Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (University of Maine)
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The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Maine is an academic unit that offers education and research programs focused on designing, managing, and sustaining infrastructure and natural resources.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (University of Maine) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10216482 — 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 Maine) Context triple: [College of Engineering (University of Maine), hasAcademicUnit, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (University of Maine)]
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Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (University of Michigan)
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 Nagaoka University of Technology focused on education and research in infrastructure, environmental protection, and sustainable development.
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C.
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 that educates students and conducts research in areas such as infrastructure design, construction, and environmental protection within the Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science.
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E.
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is an academic unit focused on education and research in infrastructure, construction, and environmental systems within the broader field of engineering.
- 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 Maine) Target entity description: The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Maine is an academic unit that offers education and research programs focused on designing, managing, and sustaining infrastructure and natural resources.
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Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (University of Michigan)
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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B.
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is an academic unit at Nagaoka University of Technology focused on education and research in infrastructure, environmental protection, and sustainable development.
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C.
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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D.
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is an academic unit that educates students and conducts research in areas such as infrastructure design, construction, and environmental protection within the Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science.
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Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is an academic unit at the Technical University of Darmstadt focused on education and research in civil infrastructure, environmental systems, and sustainable development.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic department
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civil engineering department ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline |
civil and environmental engineering
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engineering ⓘ |
| accreditedBy | ABET NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| campus | University of Maine campus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| employs |
civil engineering faculty
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environmental engineering faculty ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
civil engineering
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environmental engineering ⓘ environmental sustainability ⓘ geotechnical engineering ⓘ infrastructure engineering ⓘ structural engineering ⓘ transportation engineering ⓘ water resources engineering ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
design of infrastructure systems
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environmental protection ⓘ management of infrastructure systems ⓘ resilient infrastructure ⓘ sustainability of natural resources ⓘ |
| hasAffiliation |
American Society for Engineering Education
NERFINISHED
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American Society of Civil Engineers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasStudentBody |
graduate students
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undergraduate students ⓘ |
| languageOfInstruction | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Orono, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mission |
to conduct research on infrastructure and natural resources
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to educate students in civil and environmental engineering ⓘ to serve the state of Maine and the broader region through engineering expertise ⓘ |
| offersDegree |
Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering
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Doctor of Philosophy in Civil Engineering ⓘ Master of Science in Civil Engineering ⓘ Master of Science in Environmental Engineering ⓘ |
| offersProgram |
graduate program in civil engineering
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graduate program in environmental engineering ⓘ undergraduate program in civil engineering ⓘ |
| partOf |
College of Engineering (University of Maine)
NERFINISHED
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University of Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| researchArea |
geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering
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structural materials and design ⓘ sustainable infrastructure ⓘ transportation systems ⓘ water resources and environmental quality ⓘ |
| website | https://umaine.edu/civil/ ⓘ |
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 Maine) Description of subject: The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Maine is an academic unit that offers education and research programs focused on designing, managing, and sustaining infrastructure and natural resources.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
College of Engineering
→
hasAcademicUnit
→
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (University of Maine)
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subject surface form:
College of Engineering (University of Maine)