Department of Greek and Roman Art

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curatorial department museum department

The Department of Greek and Roman Art is a curatorial division of the Metropolitan Museum of Art that oversees and presents its collection of ancient Mediterranean artworks, including sculpture, pottery, jewelry, and architectural fragments from classical antiquity.

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Label	Occurrences
Department of Greek and Roman Art canonical	1
Department of Greek and Roman Art of the Metropolitan Museum of Art	1
John A. and Carole O. Moran Curator in Charge of the Department of Greek and Roman Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art	1
Roman art collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art	1

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This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3998 — 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.

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Target entity: Department of Greek and Roman Art
Context triple: [Metropolitan Museum of Art, hasDepartment, Department of Greek and Roman Art]

A. School of Arts and Sciences
The School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania is the institution’s primary liberal arts division, encompassing a wide range of humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences programs for undergraduate and graduate students.
B. Faculty of Humanities
The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Manchester is an academic division encompassing disciplines such as arts, social sciences, business, and related fields.
C. Sheffield Scientific School
Sheffield Scientific School was Yale University's pioneering science and engineering school, instrumental in advancing scientific and technical education in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
D. Harvard Art Museums
Harvard Art Museums is a renowned art institution in Cambridge, Massachusetts, comprising multiple museums and collections that support research, teaching, and public exhibitions.
E. Harvard Museum of Natural History
The Harvard Museum of Natural History is a public science museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts, showcasing Harvard’s extensive collections in zoology, botany, mineralogy, and paleontology.
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: Department of Greek and Roman Art
Target entity description: The Department of Greek and Roman Art is a curatorial division of the Metropolitan Museum of Art that oversees and presents its collection of ancient Mediterranean artworks, including sculpture, pottery, jewelry, and architectural fragments from classical antiquity.

A. School of Arts and Sciences
The School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania is the institution’s primary liberal arts division, encompassing a wide range of humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences programs for undergraduate and graduate students.
B. Faculty of Humanities
The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Manchester is an academic division encompassing disciplines such as arts, social sciences, business, and related fields.
C. Sheffield Scientific School
Sheffield Scientific School was Yale University's pioneering science and engineering school, instrumental in advancing scientific and technical education in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
D. Harvard Art Museums
Harvard Art Museums is a renowned art institution in Cambridge, Massachusetts, comprising multiple museums and collections that support research, teaching, and public exhibitions.
E. Harvard Museum of Natural History
The Harvard Museum of Natural History is a public science museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts, showcasing Harvard’s extensive collections in zoology, botany, mineralogy, and paleontology.
F. None of above. chosen

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	curatorial department ⓘ museum department ⓘ
collectionPeriod	Archaic period ⓘ Classical period ⓘ Greek Antiquity ⓘ Hellenistic period ⓘ Late Antique period ⓘ Roman Antiquity ⓘ
collectionRegion	Asia Minor ⓘ Cyprus ⓘ Eastern Mediterranean ⓘ Etruria ⓘ Greece ⓘ Italy ⓘ Magna Graecia ⓘ North Africa ⓘ
collectionType	architectural fragments ⓘ bronzes ⓘ coins ⓘ gems ⓘ glassware ⓘ inscriptions ⓘ jewelry ⓘ mosaics ⓘ pottery ⓘ reliefs ⓘ sculpture ⓘ terracottas ⓘ vases ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ
field	Greek art ⓘ Roman art ⓘ ancient Mediterranean art ⓘ classical archaeology ⓘ
hasPart	Greek art collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art ⓘ Department of Greek and Roman Art self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Roman art collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity	Manhattan ⓘ New York City ⓘ New York ⓘ surface form: New York State
location	1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY ⓘ New York City ⓘ
parentOrganization	Department of Islamic Art ⓘ surface form: Curatorial departments of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
partOf	Metropolitan Museum of Art ⓘ
responsibleFor	acquisitions of Greek and Roman antiquities for the Metropolitan Museum of Art ⓘ conservation oversight of Greek and Roman objects at the Metropolitan Museum of Art ⓘ display of Greek and Roman galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art ⓘ educational programs related to Greek and Roman art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art ⓘ research on the Met’s Greek and Roman collections ⓘ scholarly publications on Greek and Roman art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art ⓘ

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Metropolitan Museum of Art → hasDepartment → Department of Greek and Roman Art ⓘ

Department of Greek and Roman Art → hasPart → Department of Greek and Roman Art self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Roman art collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Seán Hemingway → positionHeld → Department of Greek and Roman Art ⓘ

this entity surface form: John A. and Carole O. Moran Curator in Charge of the Department of Greek and Roman Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

curatorial departments of the Metropolitan Museum of Art → includesDepartment → Department of Greek and Roman Art ⓘ

this entity surface form: Department of Greek and Roman Art of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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