Map Division
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The Map Division is a specialized department within the New York Public Library that houses and provides access to an extensive collection of maps, atlases, and geographic materials.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Map Division canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T915955 — 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: Map Division Context triple: [Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, hasPart, Map Division]
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A.
Map Room
The Map Room is a historic room in the White House used for displaying maps and serving as a private meeting and communications space for the President.
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B.
MAP
MAP was the abbreviated name used for the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Aircraft Production, the World War II government department responsible for overseeing and increasing aircraft manufacturing.
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C.
Mapam
Mapam was a left-wing socialist Zionist political party in Israel that played a significant role in the early decades of the state, particularly within the kibbutz movement and peace-oriented politics.
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D.
Mapah
Mapah is Rabbi Moses Isserles’s glosses on the Shulchan Aruch, integrating Ashkenazi customs and rulings into that foundational Jewish legal code.
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E.
Mapai
Mapai was a dominant left-wing labor Zionist political party in pre-state and early Israel that played a central role in founding and governing the country.
- 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: Map Division Target entity description: The Map Division is a specialized department within the New York Public Library that houses and provides access to an extensive collection of maps, atlases, and geographic materials.
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A.
Map Room
The Map Room is a historic room in the White House used for displaying maps and serving as a private meeting and communications space for the President.
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B.
MAP
MAP was the abbreviated name used for the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Aircraft Production, the World War II government department responsible for overseeing and increasing aircraft manufacturing.
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C.
Mapam
Mapam was a left-wing socialist Zionist political party in Israel that played a significant role in the early decades of the state, particularly within the kibbutz movement and peace-oriented politics.
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D.
Mapah
Mapah is Rabbi Moses Isserles’s glosses on the Shulchan Aruch, integrating Ashkenazi customs and rulings into that foundational Jewish legal code.
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E.
Mapai
Mapai was a dominant left-wing labor Zionist political party in pre-state and early Israel that played a central role in founding and governing the country.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
library department
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map collection ⓘ |
| collectionType |
atlases
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cartographic materials ⓘ geographic materials ⓘ maps ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cartography
ⓘ
geography ⓘ historical geography ⓘ |
| hasAccessPolicy | public access ⓘ |
| hasCollection |
aeronautical charts
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city plans ⓘ contemporary maps ⓘ digital maps ⓘ globes ⓘ historical maps ⓘ manuscript maps ⓘ map-related reference works ⓘ nautical charts ⓘ printed maps ⓘ regional atlases ⓘ thematic maps ⓘ topographic maps ⓘ world atlases ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
preservation of cartographic materials
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providing access to map collections ⓘ reference services ⓘ research support ⓘ |
| hasMedium |
digital
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manuscript ⓘ print ⓘ |
| hasService |
on-site consultation
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online catalog access ⓘ reading room access ⓘ reference assistance ⓘ reproduction services ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
New York City
ⓘ
New York ⓘ
surface form:
New York State
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| operator | New York Public Library ⓘ |
| partOf | New York Public Library ⓘ |
| primaryLanguage | English ⓘ |
| serves |
general public
ⓘ
researchers ⓘ students ⓘ |
| topic |
New York City maps
ⓘ
United States maps ⓘ world maps ⓘ |
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: Map Division Description of subject: The Map Division is a specialized department within the New York Public Library that houses and provides access to an extensive collection of maps, atlases, and geographic materials.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.