Flying Pins
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Flying Pins is a large-scale outdoor sculpture installation by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, featuring oversized yellow bowling pins and a bowling ball seemingly frozen in motion along a Dutch roadway.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Flying Pins canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8888129 — 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: Flying Pins Context triple: [Sculptures by Coosje van Bruggen, notableWork, Flying Pins]
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A.
Needles and Pins
"Needles and Pins" is a well-known pop song, originally popularized in the 1960s and later famously covered by the Ramones on their album "Road to Ruin."
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B.
Flying Pencil
Flying Pencil is the nickname of the German Dornier Do 17, a slender-fuselage light bomber used by the Luftwaffe during the early years of World War II.
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C.
Fingers
"Fingers" is a 1978 American crime drama film about a troubled debt collector and aspiring pianist, directed by James Toback and starring Harvey Keitel.
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D.
Fingertips
"Fingertips" is an early 1960s live-recorded hit single by Stevie Wonder that became his first number-one song on the Billboard Hot 100.
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E.
The Pin in the Bin
The Pin in the Bin is a colloquial nickname for Dublin’s Spire, a tall stainless-steel monument on O’Connell Street that has become a prominent city landmark.
- 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: Flying Pins Target entity description: Flying Pins is a large-scale outdoor sculpture installation by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, featuring oversized yellow bowling pins and a bowling ball seemingly frozen in motion along a Dutch roadway.
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A.
Needles and Pins
"Needles and Pins" is a well-known pop song, originally popularized in the 1960s and later famously covered by the Ramones on their album "Road to Ruin."
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B.
Flying Pencil
Flying Pencil is the nickname of the German Dornier Do 17, a slender-fuselage light bomber used by the Luftwaffe during the early years of World War II.
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C.
Fingers
"Fingers" is a 1978 American crime drama film about a troubled debt collector and aspiring pianist, directed by James Toback and starring Harvey Keitel.
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D.
Fingertips
"Fingertips" is an early 1960s live-recorded hit single by Stevie Wonder that became his first number-one song on the Billboard Hot 100.
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E.
The Pin in the Bin
The Pin in the Bin is a colloquial nickname for Dublin’s Spire, a tall stainless-steel monument on O’Connell Street that has become a prominent city landmark.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | outdoor sculpture installation ⓘ |
| artForm | sculpture ⓘ |
| color | yellow ⓘ |
| commissionedBy | City of Eindhoven NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Netherlands ⓘ |
| creator |
Claes Oldenburg
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Coosje van Bruggen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| depicts |
bowling ball
ⓘ
bowling pins ⓘ |
| frozenInMotion | yes ⓘ |
| genre | pop art ⓘ |
| hasPart |
oversized bowling ball
ⓘ
oversized bowling pins ⓘ |
| imageSubject | oversized yellow bowling pins along a roadway ⓘ |
| inception | 2000 ⓘ |
| installationType | large-scale ⓘ |
| locatedAlong | John F. Kennedylaan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Eindhoven
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
North Brabant ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Eindhoven University of Technology NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| materialUsed | painted metal ⓘ |
| movement | Pop art NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWorkOf |
Claes Oldenburg
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Coosje van Bruggen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| owner | Municipality of Eindhoven NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicAccess | yes ⓘ |
| setting | roadside ⓘ |
| subjectMatter | bowling ⓘ |
| theme | everyday objects enlarged ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Flying Pins Description of subject: Flying Pins is a large-scale outdoor sculpture installation by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, featuring oversized yellow bowling pins and a bowling ball seemingly frozen in motion along a Dutch roadway.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.