New Metropolis
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New Metropolis was the original name of Amsterdam’s futuristic, hands-on science and technology center now known as the NEMO Science Museum.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| New Metropolis canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T470422 — 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: New Metropolis Context triple: [NEMO Science Museum, previousName, New Metropolis]
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A.
Maximum City
Maximum City is a popular nickname for Mumbai that reflects its vast scale, intense energy, and extreme contrasts in wealth, culture, and daily life.
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B.
The City
The City is a common nickname for Manhattan, the densely populated and iconic borough of New York City known for its skyscrapers, cultural landmarks, and role as a global financial and media hub.
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C.
Metropolis II
Metropolis II is a large-scale kinetic sculpture by artist Chris Burden that features hundreds of miniature cars racing through an intricate, futuristic cityscape.
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D.
Chocolate City
Chocolate City is a popular nickname for Washington, D.C., highlighting its historically large and influential African American population and culture.
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E.
Secret City
Secret City is the World War II-era codename for Oak Ridge, Tennessee, a key, highly classified site in the Manhattan Project where uranium enrichment and atomic research were conducted.
- 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: New Metropolis Target entity description: New Metropolis was the original name of Amsterdam’s futuristic, hands-on science and technology center now known as the NEMO Science Museum.
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A.
Maximum City
Maximum City is a popular nickname for Mumbai that reflects its vast scale, intense energy, and extreme contrasts in wealth, culture, and daily life.
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B.
The City
The City is a common nickname for Manhattan, the densely populated and iconic borough of New York City known for its skyscrapers, cultural landmarks, and role as a global financial and media hub.
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C.
Metropolis II
Metropolis II is a large-scale kinetic sculpture by artist Chris Burden that features hundreds of miniature cars racing through an intricate, futuristic cityscape.
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D.
Chocolate City
Chocolate City is a popular nickname for Washington, D.C., highlighting its historically large and influential African American population and culture.
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E.
Secret City
Secret City is the World War II-era codename for Oak Ridge, Tennessee, a key, highly classified site in the Manhattan Project where uranium enrichment and atomic research were conducted.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
science and technology center
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science museum ⓘ |
| country | Netherlands ⓘ |
| field | STEM education ⓘ |
| formerNameOf | NEMO Science Museum ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
hands-on
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interactive exhibits ⓘ |
| hasFocus |
science
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technology ⓘ |
| hasType |
educational institution
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museum ⓘ |
| languageOfName | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Amsterdam ⓘ |
| locatedInCityCenterOf | Amsterdam ⓘ |
| locatedInCountry | Netherlands ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Amsterdam city center
ⓘ
linked to:
Amsterdam-Centrum
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| operatedAsNameUntil | NEMO Science Museum ⓘ |
| purpose |
public understanding of science
ⓘ
science education ⓘ |
| rebrandedAs | NEMO Science Museum ⓘ |
| status | former name ⓘ |
| successor | NEMO Science Museum ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
children
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families ⓘ |
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: New Metropolis Description of subject: New Metropolis was the original name of Amsterdam’s futuristic, hands-on science and technology center now known as the NEMO Science Museum.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.