Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
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Karl Schmidt-Rottluff was a German painter and printmaker, co-founder of the Die Brücke group, and a leading figure in early 20th-century Expressionist art.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Karl Schmidt-Rottluff canonical | 20 |
| Schmidt-Rottluff | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T558228 — 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: Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Context triple: [Expressionism, notableProponent, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff]
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A.
Erich Heckel
Erich Heckel was a German painter and printmaker, co-founder of the influential Die Brücke group, and a key figure in the development of early 20th-century Expressionist art.
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B.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was a pioneering German painter and printmaker, co-founder of the artists’ group Die Brücke and a central figure in the development of Expressionism in the early 20th century.
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C.
Max Beckmann
Max Beckmann was a German painter and printmaker known for his powerful, often dark figurative works that bridged Expressionism and New Objectivity in early 20th-century art.
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D.
Franz Marc
Franz Marc was a German painter and printmaker renowned for his vivid, symbolic depictions of animals and as a co-founder of the avant-garde group Der Blaue Reiter.
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E.
Emil Nolde
Emil Nolde was a pioneering German-Danish painter and printmaker renowned for his intensely colored, emotionally charged works that helped define early 20th-century Expressionism.
- 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: Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Target entity description: Karl Schmidt-Rottluff was a German painter and printmaker, co-founder of the Die Brücke group, and a leading figure in early 20th-century Expressionist art.
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A.
Erich Heckel
Erich Heckel was a German painter and printmaker, co-founder of the influential Die Brücke group, and a key figure in the development of early 20th-century Expressionist art.
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B.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was a pioneering German painter and printmaker, co-founder of the artists’ group Die Brücke and a central figure in the development of Expressionism in the early 20th century.
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C.
Max Beckmann
Max Beckmann was a German painter and printmaker known for his powerful, often dark figurative works that bridged Expressionism and New Objectivity in early 20th-century art.
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D.
Franz Marc
Franz Marc was a German painter and printmaker renowned for his vivid, symbolic depictions of animals and as a co-founder of the avant-garde group Der Blaue Reiter.
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E.
Emil Nolde
Emil Nolde was a pioneering German-Danish painter and printmaker renowned for his intensely colored, emotionally charged works that helped define early 20th-century Expressionism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Expressionist artist
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human ⓘ painter ⓘ printmaker ⓘ |
| artForm |
etching
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lithography ⓘ oil painting ⓘ woodcut ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Order Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts
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surface form:
Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts
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| countryOfCitizenship |
German Empire
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Germany ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1884-12-01 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1976-08-10 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Dresden University of Technology
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surface form:
Technische Hochschule Dresden
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| familyName |
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Schmidt-Rottluff
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| fieldOfWork |
Expressionist printmaking
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modern art ⓘ |
| fullName | Karl Schmidt-Rottluff self-link ⓘ |
| genre |
landscape painting
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portrait painting ⓘ religious art ⓘ |
| givenName | Karl ⓘ |
| hasCollectionAt |
Brücke-Museum, Berlin
ⓘ
Museum of Modern Art ⓘ
surface form:
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Neue Nationalgalerie ⓘ
surface form:
Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Städel Museum ⓘ
surface form:
Städel Museum, Frankfurt
|
| influencedBy |
Edvard Munch
ⓘ
Fauvism ⓘ Vincent van Gogh ⓘ |
| memberOf | Die Brücke ⓘ |
| movement |
Die Brücke
ⓘ
Expressionism ⓘ Expressionism ⓘ
surface form:
German Expressionism
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| notableEvent | labeled a "degenerate" artist by the Nazi regime ⓘ |
| notableFor |
bold use of color
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expressive woodcuts ⓘ simplified forms ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Christ and the Sinner
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Houses at Night ⓘ Landscape near Dresden ⓘ Self-Portrait with Monocle ⓘ The Reader ⓘ The Red House ⓘ Woman with a Bag ⓘ |
| occupation |
painter
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printmaker ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Rottluff, Chemnitz, Kingdom of Saxony ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
West Berlin
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surface form:
West Berlin, West Germany
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| positionHeld | co-founder of Die Brücke ⓘ |
| religion | Protestantism ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Berlin
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Dresden ⓘ |
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: Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Description of subject: Karl Schmidt-Rottluff was a German painter and printmaker, co-founder of the Die Brücke group, and a leading figure in early 20th-century Expressionist art.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Schmidt-Rottluff