School of Mathematics
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The School of Mathematics is an academic department at the University of the Witwatersrand dedicated to teaching and research in pure and applied mathematics.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| School of Mathematics canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8308755 — 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)
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Target entity: School of Mathematics Context triple: [Faculty of Science, University of the Witwatersrand, hasUnit, School of Mathematics]
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School of Mathematics
The School of Mathematics is a renowned research division of the Institute for Advanced Study, known for hosting leading mathematicians and fostering fundamental advances in pure mathematics.
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School of Mathematics
The School of Mathematics at Sun Yat-sen University is an academic unit dedicated to education and research in pure and applied mathematics within one of China’s leading comprehensive universities.
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School of Mathematics
The School of Mathematics is an academic unit of Hefei University of Technology dedicated to education and research in mathematical sciences.
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School of Mathematics
The School of Mathematics at Nanjing University is a leading academic department in China dedicated to research and education in pure and applied mathematics.
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School of Mathematical Sciences
The School of Mathematical Sciences is the department at the University of Southampton dedicated to teaching and research in mathematics and its applications.
- 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: School of Mathematics Target entity description: The School of Mathematics is an academic department at the University of the Witwatersrand dedicated to teaching and research in pure and applied mathematics.
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School of Mathematics
The School of Mathematics is a renowned research division of the Institute for Advanced Study, known for hosting leading mathematicians and fostering fundamental advances in pure mathematics.
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B.
School of Mathematics
The School of Mathematics at Sun Yat-sen University is an academic unit dedicated to education and research in pure and applied mathematics within one of China’s leading comprehensive universities.
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C.
School of Mathematics
The School of Mathematics is an academic unit of Hefei University of Technology dedicated to education and research in mathematical sciences.
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School of Mathematics
The School of Mathematics at Nanjing University is a leading academic department in China dedicated to research and education in pure and applied mathematics.
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School of Mathematical Sciences
The School of Mathematical Sciences is the department at the University of Southampton dedicated to teaching and research in mathematics and its applications.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | academic department ⓘ |
| activity |
research
ⓘ
teaching ⓘ |
| city | Johannesburg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | South Africa ⓘ |
| field | mathematics ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
applied mathematics
ⓘ
pure mathematics ⓘ |
| languageOfInstruction | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Braamfontein, Johannesburg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| offers |
postgraduate programmes in mathematics
ⓘ
undergraduate programmes in mathematics ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | Faculty of Science, University of the Witwatersrand NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | University of the Witwatersrand NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| website | https://www.wits.ac.za/maths/ ⓘ |
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: School of Mathematics Description of subject: The School of Mathematics is an academic department at the University of the Witwatersrand dedicated to teaching and research in pure and applied mathematics.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Faculty of Science, University of the Witwatersrand