Ophelia
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Ophelia is a famous 1894 Pre-Raphaelite painting by John William Waterhouse depicting the tragic Shakespearean heroine from Hamlet.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ophelia canonical | 3 |
| Ophelia before drowning | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1909721 — 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: Ophelia Context triple: [John William Waterhouse, notableWork, Ophelia]
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A.
Ophelia
Ophelia is a famous 1851–52 painting by John Everett Millais, emblematic of the Pre-Raphaelite movement and depicting Shakespeare’s tragic heroine floating in a stream surrounded by lush, detailed flora.
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B.
Ofelia
Ofelia is the imaginative young girl in Guillermo del Toro’s dark fantasy film "Pan’s Labyrinth," whose encounters with mythical creatures mirror the brutal realities of post–Civil War Spain.
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C.
Ophelia Among the Flowers
"Ophelia Among the Flowers" is a symbolist painting by Odilon Redon that reimagines Shakespeare’s tragic heroine Ophelia in a dreamlike, floral setting.
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D.
Gertrude
Gertrude is a feminine given name of Germanic origin, historically popular in Europe and North America.
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E.
Cordelia
Cordelia is an unincorporated census-designated community in Solano County, California, known for its location near the junction of major highways and its role as a residential and commercial hub in the area.
- 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: Ophelia Target entity description: Ophelia is a famous 1894 Pre-Raphaelite painting by John William Waterhouse depicting the tragic Shakespearean heroine from Hamlet.
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A.
Ophelia
Ophelia is a famous 1851–52 painting by John Everett Millais, emblematic of the Pre-Raphaelite movement and depicting Shakespeare’s tragic heroine floating in a stream surrounded by lush, detailed flora.
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B.
Ofelia
Ofelia is the imaginative young girl in Guillermo del Toro’s dark fantasy film "Pan’s Labyrinth," whose encounters with mythical creatures mirror the brutal realities of post–Civil War Spain.
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C.
Ophelia Among the Flowers
"Ophelia Among the Flowers" is a symbolist painting by Odilon Redon that reimagines Shakespeare’s tragic heroine Ophelia in a dreamlike, floral setting.
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D.
Gertrude
Gertrude is a feminine given name of Germanic origin, historically popular in Europe and North America.
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E.
Cordelia
Cordelia is a character in Margaret Atwood's novel "Cat's Eye," known as the childhood friend and tormentor of the protagonist, Elaine Risley.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
oil painting
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painting ⓘ |
| artStyle |
Pre-Raphaelite style
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linked to:
Pre-Raphaelite art
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| artStyleCharacteristic |
detailed naturalism
ⓘ
literary symbolism ⓘ vivid color ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
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linked to:
Hamlet
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| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creator | John William Waterhouse ⓘ |
| creatorBirthYear | 1849 ⓘ |
| creatorDeathYear | 1917 ⓘ |
| creatorFullName | John William Waterhouse ⓘ |
| creatorNationality | British ⓘ |
| culturalContext | late 19th-century British art ⓘ |
| depicts |
Ophelia (Shakespearean character)
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linked to:
Ophelia
|
| depictsAge | young woman ⓘ |
| depictsCharacterFrom | Hamlet ⓘ |
| depictsEmotion |
melancholy
ⓘ
tragedy ⓘ |
| depictsEvent | Ophelia’s madness and death ⓘ |
| depictsGender | female ⓘ |
| depictsSetting |
natural landscape
ⓘ
waterside scene ⓘ |
| genre |
history painting
ⓘ
literary painting ⓘ |
| hasMedium | oil paint ⓘ |
| hasSubjectMatter |
Shakespearean heroine
ⓘ
flowers ⓘ literary figure ⓘ madness ⓘ nature ⓘ tragic death ⓘ |
| hasSurface | canvas ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Ophelia ⓘ |
| iconography |
drowning heroine
ⓘ
symbolic flowers ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | Hamlet ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | none (visual artwork) ⓘ |
| literarySourceAuthor | William Shakespeare ⓘ |
| literarySourceForm | play ⓘ |
| literarySourceGenre | tragedy ⓘ |
| movement |
Pre-Raphaelite
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linked to:
Pre-Raphaelite art
|
| partOfArtistOeuvre | Shakespearean-themed works by John William Waterhouse ⓘ |
| portraysMoment |
Ophelia before drowning
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linked to:
Ophelia
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| relatedMovement |
Romanticism (influence)
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linked to:
Romanticism
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| relatedWork |
Ophelia (1851 painting by John Everett Millais)
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linked to:
Ophelia
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| titleLanguage | English ⓘ |
| yearOfCreation | 1894 ⓘ |
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: Ophelia Description of subject: Ophelia is a famous 1894 Pre-Raphaelite painting by John William Waterhouse depicting the tragic Shakespearean heroine from Hamlet.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.