The Tub
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The Tub is an 1886 pastel and mixed-media artwork by Edgar Degas depicting a woman bathing, celebrated for its unusual overhead perspective and intimate, everyday subject.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Tub canonical | 2 |
| Le Tub | 1 |
| Woman in Tub | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T486845 — 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 Tub Context triple: [Edgar Degas, notableWork, The Tub]
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A.
The Ponds
"The Ponds" is a chapter in Henry David Thoreau's "Walden" in which he reflects on the beauty, symbolism, and philosophical significance of the ponds near his cabin, especially Walden Pond itself.
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B.
The Pond
The Pond is a picturesque man-made lake in the southeast corner of New York City's Central Park, known for its tranquil scenery, wildlife, and views of the surrounding skyline.
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C.
Lightwater
Lightwater is a village and civil parish in the English county of Surrey, known for its residential character and proximity to heathland and countryside.
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D.
The Stump
The Stump is the popular nickname for the towering parish church of St Botolph in Boston, Lincolnshire, renowned for its massive, landmark tower visible for miles across the flat surrounding landscape.
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E.
The Ball
The Ball is the popular nickname for Reunion Tower, a distinctive geodesic observation tower and Dallas landmark known for its glowing spherical top.
- 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 Tub Target entity description: The Tub is an 1886 pastel and mixed-media artwork by Edgar Degas depicting a woman bathing, celebrated for its unusual overhead perspective and intimate, everyday subject.
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A.
The Ponds
"The Ponds" is a chapter in Henry David Thoreau's "Walden" in which he reflects on the beauty, symbolism, and philosophical significance of the ponds near his cabin, especially Walden Pond itself.
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B.
The Pond
The Pond is a picturesque man-made lake in the southeast corner of New York City's Central Park, known for its tranquil scenery, wildlife, and views of the surrounding skyline.
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C.
Lightwater
Lightwater is a village and civil parish in the English county of Surrey, known for its residential character and proximity to heathland and countryside.
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D.
The Stump
The Stump is the popular nickname for the towering parish church of St Botolph in Boston, Lincolnshire, renowned for its massive, landmark tower visible for miles across the flat surrounding landscape.
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E.
The Ball
The Ball is the popular nickname for Reunion Tower, a distinctive geodesic observation tower and Dallas landmark known for its glowing spherical top.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
mixed-media artwork
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pastel artwork ⓘ |
| artHistoricalSignificance |
important example of modern depictions of private life
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key work in Degas’s late pastels ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Edgar Degas’s exploration of female nudes
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late 19th-century French art ⓘ |
| collection |
Musée d'Orsay
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surface form:
Musée d’Orsay
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| colorPalette |
muted tones
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warm hues ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| creator | Edgar Degas ⓘ |
| creatorNationality | French ⓘ |
| depicts |
bathtub
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everyday domestic life ⓘ interior scene ⓘ toilet articles ⓘ woman bathing ⓘ |
| genre |
bathing scene
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genre painting ⓘ |
| hasArtForm |
drawing
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pastel drawing ⓘ |
| inception | 1886 ⓘ |
| languageOfTitle | French ⓘ |
| location | Paris ⓘ |
| materialUsed |
mixed media
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paper ⓘ pastel ⓘ |
| movement | Impressionism ⓘ |
| notableFor |
focus on everyday subject matter
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intimate treatment of subject ⓘ unusual overhead perspective ⓘ |
| originalTitle |
The Tub
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Le Tub
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| partOfSeries |
Degas ballet paintings
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surface form:
Degas’s series of women at their toilette
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| perspective |
high viewpoint
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overhead view ⓘ |
| subjectGender | female ⓘ |
| technique |
mixed media
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pastel on paper ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| yearCompleted | 1886 ⓘ |
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 Tub Description of subject: The Tub is an 1886 pastel and mixed-media artwork by Edgar Degas depicting a woman bathing, celebrated for its unusual overhead perspective and intimate, everyday subject.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Le Tub
this entity surface form:
Woman in Tub