Xu Bing
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Xu Bing is a contemporary Chinese artist internationally recognized for his innovative use of language, printmaking, and installation to explore cultural identity and communication.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T845865 — 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: Xu Bing Context triple: [The Phillips Collection, hasWorkBy, Xu Bing]
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A.
Zhang Huan
Zhang Huan is a contemporary Chinese artist known for his provocative performance art and large-scale sculptures that explore themes of identity, memory, and spirituality.
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B.
Cai Guo-Qiang
Cai Guo-Qiang is a contemporary Chinese artist internationally recognized for his large-scale gunpowder drawings, explosion events, and installations that explore cultural, historical, and political themes.
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C.
Ai Weiwei
Ai Weiwei is a prominent Chinese contemporary artist and outspoken political activist known for his criticism of the Chinese government and his work addressing human rights and freedom of expression.
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D.
Rirkrit Tiravanija
Rirkrit Tiravanija is a contemporary Thai artist known for his participatory, socially engaged installations that often involve cooking and communal gatherings as a form of relational aesthetics.
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E.
Isamu Chō
Isamu Chō was an Imperial Japanese Army general known for his extreme nationalism and key leadership role in Japan’s final World War II battles, including the defense of Okinawa.
- 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: Xu Bing Target entity description: Xu Bing is a contemporary Chinese artist internationally recognized for his innovative use of language, printmaking, and installation to explore cultural identity and communication.
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A.
Zhang Huan
Zhang Huan is a contemporary Chinese artist known for his provocative performance art and large-scale sculptures that explore themes of identity, memory, and spirituality.
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B.
Cai Guo-Qiang
Cai Guo-Qiang is a contemporary Chinese artist internationally recognized for his large-scale gunpowder drawings, explosion events, and installations that explore cultural, historical, and political themes.
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C.
Ai Weiwei
Ai Weiwei is a prominent Chinese contemporary artist and outspoken political activist known for his criticism of the Chinese government and his work addressing human rights and freedom of expression.
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D.
Rirkrit Tiravanija
Rirkrit Tiravanija is a contemporary Thai artist known for his participatory, socially engaged installations that often involve cooking and communal gatherings as a form of relational aesthetics.
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E.
Isamu Chō
Isamu Chō was an Imperial Japanese Army general known for his extreme nationalism and key leadership role in Japan’s final World War II battles, including the defense of Okinawa.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
conceptual artist
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contemporary artist ⓘ human ⓘ installation artist ⓘ printmaker ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Artes Mundi Prize (shortlist)
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Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize ⓘ MacArthur Fellowship ⓘ |
| basedIn |
Beijing
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surface form:
Beijing, China
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| countryOfCitizenship | China ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1955-01-01 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Central Academy of Fine Arts ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
conceptual art
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contemporary art ⓘ installation art ⓘ language-based art ⓘ printmaking ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasLivedIn |
Beijing
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surface form:
Beijing, China
New York City ⓘ
surface form:
New York City, United States
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| knownFor |
experimental printmaking
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exploration of communication and miscommunication ⓘ exploration of cultural identity ⓘ innovative use of language ⓘ large-scale installations ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
Chinese
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English ⓘ |
| movement | contemporary Chinese art ⓘ |
| name | Xu Bing self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | Chinese ⓘ |
| nativeName |
Xu Bing
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
徐冰
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| notableWork |
Book from the Sky
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surface form:
A Book from the Sky (Tianshu)
Background Story series ⓘ Book from the Ground ⓘ Book from the Sky ⓘ Ghosts Pounding the Wall ⓘ Phoenix Project ⓘ Square Word Calligraphy ⓘ |
| occupation |
artist
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installation artist ⓘ printmaker ⓘ professor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Chongqing
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surface form:
Chongqing, China
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| positionHeld | vice president of Central Academy of Fine Arts ⓘ |
| theme |
Chinese cultural identity
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cross-cultural communication ⓘ history of print and text ⓘ language and writing systems ⓘ |
| website | http://www.xubing.com/ ⓘ |
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: Xu Bing Description of subject: Xu Bing is a contemporary Chinese artist internationally recognized for his innovative use of language, printmaking, and installation to explore cultural identity and communication.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
徐冰