Contact
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Contact is a large-scale immersive art installation by Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson that explores perception, light, and spatial experience.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Contact canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4705764 — 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: Contact Context triple: [Olafur Eliasson, notableWork, Contact]
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A.
Contact
Contact is a science fiction novel by Carl Sagan that explores humanity’s first communication with an extraterrestrial intelligence and the intersection of science, faith, and politics.
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B.
Contact
Contact is a 1997 science fiction film, based on Carl Sagan’s novel, that follows a scientist’s first-contact encounter with extraterrestrial intelligence.
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C.
Contact Publishing
Contact Publishing was a Dutch publishing house best known for originally bringing Anne Frank’s diary to the public.
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D.
Contact (franchise)
Contact is a science fiction franchise centered on humanity’s first contact with extraterrestrial intelligence, best known through Carl Sagan’s novel and its 1997 film adaptation.
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E.
Conn
Conn is an Irish given name of ancient Gaelic origin, often associated with meanings like "chief" or "wisdom" and borne by several legendary and historical figures in Ireland.
- 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: Contact Target entity description: Contact is a large-scale immersive art installation by Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson that explores perception, light, and spatial experience.
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A.
Contact
Contact is a science fiction novel by Carl Sagan that explores humanity’s first communication with an extraterrestrial intelligence and the intersection of science, faith, and politics.
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B.
Contact
Contact is a 1997 science fiction film, based on Carl Sagan’s novel, that follows a scientist’s first-contact encounter with extraterrestrial intelligence.
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C.
Contact Publishing
Contact Publishing was a Dutch publishing house best known for originally bringing Anne Frank’s diary to the public.
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D.
Contact (franchise)
Contact is a science fiction franchise centered on humanity’s first contact with extraterrestrial intelligence, best known through Carl Sagan’s novel and its 1997 film adaptation.
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E.
Conn
Conn is an Irish given name of ancient Gaelic origin, often associated with meanings like "chief" or "wisdom" and borne by several legendary and historical figures in Ireland.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
artwork
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immersive art installation ⓘ |
| artisticGoal |
to explore the relationship between body and space
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to heighten visitors’ awareness of their own perception ⓘ to investigate how light shapes spatial experience ⓘ |
| artistNationality | Icelandic-Danish ⓘ |
| artMovement |
contemporary installation art
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experiential art ⓘ |
| conceptualFocus |
embodied perception
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the physicality of light ⓘ the role of the viewer in constructing space ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
Denmark
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Iceland ⓘ |
| creator |
Olafur Eliasson
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Studio Olafur Eliasson ⓘ
linked to:
Studio Olafur Eliasson, Berlin
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| exhibitionType | site-specific installation ⓘ |
| experienceType | large-scale immersive environment ⓘ |
| genre |
contemporary art
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installation art ⓘ light art ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | nonverbal ⓘ |
| hasPart |
color-saturated environments
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corridors ⓘ darkened spaces ⓘ geometric light projections ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
landscape and atmospheric phenomena
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perceptual psychology ⓘ phenomenology ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
light
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perception ⓘ spatial experience ⓘ |
| movement | visitors walk through the installation ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
Room for one colour
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The Weather Project ⓘ Your Rainbow Panorama ⓘ |
| temporalAspect | experienced over a continuous walk-through duration ⓘ |
| typicalAudienceInteraction |
visitors experience disorientation and reorientation in space
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visitors navigate through changing light and darkness ⓘ visitors’ depth perception is challenged ⓘ |
| usesMaterial |
architectural structures
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fog ⓘ light ⓘ mirrors ⓘ |
| visualCharacteristic |
geometric patterns of illumination
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monochrome and colored light fields ⓘ strong contrasts of light and darkness ⓘ |
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: Contact Description of subject: Contact is a large-scale immersive art installation by Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson that explores perception, light, and spatial experience.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.