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Trans-fixed is a 1974 performance artwork by Chris Burden in which he had himself crucified onto a Volkswagen Beetle, becoming one of the most iconic and controversial works of 1970s body and performance art.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Trans-fixed canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7967035 — 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: Trans-fixed Context triple: [Chris Burden, notableWork, Trans-fixed]
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A.
Stuck
Stuck is the surname of Hudson Stuck, an English-born American Episcopal priest, educator, and mountaineer known for co-leading the first successful ascent of Denali.
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B.
Framed
"Framed" is a 1950s rhythm and blues song by The Coasters, known for its humorous storytelling and early rock and roll style.
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C.
Framed
Framed is a children's novel by Frank Cottrell-Boyce that blends humor and heart in a story about a small Welsh town transformed by famous paintings from the National Gallery.
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D.
Fixin
Fixin is a Burgundy wine appellation in eastern France known for its robust red wines made primarily from Pinot Noir.
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E.
binding
Binding is a central concept in generative syntax that explains how pronouns and other noun phrases can or cannot refer to each other within sentence structure.
- 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: Trans-fixed Target entity description: Trans-fixed is a 1974 performance artwork by Chris Burden in which he had himself crucified onto a Volkswagen Beetle, becoming one of the most iconic and controversial works of 1970s body and performance art.
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A.
Stuck
Stuck is the surname of Hudson Stuck, an English-born American Episcopal priest, educator, and mountaineer known for co-leading the first successful ascent of Denali.
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B.
Framed
"Framed" is a 1950s rhythm and blues song by The Coasters, known for its humorous storytelling and early rock and roll style.
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C.
Framed
Framed is a children's novel by Frank Cottrell-Boyce that blends humor and heart in a story about a small Welsh town transformed by famous paintings from the National Gallery.
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D.
Fixin
Fixin is a Burgundy wine appellation in eastern France known for its robust red wines made primarily from Pinot Noir.
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E.
binding
Binding is a central concept in generative syntax that explains how pronouns and other noun phrases can or cannot refer to each other within sentence structure.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
body art work
ⓘ
performance artwork ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| creator | Chris Burden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creatorBirthName | Christopher Lee Burden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creatorNationality | American ⓘ |
| depicts | crucifixion ⓘ |
| describedAs |
one of the most controversial works of 1970s performance art
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one of the most iconic works of 1970s body art ⓘ |
| documentedBy |
film or video recordings
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photographs ⓘ |
| genre | performance art ⓘ |
| hasDuration | short, single-event performance ⓘ |
| hasEffect |
challenged boundaries between art and life
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influenced later performance artists ⓘ sparked debate about limits of art ⓘ |
| hasParticipant | audience of invited spectators ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
American consumerism
ⓘ
automobile culture ⓘ martyrdom ⓘ religious symbolism ⓘ risk and danger in art ⓘ |
| hasTitleInLanguage | Trans-fixed@English ⓘ |
| inception | 1974 ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| locationOfPerformance | Venice, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
body as artistic material
ⓘ
sacrifice ⓘ self-crucifixion ⓘ suffering ⓘ violence ⓘ |
| medium |
Volkswagen Beetle
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
human body ⓘ live performance ⓘ |
| movement |
1970s performance art
ⓘ
body art ⓘ conceptual art ⓘ |
| notableFor |
artist being nailed to a car
ⓘ
controversial use of self-harm in art ⓘ iconic status in 1970s performance art ⓘ |
| partOf | Chris Burden’s early performance works ⓘ |
| performedAt | Speedway Avenue, Venice, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performedOn | Volkswagen Beetle rear bumper ⓘ |
| performer | Chris Burden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| uses | Volkswagen Beetle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation | outdoors ⓘ |
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: Trans-fixed Description of subject: Trans-fixed is a 1974 performance artwork by Chris Burden in which he had himself crucified onto a Volkswagen Beetle, becoming one of the most iconic and controversial works of 1970s body and performance art.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.