Saint Sebastian (Louvre)
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Saint Sebastian (Louvre) is a renowned Renaissance painting by Andrea Mantegna depicting the Christian martyr Saint Sebastian bound and pierced with arrows, notable for its dramatic realism and classical architectural setting.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Saint Sebastian (Louvre) canonical | 2 |
| Saint Sebastian by Andrea Mantegna | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10541270 — 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: Saint Sebastian (Louvre) Context triple: [Andrea Mantegna, notableWork, Saint Sebastian (Louvre)]
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A.
Madonna of St. Jerome
Madonna of St. Jerome is a renowned High Renaissance altarpiece by Correggio depicting the Virgin and Child surrounded by saints in a harmonious, softly lit composition.
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B.
Saint Sebastian Tended by Saint Irene
Saint Sebastian Tended by Saint Irene is a 17th-century nocturnal religious painting by Georges de La Tour, renowned for its dramatic candlelit depiction of Saint Irene caring for the wounded Saint Sebastian.
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C.
The Virgin of the Rocks
The Virgin of the Rocks is a renowned Renaissance painting by Leonardo da Vinci depicting the Virgin Mary with the Christ Child, the infant John the Baptist, and an angel in a mysterious rocky landscape.
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D.
Salvator mundi
Salvator mundi is a choral work by Renaissance composer Thomas Tallis that sets a Latin hymn text in rich polyphonic style.
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E.
Bust of Buffon
Bust of Buffon is a neoclassical portrait sculpture by Jean-Antoine Houdon depicting the French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon.
- 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: Saint Sebastian (Louvre) Target entity description: Saint Sebastian (Louvre) is a renowned Renaissance painting by Andrea Mantegna depicting the Christian martyr Saint Sebastian bound and pierced with arrows, notable for its dramatic realism and classical architectural setting.
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A.
Madonna of St. Jerome
Madonna of St. Jerome is a renowned High Renaissance altarpiece by Correggio depicting the Virgin and Child surrounded by saints in a harmonious, softly lit composition.
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B.
Saint Sebastian Tended by Saint Irene
Saint Sebastian Tended by Saint Irene is a 17th-century nocturnal religious painting by Georges de La Tour, renowned for its dramatic candlelit depiction of Saint Irene caring for the wounded Saint Sebastian.
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C.
The Virgin of the Rocks
The Virgin of the Rocks is a renowned Renaissance painting by Leonardo da Vinci depicting the Virgin Mary with the Christ Child, the infant John the Baptist, and an angel in a mysterious rocky landscape.
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D.
Salvator mundi
Salvator mundi is a choral work by Renaissance composer Thomas Tallis that sets a Latin hymn text in rich polyphonic style.
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E.
Bust of Buffon
Bust of Buffon is a neoclassical portrait sculpture by Jean-Antoine Houdon depicting the French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | painting ⓘ |
| artStyle |
classical style
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dramatic realism ⓘ |
| collection | Louvre Museum ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Italy ⓘ |
| creator | Andrea Mantegna ⓘ |
| culture | Italian ⓘ |
| depicts |
Christian martyrdom
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Roman soldiers (implied) ⓘ Saint Sebastian ⓘ arrows ⓘ bound male figure ⓘ classical architecture ⓘ ruins ⓘ |
| genre | Christian art ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Saint Sebastian ⓘ |
| iconography |
Saint Sebastian tied to a column
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martyr pierced with arrows ⓘ |
| inception | circa 1480 ⓘ |
| languageOfTitle | Italian ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
France
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Paris ⓘ |
| location | Louvre Museum ⓘ |
| materialUsed | tempera ⓘ |
| movement | Italian Renaissance ⓘ |
| notableFor |
detailed rendering of stone and architecture
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dramatic anatomical realism ⓘ integration of classical ruins ⓘ |
| painter | Andrea Mantegna ⓘ |
| partOf | Mantegna’s Saint Sebastian series ⓘ |
| period | 15th century ⓘ |
| subjectHeading |
Saints in art
ⓘ
linked to:
Christian art
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| support | panel ⓘ |
| theme |
Christian martyrdom
ⓘ
faith under persecution ⓘ |
| useOfPerspective | linear perspective ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Saint Sebastian (Louvre) Description of subject: Saint Sebastian (Louvre) is a renowned Renaissance painting by Andrea Mantegna depicting the Christian martyr Saint Sebastian bound and pierced with arrows, notable for its dramatic realism and classical architectural setting.
Referenced by (3)
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