Dr Péan at the Salpêtrière
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Dr Péan at the Salpêtrière is a realist painting by French artist Henri Gervex depicting a surgical operation in the famed Parisian hospital, highlighting the drama and modernity of late 19th-century medicine.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Docteur Péan à la Salpêtrière | 1 |
| Dr Péan at the Salpêtrière canonical | 1 |
| Dr Péan at the Salpêtrière Hospital | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9412828 — 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: Dr Péan at the Salpêtrière Context triple: [Henri Gervex, notableWork, Dr Péan at the Salpêtrière]
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A.
Quartier de la Salpêtrière
Quartier de la Salpêtrière is a central Parisian neighborhood known for the historic Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital complex and its mix of medical, educational, and residential spaces.
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B.
Thérèse Raquin
Thérèse Raquin is a naturalist novel by Émile Zola that explores adultery, murder, and psychological torment in 19th-century Paris.
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C.
Madame Raquin
Madame Raquin is a central character in Émile Zola’s novel "Thérèse Raquin," depicted as a devoted but ultimately tragic and powerless maternal figure whose life is destroyed by the crimes and betrayals of those she loves.
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D.
The Madwoman of Chaillot
The Madwoman of Chaillot is a satirical French play that portrays an eccentric Parisian woman leading a whimsical crusade against greed and corruption in modern society.
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E.
Le Docteur Pascal
Le Docteur Pascal is a novel by Émile Zola that serves as the concluding volume of his Rougon-Macquart series, focusing on heredity, science, and the fate of the family dynasty.
- 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: Dr Péan at the Salpêtrière Target entity description: Dr Péan at the Salpêtrière is a realist painting by French artist Henri Gervex depicting a surgical operation in the famed Parisian hospital, highlighting the drama and modernity of late 19th-century medicine.
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A.
Quartier de la Salpêtrière
Quartier de la Salpêtrière is a central Parisian neighborhood known for the historic Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital complex and its mix of medical, educational, and residential spaces.
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B.
Thérèse Raquin
Thérèse Raquin is a naturalist novel by Émile Zola that explores adultery, murder, and psychological torment in 19th-century Paris.
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C.
Madame Raquin
Madame Raquin is a central character in Émile Zola’s novel "Thérèse Raquin," depicted as a devoted but ultimately tragic and powerless maternal figure whose life is destroyed by the crimes and betrayals of those she loves.
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D.
The Madwoman of Chaillot
The Madwoman of Chaillot is a satirical French play that portrays an eccentric Parisian woman leading a whimsical crusade against greed and corruption in modern society.
-
E.
Le Docteur Pascal
Le Docteur Pascal is a novel by Émile Zola that serves as the concluding volume of his Rougon-Macquart series, focusing on heredity, science, and the fate of the family dynasty.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
oil painting
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painting ⓘ realist painting ⓘ |
| artisticStyle | realist ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| creator | Henri Gervex ⓘ |
| depicts |
Dr Jules Péan
ⓘ
Hôpital de la Salpêtrière ⓘ
linked to:
Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière
hospital operating theatre ⓘ medical staff ⓘ patient on operating table ⓘ spectators observing surgery ⓘ surgical operation ⓘ |
| depictsActivity | operation in progress ⓘ |
| depictsObject |
hospital interior
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operating table ⓘ surgical instruments ⓘ |
| depictsPerson | Jules Péan ⓘ |
| depictsProfession |
medical students
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nurses ⓘ surgeon ⓘ |
| depictsTimePeriod | late 19th century ⓘ |
| genre | Realism ⓘ |
| hasSetting | Paris hospital ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
clinical observation
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public spectacle of surgery ⓘ scientific advancement ⓘ |
| languageOfTitle | French ⓘ |
| locationOfDepictedEvent |
Hôpital de la Salpêtrière
ⓘ
linked to:
Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière
|
| mainSubject |
hospital life
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late 19th-century medicine ⓘ medical progress ⓘ modern surgery ⓘ |
| movement | Realism ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
drama of surgery
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modernity of medicine ⓘ |
| titleInOriginalLanguage |
Docteur Péan à la Salpêtrière
ⓘ
linked to:
Dr Péan at the Salpêtrière
|
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: Dr Péan at the Salpêtrière Description of subject: Dr Péan at the Salpêtrière is a realist painting by French artist Henri Gervex depicting a surgical operation in the famed Parisian hospital, highlighting the drama and modernity of late 19th-century medicine.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Gervex
linked to: Dr Péan at the Salpêtrière
linked to: Dr Péan at the Salpêtrière