The Bean
E1907
The Bean is a famous stainless steel public sculpture by artist Anish Kapoor located in Chicago’s Millennium Park, renowned for its highly polished, reflective surface and iconic, bean-like shape.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Bean canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T20575 — 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 Bean Context triple: [Cloud Gate, alsoKnownAs, The Bean]
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A.
Lick
Lick is the nickname of Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider, a pioneering American computer scientist whose ideas helped lay the foundations for interactive computing and the internet.
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B.
COFHE
COFHE is a consortium of highly selective private colleges and universities in the United States that collaborates on issues of financial aid, admissions, and institutional research.
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C.
Porter
Porter is a transit station in Cambridge, Massachusetts that serves both MBTA commuter rail and Red Line subway services.
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D.
Green Monster
The Green Monster is the iconic, unusually tall left-field wall at Fenway Park, famous for dramatically influencing gameplay and home run hitting in Boston Red Sox baseball games.
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E.
Chocolate City
Chocolate City is a popular nickname for Washington, D.C., highlighting its historically large and influential African American population and culture.
- 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 Bean Target entity description: The Bean is a famous stainless steel public sculpture by artist Anish Kapoor located in Chicago’s Millennium Park, renowned for its highly polished, reflective surface and iconic, bean-like shape.
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A.
Lick
Lick is the nickname of Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider, a pioneering American computer scientist whose ideas helped lay the foundations for interactive computing and the internet.
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B.
COFHE
COFHE is a consortium of highly selective private colleges and universities in the United States that collaborates on issues of financial aid, admissions, and institutional research.
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C.
Porter
Porter is a transit station in Cambridge, Massachusetts that serves both MBTA commuter rail and Red Line subway services.
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D.
Bluebonnet
Bluebonnet is a vibrant blue wildflower, especially known for carpeting Texas fields each spring and serving as a symbol of the state's natural beauty.
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E.
Green Monster
The Green Monster is the iconic, unusually tall left-field wall at Fenway Park, famous for dramatically influencing gameplay and home run hitting in Boston Red Sox baseball games.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
outdoor artwork
ⓘ
public sculpture ⓘ tourist attraction ⓘ |
| admissionFee | free ⓘ |
| artMovement | contemporary art ⓘ |
| commissionedBy |
Chicago, Illinois, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
City of Chicago
|
| constructionTechnique |
highly polished finish
ⓘ
welded steel plates ⓘ |
| creator | Anish Kapoor ⓘ |
| dateCompleted | 2004 ⓘ |
| dateUnveiled | 2004 ⓘ |
| designedBy | Anish Kapoor ⓘ |
| featuredIn | Chicago tourism promotions ⓘ |
| genre | contemporary sculpture ⓘ |
| hasCulturalSignificance | iconic symbol of Chicago ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
central concave chamber
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curved underside ⓘ seamless exterior plates ⓘ |
| hasShape | bean-like form ⓘ |
| hasSurface | highly polished reflective surface ⓘ |
| height | approximately 10 meters ⓘ |
| isAccessibleTo | public ⓘ |
| length | approximately 20 meters ⓘ |
| locatedInCity |
Chicago, Illinois, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Chicago
|
| locatedInCountry |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| locatedInDowntownArea | Chicago Loop ⓘ |
| locatedInState | Illinois ⓘ |
| location | Millennium Park ⓘ |
| maintenanceBy |
Chicago, Illinois, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
City of Chicago
|
| materialUsed | stainless steel ⓘ |
| nickname | The Bean self-link ⓘ |
| officialName | Cloud Gate ⓘ |
| openedToPublic | 2004 ⓘ |
| owner |
Chicago, Illinois, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
City of Chicago
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| partOf | Millennium Park public art program ⓘ |
| primaryFunction | public art installation ⓘ |
| reflects |
Chicago skyline
ⓘ
sky ⓘ surrounding buildings ⓘ visitors ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
art criticism
ⓘ
media coverage ⓘ numerous photographs ⓘ |
| usedFor |
photography
ⓘ
public gatherings ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
| weight | approximately 110 tons ⓘ |
| width | approximately 13 meters ⓘ |
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 Bean Description of subject: The Bean is a famous stainless steel public sculpture by artist Anish Kapoor located in Chicago’s Millennium Park, renowned for its highly polished, reflective surface and iconic, bean-like shape.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.