Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona
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The Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona is a major public natural history museum in Barcelona that showcases extensive collections on geology, zoology, botany, and paleontology across several historic and modern sites in the city.
All labels observed (4)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10645890 — 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: Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona Context triple: [Castell dels Tres Dragons, partOf, Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona]
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Museu d’Història de Barcelona
The Museu d’Història de Barcelona is a museum dedicated to preserving and showcasing the archaeological remains and historical heritage of Barcelona from Roman times to the present.
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B.
Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales
The Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales is a major natural history and science museum in Madrid, renowned for its extensive collections in zoology, geology, paleontology, and ecology and for its role in scientific research and public education in Spain.
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C.
Museu de la Ciència i de la Tècnica de Catalunya
The Museu de la Ciència i de la Tècnica de Catalunya is a major Catalan museum dedicated to the history and dissemination of science, technology, and industrial heritage, housed in a former modernist textile factory.
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Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya
The Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya is a major art museum in Barcelona renowned for its extensive collection of Catalan art, especially its Romanesque mural paintings and Gothic works.
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Museu de Badalona
Museu de Badalona is a local history and archaeology museum in Badalona, Spain, showcasing the city’s Roman heritage and cultural past.
- 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: Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona Target entity description: The Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona is a major public natural history museum in Barcelona that showcases extensive collections on geology, zoology, botany, and paleontology across several historic and modern sites in the city.
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A.
Museu d’Història de Barcelona
The Museu d’Història de Barcelona is a museum dedicated to preserving and showcasing the archaeological remains and historical heritage of Barcelona from Roman times to the present.
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B.
Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales
The Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales is a major natural history and science museum in Madrid, renowned for its extensive collections in zoology, geology, paleontology, and ecology and for its role in scientific research and public education in Spain.
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C.
Museu de la Ciència i de la Tècnica de Catalunya
The Museu de la Ciència i de la Tècnica de Catalunya is a major Catalan museum dedicated to the history and dissemination of science, technology, and industrial heritage, housed in a former modernist textile factory.
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D.
Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya
The Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya is a major art museum in Barcelona renowned for its extensive collection of Catalan art, especially its Romanesque mural paintings and Gothic works.
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E.
Museu de Badalona
Museu de Badalona is a local history and archaeology museum in Badalona, Spain, showcasing the city’s Roman heritage and cultural past.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
natural history museum
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public museum ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Museu Blau NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| architect | Herzog & de Meuron NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| buildingStyle | contemporary architecture ⓘ |
| category |
Museums in Barcelona
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Natural history museums in Spain ⓘ Science museums in Catalonia ⓘ |
| collectionSize | over three million specimens ⓘ |
| coordinateLocation | 41.411°N 2.218°E ⓘ |
| country | Spain ⓘ |
| exhibitionType |
permanent exhibition
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temporary exhibition ⓘ |
| floorArea | approximately 9,000 square metres ⓘ |
| hasCollection |
botany collection
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geology collection ⓘ paleontology collection ⓘ zoology collection ⓘ |
| hasEducationalProgram |
family activities
ⓘ
guided tours ⓘ workshops for schools ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Jardí Botànic Històric de Barcelona
NERFINISHED
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Jardí Botànic de Barcelona NERFINISHED ⓘ Laboratori de Natura NERFINISHED ⓘ Museu Blau NERFINISHED ⓘ historic Martorell Museum building ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | municipal museum of Barcelona NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inception | 2011 ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
Catalan
ⓘ
Spanish ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Barcelona
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Catalonia ⓘ Parc del Fòrum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainExhibition | Planeta Vida NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Ajuntament de Barcelona NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ownedBy | City of Barcelona NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessor |
Museu Martorell
NERFINISHED
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Museu de Geologia de Barcelona NERFINISHED ⓘ Museu de Zoologia de Barcelona NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicTransitAccess | El Maresme-Fòrum metro station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
Earth sciences
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biodiversity ⓘ evolution ⓘ natural history ⓘ |
| website | https://museuciencies.cat ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona Description of subject: The Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona is a major public natural history museum in Barcelona that showcases extensive collections on geology, zoology, botany, and paleontology across several historic and modern sites in the city.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Zoology Museum of Barcelona
this entity surface form:
Museu de Zoologia de Barcelona (Castell dels Tres Dragons)
this entity surface form:
Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona network