Tokyo National Museum

E208886

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Tokyo National Museum is Japan’s oldest and largest museum, renowned for its extensive collection of art and archaeological artifacts from Japan and other Asian countries.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Tokyo National Museum canonical	11
Imperial Museum	1
Tokyo Imperial Household Museum	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1860604 — 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: Tokyo National Museum
Context triple: [Taitō, hasAttraction, Tokyo National Museum]

A. Sompo Museum of Art, Tokyo
Sompo Museum of Art in Tokyo is a prominent art museum best known for housing one of Vincent van Gogh’s iconic "Sunflowers" paintings.
B. Edo-Tokyo Museum
The Edo-Tokyo Museum is a history museum in Tokyo that showcases the culture, architecture, and everyday life of Edo-period and modern Tokyo through large-scale models and interactive exhibits.
C. Yokohama Museum of Art
The Yokohama Museum of Art is a major Japanese art museum known for its modern and contemporary collections, striking postmodern architecture, and prominent cultural role in the Minato Mirai district of Yokohama.
D. Sumida Hokusai Museum
The Sumida Hokusai Museum is an art museum in Tokyo dedicated to the life and works of ukiyo-e master Katsushika Hokusai, featuring extensive collections of his prints, paintings, and related materials.
E. Miho Museum
The Miho Museum is a renowned art museum in Shiga Prefecture, Japan, celebrated for its harmonious integration of I. M. Pei’s modern architectural design with the surrounding natural landscape and its collection of Asian and Western antiquities.
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: Tokyo National Museum
Target entity description: Tokyo National Museum is Japan’s oldest and largest museum, renowned for its extensive collection of art and archaeological artifacts from Japan and other Asian countries.

A. Sompo Museum of Art, Tokyo
Sompo Museum of Art in Tokyo is a prominent art museum best known for housing one of Vincent van Gogh’s iconic "Sunflowers" paintings.
B. Edo-Tokyo Museum
The Edo-Tokyo Museum is a history museum in Tokyo that showcases the culture, architecture, and everyday life of Edo-period and modern Tokyo through large-scale models and interactive exhibits.
C. Yokohama Museum of Art
The Yokohama Museum of Art is a major Japanese art museum known for its modern and contemporary collections, striking postmodern architecture, and prominent cultural role in the Minato Mirai district of Yokohama.
D. Sumida Hokusai Museum
The Sumida Hokusai Museum is an art museum in Tokyo dedicated to the life and works of ukiyo-e master Katsushika Hokusai, featuring extensive collections of his prints, paintings, and related materials.
E. Miho Museum
The Miho Museum is a renowned art museum in Shiga Prefecture, Japan, celebrated for its harmonious integration of I. M. Pei’s modern architectural design with the surrounding natural landscape and its collection of Asian and Western antiquities.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (58)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	art museum ⓘ history museum ⓘ national museum ⓘ
collectionFocus	Central Asia ⓘ East Asia ⓘ Japan ⓘ South Asia ⓘ Southeast Asia ⓘ
collectionIncludes	Asian archaeological artifacts ⓘ Asian art ⓘ Japanese archaeological artifacts ⓘ Japanese art ⓘ
collectionSize	over 110000 objects ⓘ
coordinateLocation	35.7186°N 139.7764°E ⓘ
country	Japan ⓘ
formerName	Tokyo National Museum self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Imperial Museum Tokyo National Museum self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Tokyo Imperial Household Museum
governingBody	Independent Administrative Institution National Institutes for Cultural Heritage ⓘ
hasBuilding	Heiseikan ⓘ Honkan ⓘ Horyuji Homotsukan ⓘ Hyokeikan ⓘ Kuroda Memorial Hall ⓘ Toyokan ⓘ
hasCollectionType	Buddhist art ⓘ archaeological objects ⓘ calligraphy ⓘ ceramics ⓘ historical documents ⓘ lacquerware ⓘ metalwork ⓘ paintings ⓘ samurai armor ⓘ sculpture ⓘ swords ⓘ textiles ⓘ
hasExhibitionType	permanent exhibitions ⓘ special exhibitions ⓘ
hasMission	education about cultural properties ⓘ preservation of cultural properties ⓘ research on cultural properties ⓘ
hasOnlinePresence	https://www.tnm.jp ⓘ
honkanRebuiltIn	1938 ⓘ
honkanStyle	Imperial Crown Style ⓘ
inception	1872 ⓘ
isLargestMuseumIn	Japan ⓘ
isOldestMuseumIn	Japan ⓘ
languageOfWebsite	English ⓘ Japanese ⓘ
locatedIn	Honshu ⓘ Japan ⓘ Kantō region ⓘ Taitō ⓘ Tokyo ⓘ Ueno Park ⓘ
ownedBy	Government of Japan ⓘ
publicTransitAccess	Ueno Station ⓘ Uguisudani Station ⓘ

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Referenced by (13)

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

Taitō → hasAttraction → Tokyo National Museum ⓘ

The Thinker → hasReplica → Tokyo National Museum ⓘ

Ueno → hasLandmark → Tokyo National Museum ⓘ

Ueno Park → hasAttraction → Tokyo National Museum ⓘ

Ueno Park → contains → Tokyo National Museum ⓘ

Ueno Station → adjacentTo → Tokyo National Museum ⓘ

Tokyo National Museum → formerName → Tokyo National Museum self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Imperial Museum

Tokyo National Museum → formerName → Tokyo National Museum self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Tokyo Imperial Household Museum

Ueno Zoo → near → Tokyo National Museum ⓘ

Taitō, Tokyo, Japan → hasLandmark → Tokyo National Museum ⓘ

Taitō ward → contains → Tokyo National Museum ⓘ

The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō → inCollection → Tokyo National Museum ⓘ

dotaku → museumCollection → Tokyo National Museum ⓘ

subject surface form: Dotaku

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