Swans Reflecting Elephants
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Swans Reflecting Elephants is a 1937 surrealist painting by Salvador Dalí that uses a double-image illusion to transform swans and their reflections into elephants.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Swans Reflecting Elephants canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T333800 — 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: Swans Reflecting Elephants Context triple: [Salvador Dalí, notableWork, Swans Reflecting Elephants]
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A.
The Elephants
The Elephants is a surrealist painting by Salvador Dalí featuring elongated, spindly-legged elephants that symbolize the contrast between weight and fragility.
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B.
Elephant Back
Elephant Back is a prominent volcanic rock formation and hiking destination in the Sierra Nevada near Carson Pass in California.
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C.
Elephant Odyssey
Elephant Odyssey is a themed exhibit at the San Diego Zoo that showcases elephants and other animals of Southern California’s past and present in a large, immersive habitat.
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D.
Elephant Lands
Elephant Lands is a large, naturalistic elephant habitat and exhibit at the Oregon Zoo designed to support the physical and behavioral needs of Asian elephants.
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E.
The Glenrothes Hippos
The Glenrothes Hippos are a well-known set of outdoor hippo sculptures that serve as a distinctive piece of public art and a local landmark in Glenrothes, Scotland.
- 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: Swans Reflecting Elephants Target entity description: Swans Reflecting Elephants is a 1937 surrealist painting by Salvador Dalí that uses a double-image illusion to transform swans and their reflections into elephants.
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A.
The Elephants
The Elephants is a surrealist painting by Salvador Dalí featuring elongated, spindly-legged elephants that symbolize the contrast between weight and fragility.
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B.
Elephant Back
Elephant Back is a prominent volcanic rock formation and hiking destination in the Sierra Nevada near Carson Pass in California.
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C.
Elephant Odyssey
Elephant Odyssey is a themed exhibit at the San Diego Zoo that showcases elephants and other animals of Southern California’s past and present in a large, immersive habitat.
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D.
Elephant Lands
Elephant Lands is a large, naturalistic elephant habitat and exhibit at the Oregon Zoo designed to support the physical and behavioral needs of Asian elephants.
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E.
The Glenrothes Hippos
The Glenrothes Hippos are a well-known set of outdoor hippo sculptures that serve as a distinctive piece of public art and a local landmark in Glenrothes, Scotland.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
painting
ⓘ
surrealist painting ⓘ |
| artStyle |
double-image technique
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illusionism ⓘ |
| background | rocky cliffs ⓘ |
| colorPalette |
blues
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earth tones ⓘ |
| copyrightStatus | copyrighted ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Spain ⓘ |
| creator | Salvador Dalí ⓘ |
| depicts |
double image illusion
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landscape ⓘ reflection in water ⓘ |
| describedAs | iconic surrealist image ⓘ |
| foreground | lake with swans ⓘ |
| genre | Surrealism ⓘ |
| hasPart |
clouds
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elephants ⓘ lake ⓘ mountains ⓘ swans ⓘ trees ⓘ |
| hasPerspective | landscape perspective ⓘ |
| hasVisualEffect |
figure-ground reversal
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optical illusion ⓘ |
| inception | 1937 ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Freudian psychoanalysis
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dream imagery ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | none ⓘ |
| location | private collection ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
elephants
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swans ⓘ |
| medium | oil paint ⓘ |
| movement | Surrealism ⓘ |
| notableWorkOf | Salvador Dalí ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Dalí double-image paintings ⓘ |
| periodInArtistCareer | Dalí’s late 1930s period ⓘ |
| support | canvas ⓘ |
| theme |
ambiguity of perception
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illusion and reality ⓘ metamorphosis ⓘ |
| usesTechnique | paranoiac-critical method ⓘ |
| visualMotif |
mirrored forms
ⓘ
shape transformation ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Swans Reflecting Elephants Description of subject: Swans Reflecting Elephants is a 1937 surrealist painting by Salvador Dalí that uses a double-image illusion to transform swans and their reflections into elephants.
Referenced by (4)
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