The Walking Man
E326688
The Walking Man is a famous unfinished bronze sculpture by Auguste Rodin that powerfully captures the dynamic motion and expressive energy of a striding male figure.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Walking Man canonical | 1 |
| The Walking Man II | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3101714 — 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 Walking Man Context triple: [Auguste Rodin, notableWork, The Walking Man]
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A.
Nobody Walks
Nobody Walks is an independent drama film centered on the emotional and ethical tensions that arise when a young artist disrupts the dynamics of a Los Angeles family.
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B.
Reaper
Reaper is a comedic supernatural television series about a young man who becomes a bounty hunter for the Devil, capturing escaped souls from Hell.
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C.
Reaper
Reaper is a dark, wraith-like damage hero in the game Overwatch known for his dual shotguns, life-stealing abilities, and teleportation-based ambush tactics.
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D.
Shadow Walk
Shadow Walk is a supernatural horror graphic novel published by Legendary Comics that follows a military team investigating a deadly, otherworldly phenomenon in Iraq.
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E.
The Walk
The Walk is a 2015 biographical drama film directed by Robert Zemeckis that dramatizes high-wire artist Philippe Petit's daring 1974 walk between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center.
- 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 Walking Man Target entity description: The Walking Man is a famous unfinished bronze sculpture by Auguste Rodin that powerfully captures the dynamic motion and expressive energy of a striding male figure.
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A.
Nobody Walks
Nobody Walks is an independent drama film centered on the emotional and ethical tensions that arise when a young artist disrupts the dynamics of a Los Angeles family.
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B.
Reaper
Reaper is a comedic supernatural television series about a young man who becomes a bounty hunter for the Devil, capturing escaped souls from Hell.
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C.
Reaper
Reaper is a dark, wraith-like damage hero in the game Overwatch known for his dual shotguns, life-stealing abilities, and teleportation-based ambush tactics.
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D.
Shadow Walk
Shadow Walk is a supernatural horror graphic novel published by Legendary Comics that follows a military team investigating a deadly, otherworldly phenomenon in Iraq.
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E.
The Walk
The Walk is a 2015 biographical drama film directed by Robert Zemeckis that dramatizes high-wire artist Philippe Petit's daring 1974 walk between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bronze sculpture
ⓘ
sculpture ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
L’Homme qui marche
ⓘ
linked to:
L'Homme qui marche II
The Walking Man by Rodin ⓘ |
| artForm | freestanding sculpture ⓘ |
| artisticFocus |
dynamic motion
ⓘ
expressive energy ⓘ movement ⓘ |
| artistNationality | French ⓘ |
| associatedPeriod | fin de siècle ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Rodin’s exploration of the walking pose ⓘ |
| associatedWithArtist | Auguste Rodin ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| creator | Auguste Rodin ⓘ |
| depicts |
striding male figure
ⓘ
walking man ⓘ |
| exhibitionType | museum sculpture ⓘ |
| genre | modern sculpture ⓘ |
| has3DForm | full-length figure ⓘ |
| hasBodyPart |
legs
ⓘ
torso ⓘ |
| hasCastingProcess | lost-wax casting ⓘ |
| hasColor | dark bronze ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn |
20th-century sculpture
ⓘ
modern depictions of the human figure ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
fragmentation of the body
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human movement ⓘ physical dynamism ⓘ |
| inception | late 19th century ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Rodin’s studies of human movement ⓘ |
| isCompleted | false ⓘ |
| isPartiallyBasedOn | earlier studies of walking figures by Rodin ⓘ |
| isUnfinished | true ⓘ |
| lacksBodyPart |
arms
ⓘ
head ⓘ |
| materialUsed | bronze ⓘ |
| movement |
Impressionism
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Modernism ⓘ |
| notableFor |
expressive modeling of the surface
ⓘ
powerful sense of motion ⓘ unfinished appearance ⓘ |
| originalLanguageTitle |
L’Homme qui marche
ⓘ
linked to:
L'Homme qui marche II
|
| style |
expressive realism
ⓘ
fragmentary ⓘ |
| subjectSex | male ⓘ |
| support | base ⓘ |
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: The Walking Man Description of subject: The Walking Man is a famous unfinished bronze sculpture by Auguste Rodin that powerfully captures the dynamic motion and expressive energy of a striding male figure.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Walking Man