Raw Materials
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"Raw Materials" is a large-scale sound installation by American artist Bruce Nauman that layers and projects his recorded texts through a long corridor to immerse visitors in a disorienting, language-focused environment.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Raw Materials canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4793209 — 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: Raw Materials Context triple: [Bruce Nauman, notableWork, Raw Materials]
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A.
Materials Division
The Materials Division is a technical unit of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers that focuses on advancing the science, engineering, and application of materials in mechanical systems.
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B.
EIT RawMaterials
EIT RawMaterials is a European innovation community that supports research, education, and entrepreneurship to strengthen the raw materials sector and promote a sustainable, circular economy.
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C.
Maderas
Maderas is a stratovolcano on Ometepe Island in Lake Nicaragua, known for its cloud forest, crater lagoon, and popular hiking trails.
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D.
Staple
Staple is a small rural village and civil parish in Kent, England, known for its historic church and agricultural surroundings.
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E.
Lenswood
Lenswood is a small rural town in South Australia's Adelaide Hills region, known for its cool-climate orchards and scenic vineyards.
- 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: Raw Materials Target entity description: "Raw Materials" is a large-scale sound installation by American artist Bruce Nauman that layers and projects his recorded texts through a long corridor to immerse visitors in a disorienting, language-focused environment.
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A.
Materials Division
The Materials Division is a technical unit of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers that focuses on advancing the science, engineering, and application of materials in mechanical systems.
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B.
EIT RawMaterials
EIT RawMaterials is a European innovation community that supports research, education, and entrepreneurship to strengthen the raw materials sector and promote a sustainable, circular economy.
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C.
Maderas
Maderas is a stratovolcano on Ometepe Island in Lake Nicaragua, known for its cloud forest, crater lagoon, and popular hiking trails.
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D.
Staple
Staple is a small rural village and civil parish in Kent, England, known for its historic church and agricultural surroundings.
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E.
Lenswood
Lenswood is a small rural town in South Australia's Adelaide Hills region, known for its cool-climate orchards and scenic vineyards.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
artwork
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installation art ⓘ sound installation ⓘ |
| artForm | contemporary installation ⓘ |
| artisticGoal |
to destabilize conventional listening
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to immerse visitors in language ⓘ |
| conceptualStrategy | using language as sculptural material ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| creator | Bruce Nauman ⓘ |
| creatorNationality | American ⓘ |
| effectOnAudience |
disorientation
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heightened awareness of language ⓘ |
| experienceType | immersive ⓘ |
| focus |
physical presence of sound in space
ⓘ
relationship between body and language ⓘ |
| genre | sound art ⓘ |
| hasForm | corridor-based sound work ⓘ |
| hasPart |
audio projections
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corridor installation ⓘ recorded texts ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Raw Materials ⓘ |
| installationType | site-specific installation ⓘ |
| intendedSetting |
gallery
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museum ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
disorientation
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language ⓘ perception ⓘ speech ⓘ |
| movement |
conceptual art
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contemporary art ⓘ postminimalism ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
focus on language as material
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immersive auditory environment ⓘ layering of multiple voice recordings ⓘ long corridor of sound ⓘ |
| perceptualStrategy |
directional sound along a path
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overlapping voices ⓘ |
| scale | large-scale ⓘ |
| soundConfiguration | multi-channel audio ⓘ |
| soundSource | artist’s own recorded texts ⓘ |
| spatialArrangement | speakers distributed along a corridor ⓘ |
| usesMedium |
loudspeakers
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recorded voice ⓘ sound ⓘ |
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: Raw Materials Description of subject: "Raw Materials" is a large-scale sound installation by American artist Bruce Nauman that layers and projects his recorded texts through a long corridor to immerse visitors in a disorienting, language-focused environment.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.