Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac

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art museum cultural institution ethnographic museum museum

The Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac is a Paris museum renowned for its extensive collections of indigenous art and cultures from Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas, housed in a distinctive contemporary building near the Eiffel Tower.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac canonical	8
Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac Museum	2
Musée du quai Branly	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1919610 — 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: Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac
Context triple: [7th arrondissement of Paris, contains, Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac]

A. Musée d'Orsay
The Musée d'Orsay is a renowned Parisian museum housed in a former railway station, famous for its extensive collection of 19th- and early 20th-century art, including major Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works.
B. Musée de France
Musée de France is a French national museum designation granted to institutions that meet specific standards for preserving and presenting public art and heritage collections.
C. Galeries nationales du Grand Palais
Galeries nationales du Grand Palais is a major Parisian exhibition space renowned for hosting large-scale art and cultural exhibitions within the historic Grand Palais complex.
D. Musée d’Art et d’Archéologie de Cluny
The Musée d’Art et d’Archéologie de Cluny is a French museum renowned for its collections of medieval art and archaeological artifacts, housed in the historic Cluny Abbey complex.
E. Musée de l’Homme
The Musée de l’Homme is a Parisian anthropology museum dedicated to the study of human evolution, societies, and cultures, located in the Trocadéro area overlooking the Eiffel Tower.
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: Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac
Target entity description: The Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac is a Paris museum renowned for its extensive collections of indigenous art and cultures from Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas, housed in a distinctive contemporary building near the Eiffel Tower.

A. Musée d'Orsay
The Musée d'Orsay is a renowned Parisian museum housed in a former railway station, famous for its extensive collection of 19th- and early 20th-century art, including major Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works.
B. Musée de France
Musée de France is a French national museum designation granted to institutions that meet specific standards for preserving and presenting public art and heritage collections.
C. Galeries nationales du Grand Palais
Galeries nationales du Grand Palais is a major Parisian exhibition space renowned for hosting large-scale art and cultural exhibitions within the historic Grand Palais complex.
D. Musée d’Art et d’Archéologie de Cluny
The Musée d’Art et d’Archéologie de Cluny is a French museum renowned for its collections of medieval art and archaeological artifacts, housed in the historic Cluny Abbey complex.
E. Musée de l’Homme
The Musée de l’Homme is a Parisian anthropology museum dedicated to the study of human evolution, societies, and cultures, located in the Trocadéro area overlooking the Eiffel Tower.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	art museum ⓘ cultural institution ⓘ ethnographic museum ⓘ museum ⓘ
architect	Jean Nouvel ⓘ
architecturalStyle	contemporary architecture ⓘ
city	Paris ⓘ
collectionFocus	African art ⓘ Asian art ⓘ Oceanian art ⓘ art of the Americas ⓘ indigenous art ⓘ non-European cultures ⓘ
collectionIncludes	masks ⓘ musical instruments ⓘ photographs ⓘ ritual objects ⓘ sculptures ⓘ textiles ⓘ
country	France ⓘ
formerName	Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Musée du quai Branly
hasExhibitionSpace	permanent galleries ⓘ temporary exhibition spaces ⓘ
hasFacility	bookshop ⓘ cinema ⓘ library ⓘ restaurant ⓘ theatre ⓘ
hasFeature	elevated main building on stilts ⓘ lush garden surrounding the building ⓘ vegetal wall ⓘ
inception	2006 ⓘ
languageOfName	French ⓘ
latitude	48.860 ⓘ
locatedIn	7th arrondissement of Paris ⓘ Paris ⓘ
locatedNear	Eiffel Tower ⓘ
locatedOn	quai Branly ⓘ
longitude	2.297 ⓘ
mission	preservation of non-European cultural heritage ⓘ promotion of dialogue between cultures ⓘ
namedAfter	Jacques Chirac ⓘ
officialOpeningDate	2006-06-23 ⓘ
operator	public establishment of a cultural nature ⓘ
ownedBy	French state (partially) ⓘ surface form: French state
region	Île-de-France region ⓘ surface form: Île-de-France
renamedInHonorOf	Jacques Chirac ⓘ
website	https://www.quaibranly.fr ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

7th arrondissement of Paris → contains → Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac ⓘ

Oceanic art → hasCollectionIn → Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac ⓘ

Benin Bronzes → currentLocation → Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac ⓘ

Musée de la France d’Outre-Mer → seeAlso → Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac ⓘ

Jean Nouvel → notableWork → Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac ⓘ

Gros-Caillou quarter → hasLandmarkNearby → Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac ⓘ

Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac → formerName → Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Musée du quai Branly

Alma–Marceau metro station → locatedNear → Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac ⓘ

subject surface form: Alma–Marceau

Pont de l’Alma RER station → nearbyAttraction → Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac ⓘ

this entity surface form: Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac Museum

Malagan art → exhibitedAt → Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac ⓘ

Bir-Hakeim station → hasNearbyAttraction → Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac ⓘ