Anish Kapoor
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Anish Kapoor is a renowned British-Indian sculptor known for his large-scale, reflective, and often abstract public artworks that explore perception, space, and materiality.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Anish Kapoor canonical | 27 |
| Anish Kapoor’s void sculptures | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T20576 — 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: Anish Kapoor Context triple: [Cloud Gate, creator, Anish Kapoor]
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A.
Frank Gehry
Frank Gehry is a renowned Canadian-American architect celebrated for his innovative, sculptural, and deconstructivist building designs worldwide.
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B.
Renzo Piano
Renzo Piano is an acclaimed Italian architect known for his innovative, light-filled museum designs and landmark projects such as the Centre Pompidou in Paris and The Shard in London.
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C.
Oscar Niemeyer
Oscar Niemeyer was a pioneering Brazilian architect renowned for his curvaceous modernist designs and major contributions to 20th-century architecture, including landmark civic and cultural buildings worldwide.
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D.
Le Corbusier
Le Corbusier was a pioneering 20th-century Swiss-French architect and urban planner whose influential modernist designs and theories helped shape contemporary architecture worldwide.
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E.
Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi
Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi was a 19th-century French sculptor best known for creating the Statue of Liberty.
- 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: Anish Kapoor Target entity description: Anish Kapoor is a renowned British-Indian sculptor known for his large-scale, reflective, and often abstract public artworks that explore perception, space, and materiality.
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A.
Frank Gehry
Frank Gehry is a renowned Canadian-American architect celebrated for his innovative, sculptural, and deconstructivist building designs worldwide.
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B.
Renzo Piano
Renzo Piano is an acclaimed Italian architect known for his innovative, light-filled museum designs and landmark projects such as the Centre Pompidou in Paris and The Shard in London.
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C.
Oscar Niemeyer
Oscar Niemeyer was a pioneering Brazilian architect renowned for his curvaceous modernist designs and major contributions to 20th-century architecture, including landmark civic and cultural buildings worldwide.
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D.
Le Corbusier
Le Corbusier was a pioneering 20th-century Swiss-French architect and urban planner whose influential modernist designs and theories helped shape contemporary architecture worldwide.
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E.
Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi
Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi was a 19th-century French sculptor best known for creating the Statue of Liberty.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (56)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
contemporary artist
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human ⓘ sculptor ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Order of the British Empire
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surface form:
Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Knighthood ⓘ Praemium Imperiale for Architecture ⓘ
surface form:
Praemium Imperiale
Turner Prize ⓘ |
| basedIn |
London, England
ⓘ
surface form:
London
|
| birthName | Anish Kapoor self-link ⓘ |
| citizenship |
India
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | India ⓘ |
| creatorOf |
Sunsphere
ⓘ
surface form:
ArcelorMittal Orbit
Cloud Gate ⓘ Descent into Limbo ⓘ Leviathan ⓘ Marsyas ⓘ Shooting into the Corner ⓘ Sky Mirror ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1954-03-12 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of the Arts London
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surface form:
Chelsea School of Art and Design
Hornsey College of Art ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | Indian ⓘ |
| familyName | Kapoor ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
public art
ⓘ
sculpture ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Anish ⓘ |
| honorificTitle | Sir ⓘ |
| knownFor |
exploration of voids and negative space
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monumental inflatable installations ⓘ use of highly polished reflective surfaces ⓘ use of intense pigments ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
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Hindi ⓘ |
| movement |
contemporary art
ⓘ
postminimalism ⓘ |
| name | Anish Kapoor self-link ⓘ |
| nationality |
British
ⓘ
Indian ⓘ |
| notableFor |
abstract sculpture
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large-scale public sculptures ⓘ reflective sculptures ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Sunsphere
ⓘ
surface form:
ArcelorMittal Orbit
Cloud Gate ⓘ Descent into Limbo ⓘ Leviathan ⓘ Marsyas ⓘ Shooting into the Corner ⓘ Sky Mirror ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Mumbai ⓘ |
| residence |
London, England
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surface form:
London
|
| workLocation |
United Kingdom
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international public spaces ⓘ |
| yearAwarded |
Turner Prize
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surface form:
1991 Turner Prize
2013 Knighthood ⓘ |
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Referenced by (28)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Anish Kapoor’s void sculptures
subject surface form:
Monumenta 2011
subject surface form:
Tall Tree & The Eye
subject surface form:
Tall Tree & The Eye
subject surface form:
Tall Tree & The Eye