Schadow
E538867
Schadow is a German surname most notably associated with Johann Gottfried Schadow, an influential neoclassical sculptor of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Schadow canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5667230 — 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: Schadow Context triple: [Johann Gottfried Schadow, familyName, Schadow]
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A.
Nick Shadow
Nick Shadow is the demonic tempter and antagonist in Igor Stravinsky’s opera *The Rake’s Progress*, who leads the protagonist Tom Rakewell to ruin.
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B.
Raynathan Skuggs
Raynathan Skuggs is the central protagonist of the crime drama film "Sugar Hill," around whom the story’s underworld conflicts and personal struggles revolve.
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C.
Mr. Dark
Mr. Dark is the sinister, enigmatic leader of a traveling carnival who preys on human desires and fears in Ray Bradbury’s dark fantasy novel "Something Wicked This Way Comes."
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D.
Shriever
Shriever is a surname, a variant spelling of "Shriver," borne by various individuals of English-speaking origin.
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E.
Mandark
Mandark is the villainous boy genius and rival scientist to Dexter in the animated television series "Dexter's Laboratory."
- 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: Schadow Target entity description: Schadow is a German surname most notably associated with Johann Gottfried Schadow, an influential neoclassical sculptor of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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A.
Nick Shadow
Nick Shadow is the demonic tempter and antagonist in Igor Stravinsky’s opera *The Rake’s Progress*, who leads the protagonist Tom Rakewell to ruin.
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B.
Raynathan Skuggs
Raynathan Skuggs is the central protagonist of the crime drama film "Sugar Hill," around whom the story’s underworld conflicts and personal struggles revolve.
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C.
Mr. Dark
Mr. Dark is the sinister, enigmatic leader of a traveling carnival who preys on human desires and fears in Ray Bradbury’s dark fantasy novel "Something Wicked This Way Comes."
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D.
Shriever
Shriever is a surname, a variant spelling of "Shriver," borne by various individuals of English-speaking origin.
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E.
Mandark
Mandark is the villainous boy genius and rival scientist to Dexter in the animated television series "Dexter's Laboratory."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
neoclassical artist
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painter ⓘ person ⓘ sculptor ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| associatedWithArtMovement | Neoclassicism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithCity | Berlin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithCountry | Prussia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithField | painting ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Prussia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth |
1764
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1786 ⓘ 1788 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath |
1822
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1850 ⓘ 1862 ⓘ |
| employer | Prussian Academy of Arts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Johann Gottfried Schadow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | sculpture ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow
NERFINISHED
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Johann Gottfried Schadow NERFINISHED ⓘ Rudolph Schadow NERFINISHED ⓘ Wilhelm von Schadow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasVariant | von Schadow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | German ⓘ |
| movement |
Düsseldorf school of painting
NERFINISHED
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Neoclassicism ⓘ |
| nationality | German ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Princesses Luise and Friederike of Prussia (Doppelstandbild)
NERFINISHED
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Quadriga of the Brandenburg Gate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
director of the Düsseldorf Academy
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director of the Prussian Academy of Arts sculpture workshop ⓘ |
| sameAs | Wilhelm von Schadow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation | Berlin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Schadow Description of subject: Schadow is a German surname most notably associated with Johann Gottfried Schadow, an influential neoclassical sculptor of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.