Liberty Leading the People

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Romantic painting painting

"Liberty Leading the People" is a famous 1830 Romantic painting by Eugène Delacroix that allegorically commemorates the July Revolution in France, depicting a personified Liberty leading a diverse group of revolutionaries over the barricades.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Liberty Leading the People canonical	5
Eugène Delacroix painting "Liberty Leading the People"	1
La Liberté guidant le peuple	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T347037 — 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: Liberty Leading the People
Context triple: [Louvre Museum, notableWork, Liberty Leading the People]

A. The Death of Marat
The Death of Marat is a 1793 Neoclassical painting by Jacques-Louis David that dramatically depicts the murdered French revolutionary leader Jean-Paul Marat in his bathtub, becoming an iconic image of the French Revolution.
B. Île de la Grande Jatte
Île de la Grande Jatte is a small island in the River Seine near Paris, France, famed as the setting of Georges Seurat’s iconic pointillist painting "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte."
C. Impression, Sunrise
Impression, Sunrise is an 1872 painting by Claude Monet that famously gave the Impressionist movement its name and exemplifies its loose brushwork and focus on light and atmosphere.
D. La Marseillaise
La Marseillaise is the revolutionary song from 1792 that became France’s national anthem, renowned for its rousing, martial melody and patriotic lyrics.
E. Monument to Lafayette and Washington in Paris
The Monument to Lafayette and Washington in Paris is a bronze statue by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi that commemorates the Franco-American alliance by depicting the Marquis de Lafayette and George Washington standing side by side.
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: Liberty Leading the People
Target entity description: "Liberty Leading the People" is a famous 1830 Romantic painting by Eugène Delacroix that allegorically commemorates the July Revolution in France, depicting a personified Liberty leading a diverse group of revolutionaries over the barricades.

A. The Death of Marat
The Death of Marat is a 1793 Neoclassical painting by Jacques-Louis David that dramatically depicts the murdered French revolutionary leader Jean-Paul Marat in his bathtub, becoming an iconic image of the French Revolution.
B. Île de la Grande Jatte
Île de la Grande Jatte is a small island in the River Seine near Paris, France, famed as the setting of Georges Seurat’s iconic pointillist painting "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte."
C. Impression, Sunrise
Impression, Sunrise is an 1872 painting by Claude Monet that famously gave the Impressionist movement its name and exemplifies its loose brushwork and focus on light and atmosphere.
D. La Marseillaise
La Marseillaise is the revolutionary song from 1792 that became France’s national anthem, renowned for its rousing, martial melody and patriotic lyrics.
E. Monument to Lafayette and Washington in Paris
The Monument to Lafayette and Washington in Paris is a bronze statue by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi that commemorates the Franco-American alliance by depicting the Marquis de Lafayette and George Washington standing side by side.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (51)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Romantic painting ⓘ painting ⓘ
artworkStyle	Romanticism ⓘ
collection	Musée du Louvre ⓘ linked to: Louvre Museum
commissionedBy	French government ⓘ linked to: Government of France
countryOfOrigin	France ⓘ
creator	Eugène Delacroix ⓘ
depicts	French tricolour flag ⓘ July Revolution of 1830 ⓘ linked to: July Revolution in France Notre-Dame de Paris ⓘ linked to: Notre-Dame Cathedral Paris cityscape ⓘ Phrygian cap ⓘ linked to: Olympic Phryge bare-breasted female figure ⓘ barricade ⓘ boy with pistols ⓘ dead bodies ⓘ musket ⓘ personification of Liberty ⓘ pistol ⓘ revolutionaries ⓘ sabre ⓘ smoke ⓘ top-hatted bourgeois man ⓘ worker in a cap ⓘ
depictsEvent	July Revolution ⓘ linked to: July Revolution in France
depictsSymbol	liberty ⓘ linked to: Liberty national unity ⓘ revolution ⓘ
genre	allegorical painting ⓘ history painting ⓘ
hasEffect	became symbol of French Republic ⓘ influenced later revolutionary imagery ⓘ
hasPart	Notre-Dame de Paris ⓘ linked to: Notre-Dame Cathedral Phrygian cap ⓘ linked to: Olympic Phryge armed insurgents ⓘ barricade ⓘ dead soldiers ⓘ tricolour flag ⓘ
inception	1830 ⓘ
inspiredBy	July Ordinances of 1830 ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	French ⓘ
locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity	Paris ⓘ Île-de-France ⓘ linked to: Île-de-France region
locatedInTheCountry	France ⓘ
location	Louvre Museum ⓘ
mainCharacter	Liberty ⓘ bourgeois insurgent ⓘ boy with pistols ⓘ worker insurgent ⓘ
movement	Romanticism ⓘ
originalTitle	La Liberté guidant le peuple ⓘ linked to: Liberty Leading the People

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (7)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Louvre Museum → notableWork → Liberty Leading the People ⓘ

Eugène Delacroix → notableWork → Liberty Leading the People ⓘ

Denon Wing → housesArtwork → Liberty Leading the People ⓘ

Liberty Leading the People → originalTitle → La Liberté guidant le peuple ⓘ

linked to: Liberty Leading the People

Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi → relatedWork → Liberty Leading the People ⓘ

Marianne → relatedTo → Liberty Leading the People ⓘ

subject linked to: Marianne emblem of the French Republic

Phrygian cap → featuredIn → Eugène Delacroix painting "Liberty Leading the People" ⓘ