The New York Earth Room
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The New York Earth Room is a long-term installation by artist Walter De Maria consisting of a large SoHo loft filled with packed earth, maintained as a contemplative indoor landscape.
All labels observed (1)
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| The New York Earth Room canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5502620 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The New York Earth Room Context triple: [Dia Art Foundation, operates, The New York Earth Room]
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A.
Yayoi Kusama Infinity Mirror Room
Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirror Room is an immersive, mirrored installation filled with repeating lights and reflections that create the sensation of endless space.
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B.
Felix Gonzalez-Torres Estate
The Felix Gonzalez-Torres Estate is the body that manages and preserves the legacy, artworks, and intellectual property of the influential Cuban-American conceptual artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres.
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C.
Light and Space
Light and Space is a West Coast art movement, emerging in the 1960s in Southern California, that focuses on perceptual experience through the use of light, color, and industrial materials.
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D.
The Floating Heads installation
The Floating Heads installation is a striking contemporary art piece featuring numerous suspended, expressive human heads that has become one of the most recognizable attractions at Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum.
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E.
The Weather Project
The Weather Project is a large-scale installation by artist Olafur Eliasson that famously transformed Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall into an immersive artificial sun and mist-filled environment exploring light, perception, and climate.
- 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 New York Earth Room Target entity description: The New York Earth Room is a long-term installation by artist Walter De Maria consisting of a large SoHo loft filled with packed earth, maintained as a contemplative indoor landscape.
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A.
Yayoi Kusama Infinity Mirror Room
Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirror Room is an immersive, mirrored installation filled with repeating lights and reflections that create the sensation of endless space.
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B.
Felix Gonzalez-Torres Estate
The Felix Gonzalez-Torres Estate is the body that manages and preserves the legacy, artworks, and intellectual property of the influential Cuban-American conceptual artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres.
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C.
Light and Space
Light and Space is a West Coast art movement, emerging in the 1960s in Southern California, that focuses on perceptual experience through the use of light, color, and industrial materials.
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D.
The Floating Heads installation
The Floating Heads installation is a striking contemporary art piece featuring numerous suspended, expressive human heads that has become one of the most recognizable attractions at Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum.
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E.
The Weather Project
The Weather Project is a large-scale installation by artist Olafur Eliasson that famously transformed Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall into an immersive artificial sun and mist-filled environment exploring light, perception, and climate.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
art installation
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conceptual artwork ⓘ |
| access | free admission ⓘ |
| commissionedBy | Dia Art Foundation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conservationStatus | actively maintained ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| creator | Walter De Maria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creatorBirthPlace | Albany, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creatorNationality | American ⓘ |
| exhibitionType |
long-term installation
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permanent installation ⓘ |
| floorArea | 3600 square feet ⓘ |
| genre |
conceptual art
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installation art ⓘ land art ⓘ minimalism ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | English signage ⓘ |
| hasPart | indoor earth landscape ⓘ |
| inception | 1977 ⓘ |
| lighting | indoor artificial lighting ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Manhattan
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New York City ⓘ SoHo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Dia Art Foundation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| materialUsed |
earth
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soil ⓘ |
| neighborhood | SoHo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
filling an entire loft with earth
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long-term indoor land art installation ⓘ |
| numberOfRooms | 1 ⓘ |
| openingDate | 1977 ⓘ |
| operator | Dia Art Foundation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Dia Art Foundation collection NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| purpose |
contemplation
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meditative experience ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
The Kassel Earth Room
NERFINISHED
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The Munich Earth Room NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | loft interior ⓘ |
| streetAddress | 141 Wooster Street ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
earth
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environment ⓘ landscape ⓘ |
| visitorPolicy | viewed from doorway only ⓘ |
| volumeOfEarth | 250 cubic yards ⓘ |
| weightOfEarth | 280000 pounds ⓘ |
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Instruction
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Subject: The New York Earth Room Description of subject: The New York Earth Room is a long-term installation by artist Walter De Maria consisting of a large SoHo loft filled with packed earth, maintained as a contemplative indoor landscape.
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