The Cloisters

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art museum medieval art museum museum branch

The Cloisters is a branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City devoted to medieval European art and architecture, designed to evoke a monastic setting.

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All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
The Cloisters canonical 5
The Met Cloisters 4
Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 1

Statements (41)

Predicate Object
instanceOf art museum ⓘ
medieval art museum ⓘ
museum branch ⓘ
architecturalStyle medieval-inspired architecture ⓘ
borough Manhattan ⓘ
category Art museums and galleries in Manhattan ⓘ
Branches of the Metropolitan Museum of Art ⓘ
Medieval art museum in the United States ⓘ
collectionFocus Gothic art ⓘ
Romanesque art ⓘ
medieval enamels ⓘ
medieval illuminated manuscripts ⓘ
medieval ivories ⓘ
medieval metalwork ⓘ
medieval sculpture ⓘ
medieval stained glass ⓘ
medieval tapestries ⓘ
country United States of America ⓘ
surface form: United States
designedToEvoke monastic setting ⓘ
devotedTo medieval European architecture ⓘ
medieval European art ⓘ
hasCollection The Unicorn Tapestries ⓘ
medieval altarpieces ⓘ
medieval architectural fragments ⓘ
medieval reliquaries ⓘ
hasFeature chapel-like galleries ⓘ
cloistered courtyards ⓘ
monastic-style gardens ⓘ
reconstructed cloisters ⓘ
locatedIn Fort Tryon Park ⓘ
Manhattan ⓘ
New York City ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form: United States
name The Cloisters self-link ⓘ
neighborhood Washington Heights ⓘ
operatedBy Metropolitan Museum of Art ⓘ
surface form: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
ownedBy Metropolitan Museum of Art ⓘ
surface form: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
partOf Metropolitan Museum of Art ⓘ
surface form: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art ⓘ
surface form: The Metropolitan Museum of Art system of museums
subjectOf museum studies research on medieval display ⓘ
touristAttractionIn New York City ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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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: The Cloisters
Description of subject: The Cloisters is a branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City devoted to medieval European art and architecture, designed to evoke a monastic setting.

Referenced by (11)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Upper Manhattan → hasLandmark → The Cloisters ⓘ
curatorial departments of the Metropolitan Museum of Art → includesDepartment → The Cloisters ⓘ
this entity surface form: Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Fort Tryon Park → hasPart → The Cloisters ⓘ
this entity surface form: The Met Cloisters
Fort Tryon Park → contains → The Cloisters ⓘ
this entity surface form: The Met Cloisters
Fort Tryon Park → knownFor → The Cloisters ⓘ
this entity surface form: The Met Cloisters
Fort Tryon Park → hasMuseum → The Cloisters ⓘ
this entity surface form: The Met Cloisters
The Cloisters → name → The Cloisters self-link ⓘ
The Curious Savage → setting → The Cloisters ⓘ
190th Street (IND Eighth Avenue Line) → nearbyLandmark → The Cloisters ⓘ
Manhattan Community District 12 → contains → The Cloisters ⓘ
Andy Goldsworthy → notableWork → The Cloisters ⓘ
this entity surface form: Roof (Metropolitan Museum of Art)