Department of Social and Decision Sciences
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The Department of Social and Decision Sciences is an interdisciplinary academic unit at Carnegie Mellon University that focuses on the study of human behavior, decision-making, and public policy using methods from psychology, economics, and related social sciences.
All labels observed (2)
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| Department of Social and Decision Sciences canonical | 1 |
| Department of Social and Decision Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7558431 — 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 Social and Decision Sciences Context triple: [Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences, hasDepartment, Department of Social and Decision Sciences]
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Department of Social Sciences
The Department of Social Sciences is a division of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts that focuses on research and scholarly work in fields such as sociology, economics, law, political science, and related disciplines.
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Department of Social Sciences
The Department of Social Sciences is an academic unit at the University of Puerto Rico at Bayamón that offers teaching and research programs focused on the study of human society, behavior, and social institutions.
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Department of Socioeconomics
The Department of Socioeconomics is an academic unit at the Vienna University of Economics and Business that focuses on the interdisciplinary study of social and economic structures, processes, and policies.
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Department of Collective Behaviour
The Department of Collective Behaviour is a research division that studies how groups of animals move, interact, and make decisions, often using advanced tracking and modeling techniques.
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Department of Sociology
The Department of Sociology at the University of Miami is an academic unit that focuses on the systematic study of social life, social change, and the social causes and consequences of human behavior.
- 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 Social and Decision Sciences Target entity description: The Department of Social and Decision Sciences is an interdisciplinary academic unit at Carnegie Mellon University that focuses on the study of human behavior, decision-making, and public policy using methods from psychology, economics, and related social sciences.
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A.
Department of Social Sciences
The Department of Social Sciences is a division of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts that focuses on research and scholarly work in fields such as sociology, economics, law, political science, and related disciplines.
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B.
Department of Social Sciences
The Department of Social Sciences is an academic unit at the University of Puerto Rico at Bayamón that offers teaching and research programs focused on the study of human society, behavior, and social institutions.
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C.
Department of Socioeconomics
The Department of Socioeconomics is an academic unit at the Vienna University of Economics and Business that focuses on the interdisciplinary study of social and economic structures, processes, and policies.
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D.
Department of Collective Behaviour
The Department of Collective Behaviour is a research division that studies how groups of animals move, interact, and make decisions, often using advanced tracking and modeling techniques.
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E.
Department of Sociology
The Department of Sociology at the University of Miami is an academic unit that focuses on the systematic study of social life, social change, and the social causes and consequences of human behavior.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic department
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interdisciplinary research unit ⓘ |
| affiliation | Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences ⓘ |
| approach |
empirical
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interdisciplinary ⓘ quantitative ⓘ |
| campus |
Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh campus
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linked to:
CMU
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| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| fieldOfWork |
behavioral decision research
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behavioral economics ⓘ behavioral public policy ⓘ cognitive psychology ⓘ data-driven social science ⓘ economics ⓘ judgment and decision making ⓘ political science ⓘ psychology ⓘ public policy ⓘ risk perception ⓘ social and decision sciences ⓘ social psychology ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
group decision-making
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human behavior ⓘ individual decision-making ⓘ interdisciplinary social science research ⓘ public policy analysis ⓘ risk and uncertainty ⓘ |
| hasAcademicStaff | faculty members ⓘ |
| hasStudentBody |
graduate students
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undergraduate students ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| offersProgram |
PhD program in Behavioral Decision Research
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PhD program in Behavioral Economics ⓘ undergraduate major in Behavioral Economics, Policy, and Organizations ⓘ undergraduate major in Decision Science ⓘ undergraduate major in Policy and Management ⓘ undergraduate minor in Behavioral Economics ⓘ undergraduate minor in Decision Science ⓘ undergraduate minor in Policy and Management ⓘ |
| partOf |
Carnegie Mellon University
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linked to:
CMU
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| usesMethod |
behavioral experiments
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computational modeling ⓘ experimental methods ⓘ field experiments ⓘ laboratory experiments ⓘ statistical modeling ⓘ survey research ⓘ |
| website | https://www.cmu.edu/dietrich/sds/ ⓘ |
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 Social and Decision Sciences Description of subject: The Department of Social and Decision Sciences is an interdisciplinary academic unit at Carnegie Mellon University that focuses on the study of human behavior, decision-making, and public policy using methods from psychology, economics, and related social sciences.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences
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hasDepartment
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Department of Social and Decision Sciences
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Sara Kiesler
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workInstitution
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Department of Social and Decision Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University
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linked to: Department of Social and Decision Sciences