Yes Painting
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Yes Painting is a conceptual artwork by Yoko Ono that invites viewers to climb a ladder and read the optimistic word “YES” through a magnifying glass on the ceiling.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yes Painting canonical | 2 |
| Ceiling Painting (Yes Painting) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3926556 — 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: Yes Painting Context triple: [Yoko Ono, notableWork, Yes Painting]
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A.
Painted
Painted is the critically acclaimed debut studio album by American R&B singer Lucky Daye, known for its modern take on classic soul and richly textured production.
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B.
Paint
Paint is a simple raster graphics editor developed by Microsoft and bundled with various versions of the Windows operating system for basic image creation and editing.
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C.
Spot Paintings
Spot Paintings is a famous series of abstract works by British artist Damien Hirst featuring grids of uniformly spaced, multicolored dots on white backgrounds.
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D.
Spin Paintings
Spin Paintings are a series of abstract, centrifuge-created works by British artist Damien Hirst, characterized by vividly colored paint radiating from a central point.
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E.
combine painting
Combine painting is an innovative art form pioneered by Robert Rauschenberg that merges traditional painting with found objects and sculptural elements to blur the boundaries between painting, sculpture, and everyday life.
- 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: Yes Painting Target entity description: Yes Painting is a conceptual artwork by Yoko Ono that invites viewers to climb a ladder and read the optimistic word “YES” through a magnifying glass on the ceiling.
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A.
Painted
Painted is the critically acclaimed debut studio album by American R&B singer Lucky Daye, known for its modern take on classic soul and richly textured production.
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B.
Paint
Paint is a simple raster graphics editor developed by Microsoft and bundled with various versions of the Windows operating system for basic image creation and editing.
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C.
Spot Paintings
Spot Paintings is a famous series of abstract works by British artist Damien Hirst featuring grids of uniformly spaced, multicolored dots on white backgrounds.
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D.
Spin Paintings
Spin Paintings are a series of abstract, centrifuge-created works by British artist Damien Hirst, characterized by vividly colored paint radiating from a central point.
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E.
combine painting
Combine painting is an innovative art form pioneered by Robert Rauschenberg that merges traditional painting with found objects and sculptural elements to blur the boundaries between painting, sculpture, and everyday life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
conceptual artwork
ⓘ
installation art ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Ceiling Painting
ⓘ
Yes Painting ⓘ
surface form:
Ceiling Painting (Yes Painting)
|
| artForm | conceptual installation ⓘ |
| artHistoricalContext | postwar avant-garde ⓘ |
| artworkType |
interactive artwork
ⓘ
participatory artwork ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Fluxus
ⓘ
surface form:
Fluxus movement
John Lennon ⓘ |
| backgroundColor | white ⓘ |
| colorOfText | black ⓘ |
| creator | Yoko Ono ⓘ |
| dateOfCreation | 1966 ⓘ |
| displayLocationType | gallery ceiling ⓘ |
| firstExhibitedAt | Indica Gallery ⓘ |
| firstExhibitedInCity |
London, England
ⓘ
surface form:
London
|
| firstExhibitedInCountry | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| genre | Conceptual art ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
ceiling panel with the word "YES"
ⓘ
suspended magnifying glass ⓘ wooden ladder ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn | participatory art practices ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Yes Painting self-link ⓘ |
| influencedEvent | meeting of Yoko Ono and John Lennon ⓘ |
| interpretation | an invitation to a positive, affirmative outlook ⓘ |
| invitesAction |
climb a ladder
ⓘ
look through a magnifying glass ⓘ |
| languageOfText | English ⓘ |
| medium |
canvas with text
ⓘ
ceiling-mounted panel ⓘ ladder ⓘ magnifying glass ⓘ |
| movement | Fluxus ⓘ |
| notableExhibition | Indica Gallery exhibition where John Lennon encountered the work ⓘ |
| notableFor |
requiring physical effort from the viewer
ⓘ
role in the personal history of Yoko Ono and John Lennon ⓘ use of a single optimistic word "YES" ⓘ |
| period | 1960s ⓘ |
| requires | viewer participation to be completed ⓘ |
| textContent | YES ⓘ |
| theme |
affirmation
ⓘ
hope ⓘ optimism ⓘ viewer participation ⓘ |
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: Yes Painting Description of subject: Yes Painting is a conceptual artwork by Yoko Ono that invites viewers to climb a ladder and read the optimistic word “YES” through a magnifying glass on the ceiling.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Ceiling Painting (Yes Painting)