Spanish Patent and Trademark Office
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The Spanish Patent and Trademark Office is Spain’s national authority responsible for examining, granting, and managing patents, trademarks, and other industrial property rights, and it also serves as an International Searching Authority under the Patent Cooperation Treaty.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Oficina Española de Patentes y Marcas | 1 |
| Spanish Patent and Trademark Office canonical | 1 |
| national trademark office of Spain | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2971994 — 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: Spanish Patent and Trademark Office Context triple: [International Searching Authority, exampleOffice, Spanish Patent and Trademark Office]
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A.
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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B.
Instituto Geográfico Nacional (Spain)
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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C.
Biblioteca Nacional de España, Madrid
The Biblioteca Nacional de España in Madrid is Spain’s principal national library and a major cultural institution that preserves and provides access to the country’s documentary heritage, including important historical manuscripts and rare works.
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D.
Bank of Spain
The Bank of Spain is Spain’s central bank, responsible for national monetary policy and financial supervision, and is famously depicted as the main heist target in the TV series "Money Heist."
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E.
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.
- 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: Spanish Patent and Trademark Office Target entity description: The Spanish Patent and Trademark Office is Spain’s national authority responsible for examining, granting, and managing patents, trademarks, and other industrial property rights, and it also serves as an International Searching Authority under the Patent Cooperation Treaty.
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A.
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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B.
Instituto Geográfico Nacional (Spain)
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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C.
Biblioteca Nacional de España, Madrid
The Biblioteca Nacional de España in Madrid is Spain’s principal national library and a major cultural institution that preserves and provides access to the country’s documentary heritage, including important historical manuscripts and rare works.
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D.
Bank of Spain
The Bank of Spain is Spain’s central bank, responsible for national monetary policy and financial supervision, and is famously depicted as the main heist target in the TV series "Money Heist."
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
government agency
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intellectual property office ⓘ national patent office ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
OEPM
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SPTO ⓘ |
| city | Madrid ⓘ |
| cooperatesWith |
European Patent Office
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World Intellectual Property Organization ⓘ |
| country | Spain ⓘ |
| countryOfHeadquarters | Spain ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Madrid ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | Spain ⓘ |
| legalStatus | public body ⓘ |
| memberOf |
European Patent Office
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surface form:
European Patent Organisation (as national office of a member state)
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| nativeName |
Spanish Patent and Trademark Office
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Oficina Española de Patentes y Marcas
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| officialLanguage | Spanish ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism of Spain ⓘ |
| participatesIn |
European Patent Network
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Patent Cooperation Treaty ⓘ |
| responsibility |
administration of industrial designs
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administration of supplementary protection certificates ⓘ administration of trade names ⓘ administration of utility models ⓘ examination of patent applications ⓘ examination of trademark applications ⓘ granting of patents ⓘ granting of trademarks ⓘ maintenance of industrial property registers ⓘ management of patents ⓘ management of trademarks ⓘ promotion of industrial property protection ⓘ provision of patent information services ⓘ publication of industrial property bulletins ⓘ |
| role |
national authority for industrial property in Spain
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national patent office of Spain ⓘ Spanish Patent and Trademark Office self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
national trademark office of Spain
|
| scope | national ⓘ |
| sector |
industrial property
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intellectual property ⓘ |
| service |
industrial property databases
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online filing of industrial property applications ⓘ registration of industrial designs ⓘ registration of national patents ⓘ registration of national trademarks ⓘ registration of utility models ⓘ search and examination of international patent applications ⓘ |
| treatyRole |
International Preliminary Examining Authority
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surface form:
International Preliminary Examining Authority under the Patent Cooperation Treaty
International Searching Authority ⓘ
surface form:
International Searching Authority under the Patent Cooperation Treaty
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| website | https://www.oepm.es ⓘ |
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: Spanish Patent and Trademark Office Description of subject: The Spanish Patent and Trademark Office is Spain’s national authority responsible for examining, granting, and managing patents, trademarks, and other industrial property rights, and it also serves as an International Searching Authority under the Patent Cooperation Treaty.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Spanish Patent and Trademark Office
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nativeName
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Spanish Patent and Trademark Office
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Oficina Española de Patentes y Marcas
Spanish Patent and Trademark Office
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role
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Spanish Patent and Trademark Office
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
national trademark office of Spain