Witches' Sabbath (The Great He-Goat)

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Black Painting mural painting

Witches' Sabbath (The Great He-Goat) is a haunting oil mural by Francisco Goya depicting a demonic goat presiding over a coven of witches, created as part of his late, dark series known as the Black Paintings.

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All labels observed (6)

Label	Occurrences
Witches’ Sabbath	3
Dream of a Witches’ Sabbath	1
Witches' Sabbath	1
Witches' Sabbath (Black Painting)	1
Witches' Sabbath (The Great He-Goat) canonical	1
Witches’ Sabbath (Black Painting)	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2737393 — 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: Witches' Sabbath (The Great He-Goat)
Context triple: [The Black Paintings, notableWorkInSeries, Witches' Sabbath (The Great He-Goat)]

A. Season of the Witch
Season of the Witch is a 2011 supernatural action-horror film starring Nicolas Cage as a medieval knight tasked with escorting an accused witch suspected of causing the Black Plague.
B. Walpurgis Night
Walpurgis Night is a traditional springtime festival, especially prominent in central and northern Europe, marked by bonfires, revelry, and folklore about witches gathering on mountaintops.
C. Sabbat
Sabbat is a Polish surname most notably borne by Kazimierz Sabbat, a prominent Polish émigré politician and President of the Polish government-in-exile.
D. The Devil and Miss Prym
The Devil and Miss Prym is a philosophical novel by Brazilian author Paulo Coelho that explores the nature of good and evil through the moral dilemmas faced by a small village and a young woman.
E. Gothic Serpent
Gothic Serpent was the codename for the 1993 U.S. special operations mission in Mogadishu, Somalia, that led to the Battle of Mogadishu depicted in "Black Hawk Down."
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: Witches' Sabbath (The Great He-Goat)
Target entity description: Witches' Sabbath (The Great He-Goat) is a haunting oil mural by Francisco Goya depicting a demonic goat presiding over a coven of witches, created as part of his late, dark series known as the Black Paintings.

A. Season of the Witch
Season of the Witch is a 2011 supernatural action-horror film starring Nicolas Cage as a medieval knight tasked with escorting an accused witch suspected of causing the Black Plague.
B. Walpurgis Night
Walpurgis Night is a traditional springtime festival, especially prominent in central and northern Europe, marked by bonfires, revelry, and folklore about witches gathering on mountaintops.
C. Sabbat
Sabbat is a Polish surname most notably borne by Kazimierz Sabbat, a prominent Polish émigré politician and President of the Polish government-in-exile.
D. The Devil and Miss Prym
The Devil and Miss Prym is a philosophical novel by Brazilian author Paulo Coelho that explores the nature of good and evil through the moral dilemmas faced by a small village and a young woman.
E. Gothic Serpent
Gothic Serpent was the codename for the 1993 U.S. special operations mission in Mogadishu, Somalia, that led to the Battle of Mogadishu depicted in "Black Hawk Down."
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Black Painting ⓘ mural ⓘ painting ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	El Gran Cabrón ⓘ
city	Madrid ⓘ
collection	Museo del Prado collection ⓘ linked to: Prado Museum
colorPalette	dark ⓘ earth tones ⓘ
completionTime	circa 1823 ⓘ
conservation	transferred from wall to canvas ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	Spain ⓘ
creationTime	circa 1820–1823 ⓘ
creator	Francisco Goya ⓘ
currentLocation	Museo del Prado ⓘ linked to: Prado Museum
depicts	Sabbath of witches ⓘ coven of witches ⓘ demonic figure ⓘ goat ⓘ night scene ⓘ supernatural gathering ⓘ
genre	Romanticism ⓘ
hasPart	central horned goat figure ⓘ dark, undefined background ⓘ group of terrified women ⓘ
influencedBy	Inquisition-era superstition ⓘ Spanish folklore ⓘ
languageOfTitle	Spanish ⓘ
locatedInBuilding	Museo del Prado main building ⓘ linked to: Prado Museum
medium	oil on plaster ⓘ oil paint ⓘ
movement	Romanticism ⓘ
originalFunction	domestic wall decoration ⓘ
originalLocation	Quinta del Sordo ⓘ
partOf	interior decoration of Quinta del Sordo ⓘ
period	Goya's late period ⓘ
series	Black Paintings ⓘ linked to: The Black Paintings
style	expressive ⓘ painterly ⓘ
support	plaster wall ⓘ
theme	dark imagination ⓘ superstition ⓘ the occult ⓘ witchcraft ⓘ
titleInSpanish	El Aquelarre ⓘ
tone	haunting ⓘ sinister ⓘ
transferDate	late 19th century ⓘ

How these facts were elicited