Gli (Wall)}
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Gli (Wall) is a monumental installation by Ghanaian artist El Anatsui composed of shimmering metallic fragments that evoke architectural screens and explore themes of permeability, history, and transformation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Gli (Wall)} canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4745666 — 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: Gli (Wall)} Context triple: [El Anatsui, notableWork, Gli (Wall)}]
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A.
Walili
Walili, better known as Volubilis, is an ancient Roman and early Islamic city in present-day Morocco that served as the first capital of the Idrisid dynasty.
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B.
Gillam
Gillam is a small remote community in northern Manitoba, Canada, known as a service and access point for nearby wilderness areas and hydroelectric developments.
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C.
Gil
Gil is a common shortened form of the given name Gilbert, used as a familiar or informal variant.
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D.
Gil
Gil is a common Spanish surname borne by numerous individuals across various fields, including sports, arts, and public life.
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E.
Wulian
Wulian is a county-level city in eastern China’s Shandong province, known for its mountainous scenery and location on the Shandong Peninsula.
- 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: Gli (Wall)} Target entity description: Gli (Wall) is a monumental installation by Ghanaian artist El Anatsui composed of shimmering metallic fragments that evoke architectural screens and explore themes of permeability, history, and transformation.
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A.
Walili
Walili, better known as Volubilis, is an ancient Roman and early Islamic city in present-day Morocco that served as the first capital of the Idrisid dynasty.
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B.
Gillam
Gillam is a small remote community in northern Manitoba, Canada, known as a service and access point for nearby wilderness areas and hydroelectric developments.
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C.
Gil
Gil is a common shortened form of the given name Gilbert, used as a familiar or informal variant.
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D.
Gil
Gil is a common Spanish surname borne by numerous individuals across various fields, including sports, arts, and public life.
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E.
Wulian
Wulian is a county-level city in eastern China’s Shandong province, known for its mountainous scenery and location on the Shandong Peninsula.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
art installation
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contemporary artwork ⓘ |
| artForm | monumental wall installation ⓘ |
| artMovement | contemporary art ⓘ |
| concept |
changing spatial perception
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reconfigurable form ⓘ recycling industrial waste into art ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Ghana ⓘ |
| creator | El Anatsui ⓘ |
| depicts | architectural screens ⓘ |
| exhibitionVenue |
contemporary art biennials
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major international museums ⓘ |
| explores |
relationship between architecture and textile
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relationship between solidity and transparency ⓘ tension between barrier and passage ⓘ |
| genre | installation art ⓘ |
| hasPart | shimmering metallic fragments ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
African textile traditions
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Ewe kente cloth patterns ⓘ Ghanaian visual culture ⓘ |
| languageOfTitle | Ewe ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
history
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permeability ⓘ transformation ⓘ |
| materialUsed |
aluminum
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bottle caps ⓘ copper wire ⓘ metallic fragments ⓘ recycled materials ⓘ |
| notableFor |
ability to be reinstalled in different configurations
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large scale ⓘ transformative use of discarded materials ⓘ |
| technique |
crumpling
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cutting ⓘ flattening ⓘ stitching with wire ⓘ |
| theme |
barriers and borders
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colonial history ⓘ memory ⓘ migration ⓘ porosity of boundaries ⓘ trade and exchange ⓘ |
| titleMeaning | “wall” ⓘ |
| visualCharacteristic |
flexible metal sheet
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shimmering surface ⓘ textile-like appearance ⓘ |
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: Gli (Wall)} Description of subject: Gli (Wall) is a monumental installation by Ghanaian artist El Anatsui composed of shimmering metallic fragments that evoke architectural screens and explore themes of permeability, history, and transformation.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.