Walters Art Museum
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The Walters Art Museum is a major art museum in Baltimore renowned for its extensive collection spanning ancient to 19th-century art from around the world.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Walters Art Museum canonical | 15 |
| The Walters Art Museum | 2 |
| The Walters Art Museum Hackerman House | 1 |
| Walters Art Museum campus | 1 |
| Walters Art Museum holdings | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T676812 — 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: Walters Art Museum Context triple: [Baltimore, hasCulturalInstitution, Walters Art Museum]
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Baltimore Museum of Art
The Baltimore Museum of Art is a major art museum in Baltimore renowned for its extensive collection of 19th-century, modern, and contemporary art, including the world’s largest public holding of works by Henri Matisse.
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B.
The Phillips Collection
The Phillips Collection is a renowned modern art museum in Washington, D.C., celebrated for its intimate setting and pioneering collection of Impressionist and modern works.
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
The Smithsonian American Art Museum is a major U.S. museum in Washington, D.C., dedicated to collecting, preserving, and exhibiting American art from the colonial period to the present.
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D.
Freer Gallery of Art
The Freer Gallery of Art is a Washington, D.C. art museum renowned for its extensive collections of Asian art and American works, particularly those of James McNeill Whistler.
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E.
Everson Museum of Art
The Everson Museum of Art is a modern art museum in Syracuse, New York, renowned for its pioneering collection of American art and its iconic modernist building designed by architect I. M. Pei.
- 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: Walters Art Museum Target entity description: The Walters Art Museum is a major art museum in Baltimore renowned for its extensive collection spanning ancient to 19th-century art from around the world.
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A.
Baltimore Museum of Art
The Baltimore Museum of Art is a major art museum in Baltimore renowned for its extensive collection of 19th-century, modern, and contemporary art, including the world’s largest public holding of works by Henri Matisse.
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B.
The Phillips Collection
The Phillips Collection is a renowned modern art museum in Washington, D.C., celebrated for its intimate setting and pioneering collection of Impressionist and modern works.
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C.
Smithsonian American Art Museum
The Smithsonian American Art Museum is a major U.S. museum in Washington, D.C., dedicated to collecting, preserving, and exhibiting American art from the colonial period to the present.
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D.
Freer Gallery of Art
The Freer Gallery of Art is a Washington, D.C. art museum renowned for its extensive collections of Asian art and American works, particularly those of James McNeill Whistler.
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E.
Everson Museum of Art
The Everson Museum of Art is a modern art museum in Syracuse, New York, renowned for its pioneering collection of American art and its iconic modernist building designed by architect I. M. Pei.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
art museum
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museum ⓘ nonprofit organization ⓘ |
| admissionPolicy | free general admission ⓘ |
| cityRegion |
Downtown Baltimore
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surface form:
Downtown Baltimore cultural district
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| collectionOrigin | Walters family collection ⓘ |
| collectionRange |
19th-century art
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Asian art ⓘ Baroque art ⓘ Byzantine art ⓘ Egyptian art ⓘ Ethiopian art ⓘ Greek art ⓘ Islamic art ⓘ Renaissance art ⓘ Roman art ⓘ ancient art ⓘ arms and armor ⓘ decorative arts ⓘ illuminated manuscripts ⓘ jewelry ⓘ manuscripts ⓘ medieval art ⓘ paintings ⓘ sculpture ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| formerName | Walters Art Gallery ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Henry Walters
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William Thompson Walters ⓘ |
| governance |
Baltimore
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surface form:
City of Baltimore
board of trustees ⓘ |
| hasCollectionSize | over 36,000 objects ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
Centre Street building
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Hackerman House ⓘ main building on North Charles Street ⓘ |
| knownFor |
encyclopedic art collection
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free public access ⓘ significant manuscript collection ⓘ strong medieval art holdings ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Baltimore
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Maryland ⓘ Mount Vernon neighborhood ⓘ |
| name | Walters Art Museum self-link ⓘ |
| notableWorkHeld |
Ancient Egyptian mummy collection
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The Ideal City ⓘ The Madonna of the Candelabra ⓘ |
| publicOpeningYear | 1934 ⓘ |
| website | https://thewalters.org ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Walters Art Museum Description of subject: The Walters Art Museum is a major art museum in Baltimore renowned for its extensive collection spanning ancient to 19th-century art from around the world.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Walters Art Museum Hackerman House
this entity surface form:
Walters Art Museum holdings
this entity surface form:
Walters Art Museum campus
this entity surface form:
The Walters Art Museum
this entity surface form:
The Walters Art Museum