State Hygienic Laboratory at the University of Iowa
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The State Hygienic Laboratory at the University of Iowa is Iowa’s public health and environmental laboratory, providing statewide testing, surveillance, and emergency response services to protect community health.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Iowa’s public health laboratory | 1 |
| State Hygienic Laboratory at the University of Iowa canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10073931 — 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: State Hygienic Laboratory at the University of Iowa Context triple: [University of Iowa College of Public Health, affiliatedWith, State Hygienic Laboratory at the University of Iowa]
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A.
Greeley Memorial Laboratory
Greeley Memorial Laboratory is a research and teaching facility at Yale University dedicated to environmental science and related disciplines.
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B.
Oregon State Public Health Laboratory
The Oregon State Public Health Laboratory is the state’s primary public health testing and reference laboratory, providing diagnostic, surveillance, and emergency response services to protect community health in Oregon.
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C.
Lillie Laboratory
Lillie Laboratory is a historic research building at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, that houses laboratories and facilities for marine and biological science.
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D.
Loomis Laboratory
Loomis Laboratory is a renowned private research facility in Tuxedo Park historically associated with advanced scientific experimentation and innovation.
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E.
J. W. Gibbs Laboratory
J. W. Gibbs Laboratory is a Yale University science facility named after the influential physicist and chemist Josiah Willard Gibbs.
- 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: State Hygienic Laboratory at the University of Iowa Target entity description: The State Hygienic Laboratory at the University of Iowa is Iowa’s public health and environmental laboratory, providing statewide testing, surveillance, and emergency response services to protect community health.
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A.
Greeley Memorial Laboratory
Greeley Memorial Laboratory is a research and teaching facility at Yale University dedicated to environmental science and related disciplines.
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B.
Oregon State Public Health Laboratory
The Oregon State Public Health Laboratory is the state’s primary public health testing and reference laboratory, providing diagnostic, surveillance, and emergency response services to protect community health in Oregon.
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C.
Lillie Laboratory
Lillie Laboratory is a historic research building at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, that houses laboratories and facilities for marine and biological science.
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D.
Loomis Laboratory
Loomis Laboratory is a renowned private research facility in Tuxedo Park historically associated with advanced scientific experimentation and innovation.
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E.
J. W. Gibbs Laboratory
J. W. Gibbs Laboratory is a Yale University science facility named after the influential physicist and chemist Josiah Willard Gibbs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
environmental laboratory
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public health laboratory ⓘ state public health agency laboratory ⓘ |
| additionalLocation |
Ankeny, Iowa
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Iowa City, Iowa ⓘ |
| affiliation | University of Iowa ⓘ |
| campus | University of Iowa Research Park ⓘ |
| city | Coralville, Iowa ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith |
Iowa Department of Public Health
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clinical laboratories in Iowa ⓘ environmental and natural resources agencies in Iowa ⓘ local public health agencies in Iowa ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| focusArea |
air quality testing
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bioterrorism response testing ⓘ chemical threat response testing ⓘ environmental water testing ⓘ foodborne disease testing ⓘ infectious disease testing ⓘ newborn screening ⓘ |
| fundingSource |
State of Iowa
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linked to:
Iowa
federal public health grants ⓘ service contracts ⓘ |
| governedBy |
Board of Regents, State of Iowa
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linked to:
Iowa Board of Regents system
|
| hasLaboratoryDiscipline |
chemistry
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microbiology ⓘ molecular diagnostics ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
State of Iowa
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linked to:
Iowa
|
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| mission | to protect community health in Iowa ⓘ |
| operatedBy | University of Iowa ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | University of Iowa ⓘ |
| provides |
disease surveillance services
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emergency response laboratory services ⓘ environmental surveillance services ⓘ environmental testing ⓘ public health testing ⓘ |
| role |
Iowa’s environmental laboratory
ⓘ
Iowa’s public health laboratory ⓘ |
| sector | public sector ⓘ |
| serviceArea |
State of Iowa
ⓘ
linked to:
Iowa
|
| state | Iowa ⓘ |
| typeOfService |
confirmatory testing
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environmental monitoring ⓘ outbreak investigation support ⓘ public health surveillance testing ⓘ reference laboratory services ⓘ |
| website | https://www.shl.uiowa.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: State Hygienic Laboratory at the University of Iowa Description of subject: The State Hygienic Laboratory at the University of Iowa is Iowa’s public health and environmental laboratory, providing statewide testing, surveillance, and emergency response services to protect community health.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
University of Iowa College of Public Health
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affiliatedWith
→
State Hygienic Laboratory at the University of Iowa
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linked to: State Hygienic Laboratory at the University of Iowa