David Best
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David Best is an American artist renowned for designing and building large-scale, intricately decorated wooden temples for the Burning Man festival and other public art projects.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Best canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2604366 — 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: David Best Context triple: [Best, hasNotableBearer, David Best]
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A.
David Hartnett
David Hartnett is a British civil servant best known for serving as the Permanent Secretary for Tax at HM Revenue and Customs, where he was the UK's top tax official.
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B.
Phil Woolpert
Phil Woolpert was a prominent American college basketball coach best known for leading the University of San Francisco to multiple national championships in the 1950s.
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C.
David Richmond
David Richmond was a civil rights activist best known as one of the four African American students who initiated the 1960 Greensboro sit-ins challenging racial segregation at a Woolworth’s lunch counter in North Carolina.
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D.
David Arnold
David Arnold is a British film composer best known for his work on several James Bond soundtracks and other major Hollywood films.
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E.
Paul Bacon
Paul Bacon was an influential American graphic designer and illustrator renowned for pioneering the "big book" cover style for major 20th-century novels and jazz albums.
- 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: David Best Target entity description: David Best is an American artist renowned for designing and building large-scale, intricately decorated wooden temples for the Burning Man festival and other public art projects.
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A.
David Hartnett
David Hartnett is a British civil servant best known for serving as the Permanent Secretary for Tax at HM Revenue and Customs, where he was the UK's top tax official.
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B.
Phil Woolpert
Phil Woolpert was a prominent American college basketball coach best known for leading the University of San Francisco to multiple national championships in the 1950s.
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C.
David Richmond
David Richmond was a civil rights activist best known as one of the four African American students who initiated the 1960 Greensboro sit-ins challenging racial segregation at a Woolworth’s lunch counter in North Carolina.
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D.
David Arnold
David Arnold is a British film composer best known for his work on several James Bond soundtracks and other major Hollywood films.
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E.
Paul Bacon
Paul Bacon was an influential American graphic designer and illustrator renowned for pioneering the "big book" cover style for major 20th-century novels and jazz albums.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
artist
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human ⓘ installation artist ⓘ sculptor ⓘ |
| artMedium |
laser-cut wood panels
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reclaimed wood ⓘ wood ⓘ |
| basedIn |
California, United States
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surface form:
California
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer |
Burning Man Project
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surface form:
Burning Man (as recurring commissioned artist)
|
| fieldOfWork |
installation art
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public art ⓘ sculpture ⓘ |
| genre |
memorial art
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ritual space design ⓘ site-specific art ⓘ |
| hasWorkLocation |
Black Rock City
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surface form:
Black Rock City, Nevada
California, United States ⓘ
surface form:
California
Florida ⓘ Northern Ireland ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement |
ephemeral art
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participatory art ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Burning Man temples
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collaborative construction with volunteers ⓘ community-based temple building ⓘ creating spaces for grief and remembrance ⓘ large-scale wooden temples ⓘ temples that are ceremonially burned ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Temple at Derry/Londonderry
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Temple of Forgiveness ⓘ Temple of Honor ⓘ
surface form:
Temple of Grace
Temple of Honor ⓘ Temple of Joy ⓘ Temple of Juno ⓘ Temple of Peace (Redding, California) ⓘ Enniskillen War Memorial ⓘ
surface form:
Temple of Remembrance (Northern Ireland)
Temple of Forgiveness ⓘ
surface form:
Temple of Reunion
Temple of Stars ⓘ Temple of Tears ⓘ The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time ⓘ
surface form:
Temple of Time
Temple of Time (Costa Mesa, California) ⓘ Temple of Time (Parkland, Florida) ⓘ Temple of the Mind ⓘ |
| occupation |
artist
ⓘ
installation artist ⓘ sculptor ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Burning Man Project
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surface form:
Burning Man
|
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: David Best Description of subject: David Best is an American artist renowned for designing and building large-scale, intricately decorated wooden temples for the Burning Man festival and other public art projects.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Temple (Burning Man)