Tornado Over Kansas
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Tornado Over Kansas is a dramatic 1929 Regionalist painting by John Steuart Curry depicting a farm family confronting an approaching tornado on the American Great Plains.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tornado Over Kansas canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8157668 — 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: Tornado Over Kansas Context triple: [John Steuart Curry, notableWork, Tornado Over Kansas]
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A.
2011 Joplin tornado
The 2011 Joplin tornado was a catastrophic EF5 tornado that devastated Joplin, Missouri, causing massive destruction and becoming one of the deadliest and costliest tornadoes in U.S. history.
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B.
Town of Kansas
Town of Kansas was the original 19th-century riverfront settlement that later grew into and was renamed Kansas City, Missouri.
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C.
Tennessee Tornado
Tennessee Tornado is a steel looping roller coaster at Dollywood known for its intense drops, smooth inversions, and Appalachian mine-themed setting.
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D.
Texas Tornados
Texas Tornados was a Tex-Mex supergroup blending conjunto, country, rock, and R&B, best known for its cross-cultural sound and featuring prominent musicians like Flaco Jiménez, Doug Sahm, Augie Meyers, and Freddy Fender.
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E.
Tornado
Tornado is Zorro’s iconic black horse, known as his swift and loyal steed in the Zorro stories.
- 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: Tornado Over Kansas Target entity description: Tornado Over Kansas is a dramatic 1929 Regionalist painting by John Steuart Curry depicting a farm family confronting an approaching tornado on the American Great Plains.
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A.
2011 Joplin tornado
The 2011 Joplin tornado was a catastrophic EF5 tornado that devastated Joplin, Missouri, causing massive destruction and becoming one of the deadliest and costliest tornadoes in U.S. history.
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B.
Town of Kansas
Town of Kansas was the original 19th-century riverfront settlement that later grew into and was renamed Kansas City, Missouri.
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C.
Tennessee Tornado
Tennessee Tornado is a steel looping roller coaster at Dollywood known for its intense drops, smooth inversions, and Appalachian mine-themed setting.
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D.
Texas Tornados
Texas Tornados was a Tex-Mex supergroup blending conjunto, country, rock, and R&B, best known for its cross-cultural sound and featuring prominent musicians like Flaco Jiménez, Doug Sahm, Augie Meyers, and Freddy Fender.
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E.
Tornado
Tornado is Zorro’s iconic black horse, known as his swift and loyal steed in the Zorro stories.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | painting ⓘ |
| artForm | oil painting ⓘ |
| artisticStyle |
dramatic composition
ⓘ
realism ⓘ |
| colorPalette |
contrasting light on figures
ⓘ
dark storm tones ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| creator | John Steuart Curry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creatorNationality | American ⓘ |
| creatorRole | painter ⓘ |
| depicts |
American Great Plains
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
approaching storm ⓘ farm family ⓘ farmhouse ⓘ livestock ⓘ storm cellar ⓘ tornado ⓘ |
| depictsLocation | Kansas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| depictsRegion | Great Plains NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| depictsTimePeriod | early 20th century rural America ⓘ |
| genre | Regionalism ⓘ |
| hasPart |
animals in motion
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background tornado funnel ⓘ farm buildings ⓘ foreground farm family group ⓘ stormy sky ⓘ |
| hasTitleLanguage | English ⓘ |
| inception | 1929 ⓘ |
| locationOfCreation | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
farm family
ⓘ
tornado ⓘ |
| movement | American Regionalism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | confrontation with natural disaster ⓘ |
| notableFor |
dramatic portrayal of a tornado
ⓘ
iconic image of Midwestern Regionalism ⓘ |
| partOf | American Regionalist art canon ⓘ |
| theme |
Midwestern identity
ⓘ
family unity in crisis ⓘ human versus nature ⓘ rural American life ⓘ |
| title | Tornado Over Kansas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Tornado Over Kansas Description of subject: Tornado Over Kansas is a dramatic 1929 Regionalist painting by John Steuart Curry depicting a farm family confronting an approaching tornado on the American Great Plains.
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.