Department of Food Science
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The Department of Food Science is an academic unit at Cornell University specializing in the study and advancement of food chemistry, safety, processing, and sensory science.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Department of Food Science canonical | 3 |
| Department of Food Science (Cornell University) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T853467 — 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 Food Science Context triple: [Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, hasAcademicDivision, Department of Food Science]
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A.
Department of Nutrition
The Department of Nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is a leading academic and research center focused on the role of diet and nutrition in public health, chronic disease prevention, and global health policy.
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Division of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
The Division of Agricultural and Food Chemistry is a specialized unit of the American Chemical Society that focuses on the chemistry of agriculture, food, and related products, fostering research, education, and professional collaboration in these areas.
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College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences
The College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences is a University of Minnesota college focused on education and research in agriculture, food systems, environmental science, and natural resources.
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D.
Department of Food Control
The Department of Food Control is an academic unit within Cairo University's Faculty of Veterinary Medicine that focuses on the safety, quality, and regulation of food of animal origin.
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E.
Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
The Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition is a branch of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration responsible for ensuring the safety and proper labeling of food, dietary supplements, and cosmetics.
- 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 Food Science Target entity description: The Department of Food Science is an academic unit at Cornell University specializing in the study and advancement of food chemistry, safety, processing, and sensory science.
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A.
Department of Nutrition
The Department of Nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is a leading academic and research center focused on the role of diet and nutrition in public health, chronic disease prevention, and global health policy.
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B.
Division of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
The Division of Agricultural and Food Chemistry is a specialized unit of the American Chemical Society that focuses on the chemistry of agriculture, food, and related products, fostering research, education, and professional collaboration in these areas.
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C.
College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences
The College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences is a University of Minnesota college focused on education and research in agriculture, food systems, environmental science, and natural resources.
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D.
Department of Food Control
The Department of Food Control is an academic unit within Cairo University's Faculty of Veterinary Medicine that focuses on the safety, quality, and regulation of food of animal origin.
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Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
The Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition is a branch of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration responsible for ensuring the safety and proper labeling of food, dietary supplements, and cosmetics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic department
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university department ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline |
agricultural sciences
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life sciences ⓘ |
| affiliation | Institute of Food Technologists ⓘ |
| campus |
Cornell University
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surface form:
Cornell University Ithaca campus
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| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| employerOf |
extension specialists in food science
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food science professors ⓘ research scientists in food science ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
dairy science
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enology ⓘ food chemistry ⓘ food microbiology ⓘ food processing ⓘ food safety ⓘ food science ⓘ sensory science ⓘ |
| hasAcademicStaff | faculty members in food science ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
dairy processing facilities
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pilot plant for food processing ⓘ research laboratories ⓘ sensory evaluation laboratories ⓘ teaching laboratories ⓘ wine and enology facilities ⓘ |
| hasStudentBody |
graduate students
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undergraduate students ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Ithaca, New York, United States
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surface form:
Ithaca, New York
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| mission |
education in food science
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extension and outreach in food systems ⓘ research in food science ⓘ |
| offersDegree |
Bachelor of Science in Food Science
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Doctor of Philosophy in Food Science ⓘ Master of Science in Food Science ⓘ |
| offersProgram |
graduate program in food science
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undergraduate program in food science ⓘ |
| partOf |
Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
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surface form:
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (Cornell University)
Cornell University ⓘ |
| researchFocus |
dairy foods
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food processing and engineering ⓘ food quality ⓘ food safety and microbiology ⓘ functional foods and ingredients ⓘ sensory evaluation of foods ⓘ wine and grape research ⓘ |
| website | https://foodscience.cals.cornell.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: Department of Food Science Description of subject: The Department of Food Science is an academic unit at Cornell University specializing in the study and advancement of food chemistry, safety, processing, and sensory science.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
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hasAcademicDivision
→
Department of Food Science
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subject surface form:
Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University
subject surface form:
Department of Animal Science (Cornell University)
this entity surface form:
Department of Food Science (Cornell University)