Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (University of Michigan)
E310906
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan is an academic department that educates engineers and conducts research in areas such as infrastructure, transportation, environmental sustainability, and water resources.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (University of Michigan) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2915202 — 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 Civil and Environmental Engineering (University of Michigan) Context triple: [College of Engineering (University of Michigan), hasUnit, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (University of Michigan)]
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Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is an academic unit at Rice University's George R. Brown School of Engineering that focuses on education and research in infrastructure, environmental systems, and sustainable engineering.
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Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is an academic unit specializing in infrastructure, environmental systems, and related engineering disciplines within the Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
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Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is an academic unit within Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering that focuses on education and research in infrastructure, environmental systems, and sustainable engineering.
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Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley is a leading academic department focused on advancing infrastructure, environmental sustainability, and resilient systems through education and research.
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Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (Carnegie Mellon University)
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University is an academic unit focused on education and research in sustainable infrastructure, environmental systems, and resilient built environments.
- 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 Civil and Environmental Engineering (University of Michigan) Target entity description: The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan is an academic department that educates engineers and conducts research in areas such as infrastructure, transportation, environmental sustainability, and water resources.
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Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is an academic unit at Rice University's George R. Brown School of Engineering that focuses on education and research in infrastructure, environmental systems, and sustainable engineering.
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B.
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is an academic unit specializing in infrastructure, environmental systems, and related engineering disciplines within the Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
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C.
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is an academic unit within Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering that focuses on education and research in infrastructure, environmental systems, and sustainable engineering.
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D.
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley is a leading academic department focused on advancing infrastructure, environmental sustainability, and resilient systems through education and research.
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Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (Carnegie Mellon University)
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University is an academic unit focused on education and research in sustainable infrastructure, environmental systems, and resilient built environments.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic department
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engineering department ⓘ |
| abbreviation | CEE ⓘ |
| affiliatedWith | University of Michigan ⓘ |
| campus |
University of Michigan
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surface form:
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor campus
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| collaboratesWith |
government agencies
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industry partners ⓘ other departments in the University of Michigan College of Engineering ⓘ research institutes ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| educationalFocus |
graduate engineering education
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undergraduate engineering education ⓘ |
| employs | faculty members ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
civil engineering
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construction engineering and management ⓘ environmental engineering ⓘ environmental sustainability ⓘ geotechnical engineering ⓘ hydrology ⓘ infrastructure engineering ⓘ infrastructure resilience ⓘ structural engineering ⓘ transportation engineering ⓘ transportation systems ⓘ water quality ⓘ water resources engineering ⓘ |
| hasParentOrganization |
College of Engineering (University of Michigan)
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surface form:
University of Michigan College of Engineering
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| hasStudentBody |
graduate students
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undergraduate students ⓘ |
| languageOfInstruction | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Ann Arbor
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surface form:
Ann Arbor, Michigan
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| mission |
conduct of research in civil and environmental engineering
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education of engineers ⓘ |
| offersProgram |
Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering
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Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Engineering ⓘ Master’s degree programs in Civil and Environmental Engineering ⓘ PhD programs in Civil and Environmental Engineering ⓘ |
| partOf | College of Engineering (University of Michigan) ⓘ |
| researchFocus |
air and water pollution control
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climate change impacts on infrastructure ⓘ environmental remediation ⓘ environmental sustainability ⓘ infrastructure systems ⓘ sustainable transportation ⓘ transportation systems ⓘ urban infrastructure ⓘ water resources ⓘ |
| sector | public higher education ⓘ |
| website | https://cee.engin.umich.edu/ ⓘ |
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 Civil and Environmental Engineering (University of Michigan) Description of subject: The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan is an academic department that educates engineers and conducts research in areas such as infrastructure, transportation, environmental sustainability, and water resources.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
College of Engineering
→
hasUnit
→
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (University of Michigan)
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subject surface form:
College of Engineering (University of Michigan)