Nancy Holt
E469436
artist
environmental artist
filmmaker
human
installation artist
land artist
photographer
sculptor
video artist
Nancy Holt was an influential American artist associated with the Land Art movement, best known for her large-scale environmental sculptures and explorations of perception, light, and landscape.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nancy Holt canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4776159 — 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: Nancy Holt Context triple: [Dark Star Park, creator, Nancy Holt]
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A.
Michael Heizer
Michael Heizer is an American land artist renowned for his monumental earthworks and large-scale sculptural interventions in the landscape.
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B.
Phyllis Gilman Diebenkorn
Phyllis Gilman Diebenkorn was the wife and lifelong partner of American painter Richard Diebenkorn, accompanying and supporting him throughout his artistic career.
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C.
Susan Hay
Susan Hay was the wife of George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie, a Scottish nobleman and colonial administrator in British North America.
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D.
Ursula von Rydingsvard
Ursula von Rydingsvard is a Polish-American sculptor renowned for her monumental, hand-carved cedar wood sculptures that explore memory, identity, and the natural world.
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E.
Ed Moses
Ed Moses was an influential American abstract painter associated with the Los Angeles art scene and the West Coast’s postwar avant-garde.
- 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: Nancy Holt Target entity description: Nancy Holt was an influential American artist associated with the Land Art movement, best known for her large-scale environmental sculptures and explorations of perception, light, and landscape.
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A.
Michael Heizer
Michael Heizer is an American land artist renowned for his monumental earthworks and large-scale sculptural interventions in the landscape.
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B.
Phyllis Gilman Diebenkorn
Phyllis Gilman Diebenkorn was the wife and lifelong partner of American painter Richard Diebenkorn, accompanying and supporting him throughout his artistic career.
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C.
Susan Hay
Susan Hay was the wife of George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie, a Scottish nobleman and colonial administrator in British North America.
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D.
Ursula von Rydingsvard
Ursula von Rydingsvard is a Polish-American sculptor renowned for her monumental, hand-carved cedar wood sculptures that explore memory, identity, and the natural world.
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E.
Ed Moses
Ed Moses was an influential American abstract painter associated with the Los Angeles art scene and the West Coast’s postwar avant-garde.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (63)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
artist
ⓘ
environmental artist ⓘ filmmaker ⓘ human ⓘ installation artist ⓘ land artist ⓘ photographer ⓘ sculptor ⓘ video artist ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Land Art movement
ⓘ
linked to:
Land art
Robert Smithson ⓘ |
| birthName | Nancy Holt ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Holt ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
earthworks
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environmental sculpture ⓘ film ⓘ installation art ⓘ photography ⓘ public art ⓘ video art ⓘ |
| genre |
environmental art
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public sculpture ⓘ site-specific art ⓘ |
| givenName | Nancy ⓘ |
| hasWorkInCollection |
Dia Art Foundation
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Museum of Modern Art ⓘ Smithsonian American Art Museum ⓘ Whitney Museum of American Art ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Conceptual art
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Minimalism ⓘ |
| movement |
Conceptual art
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Environmental art ⓘ Land Art ⓘ
linked to:
Land art
|
| name | Nancy Holt ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
explorations of perception
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integration of landscape and sculpture ⓘ large-scale environmental sculptures ⓘ use of light in art ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Boomerang
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Buried Poems ⓘ Dark Star Park ⓘ Hydra’s Head ⓘ Pipeline ⓘ Sightlines ⓘ Sky Mound ⓘ Stone Enclosure: Rock Rings ⓘ Sun Tunnels ⓘ Swamp ⓘ Views Through a Sand Dune ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Robert Smithson ⓘ |
| theme |
cosmology
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landscape ⓘ orientation in space ⓘ perception ⓘ time ⓘ vision ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Nevada
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New York City ⓘ United States of America ⓘ Utah ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Nancy Holt Description of subject: Nancy Holt was an influential American artist associated with the Land Art movement, best known for her large-scale environmental sculptures and explorations of perception, light, and landscape.
Referenced by (9)
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