Fait d’Hiver
E717433
Fait d’Hiver is a controversial porcelain sculpture by Jeff Koons depicting a prone woman with a pig and penguins, created as part of his Banality series exploring kitsch and mass culture.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Fait d’Hiver canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8149862 — 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: Fait d’Hiver Context triple: [Banality series, hasPart, Fait d’Hiver]
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A.
Un coeur en hiver
Un coeur en hiver is a 1992 French romantic drama film directed by Claude Sautet, acclaimed for its subtle exploration of love, emotional restraint, and betrayal within the world of classical music.
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B.
Winter (Poussin)
"Winter" is one of Nicolas Poussin’s allegorical landscape paintings from his Four Seasons series, depicting a biblical scene set in a wintry environment.
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C.
Winters
Winters is a small agricultural and wine-producing city in Northern California known for its historic downtown and proximity to outdoor recreation areas.
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D.
Le Printemps
Le Printemps is a landscape painting by French artist Charles-François Daubigny that exemplifies his pioneering role in the Barbizon school and pre-Impressionist movement.
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E.
Invernale Stellung
Invernale Stellung is the German name for the Winter Line, a series of German and Italian defensive fortifications in southern Italy during World War II.
- 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: Fait d’Hiver Target entity description: Fait d’Hiver is a controversial porcelain sculpture by Jeff Koons depicting a prone woman with a pig and penguins, created as part of his Banality series exploring kitsch and mass culture.
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A.
Un coeur en hiver
Un coeur en hiver is a 1992 French romantic drama film directed by Claude Sautet, acclaimed for its subtle exploration of love, emotional restraint, and betrayal within the world of classical music.
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B.
Winter (Poussin)
"Winter" is one of Nicolas Poussin’s allegorical landscape paintings from his Four Seasons series, depicting a biblical scene set in a wintry environment.
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C.
Winters
Winters is a small agricultural and wine-producing city in Northern California known for its historic downtown and proximity to outdoor recreation areas.
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D.
Le Printemps
Le Printemps is a landscape painting by French artist Charles-François Daubigny that exemplifies his pioneering role in the Barbizon school and pre-Impressionist movement.
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E.
Invernale Stellung
Invernale Stellung is the German name for the Winter Line, a series of German and Italian defensive fortifications in southern Italy during World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
porcelain artwork
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sculpture ⓘ |
| artisticStyle | kitsch aesthetic ⓘ |
| artSeriesExploredConcept | banality ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
neo-pop
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postmodern art ⓘ |
| colorPalette | bright colors ⓘ |
| controversial | true ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| creator |
Jeff Koons
ⓘ
Jeffrey Koons ⓘ
linked to:
Jeff Koons
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| creatorNationality | American ⓘ |
| depicts |
penguins
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pig ⓘ prone woman ⓘ |
| genre | sculpture ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
celebrity culture
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consumerism ⓘ kitsch ⓘ mass culture ⓘ |
| languageOfTitle | French ⓘ |
| material | porcelain ⓘ |
| movement | contemporary art ⓘ |
| notableFor |
appropriation issues
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controversy ⓘ |
| partOfSeries |
Banality
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linked to:
Banality series
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| titleMeaning | play on words with “fait divers” in French press ⓘ |
| usesMotif |
animals
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eroticism ⓘ |
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: Fait d’Hiver Description of subject: Fait d’Hiver is a controversial porcelain sculpture by Jeff Koons depicting a prone woman with a pig and penguins, created as part of his Banality series exploring kitsch and mass culture.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.