Walter De Maria
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Walter De Maria was an American sculptor and composer best known for his large-scale, minimalist land art installations such as "The Lightning Field."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Walter De Maria canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5502629 — 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: Walter De Maria Context triple: [Dia Art Foundation, supportsArtist, Walter De Maria]
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A.
Donald Judd
Donald Judd was an influential American artist and leading figure of Minimalism, known for his precise, industrially fabricated geometric sculptures and installations.
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B.
Dan Flavin
Dan Flavin was an American minimalist artist best known for his pioneering installations of fluorescent light fixtures that transform architectural space with color and illumination.
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C.
Michael Heizer
Michael Heizer is an American land artist renowned for his monumental earthworks and large-scale sculptural interventions in the landscape.
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D.
Nancy Holt
Nancy Holt was an influential American artist associated with the Land Art movement, best known for her large-scale environmental sculptures and explorations of perception, light, and landscape.
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E.
Richard Serra
Richard Serra was an influential American sculptor renowned for his monumental, site-specific steel works that explore space, balance, and the viewer’s physical experience.
- 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: Walter De Maria Target entity description: Walter De Maria was an American sculptor and composer best known for his large-scale, minimalist land art installations such as "The Lightning Field."
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A.
Donald Judd
Donald Judd was an influential American artist and leading figure of Minimalism, known for his precise, industrially fabricated geometric sculptures and installations.
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B.
Dan Flavin
Dan Flavin was an American minimalist artist best known for his pioneering installations of fluorescent light fixtures that transform architectural space with color and illumination.
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C.
Michael Heizer
Michael Heizer is an American land artist renowned for his monumental earthworks and large-scale sculptural interventions in the landscape.
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D.
Nancy Holt
Nancy Holt was an influential American artist associated with the Land Art movement, best known for her large-scale environmental sculptures and explorations of perception, light, and landscape.
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E.
Richard Serra
Richard Serra was an influential American sculptor renowned for his monumental, site-specific steel works that explore space, balance, and the viewer’s physical experience.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
artist
ⓘ
composer ⓘ land artist ⓘ minimalist artist ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activeIn | New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| artisticInfluence |
Conceptual art
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Dada NERFINISHED ⓘ Minimal art NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Dia Art Foundation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1935-10-01 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2013-07-25 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of California, Berkeley ⓘ |
| familyName | De Maria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
installation art
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music composition ⓘ sculpture ⓘ |
| genre |
environmental art
ⓘ
minimalist sculpture ⓘ |
| givenName | Walter ⓘ |
| hasWorkInCollection |
Dia Beacon
NERFINISHED
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Kunsthaus Zürich NERFINISHED ⓘ Moderna Museet NERFINISHED ⓘ Museum of Modern Art NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
large-scale land art installations
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minimalist aesthetics ⓘ site-specific sculpture ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement |
Land art
ⓘ
Minimalism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Walter De Maria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Las Vegas Piece
NERFINISHED
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Mile Long Drawing NERFINISHED ⓘ The Broken Kilometer NERFINISHED ⓘ The Lightning Field NERFINISHED ⓘ The New York Earth Room NERFINISHED ⓘ Vertical Earth Kilometer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Albany, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Los Angeles, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| studied |
art
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history ⓘ |
| workLocation |
New York City
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Southwestern United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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