Department of Microbiology and Immunology
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The Department of Microbiology and Immunology is an academic unit at Cornell University's College of Veterinary Medicine that focuses on research and education in infectious diseases, host–pathogen interactions, and immune system function.
All labels observed (1)
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| Department of Microbiology and Immunology canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5608376 — 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 Microbiology and Immunology Context triple: [College of Veterinary Medicine (Cornell University), hasDivision, Department of Microbiology and Immunology]
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Department of Microbiology and Immunology
The Department of Microbiology and Immunology is an academic unit at McGill University dedicated to research and education in infectious diseases, host–pathogen interactions, and immune system function.
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Department of Microbiology and Immunology
The Department of Microbiology and Immunology is an academic unit at the UNC School of Medicine focused on research and education in infectious diseases, host immune responses, and related biomedical sciences.
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Department of Microbiology and Immunology
The Department of Microbiology and Immunology is an academic and research unit specializing in the study of microorganisms and the immune system within the Geisel School of Medicine.
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Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology
The Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology is an academic research and teaching unit at the University of Vienna focused on the biology of microorganisms and the immune system.
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Department of Microbiology
The Department of Microbiology at Quaid-i-Azam University is an academic and research unit focused on the study of microorganisms, their roles in health, disease, and the environment, and their applications in biotechnology.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Department of Microbiology and Immunology Target entity description: The Department of Microbiology and Immunology is an academic unit at Cornell University's College of Veterinary Medicine that focuses on research and education in infectious diseases, host–pathogen interactions, and immune system function.
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Department of Microbiology and Immunology
The Department of Microbiology and Immunology is an academic unit at McGill University dedicated to research and education in infectious diseases, host–pathogen interactions, and immune system function.
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B.
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
The Department of Microbiology and Immunology is an academic unit at the UNC School of Medicine focused on research and education in infectious diseases, host immune responses, and related biomedical sciences.
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C.
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
The Department of Microbiology and Immunology is an academic and research unit specializing in the study of microorganisms and the immune system within the Geisel School of Medicine.
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Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology
The Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology is an academic research and teaching unit at the University of Vienna focused on the biology of microorganisms and the immune system.
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Department of Microbiology
The Department of Microbiology at Quaid-i-Azam University is an academic and research unit focused on the study of microorganisms, their roles in health, disease, and the environment, and their applications in biotechnology.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
academic department
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research unit ⓘ |
| affiliation |
College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University
NERFINISHED
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Cornell University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| campus | Cornell University Ithaca campus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| educationalMission |
graduate education
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postdoctoral training ⓘ professional veterinary education ⓘ research training in immunology ⓘ research training in microbiology ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
bacteriology
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comparative immunology ⓘ host immune response ⓘ host–pathogen interactions ⓘ immunology ⓘ infectious diseases ⓘ microbiology ⓘ parasitology ⓘ vaccine development ⓘ veterinary medicine ⓘ virology ⓘ zoonotic diseases ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
animal health
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public health aspects of infectious disease ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDiscipline |
biomedical sciences
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life sciences ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Ithaca, New York, United States
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surface form:
Ithaca, New York
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| offersCoursework |
immunology for veterinary students
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microbiology for veterinary students ⓘ |
| offersProgram |
graduate research opportunities in immunology
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graduate research opportunities in microbiology ⓘ |
| partOf |
College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University
NERFINISHED
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Cornell University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| researchFocus |
comparative host defense
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host–pathogen molecular interactions ⓘ immune system function ⓘ mechanisms of infectious disease ⓘ mucosal immunology ⓘ pathogenesis of bacterial infections ⓘ pathogenesis of parasitic infections ⓘ pathogenesis of viral infections ⓘ veterinary infectious diseases ⓘ |
| sector | higher education ⓘ |
| website | https://www.vet.cornell.edu/departments-centers-and-institutes/microbiology-and-immunology ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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 Microbiology and Immunology Description of subject: The Department of Microbiology and Immunology is an academic unit at Cornell University's College of Veterinary Medicine that focuses on research and education in infectious diseases, host–pathogen interactions, and immune system function.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
College of Veterinary Medicine (Cornell University)