Department of Modern and Contemporary Art
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The Department of Modern and Contemporary Art is the division of the Metropolitan Museum of Art responsible for collecting, researching, and exhibiting artworks from the late 19th century to the present.
All labels observed (1)
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| Department of Modern and Contemporary Art canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3997 — 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: Department of Modern and Contemporary Art Context triple: [Metropolitan Museum of Art, hasDepartment, Department of Modern and Contemporary Art]
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School of Arts and Sciences
The School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania is the institution’s primary liberal arts division, encompassing a wide range of humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences programs for undergraduate and graduate students.
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Faculty of Humanities
The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Manchester is an academic division encompassing disciplines such as arts, social sciences, business, and related fields.
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School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
The School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences is MIT’s division dedicated to research and education in fields such as literature, philosophy, economics, political science, linguistics, music, and related disciplines that complement the institute’s strong focus on science and engineering.
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D.
Harvard Art Museums
Harvard Art Museums is a renowned art institution in Cambridge, Massachusetts, comprising multiple museums and collections that support research, teaching, and public exhibitions.
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E.
Sheffield Scientific School
Sheffield Scientific School was Yale University's pioneering science and engineering school, instrumental in advancing scientific and technical education in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- 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: Department of Modern and Contemporary Art Target entity description: The Department of Modern and Contemporary Art is the division of the Metropolitan Museum of Art responsible for collecting, researching, and exhibiting artworks from the late 19th century to the present.
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A.
School of Arts and Sciences
The School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania is the institution’s primary liberal arts division, encompassing a wide range of humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences programs for undergraduate and graduate students.
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B.
Faculty of Humanities
The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Manchester is an academic division encompassing disciplines such as arts, social sciences, business, and related fields.
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C.
School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
The School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences is MIT’s division dedicated to research and education in fields such as literature, philosophy, economics, political science, linguistics, music, and related disciplines that complement the institute’s strong focus on science and engineering.
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D.
Harvard Art Museums
Harvard Art Museums is a renowned art institution in Cambridge, Massachusetts, comprising multiple museums and collections that support research, teaching, and public exhibitions.
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E.
Sheffield Scientific School
Sheffield Scientific School was Yale University's pioneering science and engineering school, instrumental in advancing scientific and technical education in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
curatorial department
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museum department ⓘ |
| basedIn | New York City ⓘ |
| collectionType |
installation art
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mixed media art ⓘ paintings ⓘ photography ⓘ sculpture ⓘ video art ⓘ works on paper ⓘ |
| employs |
collection managers
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conservators ⓘ curators ⓘ exhibition designers ⓘ researchers ⓘ |
| field |
art history
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contemporary art ⓘ modern art ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
20th-century art
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21st-century art ⓘ global modern and contemporary art ⓘ late 19th-century art ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
collection management
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curation of exhibitions ⓘ public programming related to modern and contemporary art ⓘ publication of catalogues and essays ⓘ scholarly research ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Metropolitan Museum of Art ⓘ |
| locatedInBorough | Manhattan ⓘ |
| locatedInCity | New York City ⓘ |
| locatedInCountry |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| locatedInState | New York ⓘ |
| operatesWithin |
Metropolitan Museum of Art
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surface form:
The Met Fifth Avenue
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| parentOrganization | Metropolitan Museum of Art ⓘ |
| partOf | Metropolitan Museum of Art ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
collecting contemporary art
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collecting modern art ⓘ exhibiting contemporary art ⓘ exhibiting modern art ⓘ researching contemporary art ⓘ researching modern art ⓘ |
| sector | non-profit cultural institution ⓘ |
| timePeriodCoveredFrom | late 19th century ⓘ |
| timePeriodCoveredTo | present ⓘ |
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: Department of Modern and Contemporary Art Description of subject: The Department of Modern and Contemporary Art is the division of the Metropolitan Museum of Art responsible for collecting, researching, and exhibiting artworks from the late 19th century to the present.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.