The Temptation of St. Anthony

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painting triptych

The Temptation of St. Anthony is a famous triptych painting depicting the torments and spiritual trials of Saint Anthony amid Bosch’s fantastical, nightmarish landscapes and grotesque creatures.

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All labels observed (5)

Label	Occurrences
The Temptation of St. Anthony canonical	3
Temptation of Saint Anthony	2
The Temptation of St. Anthony central panel	1
The Temptation of St. Anthony left panel	1
The Temptation of St. Anthony right panel	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6727173 — 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 Temptation of St. Anthony
Context triple: [Hieronymus Bosch, notableWork, The Temptation of St. Anthony]

A. The Temptation of St. Anthony
The Temptation of St. Anthony is a surrealist painting by Salvador Dalí depicting the saint besieged by fantastical, elongated creatures symbolizing spiritual and earthly temptations.
B. Red Faun
Red Faun is an ancient Roman statue of a reclining satyr, renowned for its vivid reddish marble and housed in Rome’s Capitoline Museums.
C. Viridiana
Viridiana is a 1961 Spanish-Mexican drama film directed by Luis Buñuel, renowned for its controversial critique of religion and bourgeois morality.
D. La Strada
La Strada is a 1954 Italian neorealist drama film directed by Federico Fellini that follows a naive young woman sold to a brutish strongman, exploring themes of loneliness, cruelty, and redemption.
E. Sebastiane
Sebastiane is a 1976 avant-garde film by Derek Jarman, notable for its Latin dialogue, homoerotic reinterpretation of the martyrdom of Saint Sebastian, and pioneering role in queer cinema.
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 Temptation of St. Anthony
Target entity description: The Temptation of St. Anthony is a famous triptych painting depicting the torments and spiritual trials of Saint Anthony amid Bosch’s fantastical, nightmarish landscapes and grotesque creatures.

A. The Temptation of St. Anthony
The Temptation of St. Anthony is a surrealist painting by Salvador Dalí depicting the saint besieged by fantastical, elongated creatures symbolizing spiritual and earthly temptations.
B. Red Faun
Red Faun is an ancient Roman statue of a reclining satyr, renowned for its vivid reddish marble and housed in Rome’s Capitoline Museums.
C. Viridiana
Viridiana is a 1961 Spanish-Mexican drama film directed by Luis Buñuel, renowned for its controversial critique of religion and bourgeois morality.
D. La Strada
La Strada is a 1954 Italian neorealist drama film directed by Federico Fellini that follows a naive young woman sold to a brutish strongman, exploring themes of loneliness, cruelty, and redemption.
E. Sebastiane
Sebastiane is a 1976 avant-garde film by Derek Jarman, notable for its Latin dialogue, homoerotic reinterpretation of the martyrdom of Saint Sebastian, and pioneering role in queer cinema.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	painting ⓘ triptych ⓘ
artist	Hieronymus Bosch ⓘ
collection	Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga collection ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	Netherlands ⓘ
creator	Hieronymus Bosch ⓘ
depicts	Saint Anthony the Great ⓘ linked to: Anthony the Great asceticism ⓘ demons ⓘ fantastical landscapes ⓘ flying creatures ⓘ grotesque creatures ⓘ hybrid monsters ⓘ nightmarish scenes ⓘ spiritual trials ⓘ temptation ⓘ torments of Saint Anthony ⓘ
genre	religious painting ⓘ
hasEffectOn	surrealism ⓘ linked to: Surrealism
hasPart	The Temptation of St. Anthony central panel ⓘ linked to: The Temptation of St. Anthony The Temptation of St. Anthony left panel ⓘ linked to: The Temptation of St. Anthony The Temptation of St. Anthony right panel ⓘ linked to: The Temptation of St. Anthony
iconographicTheme	Christian demonology ⓘ good versus evil ⓘ spiritual warfare ⓘ
inception	c. 1500 ⓘ
influenced	20th-century surrealist artists ⓘ
inspiredBy	Legenda Aurea ⓘ Life of Saint Anthony by Athanasius of Alexandria ⓘ linked to: Life of Anthony (subject of biography by Athanasius of Alexandria)
languageOfTitle	English ⓘ
locatedIn	Lisbon ⓘ Portugal ⓘ
location	Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga ⓘ
mainSubject	Temptation of Saint Anthony ⓘ linked to: The Temptation of St. Anthony
materialUsed	oil paint ⓘ
movement	Early Netherlandish painting ⓘ linked to: Flemish Primitives art Northern Renaissance ⓘ
notableWorkOf	Hieronymus Bosch ⓘ
originalLanguage	Portuguese ⓘ
partOf	Bosch’s religious triptychs ⓘ
period	late 15th century ⓘ
style	detailed ⓘ fantastical ⓘ symbolic ⓘ
support	wood panel ⓘ
titleInOriginalLanguage	A Tentação de Santo Antão ⓘ linked to: The Temptation of Saint Anthony
use	altarpiece ⓘ

How these facts were elicited