Magdalena (Out of Eggs, Out of Business)
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"Magdalena (Out of Eggs, Out of Business)" is a provocative painting by South African-born artist Marlene Dumas that explores themes of femininity, fertility, and the commodification of the female body.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Magdalena (Out of Eggs, Out of Business) canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4745766 — 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: Magdalena (Out of Eggs, Out of Business) Context triple: [Marlene Dumas, notableWork, Magdalena (Out of Eggs, Out of Business)]
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A.
The Magdalene Sisters
The Magdalene Sisters is a 2002 Irish-British drama film that exposes the harsh abuses suffered by young women in Ireland's Magdalene asylums run by the Catholic Church.
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B.
The Kitchen Maid
The Kitchen Maid is an 18th-century genre painting by French artist Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin that depicts a domestic servant engaged in humble kitchen work with quiet realism and dignity.
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C.
Feteiras
Feteiras is a civil parish in the municipality of Ponta Delgada on São Miguel Island in the Azores, Portugal.
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D.
The Demands of the Egg
"The Demands of the Egg" is an episode of the nature documentary series "The Life of Birds" that explores how bird eggs develop and the diverse strategies birds use to protect and incubate them.
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E.
The Laundress
The Laundress is a genre painting by French artist Jean-Baptiste Greuze depicting a young maid engaged in domestic work, noted for its intimate realism and moral undertones.
- 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: Magdalena (Out of Eggs, Out of Business) Target entity description: "Magdalena (Out of Eggs, Out of Business)" is a provocative painting by South African-born artist Marlene Dumas that explores themes of femininity, fertility, and the commodification of the female body.
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A.
The Magdalene Sisters
The Magdalene Sisters is a 2002 Irish-British drama film that exposes the harsh abuses suffered by young women in Ireland's Magdalene asylums run by the Catholic Church.
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B.
The Kitchen Maid
The Kitchen Maid is an 18th-century genre painting by French artist Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin that depicts a domestic servant engaged in humble kitchen work with quiet realism and dignity.
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C.
Feteiras
Feteiras is a civil parish in the municipality of Ponta Delgada on São Miguel Island in the Azores, Portugal.
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D.
The Demands of the Egg
"The Demands of the Egg" is an episode of the nature documentary series "The Life of Birds" that explores how bird eggs develop and the diverse strategies birds use to protect and incubate them.
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E.
The Laundress
The Laundress is a genre painting by French artist Jean-Baptiste Greuze depicting a young maid engaged in domestic work, noted for its intimate realism and moral undertones.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
artwork
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painting ⓘ |
| artForm | painting ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | South Africa ⓘ |
| creator | Marlene Dumas ⓘ |
| creatorNationality | South African ⓘ |
| creatorResidence | Netherlands ⓘ |
| depicts |
female body
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woman ⓘ |
| describedAs |
critical of commodification of women
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feminist ⓘ provocative ⓘ |
| genre | contemporary art ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
body politics
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gender ⓘ identity ⓘ objectification ⓘ power relations ⓘ reproductive rights ⓘ sexuality ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
art historical representations of women
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feminist discourse ⓘ |
| languageOfTitle | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
commodification of the female body
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femininity ⓘ fertility ⓘ |
| movement | contemporary art ⓘ |
| notableWorkOf | Marlene Dumas ⓘ |
| partOf | Marlene Dumas oeuvre ⓘ |
| title | Magdalena (Out of Eggs, Out of Business) ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Magdalena (Out of Eggs, Out of Business) Description of subject: "Magdalena (Out of Eggs, Out of Business)" is a provocative painting by South African-born artist Marlene Dumas that explores themes of femininity, fertility, and the commodification of the female body.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.