Penetrable
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Penetrable is an immersive, large-scale interactive installation artwork by Jesús Rafael Soto composed of hanging plastic strands that viewers can walk through.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Penetrable canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T273779 — 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: Penetrable Context triple: [Los Angeles County Museum of Art, hasNotableWork, Penetrable]
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Pan
Pan is a genus of great apes that includes chimpanzees and bonobos, our closest living evolutionary relatives.
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Pan
Pan is the rustic Greek god of shepherds, flocks, and wild nature, often depicted with goat-like features and associated with music and untamed wilderness.
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Surefire
"Surefire" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Jon Bellion, featured on his album "The Human Condition."
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The Pit
The Pit is a famed college basketball arena in Albuquerque, New Mexico, renowned for its intense atmosphere and distinctive sunken design.
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Edge
Edge is Microsoft’s modern web browser designed to be fast, secure, and integrated with the Windows ecosystem and Microsoft services.
- 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: Penetrable Target entity description: Penetrable is an immersive, large-scale interactive installation artwork by Jesús Rafael Soto composed of hanging plastic strands that viewers can walk through.
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A.
Pan
Pan is the rustic Greek god of shepherds, flocks, and wild nature, often depicted with goat-like features and associated with music and untamed wilderness.
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B.
Pan
Pan is a genus of great apes that includes chimpanzees and bonobos, our closest living evolutionary relatives.
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C.
Surefire
"Surefire" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Jon Bellion, featured on his album "The Human Condition."
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D.
The Pit
The Pit is a famed college basketball arena in Albuquerque, New Mexico, renowned for its intense atmosphere and distinctive sunken design.
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E.
Edge
Edge is Microsoft’s modern web browser designed to be fast, secure, and integrated with the Windows ecosystem and Microsoft services.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
installation artwork
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interactive artwork ⓘ kinetic art ⓘ |
| artForm | contemporary art ⓘ |
| artist | Jesús Rafael Soto ⓘ |
| artisticConcept |
dematerialization of the art object
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indeterminate form ⓘ integration of viewer and artwork ⓘ participatory experience ⓘ perception of space and movement ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Latin American modern art ⓘ |
| color |
often monochrome
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sometimes brightly colored ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Venezuela ⓘ |
| creator | Jesús Rafael Soto ⓘ |
| designedFor |
gallery display
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museum display ⓘ public interaction ⓘ |
| displayMode |
occupies entire room or large area
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suspended from ceiling ⓘ |
| experience |
changing perception depending on movement
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viewers move through dense field of strands ⓘ visual blurring of bodies and space ⓘ |
| feature |
immersive spatial experience
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large-scale environment ⓘ optical vibration effects ⓘ tactile interaction ⓘ viewer participation ⓘ viewers can walk through the work ⓘ |
| genre |
immersive art
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installation art ⓘ |
| hasPart |
hanging strands
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suspended elements ⓘ |
| hasVersion |
Penetrable (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
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linked to:
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Penetrable (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston) ⓘ
linked to:
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Penetrable (various site-specific installations) ⓘ |
| inCollection | various museum collections ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
constructivism
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geometric abstraction ⓘ optical art ⓘ |
| material | plastic ⓘ |
| medium | plastic strands ⓘ |
| movement |
Kinetic art
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Op art ⓘ |
| notableFor |
early example of immersive installation art
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iconic work of Jesús Rafael Soto ⓘ viewer-activated kinetic effects ⓘ |
| requires |
careful spatial planning
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structural support grid ⓘ |
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: Penetrable Description of subject: Penetrable is an immersive, large-scale interactive installation artwork by Jesús Rafael Soto composed of hanging plastic strands that viewers can walk through.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.