Statue of the Reclining Woman (The Couch) by Lorado Taft
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The Statue of the Reclining Woman (The Couch) by Lorado Taft is a celebrated early 20th-century funerary sculpture depicting a serene, life-sized woman reclining on a stone couch, noted for its quiet realism and emotional depth.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Statue of the Reclining Woman (The Couch) by Lorado Taft canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2187309 — 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 the Reclining Woman (The Couch) by Lorado Taft Context triple: [Graceland Cemetery, hasNotableStructure, Statue of the Reclining Woman (The Couch) by Lorado Taft]
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Alexander Calder’s stabile “Elephant”
Alexander Calder’s stabile “Elephant” is a large abstract metal sculpture, characteristic of Calder’s bold, curving forms and playful sense of balance, evoking the shape and presence of an elephant.
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B.
Fine Lady statue
The Fine Lady statue is a bronze sculpture in Banbury, England, depicting the famous "Fine Lady upon a White Horse" from the traditional nursery rhyme associated with the town.
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LOVE sculpture
The LOVE sculpture is an iconic pop art piece by Robert Indiana featuring the stacked letters L-O-V-E, widely recognized as a symbol of love and a popular photo spot in Philadelphia and around the world.
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D.
Mrs. Mallard statue
The Mrs. Mallard statue is a bronze sculpture of the mother duck from the classic children's book "Make Way for Ducklings," featured as part of the famous duck family installation in Boston Public Garden.
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Bust of a Woman (1931)
Bust of a Woman (1931) is a sculptural portrait by Pablo Picasso, notable for its sensual, stylized depiction of his muse Marie-Thérèse Walter.
- 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 the Reclining Woman (The Couch) by Lorado Taft Target entity description: The Statue of the Reclining Woman (The Couch) by Lorado Taft is a celebrated early 20th-century funerary sculpture depicting a serene, life-sized woman reclining on a stone couch, noted for its quiet realism and emotional depth.
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A.
Alexander Calder’s stabile “Elephant”
Alexander Calder’s stabile “Elephant” is a large abstract metal sculpture, characteristic of Calder’s bold, curving forms and playful sense of balance, evoking the shape and presence of an elephant.
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B.
Fine Lady statue
The Fine Lady statue is a bronze sculpture in Banbury, England, depicting the famous "Fine Lady upon a White Horse" from the traditional nursery rhyme associated with the town.
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C.
LOVE sculpture
The LOVE sculpture is an iconic pop art piece by Robert Indiana featuring the stacked letters L-O-V-E, widely recognized as a symbol of love and a popular photo spot in Philadelphia and around the world.
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D.
Mrs. Mallard statue
The Mrs. Mallard statue is a bronze sculpture of the mother duck from the classic children's book "Make Way for Ducklings," featured as part of the famous duck family installation in Boston Public Garden.
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E.
Bust of a Woman (1931)
Bust of a Woman (1931) is a sculptural portrait by Pablo Picasso, notable for its sensual, stylized depiction of his muse Marie-Thérèse Walter.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
funerary sculpture
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sculptor ⓘ tomb monument ⓘ work of art ⓘ |
| artForm | sculpture ⓘ |
| artist | Lorado Taft ⓘ |
| artisticPeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| creator | Lorado Taft ⓘ |
| depicts |
life-sized female figure
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reclining woman ⓘ stone couch ⓘ |
| function |
grave marker
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memorial ⓘ |
| genre | funerary art ⓘ |
| hasType | figurative sculpture ⓘ |
| material | stone ⓘ |
| movement | early 20th-century American sculpture ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
emotional depth
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quiet realism ⓘ serene mood ⓘ |
| scale | life-size ⓘ |
| style | realism ⓘ |
| subjectHeading | woman in repose ⓘ |
| theme |
death and remembrance
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mourning ⓘ serenity ⓘ |
| title |
Statue of the Reclining Woman
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The Couch ⓘ |
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 the Reclining Woman (The Couch) by Lorado Taft Description of subject: The Statue of the Reclining Woman (The Couch) by Lorado Taft is a celebrated early 20th-century funerary sculpture depicting a serene, life-sized woman reclining on a stone couch, noted for its quiet realism and emotional depth.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Graceland Cemetery
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hasNotableStructure
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Statue of the Reclining Woman (The Couch) by Lorado Taft
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subject linked to:
Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois, United States