Department of Biological Sciences
E182743
The Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Tokyo’s Faculty of Science is a leading academic unit dedicated to research and education in the life sciences, spanning molecular biology to ecology and evolution.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Department of Biological Sciences canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1593301 — 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 Biological Sciences Context triple: [Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo, hasDepartment, Department of Biological Sciences]
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A.
Department of Biological Sciences
The Department of Biological Sciences is an academic unit within Carnegie Mellon University's Mellon College of Science that focuses on research and education in the life sciences.
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B.
Department of Biology
The Department of Biology at MIT is a leading academic and research unit focused on advancing fundamental and applied biological sciences, from molecular and cellular biology to genetics and systems biology.
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C.
Department of Biology
The Department of Biology is an academic unit at Tor Vergata University of Rome dedicated to research and higher education in the biological sciences.
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D.
Department of Biosciences
The Department of Biosciences is an academic unit within Rice University's Wiess School of Natural Sciences that focuses on research and education in biological sciences.
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E.
Department of Life Sciences
The Department of Life Sciences is an academic unit at the University of Trieste dedicated to research and education in biological and related life science disciplines.
- 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 Biological Sciences Target entity description: The Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Tokyo’s Faculty of Science is a leading academic unit dedicated to research and education in the life sciences, spanning molecular biology to ecology and evolution.
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A.
Department of Biological Sciences
The Department of Biological Sciences is an academic unit within Carnegie Mellon University's Mellon College of Science that focuses on research and education in the life sciences.
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B.
Department of Biology
The Department of Biology at MIT is a leading academic and research unit focused on advancing fundamental and applied biological sciences, from molecular and cellular biology to genetics and systems biology.
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C.
Department of Biology
The Department of Biology is an academic unit at Tor Vergata University of Rome dedicated to research and higher education in the biological sciences.
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D.
Department of Biosciences
The Department of Biosciences is an academic unit within Rice University's Wiess School of Natural Sciences that focuses on research and education in biological sciences.
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E.
Department of Life Sciences
The Department of Life Sciences is an academic unit at the University of Trieste dedicated to research and education in biological and related life science disciplines.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic department
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university department ⓘ |
| academicDivision |
Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Tokyo
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surface form:
Division of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, The University of Tokyo
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| academicLevel | tertiary education ⓘ |
| affiliation |
University of Tokyo
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surface form:
The University of Tokyo
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| campusType | urban campus ⓘ |
| city | Tokyo ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| emphasis |
education
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research ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
biochemistry
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biological sciences ⓘ cell biology ⓘ developmental biology ⓘ ecology ⓘ evolutionary biology ⓘ genetics ⓘ life sciences ⓘ molecular biology ⓘ neurobiology ⓘ physiology ⓘ structural biology ⓘ |
| hasParentOrganization | Faculty of Science, The University of Tokyo ⓘ |
| hasResearchArea |
environmental biology
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evolutionary genomics ⓘ organismal biology ⓘ systems biology ⓘ |
| languageOfInstruction |
English
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Japanese ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Hongo Campus of the University of Tokyo
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surface form:
Hongo Campus, The University of Tokyo
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| notableFor |
contributions to ecology and evolution research
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contributions to molecular biology research ⓘ |
| offersDegree |
Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences
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Doctor of Philosophy in Biological Sciences ⓘ Master of Science in Biological Sciences ⓘ |
| offersProgram |
graduate program in biological sciences
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undergraduate program in biological sciences ⓘ |
| partOf |
Faculty of Science, The University of Tokyo
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University of Tokyo ⓘ
surface form:
The University of Tokyo
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| regionServed |
Japan
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international students ⓘ |
| researchApproach |
basic research
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interdisciplinary research ⓘ |
| website | https://www.bs.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ ⓘ |
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 Biological Sciences Description of subject: The Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Tokyo’s Faculty of Science is a leading academic unit dedicated to research and education in the life sciences, spanning molecular biology to ecology and evolution.
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 Tokyo