The Yellow Cow
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The Yellow Cow is a famous 1911 Expressionist painting by German artist Franz Marc, depicting a brightly colored, leaping cow in a vivid, abstract landscape.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Yellow Cow canonical | 2 |
| Die gelbe Kuh | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3386464 — 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 Yellow Cow Context triple: [Franz Marc, notableWork, The Yellow Cow]
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A.
The Cow
The Cow is the English title of Surah Al-Baqarah, the Quran’s longest chapter, which covers core themes of faith, law, guidance, and the relationship between God and humanity.
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B.
Blue Cow
Blue Cow is a popular ski area within the Perisher resort in New South Wales, Australia, known for its varied terrain and lift-accessed slopes.
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C.
The Stork and the Plow
The Stork and the Plow is an environmental and population studies book co-authored by Anne H. Ehrlich that examines the relationship between human population growth, food production, and ecological sustainability.
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D.
The Cattle
The Cattle is the English title of Surah Al-An'am, the sixth chapter of the Qur’an, which focuses on themes of monotheism, divine guidance, and the refutation of idolatry.
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E.
The Brown Bunny
The Brown Bunny is a 2003 independent road drama film written, directed by, and starring Vincent Gallo, notorious for its explicit content and polarizing reception at the Cannes Film Festival.
- 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 Yellow Cow Target entity description: The Yellow Cow is a famous 1911 Expressionist painting by German artist Franz Marc, depicting a brightly colored, leaping cow in a vivid, abstract landscape.
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A.
The Cow
The Cow is the English title of Surah Al-Baqarah, the Quran’s longest chapter, which covers core themes of faith, law, guidance, and the relationship between God and humanity.
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B.
Blue Cow
Blue Cow is a popular ski area within the Perisher resort in New South Wales, Australia, known for its varied terrain and lift-accessed slopes.
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C.
The Stork and the Plow
The Stork and the Plow is an environmental and population studies book co-authored by Anne H. Ehrlich that examines the relationship between human population growth, food production, and ecological sustainability.
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D.
The Cattle
The Cattle is the English title of Surah Al-An'am, the sixth chapter of the Qur’an, which focuses on themes of monotheism, divine guidance, and the refutation of idolatry.
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E.
The Brown Bunny
The Brown Bunny is a 2003 independent road drama film written, directed by, and starring Vincent Gallo, notorious for its explicit content and polarizing reception at the Cannes Film Festival.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Expressionist painting
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painting ⓘ |
| artHistoricalPeriod | early 20th century art ⓘ |
| artStyleCharacteristic |
abstract forms
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bold colors ⓘ dynamic composition ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Germany ⓘ |
| creator | Franz Marc ⓘ |
| depicts |
abstract landscape
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cow ⓘ landscape ⓘ leaping cow ⓘ |
| famousFor |
brightly colored leaping cow
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vivid abstract landscape ⓘ |
| genre | Expressionism ⓘ |
| inception | 1911 ⓘ |
| languageOfTitle | English ⓘ |
| mainColor | yellow ⓘ |
| movement |
German Expressionism
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linked to:
Expressionism
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| notableWorkOf | Franz Marc ⓘ |
| originalTitle |
Die gelbe Kuh
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linked to:
The Yellow Cow
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| originalTitleLanguage | German ⓘ |
| partOf | Franz Marc’s animal paintings ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
animal symbolism
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cow as symbolic figure ⓘ |
| title | The Yellow Cow ⓘ |
| usesColor |
bright colors
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vivid colors ⓘ |
| yearCompleted | 1911 ⓘ |
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 Yellow Cow Description of subject: The Yellow Cow is a famous 1911 Expressionist painting by German artist Franz Marc, depicting a brightly colored, leaping cow in a vivid, abstract landscape.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Yellow Cow