The Tower of Babel
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The Tower of Babel is a famous 16th-century painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder depicting the biblical story of humanity’s attempt to build a tower to reach heaven, symbolizing human ambition and divine judgment.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tower of Babel | 7 |
| The Tower of Babel canonical | 2 |
| De Toren van Babel | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5684837 — 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 Tower of Babel Context triple: [Pieter Bruegel the Elder, notableWork, The Tower of Babel]
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Babel
Babel is a 2006 multi-narrative drama film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu that interweaves interconnected stories across several countries to explore themes of communication, misfortune, and cultural misunderstanding.
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Babel
Babel is a widely used JavaScript compiler that transforms modern ECMAScript code into backward-compatible versions for older environments and tooling.
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Babel
Babel is a notable work by Japanese dancer and choreographer Yuriko Kikuchi (also known as Yuriko), reflecting her influential contributions to modern dance.
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Atrahasis
Atrahasis is an ancient Mesopotamian Akkadian epic centered on a wise hero who survives a great flood sent by the gods, offering one of the earliest known flood narratives in world literature.
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Enuma Elish
Enuma Elish is an ancient Mesopotamian creation epic that recounts the rise of the god Marduk and the ordering of the cosmos from primordial chaos.
- 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 Tower of Babel Target entity description: The Tower of Babel is a famous 16th-century painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder depicting the biblical story of humanity’s attempt to build a tower to reach heaven, symbolizing human ambition and divine judgment.
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A.
Babel
Babel is a widely used JavaScript compiler that transforms modern ECMAScript code into backward-compatible versions for older environments and tooling.
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B.
Babel
Babel is a 2006 multi-narrative drama film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu that interweaves interconnected stories across several countries to explore themes of communication, misfortune, and cultural misunderstanding.
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C.
Babel
Babel is a notable work by Japanese dancer and choreographer Yuriko Kikuchi (also known as Yuriko), reflecting her influential contributions to modern dance.
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D.
Atrahasis
Atrahasis is an ancient Mesopotamian Akkadian epic centered on a wise hero who survives a great flood sent by the gods, offering one of the earliest known flood narratives in world literature.
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E.
Enuma Elish
Enuma Elish is an ancient Mesopotamian creation epic that recounts the rise of the god Marduk and the ordering of the cosmos from primordial chaos.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | painting ⓘ |
| artForm | oil painting ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Biblical story of the Tower of Babel in the Book of Genesis
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Genesis 11:1–9 ⓘ |
| collection | Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Austria ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Habsburg Netherlands NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creator | Pieter Bruegel the Elder NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creatorNationality | Flemish ⓘ |
| dateOfCreation | 1563 ⓘ |
| depicts |
King Nimrod
NERFINISHED
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Tower of Babel NERFINISHED ⓘ biblical story of the Tower of Babel ⓘ city at the base of the tower ⓘ construction workers ⓘ harbor landscape ⓘ humanity’s attempt to build a tower to reach heaven ⓘ scaffolding ⓘ stone masonry ⓘ unfinished tower ⓘ workers speaking different languages (symbolically) ⓘ |
| genre |
history painting
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religious painting ⓘ |
| hasPart |
cranes and hoists
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royal entourage near the base of the tower ⓘ ships in the harbor ⓘ tower resembling the Roman Colosseum ⓘ |
| hasVersion | The Little Tower of Babel (painting) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inception | 1563 ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Biblical exegesis of Genesis
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contemporary architecture of Rome ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | none (visual artwork) ⓘ |
| location | Kunsthistorisches Museum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
divine judgment
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human ambition ⓘ |
| movement | Northern Renaissance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWorkOf | Pieter Bruegel the Elder NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalTitle | De Toren van Babel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalTitleLanguage | Dutch ⓘ |
| painter | Pieter Bruegel the Elder NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Bruegel’s series of works on human folly ⓘ |
| surface | panel ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
confusion of languages
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divine punishment ⓘ fragility of human projects ⓘ human pride ⓘ overreaching ambition ⓘ |
| title | The Tower of Babel 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: The Tower of Babel Description of subject: The Tower of Babel is a famous 16th-century painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder depicting the biblical story of humanity’s attempt to build a tower to reach heaven, symbolizing human ambition and divine judgment.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Tower of Babel
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Tower of Babel
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The Tower of Babel (Bruegel painting, Vienna)
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Tower of Babel
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The Tower of Babel (Bruegel painting, Vienna)
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Tower of Babel
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The Tower of Babel (Bruegel painting, Vienna)
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De Toren van Babel
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The Tower of Babel (Bruegel painting, Vienna)
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Tower of Babel
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Tower of Babel
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Tower of Babel