National Museum of Beirut
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The National Museum of Beirut is Lebanon’s principal archaeological museum, renowned for its extensive collection of artifacts spanning from prehistory through the Ottoman period.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| National Museum of Beirut canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T208836 — 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: National Museum of Beirut Context triple: [Beirut, feature, National Museum of Beirut]
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A.
Tel Aviv Museum of Art
The Tel Aviv Museum of Art is a major Israeli cultural institution and modern art museum that also served as the historic site where the State of Israel was officially declared in 1948.
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B.
Bibliotheca Alexandrina
The Bibliotheca Alexandrina is a major modern library and cultural center in Alexandria, Egypt, inspired by and commemorating the ancient Library of Alexandria.
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C.
Islamic Museum
The Islamic Museum is a cultural institution on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount that houses and exhibits Islamic art, artifacts, and historical manuscripts.
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D.
Musée Marc Chagall
The Musée Marc Chagall is a French national museum dedicated to the works of artist Marc Chagall, particularly his biblical-themed paintings, located in the city of Nice on the French Riviera.
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E.
Egyptian Museum
The Egyptian Museum is a renowned museum in Cairo that houses one of the world's most extensive and important collections of ancient Egyptian antiquities.
- 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: National Museum of Beirut Target entity description: The National Museum of Beirut is Lebanon’s principal archaeological museum, renowned for its extensive collection of artifacts spanning from prehistory through the Ottoman period.
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A.
Tel Aviv Museum of Art
The Tel Aviv Museum of Art is a major Israeli cultural institution and modern art museum that also served as the historic site where the State of Israel was officially declared in 1948.
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B.
Bibliotheca Alexandrina
The Bibliotheca Alexandrina is a major modern library and cultural center in Alexandria, Egypt, inspired by and commemorating the ancient Library of Alexandria.
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C.
Islamic Museum
The Islamic Museum is a cultural institution on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount that houses and exhibits Islamic art, artifacts, and historical manuscripts.
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D.
Musée Marc Chagall
The Musée Marc Chagall is a French national museum dedicated to the works of artist Marc Chagall, particularly his biblical-themed paintings, located in the city of Nice on the French Riviera.
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E.
Egyptian Museum
The Egyptian Museum is a renowned museum in Cairo that houses one of the world's most extensive and important collections of ancient Egyptian antiquities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
archaeological museum
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national museum ⓘ |
| architect | Antoine Nahas ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Art Deco ⓘ |
| buildingCompleted | 1937 ⓘ |
| collectionSize | tens of thousands of artifacts in storage ⓘ |
| collectionType |
antiquities
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archaeology ⓘ |
| constructionStartDate | 1930 ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| coordinates | 33.881°N 35.509°E ⓘ |
| country | Lebanon ⓘ |
| exhibitLanguage |
Arabic
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English ⓘ French ⓘ |
| hasFloor |
basement level
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ground floor ⓘ upper floor ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | http://www.beirutnationalmuseum.com/ ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | principal archaeological museum of Lebanon ⓘ |
| inception | 1942 ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Badaro district
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Beirut ⓘ Beirut metropolitan area ⓘ
linked to:
Beirut
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| mainCollectionPeriod |
Bronze Age
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Byzantine period ⓘ Hellenistic period ⓘ Iron Age ⓘ Islamic period ⓘ Ottoman period ⓘ Phoenician period ⓘ
linked to:
Phoenician civilization
Prehistory ⓘ Roman period ⓘ |
| materialUsed | limestone ⓘ |
| nearbyLandmark |
Beirut Hippodrome
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Palais de Justice (Beirut courthouse) ⓘ |
| notableCollection |
Byblos royal necropolis finds
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linked to:
Byblos
Phoenician sarcophagi ⓘ anthropoid sarcophagi ⓘ classical sculptures ⓘ mosaics from Lebanon ⓘ |
| numberOfItems | approximately 1300 objects on display ⓘ |
| openingDate | 1942-05-27 ⓘ |
| operator | Directorate General of Antiquities of Lebanon ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Government of Lebanon ⓘ |
| region | Middle East ⓘ |
| reopeningAfterRestoration | 1999 ⓘ |
| significantEvent |
damaged during Lebanese Civil War
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restoration after Lebanese Civil War ⓘ |
| warDamagePeriod | 1975–1990 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: National Museum of Beirut Description of subject: The National Museum of Beirut is Lebanon’s principal archaeological museum, renowned for its extensive collection of artifacts spanning from prehistory through the Ottoman period.
Referenced by (3)
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