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Cloud Gate

public art sculpture in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Visual Artwork Sculpture Q589099

Facts

21 properties
Instance of
sculpture
Inception
2004[8]
Country
United States[4]
Genre
public art[5]
Publication date
August 20, 2007[9]
Official website
www.cityofchicago.org[10]
Location
Millennium Park[7]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 41.883°, -87.623°
Copyright status
copyrighted[20]
Creator
Anish Kapoor[2]
Date of official opening
May 15, 2006[14]
Has characteristic
tourist attraction[13]
Height
+10[16]
Inspired by
mercury[11]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Chicago[3]
Made from material
steel[6]
Native label
Cloud Gate[15]
Nickname
The Bean[12]
Thickness
+1300[18]
Vertical depth
+12.8[19]
Width
+20[17]
🏷️ Also known as
en The Bean en Chicago Bean en Cloud Gate ar بوابة السحاب fa دروازه ابر fi Pilviportti fi The Bean he שער העננים ja クラウド・ゲート ja ザ・ビーン ko 클라우드 게이트 ru Клауд-Гейт uk Хмарні ворота zh 雲門
🔖 Identifiers · 12
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
A public square in Chicago (9326033069).jpg ↗
BabelNet ID
14890410n
Dimensions.com element ID
cloud-gate-the-bean
Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026)
2lCpgk
Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) old ID (2021)
508146
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
topic/Cloud-Gate
Freebase ID
/m/09_bjd
OpenStreetMap way ID
137060274
Quora topic ID
Cloud-Gate-1, The-Bean
SkyscraperPage building ID
109239
US copyright registration number
VA0001983425
Wolfram Language entity code
Entity["Artwork", "CloudGate::AnishKapoor"]

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🔗 Connections
Instance of 2
tourist attraction, sculpture
Country 1
United States
Created notable works 1
Anish Kapoor
Creator 1
Anish Kapoor
Genre 1
public art
Inspired by 1
mercury
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Chicago
Location 1
Millennium Park
Made from material 1
steel
← FactGrid item ID 1
Mokrus, Silesian Voivodeship
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Summary

Cloud Gate is a sculpture[1].

Related Entities

Anish Kapoor United States

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . 12news.com. Retrieved . 12news.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . anishkapoor.com. Retrieved . anishkapoor.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [2] ↑ . anishkapoor.com. Retrieved . anishkapoor.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . imoa.info. Retrieved . imoa.info. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . anishkapoor.com. Retrieved . anishkapoor.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . anishkapoor.com. Retrieved . anishkapoor.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . United States Copyright Public Records System. wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . cityofchicago.org. cityofchicago.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . chicago.gov. Retrieved . chicago.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . web.archive.org. Retrieved . web.archive.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . chicago.gov. Retrieved . chicago.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . anishkapoor.com. Retrieved . anishkapoor.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . anishkapoor.com. Retrieved . anishkapoor.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . United States Copyright Public Records System. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 17w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026) → 2lCpgk
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #40849: ZGBK ID"
  2. 18w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-07-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → sculpture
    Has characteristic → tourist attraction
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #39782: Move Q570116 from P31 -> P1552"
  3. 19w ago · AlphaBeta135 · 2026-06-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Publication date → August 20, 2007
    Image of construction → Cloud gate construction.jpg
    US copyright registration number → VA0001983425
    "Created claim: Image of construction: Cloud gate construction.jpg"
  4. 24w ago · Qzekrom · 2026-05-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Inception → 2004
    Made from material → steel
    Country → United States
    Vertical depth → 12.8 metre
    + 12 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Created claim: Copyright status: copyrighted"
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