The Tribute Money
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The Tribute Money is a renowned Renaissance painting, most famously depicted by Masaccio, illustrating the biblical story of Christ instructing Peter to find a coin in a fish’s mouth to pay the temple tax.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Tribute Money canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2584214 — 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 Tribute Money Context triple: [Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, hasNotableWork, The Tribute Money]
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A.
De Gemeene Gratie
De Gemeene Gratie is a major theological work by Abraham Kuyper that develops his doctrine of “common grace,” explaining how God’s grace operates in all of culture and society, not only within the church.
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B.
Os Cus de Judas
Os Cus de Judas is a novel by Portuguese writer António Lobo Antunes that offers a dark, introspective portrayal of the Portuguese Colonial War in Angola.
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C.
Six Pieces of Silver
Six Pieces of Silver is a landmark 1956 hard bop jazz album by pianist and composer Horace Silver, noted for its catchy melodies, bluesy grooves, and influential small-group arrangements.
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D.
The Twelve
The Twelve is a collection of twelve shorter prophetic books in the Hebrew Bible, often treated as a single unified work within the Minor Prophets.
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E.
The Taxman
The Taxman is a satirical Yiddish story by Mendele Mocher Sforim that critiques social and economic injustices in Jewish shtetl life.
- 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 Tribute Money Target entity description: The Tribute Money is a renowned Renaissance painting, most famously depicted by Masaccio, illustrating the biblical story of Christ instructing Peter to find a coin in a fish’s mouth to pay the temple tax.
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A.
De Gemeene Gratie
De Gemeene Gratie is a major theological work by Abraham Kuyper that develops his doctrine of “common grace,” explaining how God’s grace operates in all of culture and society, not only within the church.
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B.
Os Cus de Judas
Os Cus de Judas is a novel by Portuguese writer António Lobo Antunes that offers a dark, introspective portrayal of the Portuguese Colonial War in Angola.
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C.
Six Pieces of Silver
Six Pieces of Silver is a landmark 1956 hard bop jazz album by pianist and composer Horace Silver, noted for its catchy melodies, bluesy grooves, and influential small-group arrangements.
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D.
The Twelve
The Twelve is a collection of twelve shorter prophetic books in the Hebrew Bible, often treated as a single unified work within the Minor Prophets.
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E.
The Taxman
The Taxman is a satirical Yiddish story by Mendele Mocher Sforim that critiques social and economic injustices in Jewish shtetl life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Renaissance painting
ⓘ
fresco ⓘ |
| artHistoricalPeriod | Quattrocento ⓘ |
| artisticStyle | Renaissance ⓘ |
| author | Masaccio ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Gospel of Matthew 17:24–27
ⓘ
linked to:
Gospel of Matthew
|
| centeredOn | Christ as vanishing point of perspective ⓘ |
| city | Florence ⓘ |
| commissionedBy | Felice Brancacci (family patron of the chapel) ⓘ |
| completionDate | circa 1427 ⓘ |
| country | Italy ⓘ |
| creator | Masaccio ⓘ |
| depicts |
Jesus Christ
ⓘ
Saint Peter ⓘ
linked to:
Apostle Peter
apostles of Jesus ⓘ architectural background with classical elements ⓘ biblical story of the temple tax ⓘ coin in the fish’s mouth miracle ⓘ mountainous landscape background ⓘ tax collector ⓘ |
| depictsScene |
Christ confronted by the tax collector
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Peter paying the tax collector ⓘ Peter taking the coin from the fish’s mouth ⓘ |
| genre | religious painting ⓘ |
| hasSetting |
Capernaum (biblical setting)
ⓘ
linked to:
Capernaum
|
| inception | circa 1425 ⓘ |
| influenced |
Filippino Lippi
ⓘ
Florentine Renaissance painting ⓘ Michelangelo ⓘ |
| languageOfTitle | Italian ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence ⓘ |
| location |
Brancacci Chapel
ⓘ
linked to:
Brancacci Chapel frescoes
|
| materialUsed | fresco on plaster ⓘ |
| movement | Early Renaissance ⓘ |
| movementWithinWork | figures arranged in semicircle around Christ ⓘ |
| notableFor |
continuous narrative composition
ⓘ
early use of linear perspective in Renaissance art ⓘ unified light source modeling figures ⓘ |
| partOf |
Brancacci Chapel fresco cycle
ⓘ
linked to:
Brancacci Chapel frescoes
|
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| technique | buon fresco ⓘ |
| theme |
faith and providence
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obedience to civil authority ⓘ taxation ⓘ |
| titleInItalian | Il Tributo ⓘ |
| uses |
chiaroscuro
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linear perspective ⓘ single-point perspective ⓘ |
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Tribute Money Description of subject: The Tribute Money is a renowned Renaissance painting, most famously depicted by Masaccio, illustrating the biblical story of Christ instructing Peter to find a coin in a fish’s mouth to pay the temple tax.
Referenced by (6)
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