Mother with her Dead Son
E542575
Mother with her Dead Son is a poignant sculpture by Käthe Kollwitz that serves as the central war memorial in Berlin’s Neue Wache, commemorating victims of war and tyranny.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mother with her Dead Son canonical | 2 |
| The Grieving Parents | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5708646 — 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: Mother with her Dead Son Context triple: [Neue Wache, featuresWork, Mother with her Dead Son]
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A.
The Dead Mother
The Dead Mother is a painting by Edvard Munch that hauntingly depicts a child standing before her deceased mother, exploring themes of grief, loss, and psychological trauma.
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B.
The Mother
"The Mother" is a socialist realist novel by Polish writer Wanda Wasilewska that portrays working-class struggle and political awakening in pre-war Eastern Europe.
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C.
The Mother
The Mother, born Mirra Alfassa, was a spiritual collaborator of Sri Aurobindo and a central figure in Integral Yoga, revered as the spiritual head of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, India.
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D.
The Mother
"The Mother" is a politically charged play by Bertolt Brecht that follows a working-class woman’s radicalization into socialist activism amid early 20th-century labor struggles.
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E.
Death at a Funeral
Death at a Funeral is a 2007 British black comedy film centered on a dysfunctional family gathering for a chaotic and farcical funeral.
- 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: Mother with her Dead Son Target entity description: Mother with her Dead Son is a poignant sculpture by Käthe Kollwitz that serves as the central war memorial in Berlin’s Neue Wache, commemorating victims of war and tyranny.
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A.
The Dead Mother
The Dead Mother is a painting by Edvard Munch that hauntingly depicts a child standing before her deceased mother, exploring themes of grief, loss, and psychological trauma.
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B.
The Mother
"The Mother" is a socialist realist novel by Polish writer Wanda Wasilewska that portrays working-class struggle and political awakening in pre-war Eastern Europe.
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C.
The Mother
The Mother, born Mirra Alfassa, was a spiritual collaborator of Sri Aurobindo and a central figure in Integral Yoga, revered as the spiritual head of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, India.
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D.
The Mother
"The Mother" is a politically charged play by Bertolt Brecht that follows a working-class woman’s radicalization into socialist activism amid early 20th-century labor struggles.
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E.
Death at a Funeral
Death at a Funeral is a 2007 British black comedy film centered on a dysfunctional family gathering for a chaotic and farcical funeral.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | sculpture ⓘ |
| artisticMedium | sculpture in the round ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent |
commemoration ceremonies on 27 January (Holocaust Remembrance Day in Germany)
ⓘ
commemoration ceremonies on Volkstrauertag ⓘ |
| basedOn | personal grief of Käthe Kollwitz ⓘ |
| commemorates |
victims of tyranny
ⓘ
victims of war ⓘ |
| commissionedBy | Federal Republic of Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creator | Käthe Kollwitz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfInstallation | 1993 ⓘ |
| depicts |
dead son
ⓘ
mourning mother ⓘ |
| exposedTo | open oculus of Neue Wache ⓘ |
| function | central war memorial of Germany ⓘ |
| genre | memorial art ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfTitle | German ⓘ |
| hasStyle |
austere
ⓘ
reduced form ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
anti-war sentiment
ⓘ
loss ⓘ mourning ⓘ remembrance ⓘ |
| inBuilding | Neue Wache central hall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| location |
Berlin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Neue Wache NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| materialUsed | bronze ⓘ |
| movement | Expressionism ⓘ |
| orientation | center of the hall ⓘ |
| partOf | memorial site Neue Wache ⓘ |
| placedOn | stone pedestal ⓘ |
| replaces | eternal flame memorial previously in Neue Wache ⓘ |
| subjectGender |
female (mother)
ⓘ
male (son) ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
art historical studies
ⓘ
memorial culture debates in Germany ⓘ photographs ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
cost of war
ⓘ
suffering of civilians in war ⓘ universal grief of mothers ⓘ |
| titleInGerman |
Mutter mit ihrem toten Sohn
NERFINISHED
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Mutter mit totem Sohn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedAs | national memorial to the victims of war and dictatorship NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Mother with her Dead Son Description of subject: Mother with her Dead Son is a poignant sculpture by Käthe Kollwitz that serves as the central war memorial in Berlin’s Neue Wache, commemorating victims of war and tyranny.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Grieving Parents