A Burial at Ornans
E68856
A Burial at Ornans is a monumental mid-19th-century realist painting by Gustave Courbet that depicts an ordinary provincial funeral with unprecedented scale and unidealized detail, challenging academic conventions of history painting.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| A Burial at Ornans canonical | 4 |
| Un enterrement à Ornans | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T549047 — 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 Burial at Ornans Context triple: [Gustave Courbet, notableWork, A Burial at Ornans]
-
A.
Scènes de la vie de province
Scènes de la vie de province is a series of interlinked novels by Honoré de Balzac depicting the social, political, and personal lives of characters in provincial France as part of his larger La Comédie humaine cycle.
-
B.
Scènes de la vie parisienne
Scènes de la vie parisienne is a section of Honoré de Balzac’s La Comédie humaine that groups together his novels and stories depicting the manners, society, and everyday life of 19th-century Paris.
-
C.
Les Rougon-Macquart
Les Rougon-Macquart is a twenty-novel cycle by Émile Zola that traces the lives of a fictional French family to explore heredity, environment, and society during the Second French Empire.
-
D.
Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe
Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe is a groundbreaking 1863 painting by Édouard Manet that scandalized contemporary audiences with its depiction of a nude woman picnicking with clothed men and is now seen as a key precursor to modern art.
-
E.
The Yellow House
The Yellow House is a famous 1888 painting by Vincent van Gogh depicting his residence in Arles, France, and is considered a key work of Post-Impressionism.
- 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 Burial at Ornans Target entity description: A Burial at Ornans is a monumental mid-19th-century realist painting by Gustave Courbet that depicts an ordinary provincial funeral with unprecedented scale and unidealized detail, challenging academic conventions of history painting.
-
A.
Scènes de la vie de province
Scènes de la vie de province is a series of interlinked novels by Honoré de Balzac depicting the social, political, and personal lives of characters in provincial France as part of his larger La Comédie humaine cycle.
-
B.
Scènes de la vie parisienne
Scènes de la vie parisienne is a section of Honoré de Balzac’s La Comédie humaine that groups together his novels and stories depicting the manners, society, and everyday life of 19th-century Paris.
-
C.
Les Rougon-Macquart
Les Rougon-Macquart is a twenty-novel cycle by Émile Zola that traces the lives of a fictional French family to explore heredity, environment, and society during the Second French Empire.
-
D.
Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe
Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe is a groundbreaking 1863 painting by Édouard Manet that scandalized contemporary audiences with its depiction of a nude woman picnicking with clothed men and is now seen as a key precursor to modern art.
-
E.
The Yellow House
The Yellow House is a famous 1888 painting by Vincent van Gogh depicting his residence in Arles, France, and is considered a key work of Post-Impressionism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Realist artwork
ⓘ
oil painting ⓘ painting ⓘ |
| artHistoricalSignificance |
challenged academic history painting conventions
ⓘ
elevated everyday subject matter to grand scale ⓘ landmark of Realism ⓘ |
| artist | Gustave Courbet ⓘ |
| collection | Musée d'Orsay ⓘ |
| commissionedBy | not a formal commission ⓘ |
| completionDate | 1850 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| creator | Gustave Courbet ⓘ |
| depicts |
clergy
ⓘ
funeral ⓘ grave diggers ⓘ landscape of Ornans ⓘ mourners ⓘ open grave ⓘ ordinary provincial people ⓘ rural funeral ⓘ |
| exhibitionHistory | Salon of 1850–1851 ⓘ |
| firstOwner | Gustave Courbet ⓘ |
| genre | Realism ⓘ |
| hasPart |
choirboys
ⓘ
crucifix ⓘ dog ⓘ group of life-sized figures ⓘ pallbearers ⓘ peasant women ⓘ priests ⓘ skull ⓘ village dignitaries ⓘ |
| height | approximately 314 cm ⓘ |
| inception | 1849 ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
France
ⓘ
Paris ⓘ |
| location | Musée d'Orsay ⓘ |
| locationDepicted | Ornans ⓘ |
| medium | oil on canvas ⓘ |
| movement | Realism ⓘ |
| originalTitle |
Un enterrement à Ornans
ⓘ
linked to:
A Burial at Ornans
|
| setIn | Franche-Comté ⓘ |
| style |
monumental horizontal composition
ⓘ
unidealized representation ⓘ |
| subjectMatter | ordinary provincial funeral ⓘ |
| theme |
critique of social hierarchy
ⓘ
death ⓘ social equality in death ⓘ |
| timePeriodDepicted | mid-19th century ⓘ |
| titleLanguage | French ⓘ |
| width | approximately 663 cm ⓘ |
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: A Burial at Ornans Description of subject: A Burial at Ornans is a monumental mid-19th-century realist painting by Gustave Courbet that depicts an ordinary provincial funeral with unprecedented scale and unidealized detail, challenging academic conventions of history painting.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.