Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution
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The Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution is a research unit that investigates how human languages and cultures change and diversify over time, often using comparative, quantitative, and interdisciplinary methods.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2474160 — 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: Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution Context triple: [Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, hasDivision, Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution]
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A.
Department of Linguistics
The Department of Linguistics is an academic unit at the University of Chile dedicated to the scientific study of language, including its structure, use, and development.
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B.
University of Pennsylvania Department of Linguistics
The University of Pennsylvania Department of Linguistics is a leading academic center for theoretical and empirical linguistics research and education, known for its influential contributions to syntax, phonology, sociolinguistics, and computational linguistics.
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C.
Faculty of Linguistics and Cultural Studies
The Faculty of Linguistics and Cultural Studies is an academic division of the University of Oldenburg specializing in language, literature, and cultural research and education.
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D.
School of Linguistics and Literary Studies
The School of Linguistics and Literary Studies is an academic faculty at Osnabrück University specializing in language, linguistics, and literary scholarship.
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E.
Society for Linguistic Anthropology
The Society for Linguistic Anthropology is a scholarly organization dedicated to the study of language as a cultural and social resource and practice within the broader field of anthropology.
- 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 Linguistic and Cultural Evolution Target entity description: The Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution is a research unit that investigates how human languages and cultures change and diversify over time, often using comparative, quantitative, and interdisciplinary methods.
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A.
Department of Linguistics
The Department of Linguistics is an academic unit at the University of Chile dedicated to the scientific study of language, including its structure, use, and development.
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B.
University of Pennsylvania Department of Linguistics
The University of Pennsylvania Department of Linguistics is a leading academic center for theoretical and empirical linguistics research and education, known for its influential contributions to syntax, phonology, sociolinguistics, and computational linguistics.
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C.
Faculty of Linguistics and Cultural Studies
The Faculty of Linguistics and Cultural Studies is an academic division of the University of Oldenburg specializing in language, literature, and cultural research and education.
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D.
School of Linguistics and Literary Studies
The School of Linguistics and Literary Studies is an academic faculty at Osnabrück University specializing in language, linguistics, and literary scholarship.
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E.
Society for Linguistic Anthropology
The Society for Linguistic Anthropology is a scholarly organization dedicated to the study of language as a cultural and social resource and practice within the broader field of anthropology.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic research unit
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research department ⓘ |
| affiliation | Max Planck Society ⓘ |
| country | Germany ⓘ |
| employs |
anthropologist
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computer scientist ⓘ data scientist ⓘ evolutionary biologist ⓘ linguist ⓘ statistician ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
comparative linguistics
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computational linguistics ⓘ cultural anthropology ⓘ cultural change ⓘ cultural diversity ⓘ cultural evolution ⓘ evolutionary anthropology ⓘ historical linguistics ⓘ language change ⓘ language diversity ⓘ language typology ⓘ linguistics ⓘ phylogenetics of language ⓘ quantitative linguistics ⓘ |
| hasResearchOutput |
databases
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language datasets ⓘ scientific articles ⓘ software tools ⓘ |
| languageOfWork |
English
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German ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Leipzig ⓘ |
| partOf | Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology ⓘ |
| researchFocus |
co-evolution of genes, languages, and cultures
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cultural phylogenies ⓘ diversification of cultures ⓘ diversification of languages ⓘ evolution of human cultures ⓘ evolution of human languages ⓘ patterns of global language diversity ⓘ |
| sector | non-profit research ⓘ |
| usesMethod |
comparative methods
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computational methods ⓘ database construction ⓘ interdisciplinary methods ⓘ phylogenetic analysis ⓘ quantitative methods ⓘ statistical modeling ⓘ |
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: Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution Description of subject: The Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution is a research unit that investigates how human languages and cultures change and diversify over time, often using comparative, quantitative, and interdisciplinary methods.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
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hasDivision
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Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution
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Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
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hasPart
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Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution
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