Department of Biological Sciences, Hokkaido University
E286093
The Department of Biological Sciences at Hokkaido University is an academic unit dedicated to research and education in the biological sciences, encompassing areas such as molecular biology, ecology, and evolutionary biology.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Department of Biological Sciences, Hokkaido University canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2656169 — 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 Biological Sciences, Hokkaido University Context triple: [Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, hasDepartment, Department of Biological Sciences, Hokkaido University]
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A.
Department of Biological Sciences, Kyushu University
The Department of Biological Sciences at Kyushu University is an academic unit dedicated to education and research in the biological sciences, ranging from molecular and cellular biology to ecology and evolutionary biology.
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B.
Department of Biological Sciences, Kyoto University
The Department of Biological Sciences at Kyoto University is a major academic unit dedicated to research and education in biological and life sciences within the university’s Faculty of Science.
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C.
Faculty of Science, Kyushu University
The Faculty of Science at Kyushu University is an academic division that oversees education and research in the natural sciences within this major Japanese national university.
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D.
Graduate School of Life Sciences
The Graduate School of Life Sciences is a postgraduate research and education program at Ritsumeikan University focused on advanced studies in biological and life sciences.
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E.
Graduate School of Life Sciences
The Graduate School of Life Sciences is a research-focused graduate institution at Tohoku University specializing in advanced studies and training in biological and life sciences.
- 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 Biological Sciences, Hokkaido University Target entity description: The Department of Biological Sciences at Hokkaido University is an academic unit dedicated to research and education in the biological sciences, encompassing areas such as molecular biology, ecology, and evolutionary biology.
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A.
Department of Biological Sciences, Kyushu University
The Department of Biological Sciences at Kyushu University is an academic unit dedicated to education and research in the biological sciences, ranging from molecular and cellular biology to ecology and evolutionary biology.
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B.
Department of Biological Sciences, Kyoto University
The Department of Biological Sciences at Kyoto University is a major academic unit dedicated to research and education in biological and life sciences within the university’s Faculty of Science.
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C.
Faculty of Science, Kyushu University
The Faculty of Science at Kyushu University is an academic division that oversees education and research in the natural sciences within this major Japanese national university.
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D.
Graduate School of Life Sciences
The Graduate School of Life Sciences is a postgraduate research and education program at Ritsumeikan University focused on advanced studies in biological and life sciences.
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E.
Graduate School of Life Sciences
The Graduate School of Life Sciences is a research-focused graduate institution at Tohoku University specializing in advanced studies and training in biological and life sciences.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic department
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university department ⓘ |
| affiliation |
Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University
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surface form:
Hokkaido University Graduate School of Science
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| campus | Kita Campus, Hokkaido University ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
biochemistry
ⓘ
biological sciences ⓘ cell biology ⓘ developmental biology ⓘ ecology ⓘ evolutionary biology ⓘ genetics ⓘ microbiology ⓘ molecular biology ⓘ neurobiology ⓘ plant biology ⓘ |
| languageOfInstruction |
English
ⓘ
Japanese ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Hokkaido
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surface form:
Hokkaido Prefecture
Sapporo ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
Hokkaido
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surface form:
Hokkaido Island
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| mission |
education in biological sciences
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research in biological sciences ⓘ |
| offersDegree |
Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences
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Doctor of Philosophy in Biological Sciences ⓘ Master of Science in Biological Sciences ⓘ |
| offersProgram |
graduate program in biological sciences
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undergraduate program in biological sciences ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | Hokkaido University ⓘ |
| partOf |
Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University
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Hokkaido University ⓘ |
| researchActivity |
applied biological research
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basic biological research ⓘ |
| websiteLanguage |
English
ⓘ
Japanese ⓘ |
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 Biological Sciences, Hokkaido University Description of subject: The Department of Biological Sciences at Hokkaido University is an academic unit dedicated to research and education in the biological sciences, encompassing areas such as molecular biology, ecology, and evolutionary biology.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University