Bauhaus Stairway
E749656
"Bauhaus Stairway" is a 1932 painting by German-American artist Oskar Schlemmer, depicting a stylized view of students ascending the staircase of the Bauhaus art school.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bauhaus Staircase | 1 |
| Bauhaus Stairway canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8649527 — 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: Bauhaus Stairway Context triple: [Bauhaustreppe, hasTitleTranslation, Bauhaus Stairway]
-
A.
Black and White Stairway
Black and White Stairway is a distinctive ceremonial staircase at the ancient Andean site of Chavín de Huántar, notable for its contrasting stonework and ritual significance.
-
B.
Staircase
"Staircase" is a large-scale, translucent fabric installation by artist Do Ho Suh that recreates and memorializes the stairways of his former homes to explore memory, displacement, and personal space.
-
C.
Roundhouse
The Roundhouse is a renowned performing arts and concert venue in Camden, London, known for its distinctive circular architecture and innovative cultural programming.
-
D.
Giant Stairway
The Giant Stairway is a steep walking track in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, Australia, that descends from the Three Sisters near Echo Point into the Jamison Valley via hundreds of steps and ladders.
-
E.
Jordan Staircase
The Jordan Staircase is a grand, richly decorated ceremonial staircase in the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg, renowned for its opulent Baroque architecture and role in imperial court rituals.
- 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: Bauhaus Stairway Target entity description: "Bauhaus Stairway" is a 1932 painting by German-American artist Oskar Schlemmer, depicting a stylized view of students ascending the staircase of the Bauhaus art school.
-
A.
Black and White Stairway
Black and White Stairway is a distinctive ceremonial staircase at the ancient Andean site of Chavín de Huántar, notable for its contrasting stonework and ritual significance.
-
B.
Staircase
"Staircase" is a large-scale, translucent fabric installation by artist Do Ho Suh that recreates and memorializes the stairways of his former homes to explore memory, displacement, and personal space.
-
C.
Roundhouse
The Roundhouse is a renowned performing arts and concert venue in Camden, London, known for its distinctive circular architecture and innovative cultural programming.
-
D.
Giant Stairway
The Giant Stairway is a steep walking track in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, Australia, that descends from the Three Sisters near Echo Point into the Jamison Valley via hundreds of steps and ladders.
-
E.
Jordan Staircase
The Jordan Staircase is a grand, richly decorated ceremonial staircase in the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg, renowned for its opulent Baroque architecture and role in imperial court rituals.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | painting ⓘ |
| artForm | oil on canvas ⓘ |
| artHistoricalPeriod | interwar period ⓘ |
| collection | The Museum of Modern Art collection ⓘ |
| colorCharacteristic |
muted palette
ⓘ
pastel tones ⓘ |
| copyrightStatus | copyrighted ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Germany ⓘ |
| creator | Oskar Schlemmer ⓘ |
| creatorAffiliation |
Bauhaus school
ⓘ
linked to:
Bauhaus school of design
|
| creatorNationality | German-American ⓘ |
| creatorOccupation |
choreographer
ⓘ
painter ⓘ sculptor ⓘ |
| depictionLocation |
Bauhaus school staircase
ⓘ
linked to:
Bauhaustreppe
|
| depicts |
architectural space
ⓘ
ascending figures ⓘ interior of the Bauhaus school ⓘ staircase ⓘ students ⓘ |
| depictsPerspective | upward view along a staircase ⓘ |
| describedAs | stylized view of students ascending a staircase ⓘ |
| exhibitedAt |
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ⓘ
linked to:
Museum of Modern Art
|
| genre | modernist painting ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn |
modernist depictions of architecture
ⓘ
representations of the Bauhaus in art ⓘ |
| hasPart |
geometric forms
ⓘ
rectilinear architecture ⓘ stylized human figures ⓘ |
| inception | 1932 ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | Bauhaus Dessau building ⓘ |
| languageOfTitle | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
New York City
ⓘ
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| location |
The Museum of Modern Art
ⓘ
linked to:
Museum of Modern Art
|
| mainSubject |
Bauhaus art school
ⓘ
linked to:
Bauhaus school of design
|
| materialUsed | oil paint ⓘ |
| movement | Bauhaus ⓘ |
| originalTitleLanguage | German ⓘ |
| productionYear | 1932 ⓘ |
| style |
figurative abstraction
ⓘ
geometric abstraction ⓘ |
| support | canvas ⓘ |
| theme |
collective movement
ⓘ
modern architecture ⓘ modern education ⓘ |
| titleVariant | Bauhaustreppe ⓘ |
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: Bauhaus Stairway Description of subject: "Bauhaus Stairway" is a 1932 painting by German-American artist Oskar Schlemmer, depicting a stylized view of students ascending the staircase of the Bauhaus art school.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Bauhaus Stairway