The Masked Ball at the Élysée
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The Masked Ball at the Élysée is a celebrated late 19th-century painting by Henri Gervex depicting an opulent, costume-filled social gathering at the French presidential palace.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Le Bal masqué à l’Élysée | 1 |
| The Masked Ball at the Élysée canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9412832 — 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 Masked Ball at the Élysée Context triple: [Henri Gervex, notableWork, The Masked Ball at the Élysée]
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A.
The Ghosts of Versailles
The Ghosts of Versailles is an American opera by John Corigliano with a libretto by William M. Hoffman that blends comedy, drama, and the supernatural in a meta-theatrical reimagining of Beaumarchais’s Figaro plays.
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B.
La Folle de Chaillot
La Folle de Chaillot is a satirical play by Jean Giraudoux that portrays an eccentric Parisian countess leading a whimsical crusade against greed and corruption in modern society.
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C.
Private: The Paris Story
Private: The Paris Story is a spin-off installment of the popular Private mystery/thriller book series, set against the backdrop of Paris.
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D.
Le Bal de Sceaux
Le Bal de Sceaux is a short novel by Honoré de Balzac that explores themes of social ambition and romantic disillusionment within the French aristocracy.
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E.
Equal in Paris
"Equal in Paris" is an autobiographical essay by James Baldwin recounting his arrest and imprisonment in Paris, used to explore themes of race, justice, and identity.
- 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 Masked Ball at the Élysée Target entity description: The Masked Ball at the Élysée is a celebrated late 19th-century painting by Henri Gervex depicting an opulent, costume-filled social gathering at the French presidential palace.
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A.
The Ghosts of Versailles
The Ghosts of Versailles is an American opera by John Corigliano with a libretto by William M. Hoffman that blends comedy, drama, and the supernatural in a meta-theatrical reimagining of Beaumarchais’s Figaro plays.
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B.
La Folle de Chaillot
La Folle de Chaillot is a satirical play by Jean Giraudoux that portrays an eccentric Parisian countess leading a whimsical crusade against greed and corruption in modern society.
-
C.
Private: The Paris Story
Private: The Paris Story is a spin-off installment of the popular Private mystery/thriller book series, set against the backdrop of Paris.
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D.
Le Bal de Sceaux
Le Bal de Sceaux is a short novel by Honoré de Balzac that explores themes of social ambition and romantic disillusionment within the French aristocracy.
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E.
Equal in Paris
"Equal in Paris" is an autobiographical essay by James Baldwin recounting his arrest and imprisonment in Paris, used to explore themes of race, justice, and identity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
oil painting
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painting ⓘ |
| artForm | easel painting ⓘ |
| artHistoricalContext | representation of late 19th-century Parisian society ⓘ |
| artist | Henri Gervex ⓘ |
| collection |
Musée d’Orsay
ⓘ
linked to:
Musée d'Orsay
|
| colorPalette |
rich contrasts
ⓘ
warm tones ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| creator | Henri Gervex ⓘ |
| creatorNationality | French ⓘ |
| depicts |
French high society
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ball gowns ⓘ chandeliers ⓘ costumed figures ⓘ costumes ⓘ dance ⓘ evening entertainment ⓘ formal attire ⓘ lavish décor ⓘ masked ball ⓘ masks ⓘ music and dancing ⓘ opulent interior ⓘ social gathering ⓘ tailcoats ⓘ Élysée Palace ⓘ |
| depictsLocation | Élysée Palace ⓘ |
| depictsTimeOfDay | night ⓘ |
| genre |
genre painting
ⓘ
society painting ⓘ |
| hasPart |
architectural details
ⓘ
background crowd ⓘ foreground figures ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
French presidency
ⓘ
linked to:
Presidency of France
elite social life ⓘ |
| inception | late 19th century ⓘ |
| languageOfTitle | French ⓘ |
| location |
Musée d’Orsay
ⓘ
linked to:
Musée d'Orsay
|
| mainSubject | masked ball at the French presidential palace ⓘ |
| movement |
Academic art
ⓘ
Belle Époque art ⓘ
linked to:
Belle Époque
|
| period | Belle Époque ⓘ |
| titleInFrench |
Le Bal masqué à l’Élysée
ⓘ
linked to:
The Masked Ball at the Élysée
|
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 Masked Ball at the Élysée Description of subject: The Masked Ball at the Élysée is a celebrated late 19th-century painting by Henri Gervex depicting an opulent, costume-filled social gathering at the French presidential palace.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Masked Ball at the Élysée