The Civil Marriage
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The Civil Marriage is a renowned 1881 realist painting by French artist Henri Gervex depicting a bourgeois wedding ceremony in a town hall.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Civil Marriage canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9412829 — 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: The Civil Marriage Context triple: [Henri Gervex, notableWork, The Civil Marriage]
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A.
The Union of Love and Marriage
The Union of Love and Marriage is an allegorical painting by French Neoclassical artist Jean-Baptiste Regnault that personifies and celebrates the harmonious bond between romantic love and matrimony.
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B.
Many Marriages
Many Marriages is a 1923 novel by American author Sherwood Anderson that explores themes of love, sexuality, and personal liberation in small-town Midwestern life.
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C.
Du mariage
Du mariage is a sociological and philosophical essay by French statesman Léon Blum examining the institution of marriage, its moral foundations, and its role in modern society.
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D.
The Divorce
The Divorce is the English title of Surah At-Talaq, a chapter of the Qur’an that outlines Islamic regulations and guidance concerning divorce and related family matters.
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E.
The Wedding
"The Wedding" is a Caroline-era stage comedy by English dramatist James Shirley, known for its witty exploration of courtship, marriage, and social manners.
- 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: The Civil Marriage Target entity description: The Civil Marriage is a renowned 1881 realist painting by French artist Henri Gervex depicting a bourgeois wedding ceremony in a town hall.
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A.
The Union of Love and Marriage
The Union of Love and Marriage is an allegorical painting by French Neoclassical artist Jean-Baptiste Regnault that personifies and celebrates the harmonious bond between romantic love and matrimony.
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B.
Many Marriages
Many Marriages is a 1923 novel by American author Sherwood Anderson that explores themes of love, sexuality, and personal liberation in small-town Midwestern life.
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C.
Du mariage
Du mariage is a sociological and philosophical essay by French statesman Léon Blum examining the institution of marriage, its moral foundations, and its role in modern society.
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D.
The Divorce
The Divorce is the English title of Surah At-Talaq, a chapter of the Qur’an that outlines Islamic regulations and guidance concerning divorce and related family matters.
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E.
The Wedding
"The Wedding" is a Caroline-era stage comedy by English dramatist James Shirley, known for its witty exploration of courtship, marriage, and social manners.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
oil painting
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painter ⓘ painting ⓘ |
| artist | Henri Gervex ⓘ |
| artisticStyle | realist ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| creator | Henri Gervex ⓘ |
| dateOfCreation | 1881 ⓘ |
| depicts |
French bourgeoisie
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bourgeois wedding ceremony ⓘ bride ⓘ civil marriage ceremony ⓘ civil official ⓘ groom ⓘ town hall interior ⓘ wedding guests ⓘ |
| depictsSocialClass | bourgeoisie ⓘ |
| depictsTimePeriod | late 19th century ⓘ |
| genre | realism ⓘ |
| hasAuthor | Henri Gervex ⓘ |
| hasTechnique | oil on canvas ⓘ |
| inception | 1881 ⓘ |
| languageOfTitle | French ⓘ |
| locationOfCreation | Paris ⓘ |
| movement | Realism ⓘ |
| notableWorkOf | Henri Gervex ⓘ |
| originalTitle | L’Union civile ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
French society
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civil ceremony ⓘ marriage ⓘ |
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: The Civil Marriage Description of subject: The Civil Marriage is a renowned 1881 realist painting by French artist Henri Gervex depicting a bourgeois wedding ceremony in a town hall.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Gervex