The Nun (plate)
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The Nun (plate) is a specific woodcut from the "Dance of Death" series depicting Death confronting a nun to illustrate the universality of mortality.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Nun (plate) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10221885 — 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 Nun (plate) Context triple: [Dance of Death woodcuts, hasPart, The Nun (plate)]
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A.
Caroline Plate
The Caroline Plate is a small tectonic plate in the western Pacific Ocean, located north of New Guinea and interacting with several surrounding plates in a complex boundary zone.
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B.
Nun
Nun is the primordial watery chaos in ancient Egyptian mythology, representing the formless abyss from which creation first emerged.
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C.
The Nun II
The Nun II is a 2023 supernatural horror film in The Conjuring Universe franchise, serving as a sequel to The Nun and following the demonic entity Valak as it terrorizes new victims in 1950s Europe.
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D.
Sacrofano
Sacrofano is a small historic town in the Lazio region of central Italy, known for its medieval center and proximity to the natural and archaeological landscapes north of Rome.
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E.
The Nun
The Nun is a 1966 French drama film directed by Jacques Rivette, adapted from Denis Diderot’s novel about a young woman forced into convent life and struggling against religious oppression.
- 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 Nun (plate) Target entity description: The Nun (plate) is a specific woodcut from the "Dance of Death" series depicting Death confronting a nun to illustrate the universality of mortality.
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A.
Caroline Plate
The Caroline Plate is a small tectonic plate in the western Pacific Ocean, located north of New Guinea and interacting with several surrounding plates in a complex boundary zone.
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B.
Nun
Nun is the primordial watery chaos in ancient Egyptian mythology, representing the formless abyss from which creation first emerged.
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C.
The Nun II
The Nun II is a 2023 supernatural horror film in The Conjuring Universe franchise, serving as a sequel to The Nun and following the demonic entity Valak as it terrorizes new victims in 1950s Europe.
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D.
Sacrofano
Sacrofano is a small historic town in the Lazio region of central Italy, known for its medieval center and proximity to the natural and archaeological landscapes north of Rome.
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E.
The Nun
The Nun is a 2018 supernatural horror film in The Conjuring Universe that follows a priest and a novice investigating a demonic presence at a remote Romanian monastery.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
artwork
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woodcut print ⓘ |
| artMovement | Northern Renaissance ⓘ |
| conceptuallyRelatedTo |
Danse Macabre
ⓘ
linked to:
Danse macabre
late medieval attitudes toward death ⓘ |
| depicts |
Death confronting a nun
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nun ⓘ personification of Death ⓘ |
| genre |
allegorical print
ⓘ
religious art ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
memento mori
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universality of death ⓘ vanitas ⓘ |
| hasTitle | The Nun ⓘ |
| illustrates |
death of all social classes
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inevitability of death ⓘ moralizing message about mortality ⓘ |
| intendedFunction |
didactic image
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moral instruction ⓘ |
| languageOfTitle | English ⓘ |
| medium | woodcut ⓘ |
| partOfSeries |
Dance of Death
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linked to:
The Dance of Death
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| represents | universality of mortality ⓘ |
| seriesType | Dance of Death series ⓘ |
| subjectMatter | religious figure confronted by Death ⓘ |
| technique | relief printing ⓘ |
| visualMotif |
confrontation between Death and human
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female religious habit ⓘ skeletal Death figure ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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 Nun (plate) Description of subject: The Nun (plate) is a specific woodcut from the "Dance of Death" series depicting Death confronting a nun to illustrate the universality of mortality.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.