The Paralytic
E375935
The Paralytic is an 18th-century genre painting by French artist Jean-Baptiste Greuze, depicting an emotionally charged domestic scene centered on an ailing, paralyzed figure.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Paralytic canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3647459 — 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 Paralytic Context triple: [Jean-Baptiste Greuze, notableWork, The Paralytic]
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A.
Square of Sorrow
Square of Sorrow is a solemn commemorative plaza within the Mamayev Kurgan memorial complex dedicated to honoring the victims and suffering of the Battle of Stalingrad.
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B.
The Desperate Man
The Desperate Man is a famous early self-portrait by French Realist painter Gustave Courbet, known for its intense, wide-eyed expression and dramatic depiction of psychological turmoil.
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C.
The Cradle
The Cradle is an 1872 Impressionist painting by Berthe Morisot depicting a tender scene of a mother watching over her sleeping child, and is considered one of her most celebrated works.
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D.
Logue
Logue is a surname most notably associated with Lionel Logue, the Australian speech therapist who helped King George VI overcome his stammer.
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E.
The Horseman on the Roof
The Horseman on the Roof is a 1995 French historical adventure-romance film set during a 19th-century cholera epidemic in Provence, based on Jean Giono’s novel and starring Juliette Binoche and Olivier Martinez.
- 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 Paralytic Target entity description: The Paralytic is an 18th-century genre painting by French artist Jean-Baptiste Greuze, depicting an emotionally charged domestic scene centered on an ailing, paralyzed figure.
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A.
Square of Sorrow
Square of Sorrow is a solemn commemorative plaza within the Mamayev Kurgan memorial complex dedicated to honoring the victims and suffering of the Battle of Stalingrad.
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B.
The Desperate Man
The Desperate Man is a famous early self-portrait by French Realist painter Gustave Courbet, known for its intense, wide-eyed expression and dramatic depiction of psychological turmoil.
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C.
The Cradle
The Cradle is an 1872 Impressionist painting by Berthe Morisot depicting a tender scene of a mother watching over her sleeping child, and is considered one of her most celebrated works.
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D.
Logue
Logue is a surname most notably associated with Lionel Logue, the Australian speech therapist who helped King George VI overcome his stammer.
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E.
The Horseman on the Roof
The Horseman on the Roof is a 1995 French historical adventure-romance film set during a 19th-century cholera epidemic in Provence, based on Jean Giono’s novel and starring Juliette Binoche and Olivier Martinez.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
genre painting
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painting ⓘ |
| artForm | easel painting ⓘ |
| artHistoricalContext | transition from Rococo to more serious moral subjects in French art ⓘ |
| artisticSchool | French painting ⓘ |
| colorPalette | muted tones ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| creator | Jean-Baptiste Greuze ⓘ |
| creatorBirthName | Jean-Baptiste Greuze ⓘ |
| creatorBirthPlace | Tournus, France ⓘ |
| creatorBirthYear | 1725 ⓘ |
| creatorDeathYear | 1805 ⓘ |
| creatorKnownFor | sentimental and moralizing genre scenes ⓘ |
| creatorNationality | French ⓘ |
| creatorOccupation | painter ⓘ |
| depictionType | interior scene ⓘ |
| depicts |
emotionally charged domestic scene
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family members ⓘ filial piety ⓘ illness ⓘ moralizing subject ⓘ paralyzed man ⓘ suffering ⓘ |
| emotionalTone |
pathos
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sentimentality ⓘ |
| genre | domestic scene ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | none (visual artwork) ⓘ |
| hasPart | group of figures around the paralytic ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Dutch genre painting
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moralizing trends in 18th-century French art ⓘ |
| lightingStyle | dramatic interior lighting ⓘ |
| mainSubject | ailing paralyzed figure ⓘ |
| medium | oil paint ⓘ |
| movement |
Rococo
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pre-Romanticism ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | emotional reactions of family to illness ⓘ |
| style | narrative realism ⓘ |
| theme |
compassion
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domestic virtue ⓘ family ⓘ illness and mortality ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 18th century ⓘ |
| visualFocus | central paralyzed figure ⓘ |
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 Paralytic Description of subject: The Paralytic is an 18th-century genre painting by French artist Jean-Baptiste Greuze, depicting an emotionally charged domestic scene centered on an ailing, paralyzed figure.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.