Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

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art museum contemporary art museum non-profit organization

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles is a major art museum dedicated to contemporary works, renowned for its cutting-edge exhibitions and influential role in the international art scene.

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Label	Occurrences
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles canonical	18
MOCA Grand Avenue	3
Geffen Contemporary at MOCA	2
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA Grand Avenue)	2
MOCA Pacific Design Center	1
Museum of Contemporary Art, Inc.	1
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles collection	1
The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T607566 — 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: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Context triple: [Central Los Angeles, hasLandmark, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles]

A. Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is a major art museum in Los Angeles known for its extensive and diverse collection spanning thousands of years and its iconic outdoor installations like "Urban Light."
B. Norton Simon Museum
The Norton Simon Museum is a renowned art museum in Pasadena, California, celebrated for its extensive collection of European masterpieces, Asian art, and modern works.
C. The Broad Museum
The Broad Museum is a contemporary art museum in downtown Los Angeles known for its distinctive honeycomb-like architecture and extensive collection of postwar and contemporary artworks.
D. Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago is one of the largest contemporary art museums in the world, renowned for its cutting-edge exhibitions, performances, and collection of post-World War II art.
E. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco is the city’s public arts institution that oversees the de Young Museum and the Legion of Honor, housing major collections of American, European, and non-Western art.
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: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Target entity description: The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles is a major art museum dedicated to contemporary works, renowned for its cutting-edge exhibitions and influential role in the international art scene.

A. Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is a major art museum in Los Angeles known for its extensive and diverse collection spanning thousands of years and its iconic outdoor installations like "Urban Light."
B. Norton Simon Museum
The Norton Simon Museum is a renowned art museum in Pasadena, California, celebrated for its extensive collection of European masterpieces, Asian art, and modern works.
C. The Broad Museum
The Broad Museum is a contemporary art museum in downtown Los Angeles known for its distinctive honeycomb-like architecture and extensive collection of postwar and contemporary artworks.
D. Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago is one of the largest contemporary art museums in the world, renowned for its cutting-edge exhibitions, performances, and collection of post-World War II art.
E. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco is the city’s public arts institution that oversees the de Young Museum and the Legion of Honor, housing major collections of American, European, and non-Western art.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (53)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	art museum ⓘ contemporary art museum ⓘ non-profit organization ⓘ
architect	Arata Isozaki ⓘ
collectionFocus	contemporary art ⓘ post-1940 art ⓘ
collectionSize	over 7000 works ⓘ
coordinates	34.0535° N, 118.2506° W ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
founder	Marcia Simon Weisman ⓘ group of Los Angeles artists and collectors ⓘ
genre	contemporary art museum ⓘ
hasCollectionItem	works by Andy Warhol ⓘ works by Barbara Kruger ⓘ works by Bruce Nauman ⓘ works by Chris Burden ⓘ works by Cindy Sherman ⓘ Claes Oldenburg ⓘ surface form: works by Claes Oldenburg works by Diane Arbus ⓘ works by Franz Kline ⓘ works by Jackson Pollock ⓘ works by Jasper Johns ⓘ works by Jean-Michel Basquiat ⓘ works by Jeff Koons ⓘ works by John Baldessari ⓘ works by Mark Rothko ⓘ works by Mike Kelley ⓘ works by Paul McCarthy ⓘ works by Richard Serra ⓘ works by Robert Rauschenberg ⓘ works by Roy Lichtenstein ⓘ works by Sam Francis ⓘ works by Willem de Kooning ⓘ
hasHeadquartersLocation	Los Angeles ⓘ
hasMainBuilding	Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: MOCA Grand Avenue
hasPart	Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: MOCA Grand Avenue Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: MOCA Pacific Design Center Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
inception	1979 ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	English ⓘ
legalForm	non-profit ⓘ
locatedIn	California, United States ⓘ surface form: California Downtown Los Angeles ⓘ Los Angeles ⓘ
notableFor	cutting-edge exhibitions ⓘ focus on contemporary art ⓘ influential role in the international art scene ⓘ
opened	1983 ⓘ
operatedBy	Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Museum of Contemporary Art, Inc.
postalCode	90012 ⓘ
publicTransitAccess	Los Angeles Metro rail and bus lines ⓘ
streetAddress	250 South Grand Avenue ⓘ
website	https://www.moca.org ⓘ

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