Sun Tunnels
E530591
Sun Tunnels is a monumental Land Art installation by Nancy Holt in Utah’s Great Basin Desert, consisting of four massive concrete tubes aligned with the solstices and drilled with star patterns.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sun Tunnels canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5502624 — 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: Sun Tunnels Context triple: [Dia Art Foundation, operates, Sun Tunnels]
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A.
the Tunnels
The Tunnels are an underground, hidden community beneath New York City where outcasts live in secrecy and form a close-knit, almost mythic society in the TV series "Beauty and the Beast."
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B.
The Tunnel
The Tunnel is a British-French crime drama television series that adapts the Scandinavian show The Bridge, centering on a joint investigation into murders discovered in the Channel Tunnel.
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C.
Thunder Hole
Thunder Hole is a coastal inlet in Acadia National Park known for its dramatic crashing waves and thunderous booming sounds created as seawater surges into a narrow rock cavern.
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D.
The Caves
The Caves is a rural locality in Central Queensland, Australia, known for its limestone cave systems and proximity to Rockhampton.
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E.
Bridge of Troughs
Bridge of Troughs is the English name for Pont-y-Cafnau, an early iron railway and tramroad bridge in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, considered one of the world’s first iron railway bridges.
- 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: Sun Tunnels Target entity description: Sun Tunnels is a monumental Land Art installation by Nancy Holt in Utah’s Great Basin Desert, consisting of four massive concrete tubes aligned with the solstices and drilled with star patterns.
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A.
the Tunnels
The Tunnels are an underground, hidden community beneath New York City where outcasts live in secrecy and form a close-knit, almost mythic society in the TV series "Beauty and the Beast."
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B.
The Tunnel
The Tunnel is a British-French crime drama television series that adapts the Scandinavian show The Bridge, centering on a joint investigation into murders discovered in the Channel Tunnel.
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C.
Thunder Hole
Thunder Hole is a coastal inlet in Acadia National Park known for its dramatic crashing waves and thunderous booming sounds created as seawater surges into a narrow rock cavern.
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D.
The Caves
The Caves is a rural locality in Central Queensland, Australia, known for its limestone cave systems and proximity to Rockhampton.
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E.
Bridge of Troughs
Bridge of Troughs is the English name for Pont-y-Cafnau, an early iron railway and tramroad bridge in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, considered one of the world’s first iron railway bridges.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
environmental artwork
ⓘ
land art installation ⓘ public artwork ⓘ |
| artMovement |
Land Art
ⓘ
linked to:
Land art
|
| bestViewedDuring |
summer solstice
ⓘ
winter solstice ⓘ |
| completionDate | 1976 ⓘ |
| conservationStatus | preserved ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| creator | Nancy Holt ⓘ |
| depicts |
Capricorn constellation
ⓘ
linked to:
constellation Capricornus
Columba constellation ⓘ Draco constellation ⓘ
linked to:
constellation Draco
Perseus constellation ⓘ |
| diameter | approximately 2.75 meters ⓘ |
| documentedIn | art history literature ⓘ |
| exposedTo |
natural light
ⓘ
weather ⓘ |
| feature | drilled star patterns ⓘ |
| genre |
earthwork
ⓘ
site-specific art ⓘ |
| hasArtHistoricalSignificance | major work of American Land Art ⓘ |
| hasAstronomicalAlignment |
summer solstice sunrise
ⓘ
summer solstice sunset ⓘ winter solstice sunrise ⓘ winter solstice sunset ⓘ |
| hasCoordinateSystem | geographic coordinates ⓘ |
| hasPart | four concrete tunnels ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
astronomy
ⓘ
cosmology ⓘ landscape ⓘ perception of time ⓘ |
| height | approximately 2.75 meters ⓘ |
| inception | 1973 ⓘ |
| length | approximately 5.5 meters ⓘ |
| locatedInDesert | true ⓘ |
| location |
Great Basin Desert
ⓘ
Utah ⓘ |
| materialUsed | concrete ⓘ |
| notableWorkOf | Nancy Holt ⓘ |
| numberOfTunnels | 4 ⓘ |
| openToPublic | true ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Dia Art Foundation ⓘ |
| purpose |
to create perceptual experience of light and space
ⓘ
to frame the sun at solstices ⓘ |
| shape | cylindrical ⓘ |
| viewingCondition | outdoor ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Sun Tunnels Description of subject: Sun Tunnels is a monumental Land Art installation by Nancy Holt in Utah’s Great Basin Desert, consisting of four massive concrete tubes aligned with the solstices and drilled with star patterns.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.