat
Léon Bonnat was a prominent 19th-century French painter and influential teacher known for his realist portraits and for mentoring many leading artists of his time.
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B.
Pierre Cabanel de Sermet
Pierre Cabanel de Sermet was a French architect best known for designing Paris’s Gare de l’Est railway station.
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C.
Gustave Moreau
Gustave Moreau was a 19th-century French Symbolist painter renowned for his richly detailed, dreamlike depictions of mythological and biblical subjects.
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D.
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres was a 19th-century French Neoclassical painter renowned for his precise draftsmanship, idealized forms, and iconic portraits and odalisque paintings.
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E.
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes was a 19th-century French painter renowned for his large-scale, dreamlike murals and his influential role in the development of Symbolist art.
- 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: William-Adolphe Bouguereau Target entity description: William-Adolphe Bouguereau was a 19th-century French academic painter renowned for his highly polished, realistic depictions of mythological, religious, and genre scenes.
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A.
Léon Bonnat
Léon Bonnat was a prominent 19th-century French painter and influential teacher known for his realist portraits and for mentoring many leading artists of his time.
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B.
Pierre Cabanel de Sermet
Pierre Cabanel de Sermet was a French architect best known for designing Paris’s Gare de l’Est railway station.
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C.
Gustave Moreau
Gustave Moreau was a 19th-century French Symbolist painter renowned for his richly detailed, dreamlike depictions of mythological and biblical subjects.
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D.
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres was a 19th-century French Neoclassical painter renowned for his precise draftsmanship, idealized forms, and iconic portraits and odalisque paintings.
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E.
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes was a 19th-century French painter renowned for his large-scale, dreamlike murals and his influential role in the development of Symbolist art.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (64)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French artist
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academic painter ⓘ human ⓘ painter ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Prix de Rome ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
Montparnasse Cemetery
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surface form:
Montparnasse Cemetery, Paris
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| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1825-11-30 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1905-08-19 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
École des Beaux-Arts
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École des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux ⓘ
surface form:
École municipale de dessin et de peinture de Bordeaux
|
| ethnicGroup | French ⓘ |
| familyName |
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Bouguereau
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| fieldOfWork | painting ⓘ |
| fullName | William-Adolphe Bouguereau self-link ⓘ |
| genre |
genre painting
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mythological painting ⓘ portrait painting ⓘ religious painting ⓘ |
| givenName | William-Adolphe ⓘ |
| influenced |
contemporary academic painters
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late 19th-century salon art ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Alexandre Cabanel
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Neoclassicism ⓘ
surface form:
Neoclassical tradition
|
| knownFor |
highly polished realistic style
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idealized depictions of the human figure ⓘ mythological scenes ⓘ religious scenes ⓘ sentimental genre scenes ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | French ⓘ |
| memberOf |
French Académie des Beaux-Arts
ⓘ
surface form:
Académie des Beaux-Arts
|
| movement |
Academic art
ⓘ
Neoclassicism ⓘ Realism ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | French ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Charity
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Dante and Virgil ⓘ Nymphs and Satyr ⓘ Pietà ⓘ The Abduction of Psyche ⓘ The Birth of Venus ⓘ The Bohemian ⓘ The Broken Jug ⓘ
surface form:
The Broken Pitcher
The Elder Sister ⓘ The First Kiss ⓘ The Little Knitter ⓘ The Madonna of the Lilies ⓘ The Madonna of the Roses ⓘ The Nut Gatherers ⓘ The Abduction of Psyche ⓘ
surface form:
The Rapture of Psyche
The Young Shepherdess ⓘ
surface form:
The Shepherdess
The Song of the Angels ⓘ The Virgin with Angels ⓘ The Wave ⓘ The Young Shepherdess ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
La Rochelle
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surface form:
La Rochelle, France
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| placeOfDeath |
La Rochelle
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surface form:
La Rochelle, France
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| positionHeld | professor at Académie Julian ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse |
Elizabeth Jane Gardner
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Marie-Nelly Monchablon ⓘ |
| taught | female art students at Académie Julian ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Paris
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surface form:
Paris, France
Rome ⓘ
surface form:
Rome, Italy
|
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
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Input
Subject: William-Adolphe Bouguereau Description of subject: William-Adolphe Bouguereau was a 19th-century French academic painter renowned for his highly polished, realistic depictions of mythological, religious, and genre scenes.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Bouguereau