Statue of John Singleton Copley
E80211
The Statue of John Singleton Copley is a public monument in Boston honoring the famed American colonial-era portrait painter for whom Copley Square is named.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Statue of John Singleton Copley canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T641316 — 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: Statue of John Singleton Copley Context triple: [Copley Square, hasStatue, Statue of John Singleton Copley]
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A.
Lexington Minuteman Statue
The Lexington Minuteman Statue is a historic bronze monument in Lexington, Massachusetts, commemorating the colonial militia who fought in the opening battle of the American Revolutionary War.
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B.
George Washington statue
The George Washington statue is a prominent public monument depicting the first U.S. president, located on Cambridge Common in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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C.
The Minute Man statue
The Minute Man statue is a famous bronze sculpture in Concord, Massachusetts, commemorating the colonial militia who fought in the opening battle of the American Revolutionary War.
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D.
John Harvard statue
The John Harvard statue is a famous bronze monument in Harvard Yard that has become an iconic symbol of Harvard University and a popular tourist attraction.
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E.
Samson Fountain
Samson Fountain is a grand Baroque water feature at Peterhof renowned for its dramatic sculpture of Samson tearing open a lion’s jaws and its powerful central jet symbolizing Russian victory over Sweden.
- 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: Statue of John Singleton Copley Target entity description: The Statue of John Singleton Copley is a public monument in Boston honoring the famed American colonial-era portrait painter for whom Copley Square is named.
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A.
Lexington Minuteman Statue
The Lexington Minuteman Statue is a historic bronze monument in Lexington, Massachusetts, commemorating the colonial militia who fought in the opening battle of the American Revolutionary War.
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B.
George Washington statue
The George Washington statue is a prominent public monument depicting the first U.S. president, located on Cambridge Common in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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C.
The Minute Man statue
The Minute Man statue is a famous bronze sculpture in Concord, Massachusetts, commemorating the colonial militia who fought in the opening battle of the American Revolutionary War.
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D.
John Harvard statue
The John Harvard statue is a famous bronze monument in Harvard Yard that has become an iconic symbol of Harvard University and a popular tourist attraction.
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E.
Samson Fountain
Samson Fountain is a grand Baroque water feature at Peterhof renowned for its dramatic sculpture of Samson tearing open a lion’s jaws and its powerful central jet symbolizing Russian victory over Sweden.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
monument
ⓘ
outdoor sculpture ⓘ public sculpture ⓘ statue ⓘ |
| category |
Bronze sculptures in Massachusetts
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Monuments and memorials in Boston ⓘ Outdoor sculptures in Boston ⓘ Statues of men in Massachusetts ⓘ |
| commemorates | John Singleton Copley ⓘ |
| coordinateSystem | geographic coordinates ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| dedicatedTo | John Singleton Copley ⓘ |
| depicts | John Singleton Copley ⓘ |
| genre | portrait statue ⓘ |
| hasCulturalSignificance | commemoration of American colonial-era art ⓘ |
| hasPart |
figure of John Singleton Copley
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pedestal ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | public art ⓘ |
| inception | late 19th century ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Boston, Massachusetts
ⓘ
surface form:
Boston
Massachusetts ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity |
Back Bay
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surface form:
Back Bay, Boston
|
| location |
Copley Square, Boston
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surface form:
Copley Square
|
| material |
bronze
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granite ⓘ |
| municipality |
Boston, Massachusetts
ⓘ
surface form:
City of Boston
|
| namedAfter | John Singleton Copley ⓘ |
| namedFor | namesake of Copley Square ⓘ |
| owner |
Boston, Massachusetts
ⓘ
surface form:
City of Boston
|
| partOf | public art of Copley Square ⓘ |
| publicAccess | yes ⓘ |
| subject | John Singleton Copley ⓘ |
| use |
commemorative monument
ⓘ
tourist attraction ⓘ |
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: Statue of John Singleton Copley Description of subject: The Statue of John Singleton Copley is a public monument in Boston honoring the famed American colonial-era portrait painter for whom Copley Square is named.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Copley Square