Dropped Cone
E443906
Dropped Cone is a large-scale public sculpture by Claes Oldenburg that depicts an oversized ice cream cone seemingly fallen onto the corner of a building, exemplifying his playful, monumental treatment of everyday objects.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dropped Cone canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4482548 — 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: Dropped Cone Context triple: [Claes Oldenburg, notableWork, Dropped Cone]
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A.
Cone
Cone is a surname most notably associated with David Cone, a former Major League Baseball pitcher and five-time World Series champion.
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B.
Passu Cones
Passu Cones are a striking group of sharply pointed mountain peaks in Pakistan’s Hunza Valley, renowned for their dramatic, jagged skyline within the Karakoram range.
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C.
Cone Collection
The Cone Collection is a renowned assemblage of modern art, particularly strong in works by Matisse and Picasso, housed at the Baltimore Museum of Art.
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D.
Corkscrew
Corkscrew is a steel roller coaster at Michigan’s Adventure known for its signature double-inversion corkscrew elements.
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E.
Shell Toss
Shell Toss is Koops's primary battle move in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, where he attacks enemies by sliding forward in his shell.
- 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: Dropped Cone Target entity description: Dropped Cone is a large-scale public sculpture by Claes Oldenburg that depicts an oversized ice cream cone seemingly fallen onto the corner of a building, exemplifying his playful, monumental treatment of everyday objects.
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A.
Cone
Cone is a surname most notably associated with David Cone, a former Major League Baseball pitcher and five-time World Series champion.
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B.
Passu Cones
Passu Cones are a striking group of sharply pointed mountain peaks in Pakistan’s Hunza Valley, renowned for their dramatic, jagged skyline within the Karakoram range.
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C.
Cone Collection
The Cone Collection is a renowned assemblage of modern art, particularly strong in works by Matisse and Picasso, housed at the Baltimore Museum of Art.
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D.
Corkscrew
Corkscrew is a steel roller coaster at Michigan’s Adventure known for its signature double-inversion corkscrew elements.
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E.
Shell Toss
Shell Toss is Koops's primary battle move in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, where he attacks enemies by sliding forward in his shell.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
outdoor sculpture
ⓘ
public sculpture ⓘ site-specific artwork ⓘ work by Claes Oldenburg ⓘ |
| access | viewable from street ⓘ |
| artForm | sculpture ⓘ |
| artisticTheme |
consumer culture
ⓘ
humor ⓘ playful transformation of scale ⓘ |
| category |
Outdoor sculptures in Cologne
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Pop art sculptures ⓘ Sculptures by Claes Oldenburg ⓘ |
| coCreator | Coosje van Bruggen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coCreatorNationality | Dutch ⓘ |
| color |
cream-colored ice cream
ⓘ
waffle-brown cone ⓘ |
| commissionedFor | commercial building ⓘ |
| country | Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creator | Claes Oldenburg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creatorNationality | American ⓘ |
| depicts |
everyday object
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ice cream cone ⓘ |
| function | public art ⓘ |
| genre | Pop art ⓘ |
| hasTitleLanguage | English ⓘ |
| installedOn | roof corner of a shopping center ⓘ |
| integratedWith | architecture of the building ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Cologne
NERFINISHED
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Germany ⓘ North Rhine-Westphalia ⓘ |
| location | Neumarkt Galerie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| materialUsed |
fiberglass
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steel ⓘ |
| movement | Pop art NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
illusion of a dropped ice cream cone
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playful treatment of everyday objects ⓘ |
| position | appears to have fallen onto the building corner ⓘ |
| publicAccess | yes ⓘ |
| scale | monumental ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
food
ⓘ
urban environment ⓘ |
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: Dropped Cone Description of subject: Dropped Cone is a large-scale public sculpture by Claes Oldenburg that depicts an oversized ice cream cone seemingly fallen onto the corner of a building, exemplifying his playful, monumental treatment of everyday objects.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.