Every Building on the Sunset Strip
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Every Building on the Sunset Strip is a landmark 1966 artist’s book by Ed Ruscha that presents a continuous photographic panorama of Los Angeles’s Sunset Strip, exemplifying his conceptual and serial approach to urban landscape.
All labels observed (1)
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| Every Building on the Sunset Strip canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6491470 — 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: Every Building on the Sunset Strip Context triple: [Ed Ruscha, notableWork, Every Building on the Sunset Strip]
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Sunset Strip
Sunset Strip is a famous stretch of Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood known for its historic concentration of music venues, nightlife, and its central role in rock and counterculture scenes of the 1960s and beyond.
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B.
Sunset Strip
Sunset Strip is a famous seafront promenade in Sant Antoni de Portmany, Ibiza, renowned for its sunset views, beachfront bars, and lively nightlife.
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C.
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
Down and Out in Beverly Hills is a 1986 American comedy film about a wealthy but dysfunctional Beverly Hills family whose lives are upended when they take in a suicidal homeless man.
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D.
L.A.'s Finest
L.A.'s Finest is an action-comedy television series and Bad Boys spin-off that follows two LAPD detectives, played by Gabrielle Union and Jessica Alba, as they tackle crime in Los Angeles while juggling complicated personal lives.
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E.
77 Sunset Strip
77 Sunset Strip is a popular late-1950s and early-1960s American television detective series set in Los Angeles, known for its stylish private investigators and jazzy, youth-oriented tone.
- 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: Every Building on the Sunset Strip Target entity description: Every Building on the Sunset Strip is a landmark 1966 artist’s book by Ed Ruscha that presents a continuous photographic panorama of Los Angeles’s Sunset Strip, exemplifying his conceptual and serial approach to urban landscape.
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A.
Sunset Strip
Sunset Strip is a famous stretch of Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood known for its historic concentration of music venues, nightlife, and its central role in rock and counterculture scenes of the 1960s and beyond.
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B.
Sunset Strip
Sunset Strip is a famous seafront promenade in Sant Antoni de Portmany, Ibiza, renowned for its sunset views, beachfront bars, and lively nightlife.
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C.
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
Down and Out in Beverly Hills is a 1986 American comedy film about a wealthy but dysfunctional Beverly Hills family whose lives are upended when they take in a suicidal homeless man.
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D.
L.A.'s Finest
L.A.'s Finest is an action-comedy television series and Bad Boys spin-off that follows two LAPD detectives, played by Gabrielle Union and Jessica Alba, as they tackle crime in Los Angeles while juggling complicated personal lives.
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E.
77 Sunset Strip
77 Sunset Strip is a popular late-1950s and early-1960s American television detective series set in Los Angeles, known for its stylish private investigators and jazzy, youth-oriented tone.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
artist's book
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artist's publication ⓘ conceptual art work ⓘ photobook ⓘ |
| artMovement |
Conceptual art
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Pop art ⓘ |
| author | Ed Ruscha ⓘ |
| binding | fold-out leporello ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| coverMaterial | silver-colored paper covers ⓘ |
| creator | Ed Ruscha ⓘ |
| creatorNationality | American ⓘ |
| depicts |
Los Angeles urban landscape
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Sunset Boulevard ⓘ billboards ⓘ commercial buildings ⓘ storefronts ⓘ |
| format | accordion-fold book ⓘ |
| genre |
conceptual photography
ⓘ
serial photography ⓘ |
| hasTypeOfWork | documentation of architecture ⓘ |
| inception | 1966 ⓘ |
| inCollection |
Getty Research Institute
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Los Angeles County Museum of Art ⓘ Museum of Modern Art, New York ⓘ
linked to:
Museum of Modern Art
Tate Modern ⓘ |
| influenced |
later conceptual photobooks
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urban documentary practices in art ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| locationDepicted |
Los Angeles, California
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West Hollywood ⓘ |
| material | offset-printed paper ⓘ |
| medium | black-and-white photography ⓘ |
| notableFor |
continuous panorama of Sunset Strip buildings
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landmark status in artist's book history ⓘ systematic documentation of urban landscape ⓘ |
| originalPrintRun | 1000 copies ⓘ |
| pageOrientation | horizontal strip ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Ed Ruscha's self-published books ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1966 ⓘ |
| publisher | Ed Ruscha ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
Twentysix Gasoline Stations
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Various Small Fires and Milk ⓘ |
| selfPublished | true ⓘ |
| series | Ed Ruscha artist's books ⓘ |
| subject | Sunset Strip ⓘ |
| technique |
continuous photographic panorama
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serial documentation ⓘ |
| timePeriodDepicted | 1960s Los Angeles ⓘ |
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