School of Biology
E109732
The School of Biology at the University of St Andrews is an academic department dedicated to research and teaching across the biological sciences, including areas such as ecology, evolution, marine biology, and molecular biology.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| School of Biology canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T925405 — 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: School of Biology Context triple: [University of St Andrews, hasSchool, School of Biology]
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A.
Faculty of Biological Sciences
The Faculty of Biological Sciences at the University of Leeds is a major academic division specializing in research and education across the life sciences, including areas such as molecular biology, ecology, and neuroscience.
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B.
Department of Biology
The Department of Biology at MIT is a leading academic and research unit focused on advancing fundamental and applied biological sciences, from molecular and cellular biology to genetics and systems biology.
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C.
School of Life Sciences
The School of Life Sciences at the University of Dundee is a leading research and teaching institution focused on biological and biomedical sciences.
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D.
Faculty of Biology
The Faculty of Biology is a major academic division of the Weizmann Institute of Science dedicated to advanced research and education in the life sciences.
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E.
Faculty of Biology
The Faculty of Biology at the University of Havana is an academic division dedicated to education and research in the biological sciences within Cuba’s oldest and most prestigious university.
- 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: School of Biology Target entity description: The School of Biology at the University of St Andrews is an academic department dedicated to research and teaching across the biological sciences, including areas such as ecology, evolution, marine biology, and molecular biology.
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A.
Faculty of Biological Sciences
The Faculty of Biological Sciences at the University of Leeds is a major academic division specializing in research and education across the life sciences, including areas such as molecular biology, ecology, and neuroscience.
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B.
Department of Biology
The Department of Biology at MIT is a leading academic and research unit focused on advancing fundamental and applied biological sciences, from molecular and cellular biology to genetics and systems biology.
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C.
School of Life Sciences
The School of Life Sciences at the University of Dundee is a leading research and teaching institution focused on biological and biomedical sciences.
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D.
Faculty of Biology
The Faculty of Biology is a major academic division of the Weizmann Institute of Science dedicated to advanced research and education in the life sciences.
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E.
Faculty of Biology
The Faculty of Biology at the University of Havana is an academic division dedicated to education and research in the biological sciences within Cuba’s oldest and most prestigious university.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic department
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biology department ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline | biological sciences ⓘ |
| affiliation |
Faculty of Science, University of St Andrews
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surface form:
University of St Andrews Faculty of Science
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| collaboratesWith |
Centre for Biological Diversity
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Scottish Oceans Institute ⓘ Sea Mammal Research Unit ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| emphasis |
field-based teaching
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laboratory-based teaching ⓘ research-led teaching ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
behavioural ecology
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biology ⓘ cell biology ⓘ conservation biology ⓘ ecology ⓘ environmental biology ⓘ evolutionary biology ⓘ evolutionary ecology ⓘ genetics ⓘ marine biology ⓘ microbiology ⓘ molecular biology ⓘ |
| hasResearchFocus |
animal behaviour
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biodiversity ⓘ environmental change ⓘ evolutionary processes ⓘ marine ecosystems ⓘ molecular mechanisms in biology ⓘ |
| languageOfInstruction | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Fife
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Scotland ⓘ St Andrews ⓘ |
| offersDegree |
BSc
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MSc ⓘ MSci ⓘ PhD ⓘ |
| offersProgram |
postgraduate taught programmes in biological sciences
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research postgraduate degrees (PhD) in biological sciences ⓘ undergraduate degree in biology ⓘ undergraduate degree in ecology and conservation ⓘ undergraduate degree in marine biology ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | University of St Andrews ⓘ |
| partOf | University of St Andrews ⓘ |
| regionServed | international ⓘ |
| sector | higher education ⓘ |
| typeOfEducation | tertiary education ⓘ |
| website | https://biology.st-andrews.ac.uk/ ⓘ |
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: School of Biology Description of subject: The School of Biology at the University of St Andrews is an academic department dedicated to research and teaching across the biological sciences, including areas such as ecology, evolution, marine biology, and molecular biology.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.