The Starry Night
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The Starry Night is Vincent van Gogh’s iconic 1889 post‑impressionist painting depicting a swirling night sky over a quiet village, widely regarded as one of the most famous artworks in Western art.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Starry Night canonical | 13 |
| Starry Night | 2 |
| De sterrennacht | 1 |
| The Night Café | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T37970 — 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 Starry Night Context triple: [Museum of Modern Art, notableWorkInCollection, The Starry Night]
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A.
Blue Room
The Blue Room is an oval-shaped ceremonial reception room on the first floor of the White House, traditionally decorated in blue and used for formal gatherings and receiving guests.
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B.
Sunset Boulevard
Sunset Boulevard is a famous Los Angeles thoroughfare known for its historic connection to the film industry, nightlife, and iconic cultural landmarks.
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C.
Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat by Vincent van Gogh
"Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat" is a late-19th-century self-portrait by Vincent van Gogh, notable for its expressive brushwork, vivid color contrasts, and insight into the artist’s psychological state.
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D.
Green Light
"Green Light" is an upbeat, dance-pop and R&B single by John Legend featuring André 3000, known for its energetic tempo and departure from Legend’s usual soulful ballad style.
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E.
Shirley
Shirley is a small town in north-central Massachusetts served by commuter rail on the MBTA Fitchburg Line.
- 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 Starry Night Target entity description: The Starry Night is Vincent van Gogh’s iconic 1889 post‑impressionist painting depicting a swirling night sky over a quiet village, widely regarded as one of the most famous artworks in Western art.
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A.
City of Light
City of Light is a famous nickname for Paris, highlighting its historic role as a center of art, culture, and enlightenment.
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B.
Blue Room
The Blue Room is an oval-shaped ceremonial reception room on the first floor of the White House, traditionally decorated in blue and used for formal gatherings and receiving guests.
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C.
Sunset Boulevard
Sunset Boulevard is a famous Los Angeles thoroughfare known for its historic connection to the film industry, nightlife, and iconic cultural landmarks.
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D.
Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat by Vincent van Gogh
"Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat" is a late-19th-century self-portrait by Vincent van Gogh, notable for its expressive brushwork, vivid color contrasts, and insight into the artist’s psychological state.
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E.
Green Light
"Green Light" is an upbeat, dance-pop and R&B single by John Legend featuring André 3000, known for its energetic tempo and departure from Legend’s usual soulful ballad style.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Post-Impressionist painting
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painting ⓘ work of art ⓘ |
| accessionNumber | 472.1941 ⓘ |
| artHistoricalPeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| artist | Vincent van Gogh ⓘ |
| artStyle | Post-Impressionism ⓘ |
| cataloguedIn | van Gogh oeuvre catalogues ⓘ |
| collection | Museum of Modern Art collection ⓘ |
| colorPalette | dominant blues and yellows ⓘ |
| completionDate | 1889 ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| createdIn |
France
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Saint-Rémy-de-Provence ⓘ |
| creationContext | Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum ⓘ |
| creator | Vincent van Gogh ⓘ |
| creatorBirthName |
Vincent van Gogh
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surface form:
Vincent Willem van Gogh
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| creatorNationality | Dutch ⓘ |
| depicts |
crescent moon
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cypress tree ⓘ night sky ⓘ rolling hills ⓘ swirling stars ⓘ village ⓘ |
| famousFor |
expressive swirling sky
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iconic status in Western art ⓘ |
| genre | landscape painting ⓘ |
| height | 73.7 cm ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Japanese prints
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Impressionism ⓘ
surface form:
impressionism
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| languageOfTitle | English ⓘ |
| location | New York City ⓘ |
| material | oil on canvas ⓘ |
| medium | oil paint ⓘ |
| movement | Post-Impressionism ⓘ |
| museum | Museum of Modern Art ⓘ |
| notableWorkOf | Vincent van Gogh ⓘ |
| originalTitle |
The Starry Night
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
De sterrennacht
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| originalTitleLanguage | Dutch ⓘ |
| owner | Museum of Modern Art ⓘ |
| partOf | Western canon of art ⓘ |
| rankedAmong | most famous paintings in the world ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
imagined village
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night landscape ⓘ |
| support | canvas ⓘ |
| title | The Starry Night self-link ⓘ |
| width | 92.1 cm ⓘ |
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 Starry Night Description of subject: The Starry Night is Vincent van Gogh’s iconic 1889 post‑impressionist painting depicting a swirling night sky over a quiet village, widely regarded as one of the most famous artworks in Western art.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Starry Night
this entity surface form:
The Night Café
this entity surface form:
De sterrennacht
subject surface form:
Vincent van Gogh
this entity surface form:
Starry Night
subject surface form:
Saint-Paul-de-Mausole