Larry Harvey
E1026398
Larry Harvey was an American artist and activist best known as the co-founder of the Burning Man festival in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Larry Harvey canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12998279 — 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: Larry Harvey Context triple: [Birth, featuresCharacter, Larry Harvey]
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A.
Larry Harvey
Larry Harvey is a fictional character from the television series "American Horror Story," known for his sinister and violent role in the first season, "Murder House."
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B.
Richard Hagen
Richard Hagen is a theoretical physicist best known as one of the co-discoverers of the Higgs mechanism in particle physics.
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C.
Herman Wittwer
Herman Wittwer was an American entrepreneur best known as the founder of the major U.S. insurer American Family Insurance.
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D.
Harry Karl
Harry Karl was an American shoe magnate and businessman best known for his high-profile marriages to Hollywood actresses, including Debbie Reynolds.
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E.
Rex Harrington
Rex Harrington is a celebrated Canadian ballet dancer and former principal with the National Ballet of Canada, renowned for his dramatic stage presence and virtuosic technique.
- 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: Larry Harvey Target entity description: Larry Harvey was an American artist and activist best known as the co-founder of the Burning Man festival in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert.
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A.
Larry Harvey
Larry Harvey is a fictional character from the television series "American Horror Story," known for his sinister and violent role in the first season, "Murder House."
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B.
Richard Hagen
Richard Hagen is a theoretical physicist best known as one of the co-discoverers of the Higgs mechanism in particle physics.
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C.
Herman Wittwer
Herman Wittwer was an American entrepreneur best known as the founder of the major U.S. insurer American Family Insurance.
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D.
Harry Karl
Harry Karl was an American shoe magnate and businessman best known for his high-profile marriages to Hollywood actresses, including Debbie Reynolds.
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E.
Rex Harrington
Rex Harrington is a celebrated Canadian ballet dancer and former principal with the National Ballet of Canada, renowned for his dramatic stage presence and virtuosic technique.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
activist
ⓘ
artist ⓘ festival founder ⓘ human ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Black Rock City LLC
ⓘ
Burning Man Project ⓘ |
| coFounderOf |
Burning Man
ⓘ
linked to:
Burning Man Project
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Harvey ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
community arts
ⓘ
performance art ⓘ social activism ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
installation art
ⓘ
participatory art ⓘ |
| givenName | Larry ⓘ |
| hasNotableIdea | Ten Principles of Burning Man ⓘ |
| influenced |
Burning Man community
ⓘ
linked to:
Burning Man regional communities
temporary intentional communities ⓘ |
| knownFor | co-founding the Burning Man festival ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| movement | counterculture ⓘ |
| name | Larry Harvey ⓘ |
| notableRole | main conceptualizer of Burning Man principles ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Burning Man festival
ⓘ
linked to:
Burning Man event site
|
| occupation |
activist
ⓘ
artist ⓘ event organizer ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Black Rock Desert
ⓘ
Nevada ⓘ San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ |
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: Larry Harvey Description of subject: Larry Harvey was an American artist and activist best known as the co-founder of the Burning Man festival in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.