Getty Research Institute

organization with archives and databases for art history and provenance research
Organization organization Q11203476
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Summary

Getty Research Institute is an organization[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of organization entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (280 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Member of: Digital Library Federation[3], International Confederation of Architectural Museums[4], Europa Nostra[5]
  • Country: United States[6]
  • Instance of: research institute[7]
  • Founder: J. Paul Getty[8]
  • Item operated: Provenance Index Databases[9]
  • Headquarters location: Los Angeles[10]
  • Location: Getty Center[11]
  • Part of: Getty Center[12]
  • Commons category: Getty Research Institute[13]
  • Has part(s): Getty Research Institute Library[14], Getty Vocabulary Program[15]
  • Inception: 1985[16]
  • Parent organization or unit: J. Paul Getty Trust[17]
  • Official website: http://www.getty.edu/research/[18]
  • Described at URL: https://openlibrary.org/publishers/Getty_Research_Institute[19]
  • Director / manager: Mary Miller[20]
  • Commons Institution page: Getty Research Institute[21]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikiproject Wikidata use[22]
  • Has works in the collection: J. Paul Getty Museum[23]
  • Social media followers: 7510[24], 9270[25], 10,300[26], 11,600[27]

Why It Matters

Getty Research Institute has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 20 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

Works attributed to it include Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names[30], a thesaurus[31], founded in 1997[32].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [3] ↑ . clir.org. clir.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [4] ↑ . icam-web.org. Retrieved . icam-web.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [5] ↑ . europanostra.org. Retrieved . europanostra.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . ROR release v1.19. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . artforum.com. Retrieved . artforum.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . getty.edu. Retrieved . getty.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . YouTube API. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . YouTube API. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [31] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [32] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 4d ago · Sadads · 2026-10-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14900 → us-005535
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    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ P14900: us-005535, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/327258038|Getty Research Institute (#327258038)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/8575|EHRI"
  2. 5w ago · IdeasMagnet · 2026-09-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Openstreetmap way id → 481451920
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Openstreetmap way id: 481451920, Adding OSM way id claim from wikidata tag on way/481451920"
  3. 7w ago · Trivialist · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14750 → B542-6C6D-7E92-AADD-C988
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ P14750: B542-6C6D-7E92-AADD-C988, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/269256|batch #269256]]"
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