The Host and the Cloud
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The Host and the Cloud is a 2010 experimental film and performance project by French artist Pierre Huyghe that stages unscripted actions inside an abandoned ethnographic museum to explore memory, ritual, and institutional power.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Host and the Cloud canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5074115 — 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: The Host and the Cloud Context triple: [Pierre Huyghe, hasWork, The Host and the Cloud]
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A.
Behind the Cloud
"Behind the Cloud" is a business and leadership book by Salesforce founder Marc Benioff that chronicles the company’s growth and shares strategies for building a successful cloud-based enterprise.
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B.
Get Off of My Cloud
"Get Off of My Cloud" is a 1965 rock song by the Rolling Stones that became a major international hit and a defining early example of their rebellious sound.
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C.
The Pink Cloud
The Pink Cloud is a luminous Neo-Impressionist painting by French artist Henri-Edmond Cross, celebrated for its vibrant color harmonies and pointillist technique depicting a radiant sky and landscape.
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D.
To Reach the Clouds
To Reach the Clouds is Philippe Petit’s memoir recounting his daring high-wire walk between the Twin Towers of New York’s World Trade Center in 1974.
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E.
School in the Cloud
School in the Cloud is an educational initiative and online platform created by Sugata Mitra that explores self-organized learning by enabling children to learn collaboratively with minimal teacher intervention.
- 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: The Host and the Cloud Target entity description: The Host and the Cloud is a 2010 experimental film and performance project by French artist Pierre Huyghe that stages unscripted actions inside an abandoned ethnographic museum to explore memory, ritual, and institutional power.
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A.
Behind the Cloud
"Behind the Cloud" is a business and leadership book by Salesforce founder Marc Benioff that chronicles the company’s growth and shares strategies for building a successful cloud-based enterprise.
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B.
Get Off of My Cloud
"Get Off of My Cloud" is a 1965 rock song by the Rolling Stones that became a major international hit and a defining early example of their rebellious sound.
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C.
The Pink Cloud
The Pink Cloud is a luminous Neo-Impressionist painting by French artist Henri-Edmond Cross, celebrated for its vibrant color harmonies and pointillist technique depicting a radiant sky and landscape.
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D.
To Reach the Clouds
To Reach the Clouds is Philippe Petit’s memoir recounting his daring high-wire walk between the Twin Towers of New York’s World Trade Center in 1974.
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E.
School in the Cloud
School in the Cloud is an educational initiative and online platform created by Sugata Mitra that explores self-organized learning by enabling children to learn collaboratively with minimal teacher intervention.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
experimental film
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performance project ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| creator | Pierre Huyghe ⓘ |
| director | Pierre Huyghe ⓘ |
| exhibitionContext |
art institutions
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film festivals ⓘ |
| explores |
collective memory
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institutional structures ⓘ psychological states ⓘ social rituals ⓘ |
| features | unscripted actions ⓘ |
| genre |
contemporary art
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experimental film ⓘ performance art documentation ⓘ |
| hasArtisticMovement |
conceptual art
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contemporary art ⓘ post-conceptual art ⓘ |
| hasAuthor | Pierre Huyghe ⓘ |
| hasNationality | French work ⓘ |
| hasProductionPeriod | late 2000s ⓘ |
| hasTemporalContext | early 21st century ⓘ |
| hasTitleLanguage | English ⓘ |
| investigates |
collective behavior
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power relations in cultural institutions ⓘ role of spectatorship ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
institutional power
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memory ⓘ ritual ⓘ |
| medium |
film
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performance ⓘ |
| notableFor |
blurring boundaries between fiction and reality
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site-specific production in a museum ⓘ use of non-professional participants ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| partOf | Pierre Huyghe’s body of work ⓘ |
| productionMethod | live performance situations ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 2010 ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
contemporary moving image art
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ethnographic museums ⓘ institutional critique ⓘ performance documentation ⓘ |
| setting | abandoned ethnographic museum ⓘ |
| workType | audiovisual artwork ⓘ |
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: The Host and the Cloud Description of subject: The Host and the Cloud is a 2010 experimental film and performance project by French artist Pierre Huyghe that stages unscripted actions inside an abandoned ethnographic museum to explore memory, ritual, and institutional power.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.