A Rake’s Progress series

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narrative art series series of engravings series of paintings

A Rake’s Progress series is a famous sequence of narrative paintings and engravings by William Hogarth that satirically depicts the moral and financial decline of a young man in 18th-century London.

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All labels observed (5)

Label	Occurrences
A Rake’s Progress	4
A Rake's Progress	1
A Rake's Progress by William Hogarth	1
A Rake’s Progress series canonical	1
The Rake’s Progress	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3965848 — 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: A Rake’s Progress series
Context triple: [Sir John Soane’s Museum, notableWorkInCollection, A Rake’s Progress series]

A. The Rake's Progress
The Rake's Progress is a 20th-century opera by Igor Stravinsky, renowned for its neoclassical style and satirical narrative of moral decline.
B. Portraits in Miniature
Portraits in Miniature is a collection of brief, incisive biographical sketches by English writer and critic Lytton Strachey, showcasing his wit and psychological insight into historical figures.
C. Pygmalion and the Image series
Pygmalion and the Image series is a set of Pre-Raphaelite paintings by Edward Burne-Jones that visually narrate the classical myth of the sculptor Pygmalion and his statue brought to life.
D. Anecdotes of Painting in England
Anecdotes of Painting in England is an 18th-century multi-volume art history work by Horace Walpole that surveys the lives and works of English painters, sculptors, and engravers.
E. Revels
Revels is a surname most notably associated with Hiram Revels, the first African American to serve in the United States Senate.
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: A Rake’s Progress series
Target entity description: A Rake’s Progress series is a famous sequence of narrative paintings and engravings by William Hogarth that satirically depicts the moral and financial decline of a young man in 18th-century London.

A. The Rake's Progress
The Rake's Progress is a 20th-century opera by Igor Stravinsky, renowned for its neoclassical style and satirical narrative of moral decline.
B. Portraits in Miniature
Portraits in Miniature is a collection of brief, incisive biographical sketches by English writer and critic Lytton Strachey, showcasing his wit and psychological insight into historical figures.
C. Pygmalion and the Image series
Pygmalion and the Image series is a set of Pre-Raphaelite paintings by Edward Burne-Jones that visually narrate the classical myth of the sculptor Pygmalion and his statue brought to life.
D. Anecdotes of Painting in England
Anecdotes of Painting in England is an 18th-century multi-volume art history work by Horace Walpole that surveys the lives and works of English painters, sculptors, and engravers.
E. Revels
Revels is a surname most notably associated with Hiram Revels, the first African American to serve in the United States Senate.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	narrative art series ⓘ series of engravings ⓘ series of paintings ⓘ
artisticFunction	moral warning ⓘ social satire ⓘ
characterRole	Tom Rakewell as protagonist ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ
creator	William Hogarth ⓘ linked to: Hogarth
depicts	asylum confinement ⓘ debt and imprisonment ⓘ gambling ⓘ the life of a fictional young man named Tom Rakewell ⓘ
endTime	1734 ⓘ
engravingTechnique	line engraving ⓘ
follows	A Harlot’s Progress ⓘ linked to: A Harlot's Progress
genre	moralizing art ⓘ satire ⓘ
hasPart	A Rake’s Progress, Plate 1 ⓘ linked to: The Rake’s Progress by William Hogarth A Rake’s Progress, Plate 2 ⓘ linked to: The Rake’s Progress by William Hogarth A Rake’s Progress, Plate 3 ⓘ linked to: The Rake’s Progress by William Hogarth A Rake’s Progress, Plate 4 ⓘ linked to: The Rake’s Progress by William Hogarth A Rake’s Progress, Plate 5 ⓘ linked to: The Rake’s Progress by William Hogarth A Rake’s Progress, Plate 6 ⓘ linked to: The Rake’s Progress by William Hogarth A Rake’s Progress, Plate 7 ⓘ linked to: The Rake’s Progress by William Hogarth A Rake’s Progress, Plate 8 ⓘ linked to: The Rake’s Progress by William Hogarth
hasTheme	class and wealth ⓘ consequences of vice ⓘ social criticism ⓘ
inception	early 1730s ⓘ
influencedBy	moralizing print traditions ⓘ
languageOfWork	English ⓘ
mainSubject	18th-century London society ⓘ financial ruin ⓘ moral decline ⓘ
movement	British Rococo ⓘ linked to: Rococo English satire tradition ⓘ
narrativeForm	sequential art ⓘ
narrativeStructure	rise and fall story ⓘ
notableFor	combination of narrative and satire ⓘ detailed depiction of 18th-century London life ⓘ use of visual symbolism ⓘ
numberOfWorks	8 ⓘ
originalMedium	canvas ⓘ oil paint ⓘ
setInLocation	London ⓘ linked to: London, England
setInPeriod	18th century ⓘ
startTime	1732 ⓘ

How these facts were elicited