Royal Library of Sweden
E379940
The Royal Library of Sweden is the national library of Sweden, responsible for collecting and preserving the country’s printed and audiovisual heritage.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| National Library of Sweden | 4 |
| Royal Library of Sweden canonical | 2 |
| Kungliga biblioteket | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3682331 — 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: Royal Library of Sweden Context triple: [Östermalm, hasLandmark, Royal Library of Sweden]
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A.
Riksdag Library
The Riksdag Library is the research and parliamentary library serving Sweden’s national legislature, providing legal, political, and governmental information to members of parliament and the public.
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B.
Royal Danish Library
The Royal Danish Library is Denmark’s national library and largest research library, preserving the country’s cultural heritage and providing extensive scholarly and public access to its collections.
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C.
Stockholm Public Library
Stockholm Public Library is a landmark early 20th-century building in Stockholm, Sweden, renowned for its cylindrical main hall and as one of architect Gunnar Asplund’s most celebrated works of Nordic Classicism.
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D.
Swedish royal archives
The Swedish royal archives are the historical records and documents of Sweden’s monarchy, preserving centuries of state, dynastic, and administrative history.
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E.
Stockholm Palace
Stockholm Palace is the official royal residence and a major ceremonial and historical landmark located in the heart of Sweden’s capital, Stockholm.
- 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: Royal Library of Sweden Target entity description: The Royal Library of Sweden is the national library of Sweden, responsible for collecting and preserving the country’s printed and audiovisual heritage.
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A.
Riksdag Library
The Riksdag Library is the research and parliamentary library serving Sweden’s national legislature, providing legal, political, and governmental information to members of parliament and the public.
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B.
Royal Danish Library
The Royal Danish Library is Denmark’s national library and largest research library, preserving the country’s cultural heritage and providing extensive scholarly and public access to its collections.
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C.
Stockholm Public Library
Stockholm Public Library is a landmark early 20th-century building in Stockholm, Sweden, renowned for its cylindrical main hall and as one of architect Gunnar Asplund’s most celebrated works of Nordic Classicism.
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D.
Swedish royal archives
The Swedish royal archives are the historical records and documents of Sweden’s monarchy, preserving centuries of state, dynastic, and administrative history.
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E.
Stockholm Palace
Stockholm Palace is the official royal residence and a major ceremonial and historical landmark located in the heart of Sweden’s capital, Stockholm.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
legal deposit library
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national library ⓘ research library ⓘ |
| buildingStyle | historicist architecture ⓘ |
| collectionSize | millions of items ⓘ |
| collectionType |
audiovisual recordings
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books ⓘ electronic resources ⓘ ephemera ⓘ manuscripts ⓘ maps ⓘ newspapers ⓘ periodicals ⓘ posters ⓘ |
| coordinates | 59.339°N 18.079°E ⓘ |
| country | Sweden ⓘ |
| digitizationProgram |
Swedish newspapers digitization
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digital collections portal ⓘ |
| established | 1661 ⓘ |
| hasCatalogue | LIBRIS ⓘ |
| hasDigitalLibrary | digital collections of KB ⓘ |
| hasReadingRooms | yes ⓘ |
| languageOfCataloguing |
English
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Swedish ⓘ |
| legalDepositFrom | 1661 ⓘ |
| legalDepositScope |
audiovisual materials
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electronic publications ⓘ printed materials ⓘ |
| legalStatus | government agency ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Humlegården ⓘ |
| location | Stockholm ⓘ |
| mandate |
collect Sweden’s printed heritage
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preserve Sweden’s audiovisual heritage ⓘ preserve Swedish digital publications ⓘ |
| nationalRole |
central node in Swedish library system
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preservation of Swedish cultural heritage ⓘ |
| nativeName |
Royal Library of Sweden
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Kungliga biblioteket
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| parentOrganization |
Ministry of Education and Research (Sweden)
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surface form:
Swedish Ministry of Education and Research
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| predecessor |
Swedish royal archives
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surface form:
Royal collections of King Gustavus Adolphus
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| responsibility |
Swedish Security Service
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surface form:
Swedish national ISIL centre
coordination of Swedish library statistics ⓘ national bibliography of Sweden ⓘ national union catalogue LIBRIS ⓘ |
| serves |
general public
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researchers ⓘ students ⓘ |
| shortName | KB ⓘ |
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: Royal Library of Sweden Description of subject: The Royal Library of Sweden is the national library of Sweden, responsible for collecting and preserving the country’s printed and audiovisual heritage.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
National Library of Sweden
this entity surface form:
National Library of Sweden
this entity surface form:
National Library of Sweden
this entity surface form:
National Library of Sweden
this entity surface form:
Kungliga biblioteket