Waterfall
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"Waterfall" is a famous lithograph print by M. C. Escher that depicts an impossible perpetual-motion watercourse feeding a paradoxical waterfall.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Waterfall canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8998082 — 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: Waterfall Context triple: [M. C. Escher, notableWork, Waterfall]
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A.
Waterfall
Waterfall is a modern, upscale mixed-use suburb in Midrand, South Africa, known for its residential estates, business parks, and retail developments.
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B.
Waterfall
"Waterfall" is a melodic, guitar-driven song by English rock band The Stone Roses, widely regarded as one of the standout tracks from their influential 1989 debut album.
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C.
Wonderfalls
Wonderfalls is a short-lived cult-favorite American dramedy TV series about a disaffected gift-shop clerk who begins receiving cryptic life-advice from talking animal figurines.
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D.
The Waterfall
The Waterfall is a dramatic 17th-century landscape painting by Dutch Golden Age artist Jacob van Ruisdael, renowned for its powerful depiction of rushing water amid a rugged, romanticized natural setting.
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E.
The Waterfall
The Waterfall is a 2015 studio album by American rock band My Morning Jacket that blends psychedelic rock, folk, and soul influences into a lush, atmospheric sound.
- 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: Waterfall Target entity description: "Waterfall" is a famous lithograph print by M. C. Escher that depicts an impossible perpetual-motion watercourse feeding a paradoxical waterfall.
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A.
Waterfall
Waterfall is a modern, upscale mixed-use suburb in Midrand, South Africa, known for its residential estates, business parks, and retail developments.
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B.
Waterfall
"Waterfall" is a melodic, guitar-driven song by English rock band The Stone Roses, widely regarded as one of the standout tracks from their influential 1989 debut album.
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C.
Wonderfalls
Wonderfalls is a short-lived cult-favorite American dramedy TV series about a disaffected gift-shop clerk who begins receiving cryptic life-advice from talking animal figurines.
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D.
The Waterfall
The Waterfall is a dramatic 17th-century landscape painting by Dutch Golden Age artist Jacob van Ruisdael, renowned for its powerful depiction of rushing water amid a rugged, romanticized natural setting.
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E.
The Waterfall
The Waterfall is a 2015 studio album by American rock band My Morning Jacket that blends psychedelic rock, folk, and soul influences into a lush, atmospheric sound.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
artwork
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lithograph print ⓘ optical illusion artwork ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Escher’s Waterfall
NERFINISHED
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Waterval ⓘ |
| artForm | graphic art ⓘ |
| artist | M. C. Escher NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| artStyle | black-and-white print ⓘ |
| colorScheme | monochrome ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Netherlands ⓘ |
| creator | M. C. Escher NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| depicts |
Penrose triangle–like structure
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figures standing on terraces ⓘ impossible object ⓘ impossible waterfall ⓘ paradoxical aqueduct ⓘ perpetual-motion watercourse ⓘ small building at base of waterfall ⓘ terraced garden ⓘ two towers ⓘ water flowing uphill ⓘ |
| genre |
mathematical art
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surreal art ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
architecture
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human figures ⓘ hydraulic structure ⓘ landscape elements ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
impossible geometry
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perpetual motion ⓘ perspective illusion ⓘ visual paradox ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Penrose triangle
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
impossible figures in mathematics ⓘ |
| languageOfTitle | English ⓘ |
| medium | lithography ⓘ |
| movement |
Op art
NERFINISHED
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mathematical illustration ⓘ |
| notableFor |
depiction of an impossible perpetual-motion machine
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paradoxical watercourse that appears to flow uphill ⓘ use of Penrose triangle geometry in architecture ⓘ |
| partOf | M. C. Escher’s series of impossible constructions ⓘ |
| publicationMedium | print ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
Ascending and Descending
NERFINISHED
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Belvedere NERFINISHED ⓘ Relativity NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | Waterfall ⓘ |
| usesTechnique |
careful perspective manipulation
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impossible object construction ⓘ |
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: Waterfall Description of subject: "Waterfall" is a famous lithograph print by M. C. Escher that depicts an impossible perpetual-motion watercourse feeding a paradoxical waterfall.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.