Whitney Museum of American Art

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art museum museum non-profit organization

The Whitney Museum of American Art is a major New York City museum renowned for its extensive collection and exhibitions of 20th- and 21st-century American art.

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Label	Occurrences
Whitney Museum of American Art canonical	103
Whitney Museum Independent Study Program	5
Whitney Museum of American Art collection	4
Whitney Biennial	3
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York	3
Whitney Museum of American Art building	2
Exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T967394 — 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: Whitney Museum of American Art
Context triple: [Mark Rothko, hasWorkInCollection, Whitney Museum of American Art]

A. Neue Galerie New York
Neue Galerie New York is a museum on Manhattan’s Upper East Side devoted primarily to early 20th-century German and Austrian art and design, including works by artists such as Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele.
B. Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art is a leading New York City art museum renowned for its influential collection of modern and contemporary art, including iconic works by artists such as Picasso, Van Gogh, and Warhol.
C. Rose Art Museum
The Rose Art Museum is a contemporary art museum at Brandeis University known for its significant collection of modern and postwar American art.
D. Brooklyn Museum
The Brooklyn Museum is a major art museum in New York City known for its extensive and diverse collections, including significant holdings of American, Egyptian, African, and contemporary art.
E. de Young Museum
The de Young Museum is a major fine arts museum in San Francisco renowned for its collections of American art, international textiles, and contemporary works, housed in a distinctive copper-clad building.
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: Whitney Museum of American Art
Target entity description: The Whitney Museum of American Art is a major New York City museum renowned for its extensive collection and exhibitions of 20th- and 21st-century American art.

A. Neue Galerie New York
Neue Galerie New York is a museum on Manhattan’s Upper East Side devoted primarily to early 20th-century German and Austrian art and design, including works by artists such as Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele.
B. Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art is a leading New York City art museum renowned for its influential collection of modern and contemporary art, including iconic works by artists such as Picasso, Van Gogh, and Warhol.
C. Rose Art Museum
The Rose Art Museum is a contemporary art museum at Brandeis University known for its significant collection of modern and postwar American art.
D. Brooklyn Museum
The Brooklyn Museum is a major art museum in New York City known for its extensive and diverse collections, including significant holdings of American, Egyptian, African, and contemporary art.
E. de Young Museum
The de Young Museum is a major fine arts museum in San Francisco renowned for its collections of American art, international textiles, and contemporary works, housed in a distinctive copper-clad building.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	art museum ⓘ museum ⓘ non-profit organization ⓘ
architectOfCurrentBuilding	Renzo Piano ⓘ
architectOfFormerBuilding	Marcel Breuer ⓘ
collectionIncludes	installation art ⓘ new media art ⓘ paintings ⓘ photography ⓘ sculpture ⓘ video art ⓘ
collectionSize	over 25,000 works ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ
dedicatedTo	American art ⓘ
focusesOn	20th-century American art ⓘ 21st-century American art ⓘ contemporary American art ⓘ
formerLocation	8–12 West 8th Street, Greenwich Village ⓘ 945 Madison Avenue, Upper East Side ⓘ
foundedBy	Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney ⓘ
hasCuratorialFocusOn	innovative contemporary practices ⓘ living American artists ⓘ
hasDirector	Scott Rothkopf ⓘ
hasOfficialWebsite	https://whitney.org ⓘ
hasPermanentCollection	Alexander Calder works ⓘ Andy Warhol works ⓘ Edward Hopper works ⓘ Georgia O’Keeffe ⓘ surface form: Georgia O’Keeffe works Jackson Pollock works ⓘ Jasper Johns works ⓘ
hasPublicTransitAccess	14th Street–8th Avenue subway station ⓘ
hasType	independent museum ⓘ
inception	1930 ⓘ
isPartOf	New York City cultural institutions ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	English ⓘ
locatedIn	99 Gansevoort Street ⓘ Lower Manhattan ⓘ Manhattan ⓘ Meatpacking District ⓘ New York City ⓘ
locatedInTimeZone	Eastern Time Zone ⓘ
namedAfter	Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney ⓘ
near	High Line ⓘ Hudson River ⓘ
notableFor	Whitney Museum of American Art self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Whitney Biennial
openedToPublic	1931 ⓘ
organizes	Whitney Biennial ⓘ
relocatedToCurrentBuilding	2015 ⓘ

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this entity surface form: Exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art

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this entity surface form: Whitney Biennial

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