Cai Guo-Qiang: The Ninth Wave
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Cai Guo-Qiang: The Ninth Wave is an art project and exhibition by Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang that explores environmental crisis and humanity’s relationship with nature through large-scale, often explosive and immersive installations.
All labels observed (1)
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| Cai Guo-Qiang: The Ninth Wave canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4705925 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cai Guo-Qiang: The Ninth Wave Context triple: [Cai Guo-Qiang, hasPublication, Cai Guo-Qiang: The Ninth Wave]
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A.
Cai Guo-Qiang: Fallen Blossoms
"Cai Guo-Qiang: Fallen Blossoms" is an art publication documenting Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang’s large-scale, often pyrotechnic installations and projects themed around transience, memory, and cultural history.
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B.
Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe
"Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe" is a major retrospective exhibition and accompanying catalogue that surveys the career, gunpowder drawings, and large-scale explosion events of Chinese contemporary artist Cai Guo-Qiang.
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C.
Cai Guo-Qiang: Voyage to the Moon
Cai Guo-Qiang: Voyage to the Moon is a documentary film that follows Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang’s ambitious pyrotechnic and conceptual art projects, exploring his creative process and visionary ideas.
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D.
Cai Guo-Qiang: Saraab
"Cai Guo-Qiang: Saraab" is an exhibition catalogue and art book documenting Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang’s large-scale installations and gunpowder works inspired by the history and culture of Qatar and the Middle East.
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E.
Cai Guo-Qiang: Peasant Da Vincis and Other Stories
"Cai Guo-Qiang: Peasant Da Vincis and Other Stories" is an art book that explores the innovative, often fantastical creations of self-taught Chinese inventors and tinkerers as curated and interpreted by contemporary artist Cai Guo-Qiang.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cai Guo-Qiang: The Ninth Wave Target entity description: Cai Guo-Qiang: The Ninth Wave is an art project and exhibition by Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang that explores environmental crisis and humanity’s relationship with nature through large-scale, often explosive and immersive installations.
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A.
Cai Guo-Qiang: Fallen Blossoms
"Cai Guo-Qiang: Fallen Blossoms" is an art publication documenting Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang’s large-scale, often pyrotechnic installations and projects themed around transience, memory, and cultural history.
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B.
Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe
"Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe" is a major retrospective exhibition and accompanying catalogue that surveys the career, gunpowder drawings, and large-scale explosion events of Chinese contemporary artist Cai Guo-Qiang.
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C.
Cai Guo-Qiang: Voyage to the Moon
Cai Guo-Qiang: Voyage to the Moon is a documentary film that follows Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang’s ambitious pyrotechnic and conceptual art projects, exploring his creative process and visionary ideas.
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D.
Cai Guo-Qiang: Saraab
"Cai Guo-Qiang: Saraab" is an exhibition catalogue and art book documenting Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang’s large-scale installations and gunpowder works inspired by the history and culture of Qatar and the Middle East.
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E.
Cai Guo-Qiang: Peasant Da Vincis and Other Stories
"Cai Guo-Qiang: Peasant Da Vincis and Other Stories" is an art book that explores the innovative, often fantastical creations of self-taught Chinese inventors and tinkerers as curated and interpreted by contemporary artist Cai Guo-Qiang.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
art exhibition
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art project ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
provoke reflection on human impact on nature
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raise environmental awareness ⓘ |
| artForm |
conceptual art
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contemporary art ⓘ environmental art ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | China ⓘ |
| creator | Cai Guo-Qiang ⓘ |
| depicts |
endangered animals
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threatened natural environments ⓘ |
| hasGenre |
installation art exhibition
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site-specific art project ⓘ |
| hasPart |
immersive installation
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large-scale installation ⓘ |
| inspiredBy |
climate change
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ecological degradation ⓘ pollution ⓘ |
| languageOfTitle | English ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
environmental crisis
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humanity’s relationship with nature ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic |
immersive viewer experience
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social and environmental commentary ⓘ use of explosive processes in art-making ⓘ |
| scale | large-scale ⓘ |
| titleIncludes |
Cai Guo-Qiang
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The Ninth Wave ⓘ |
| usesMedium |
explosive materials
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gunpowder ⓘ installation art ⓘ |
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Instruction
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Subject: Cai Guo-Qiang: The Ninth Wave Description of subject: Cai Guo-Qiang: The Ninth Wave is an art project and exhibition by Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang that explores environmental crisis and humanity’s relationship with nature through large-scale, often explosive and immersive installations.
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