The Seven Years of Famine in Egypt
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The Seven Years of Famine in Egypt is a religious-historical painting by German Nazarene artist Johann Friedrich Overbeck depicting the biblical story of Egypt’s protracted famine under Joseph.
All labels observed (1)
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| The Seven Years of Famine in Egypt canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9469103 — 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 Seven Years of Famine in Egypt Context triple: [Johann Friedrich Overbeck, notableWork, The Seven Years of Famine in Egypt]
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A.
Famine
Famine is one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, symbolizing extreme scarcity of food and widespread starvation.
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B.
Poverty and Famines
Poverty and Famines is a seminal book by economist Amartya Sen that revolutionized the understanding of famine by arguing that they result more from failures of access and entitlement than from food shortages alone.
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C.
The Great Bengal Famine (by P. C. Mahalanobis and others)
The Great Bengal Famine is a seminal analytical study by P. C. Mahalanobis and colleagues that uses statistical and economic methods to examine the causes, dynamics, and impact of the 1943 Bengal famine.
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D.
A History of Egypt
A History of Egypt is a seminal historical work by archaeologist Flinders Petrie that surveys the political and cultural development of ancient Egypt.
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E.
Great Famine in Greece
The Great Famine in Greece was a devastating World War II-era humanitarian disaster in which hundreds of thousands of Greeks died from starvation and related causes under Axis occupation.
- 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 Seven Years of Famine in Egypt Target entity description: The Seven Years of Famine in Egypt is a religious-historical painting by German Nazarene artist Johann Friedrich Overbeck depicting the biblical story of Egypt’s protracted famine under Joseph.
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A.
Famine
Famine is one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, symbolizing extreme scarcity of food and widespread starvation.
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B.
Poverty and Famines
Poverty and Famines is a seminal book by economist Amartya Sen that revolutionized the understanding of famine by arguing that they result more from failures of access and entitlement than from food shortages alone.
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C.
The Great Bengal Famine (by P. C. Mahalanobis and others)
The Great Bengal Famine is a seminal analytical study by P. C. Mahalanobis and colleagues that uses statistical and economic methods to examine the causes, dynamics, and impact of the 1943 Bengal famine.
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D.
A History of Egypt
A History of Egypt is a seminal historical work by archaeologist Flinders Petrie that surveys the political and cultural development of ancient Egypt.
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E.
Great Famine in Greece
The Great Famine in Greece was a devastating World War II-era humanitarian disaster in which hundreds of thousands of Greeks died from starvation and related causes under Axis occupation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
painter
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painting ⓘ person ⓘ religious painting ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Book of Genesis
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biblical narrative of Joseph ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Germany ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Germany ⓘ |
| creator | Johann Friedrich Overbeck ⓘ |
| creatorMovement | Nazarene movement ⓘ |
| creatorNationality | German ⓘ |
| depicts |
Joseph in Egypt
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linked to:
Joseph in Ägypten
biblical story of the seven years of famine in Egypt ⓘ famine in Egypt under Joseph ⓘ |
| depictsEvent |
seven years of plenty and seven years of famine in Egypt
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linked to:
Genesis 41
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| depictsTimePeriod | biblical Egypt ⓘ |
| genre | Christian art ⓘ |
| hasArtisticStyle |
Nazarene style
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linked to:
Nazarene movement
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| hasTheme |
Old Testament narrative
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divine providence ⓘ suffering and salvation ⓘ |
| languageOfTitle | German ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Joseph
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famine ⓘ |
| medium | painting (unspecified medium) ⓘ |
| movement |
Nazarene movement
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Nazarene movement ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Seven Years of Famine in Egypt Description of subject: The Seven Years of Famine in Egypt is a religious-historical painting by German Nazarene artist Johann Friedrich Overbeck depicting the biblical story of Egypt’s protracted famine under Joseph.
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