Cai Guo-Qiang: Head On
E477143
"Cai Guo-Qiang: Head On" is an exhibition catalogue and monograph documenting the influential Chinese artist’s large-scale, gunpowder-based installations and conceptual works, with a focus on his celebrated piece "Head On."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cai Guo-Qiang: Head On canonical | 1 |
| Cai Guo-Qiang: Head On (exhibition) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4705927 — 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: Cai Guo-Qiang: Head On Context triple: [Cai Guo-Qiang, hasPublication, Cai Guo-Qiang: Head On]
-
A.
Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe
"Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe" is a major retrospective exhibition and accompanying catalogue that surveys the career, gunpowder drawings, and large-scale explosion events of Chinese contemporary artist Cai Guo-Qiang.
-
B.
Cai Guo-Qiang: Falling Back to Earth
Cai Guo-Qiang: Falling Back to Earth is an exhibition catalogue and monograph documenting Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang’s large-scale, nature-focused installations created for the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art.
-
C.
Cai Guo-Qiang: The Ninth Wave
Cai Guo-Qiang: The Ninth Wave is an art project and exhibition by Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang that explores environmental crisis and humanity’s relationship with nature through large-scale, often explosive and immersive installations.
-
D.
Cai Guo-Qiang: Fallen Blossoms
"Cai Guo-Qiang: Fallen Blossoms" is an art publication documenting Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang’s large-scale, often pyrotechnic installations and projects themed around transience, memory, and cultural history.
-
E.
Cai Guo-Qiang: Saraab
"Cai Guo-Qiang: Saraab" is an exhibition catalogue and art book documenting Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang’s large-scale installations and gunpowder works inspired by the history and culture of Qatar and the Middle East.
- 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: Cai Guo-Qiang: Head On Target entity description: "Cai Guo-Qiang: Head On" is an exhibition catalogue and monograph documenting the influential Chinese artist’s large-scale, gunpowder-based installations and conceptual works, with a focus on his celebrated piece "Head On."
-
A.
Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe
"Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe" is a major retrospective exhibition and accompanying catalogue that surveys the career, gunpowder drawings, and large-scale explosion events of Chinese contemporary artist Cai Guo-Qiang.
-
B.
Cai Guo-Qiang: Falling Back to Earth
Cai Guo-Qiang: Falling Back to Earth is an exhibition catalogue and monograph documenting Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang’s large-scale, nature-focused installations created for the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art.
-
C.
Cai Guo-Qiang: The Ninth Wave
Cai Guo-Qiang: The Ninth Wave is an art project and exhibition by Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang that explores environmental crisis and humanity’s relationship with nature through large-scale, often explosive and immersive installations.
-
D.
Cai Guo-Qiang: Fallen Blossoms
"Cai Guo-Qiang: Fallen Blossoms" is an art publication documenting Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang’s large-scale, often pyrotechnic installations and projects themed around transience, memory, and cultural history.
-
E.
Cai Guo-Qiang: Saraab
"Cai Guo-Qiang: Saraab" is an exhibition catalogue and art book documenting Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang’s large-scale installations and gunpowder works inspired by the history and culture of Qatar and the Middle East.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
art book
ⓘ
exhibition catalogue ⓘ monograph ⓘ |
| about |
Chinese contemporary art
ⓘ
conceptual art ⓘ contemporary art ⓘ gunpowder art ⓘ installation art ⓘ |
| associatedWithExhibition |
Cai Guo-Qiang: Head On (exhibition)
ⓘ
linked to:
Cai Guo-Qiang: Head On
|
| associatedWithInstitution |
Deutsche Guggenheim
ⓘ
Guggenheim Museum ⓘ
linked to:
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
|
| contains |
artist statements by Cai Guo-Qiang
ⓘ
critical analysis of Head On ⓘ essays on Cai Guo-Qiang ⓘ photographic documentation of installations ⓘ |
| countryOfPublication | Germany ⓘ |
| criticalReception | documents internationally acclaimed work ⓘ |
| documentsArtForm |
performance-related installation
ⓘ
pyrotechnic art ⓘ site-specific installation ⓘ |
| documentsArtwork |
Head On (installation)
ⓘ
gunpowder drawings by Cai Guo-Qiang ⓘ large-scale installations by Cai Guo-Qiang ⓘ |
| documentsWorkOf | Cai Guo-Qiang ⓘ |
| featuresArtist | Cai Guo-Qiang ⓘ |
| featuresArtistNationality | Chinese ⓘ |
| featuresMedium |
gunpowder
ⓘ
installation ⓘ mixed media ⓘ |
| focusesOnWork | Head On ⓘ |
| genre |
art monograph
ⓘ
exhibition catalogue ⓘ |
| intendedAudience |
art historians
ⓘ
curators ⓘ general art public ⓘ students of contemporary art ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainArtworkDepicted | installation of running wolves colliding with glass wall ⓘ |
| publisher | Hatje Cantz ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
explosion events in art
ⓘ
political and social themes in contemporary Chinese art ⓘ relationship between tradition and modernity in Chinese art ⓘ spectacle and violence in art ⓘ |
| timePeriodDocumented |
early 21st century
ⓘ
late 20th century ⓘ |
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: Cai Guo-Qiang: Head On Description of subject: "Cai Guo-Qiang: Head On" is an exhibition catalogue and monograph documenting the influential Chinese artist’s large-scale, gunpowder-based installations and conceptual works, with a focus on his celebrated piece "Head On."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Cai Guo-Qiang: Head On