Instituto Geográfico Nacional (Spain)
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The Instituto Geográfico Nacional (Spain) is the Spanish national agency responsible for geodesy, cartography, and geophysical monitoring, including seismic and volcanic activity across the country.
All labels observed (6)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1488657 — 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: Instituto Geográfico Nacional (Spain) Context triple: [Cumbre Vieja, monitoringAgency, Instituto Geográfico Nacional (Spain)]
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A.
Spanish Ministry of Public Works
The Spanish Ministry of Public Works is a government department responsible for national infrastructure, including transportation networks, public works, and related civil engineering projects in Spain.
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B.
Royal Spanish Academy
The Royal Spanish Academy is the official institution responsible for overseeing and standardizing the Spanish language across the Spanish-speaking world.
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C.
Pablo de Olavide University
Pablo de Olavide University is a public Spanish university known for its modern campus and interdisciplinary programs, located on the outskirts of Seville.
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D.
Overseas Council of Spain
The Overseas Council of Spain was a Spanish imperial administrative body responsible for overseeing and managing the affairs of Spain’s overseas colonies after the decline of the Council of the Indies.
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E.
University of Granada
The University of Granada is a major public research university in southern Spain, renowned for its historic campus, large international student population, and strong programs in humanities, sciences, and technology.
- 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: Instituto Geográfico Nacional (Spain) Target entity description: The Instituto Geográfico Nacional (Spain) is the Spanish national agency responsible for geodesy, cartography, and geophysical monitoring, including seismic and volcanic activity across the country.
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A.
Spanish Ministry of Public Works
The Spanish Ministry of Public Works is a government department responsible for national infrastructure, including transportation networks, public works, and related civil engineering projects in Spain.
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B.
Royal Spanish Academy
The Royal Spanish Academy is the official institution responsible for overseeing and standardizing the Spanish language across the Spanish-speaking world.
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C.
Pablo de Olavide University
Pablo de Olavide University is a public Spanish university known for its modern campus and interdisciplinary programs, located on the outskirts of Seville.
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D.
Overseas Council of Spain
The Overseas Council of Spain was a Spanish imperial administrative body responsible for overseeing and managing the affairs of Spain’s overseas colonies after the decline of the Council of the Indies.
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E.
University of Granada
The University of Granada is a major public research university in southern Spain, renowned for its historic campus, large international student population, and strong programs in humanities, sciences, and technology.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
government agency
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national mapping agency ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith |
European national mapping agencies
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Protección Civil de España ⓘ
surface form:
Protección Civil (Spain)
Servicio Geológico de España (IGME-CSIC) ⓘ |
| country | Spain ⓘ |
| countryServed | Spain ⓘ |
| field |
cartography
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geodesy ⓘ geographic information systems ⓘ geophysics ⓘ navigation and positioning ⓘ remote sensing ⓘ seismology ⓘ topography ⓘ volcanology ⓘ |
| follows | INSPIRE Directive (Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community) ⓘ |
| formerlyPartOf |
Ministry of Development of Spain
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surface form:
Ministerio de Fomento (Spain)
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| founded | 1870 ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.ign.es ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Madrid ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Spanish ⓘ |
| nativeName |
Instituto Geográfico Nacional (Spain)
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Instituto Geográfico Nacional
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| operates |
Instituto Geográfico Nacional (Spain)
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Red Sísmica Nacional (Spain)
geodetic GNSS stations in Spain ⓘ volcanic surveillance networks in the Canary Islands ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | Ministerio de Transportes y Movilidad Sostenible (Spain) ⓘ |
| participatesIn |
European geodetic reference frame initiatives
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European spatial data infrastructure projects ⓘ |
| produces |
Mapa Topográfico Nacional de España
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national atlases of Spain ⓘ official digital elevation models of Spain ⓘ orthophoto imagery of Spain ⓘ |
| publishes |
geographic and cartographic data services
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seismic activity reports for Spain ⓘ volcanic activity bulletins for Spain ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
National Cartographic System of Spain
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Instituto Geográfico Nacional (Spain) self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
National Geographical Information System of Spain
National Seismic Network of Spain ⓘ coordination of cartographic activities of the General State Administration in Spain ⓘ geophysical observation networks in Spain ⓘ maintenance of the Spanish geodetic datum ⓘ national cartographic coverage of Spain ⓘ national geodetic networks of Spain ⓘ national seismic monitoring in Spain ⓘ official geodetic reference systems of Spain ⓘ production of official topographic maps of Spain ⓘ volcanic monitoring in Spain ⓘ |
| shortName | IGN ⓘ |
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: Instituto Geográfico Nacional (Spain) Description of subject: The Instituto Geográfico Nacional (Spain) is the Spanish national agency responsible for geodesy, cartography, and geophysical monitoring, including seismic and volcanic activity across the country.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Instituto Geográfico Nacional of Spain
Instituto Geográfico Nacional (Spain)
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nativeName
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Instituto Geográfico Nacional (Spain)
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Instituto Geográfico Nacional
Instituto Geográfico Nacional (Spain)
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responsibleFor
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Instituto Geográfico Nacional (Spain)
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
National Geographical Information System of Spain
Instituto Geográfico Nacional (Spain)
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operates
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Instituto Geográfico Nacional (Spain)
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this entity surface form:
Red Sísmica Nacional (Spain)
Instituto Volcanológico de Canarias (INVOLCAN)
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Instituto Geográfico Nacional (Spain)
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subject surface form:
Instituto Volcanológico de Canarias
this entity surface form:
Instituto Geográfico Nacional (IGN) of Spain