National Library of Portugal
E479148
The National Library of Portugal is the country’s main legal deposit and research library, responsible for preserving and providing access to Portugal’s bibliographic heritage.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Biblioteca Nacional de Lisboa | 1 |
| Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal | 1 |
| National Library of Portugal canonical | 1 |
| Portuguese ISBN national agency | 1 |
| Royal Library of the Portuguese Court | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4912642 — 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 Library of Portugal Context triple: [Cidade Universitária de Lisboa, contains, National Library of Portugal]
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A.
Museum of the Portuguese Language
The Museum of the Portuguese Language is a cultural and interactive institution in São Paulo dedicated to celebrating, preserving, and exploring the history, diversity, and evolution of the Portuguese language.
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B.
General Library of the University of Minho
The General Library of the University of Minho is the main academic library system of the University of Minho in Portugal, providing information resources and services to support the university’s teaching and research activities.
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C.
Museu Nacional de Soares dos Reis
The Museu Nacional de Soares dos Reis is a major art museum in Porto, Portugal, renowned for its extensive collections of 19th- and 20th-century Portuguese painting, sculpture, and decorative arts.
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D.
Gulbenkian
Gulbenkian is a surname most prominently associated with Calouste Gulbenkian, the influential Armenian-British oil magnate and philanthropist whose legacy includes major cultural and charitable institutions.
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E.
Biblioteca Joanina
Biblioteca Joanina is an ornate 18th-century Baroque library at the University of Coimbra in Portugal, renowned for its richly decorated interiors and historic book collections.
- 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 Library of Portugal Target entity description: The National Library of Portugal is the country’s main legal deposit and research library, responsible for preserving and providing access to Portugal’s bibliographic heritage.
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A.
Museum of the Portuguese Language
The Museum of the Portuguese Language is a cultural and interactive institution in São Paulo dedicated to celebrating, preserving, and exploring the history, diversity, and evolution of the Portuguese language.
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B.
General Library of the University of Minho
The General Library of the University of Minho is the main academic library system of the University of Minho in Portugal, providing information resources and services to support the university’s teaching and research activities.
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C.
Museu Nacional de Soares dos Reis
The Museu Nacional de Soares dos Reis is a major art museum in Porto, Portugal, renowned for its extensive collections of 19th- and 20th-century Portuguese painting, sculpture, and decorative arts.
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D.
Gulbenkian
Gulbenkian is a surname most prominently associated with Calouste Gulbenkian, the influential Armenian-British oil magnate and philanthropist whose legacy includes major cultural and charitable institutions.
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E.
Biblioteca Joanina
Biblioteca Joanina is an ornate 18th-century Baroque library at the University of Coimbra in Portugal, renowned for its richly decorated interiors and historic book collections.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
legal deposit library
ⓘ
national library ⓘ research library ⓘ |
| buildingType | library building ⓘ |
| collectionType |
books
ⓘ
digital resources ⓘ manuscripts ⓘ maps ⓘ music scores ⓘ periodicals ⓘ prints and drawings ⓘ |
| coordinates | 38.754°N 9.153°W ⓘ |
| country | Portugal ⓘ |
| formerName |
Biblioteca Nacional de Lisboa
ⓘ
linked to:
National Library of Portugal
Biblioteca Real Pública da Corte ⓘ
linked to:
Royal Public Library of the Court
|
| foundedAs | Royal Public Library of the Court ⓘ |
| hasAuthorityFile | Portuguese National Authority File ⓘ |
| hasDigitalLibrary | yes ⓘ |
| hasLegalDepositSince | 1931 ⓘ |
| hasOnlineCatalogue | yes ⓘ |
| hasReadingRooms | yes ⓘ |
| hasReferenceServices | yes ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Campo Grande, Lisbon
ⓘ
linked to:
Alvalade (Lisbon)
|
| inception | 1796 ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Portuguese ⓘ |
| legalDepositLibraryFor | Portugal ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Lisboa District
ⓘ
linked to:
Lisbon District
Lisbon ⓘ Portugal ⓘ |
| mainFunction |
preservation of Portugal’s bibliographic heritage
ⓘ
provision of access to Portugal’s bibliographic heritage ⓘ |
| nativeName |
Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal
ⓘ
linked to:
National Library of Portugal
|
| operatedBy | Government of Portugal ⓘ |
| preserves |
Portuguese newspapers
ⓘ
Portuguese periodicals ⓘ historical manuscripts ⓘ incunabula ⓘ rare books ⓘ |
| responsibility |
Portuguese ISBN national agency
ⓘ
linked to:
National Library of Portugal
Portuguese ISSN national centre ⓘ
linked to:
ISSN National Centres
national bibliography of Portugal ⓘ |
| serves |
general public
ⓘ
researchers ⓘ students ⓘ |
| shortName | BNP ⓘ |
| subordinateTo | Ministry of Culture of Portugal ⓘ |
| website | https://www.bnportugal.gov.pt ⓘ |
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: National Library of Portugal Description of subject: The National Library of Portugal is the country’s main legal deposit and research library, responsible for preserving and providing access to Portugal’s bibliographic heritage.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: National Library of Portugal
linked to: National Library of Portugal
linked to: National Library of Portugal
linked to: National Library of Portugal