The Slave Market
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The Slave Market is an 1866 Orientalist painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme depicting the inspection and sale of enslaved people in a Middle Eastern slave market.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Slave Market canonical | 2 |
| The Slave Market with the Disappearing Bust of Voltaire | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6304381 — 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 Slave Market Context triple: [Jean-Léon Gérôme, notableWork, The Slave Market]
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A.
Marche au supplice
Marche au supplice is the dramatic fourth movement of Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, depicting the protagonist’s opium-induced vision of his own march to the guillotine.
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B.
The Martyrs
The Martyrs is the nickname of Merthyr Town F.C., a Welsh football club based in Merthyr Tydfil known for its passionate local support and history in the English football pyramid.
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C.
La Guillotière
La Guillotière is a lively, historically working-class neighborhood in Lyon known for its cultural diversity, dense urban fabric, and central location on the left bank of the Rhône.
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D.
The Martyr
"The Martyr" is a short story by Japanese author Ryūnosuke Akutagawa that explores themes of faith, identity, and cultural conflict in a Christian context in feudal Japan.
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E.
The Dying Negro
The Dying Negro is an 18th-century abolitionist poem co-authored by Thomas Day that powerfully condemns the brutality of the transatlantic slave trade.
- 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 Slave Market Target entity description: The Slave Market is an 1866 Orientalist painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme depicting the inspection and sale of enslaved people in a Middle Eastern slave market.
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A.
Marche au supplice
Marche au supplice is the dramatic fourth movement of Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, depicting the protagonist’s opium-induced vision of his own march to the guillotine.
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B.
The Martyrs
The Martyrs is the nickname of Merthyr Town F.C., a Welsh football club based in Merthyr Tydfil known for its passionate local support and history in the English football pyramid.
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C.
La Guillotière
La Guillotière is a lively, historically working-class neighborhood in Lyon known for its cultural diversity, dense urban fabric, and central location on the left bank of the Rhône.
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D.
The Martyr
"The Martyr" is a short story by Japanese author Ryūnosuke Akutagawa that explores themes of faith, identity, and cultural conflict in a Christian context in feudal Japan.
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E.
The Dying Negro
The Dying Negro is an 18th-century abolitionist poem co-authored by Thomas Day that powerfully condemns the brutality of the transatlantic slave trade.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Orientalist painting
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painting ⓘ |
| artForm | oil painting ⓘ |
| colorPalette | earth tones ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| creator | Jean-Léon Gérôme NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| depicts |
Middle Eastern slave market
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crowd of male buyers ⓘ enslaved people ⓘ inspection of enslaved woman ⓘ male slave traders ⓘ nude female slave ⓘ public auction setting ⓘ slave market ⓘ |
| depictsEthnicGroup |
Middle Eastern men
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enslaved woman of European appearance ⓘ |
| depictsLocation | imagined Middle Eastern city ⓘ |
| genre | Orientalism ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeTitle | Le Marché aux esclaves NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBeenCriticizedFor |
eroticization of slavery
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objectification of women ⓘ racial and gender stereotypes ⓘ |
| hasBeenDiscussedIn |
art history scholarship on Orientalism
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postcolonial critiques of visual culture ⓘ |
| hasCreatorNationality | French ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalContext |
19th-century Orientalism in European art
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post-abolition European fascination with slavery ⓘ |
| hasInfluence | 19th-century European views of the Middle East ⓘ |
| hasPerspective | male gaze ⓘ |
| hasStyle | highly detailed realism ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
colonial imagination of the Orient
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commodification of the human body ⓘ power imbalance ⓘ racial hierarchy ⓘ sexual exploitation ⓘ violence against women ⓘ |
| hasTitleLanguage | French ⓘ |
| inception | 1866 ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | none ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Orientalist fantasy of the Middle East
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human trafficking ⓘ slavery ⓘ |
| medium | oil on canvas ⓘ |
| movement | Academic art ⓘ |
| partOf | Jean-Léon Gérôme’s Orientalist works ⓘ |
| setting | interior courtyard or market hall ⓘ |
| timePeriodDepicted | pre-modern Middle East ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Slave Market Description of subject: The Slave Market is an 1866 Orientalist painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme depicting the inspection and sale of enslaved people in a Middle Eastern slave market.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Slave Market with the Disappearing Bust of Voltaire