Department of Surgery, Duke University
E2087
The Department of Surgery at Duke University is a major academic surgical department known for its clinical excellence, surgical innovation, and research and training programs within Duke’s medical school.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Department of Surgery, Duke University canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8052 — 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 Surgery, Duke University Context triple: [School of Medicine, Duke University, hasAcademicDepartment, Department of Surgery, Duke University]
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School of Medicine, Duke University
The School of Medicine at Duke University is a leading U.S. medical school renowned for its research-intensive programs, innovative medical education, and strong clinical partnerships.
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Drexel University College of Medicine (facilities)
Drexel University College of Medicine (facilities) comprises the medical and research campuses, laboratories, clinical spaces, and educational infrastructure that support Drexel University’s medical education and biomedical research programs in Philadelphia.
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C.
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania is a major academic medical center in Philadelphia that serves as the primary teaching hospital for the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine.
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D.
Rockefeller University
Rockefeller University is a prestigious private biomedical research university in New York City renowned for its pioneering contributions to life sciences and medicine.
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Harvard Medical School
Harvard Medical School is a prestigious graduate medical institution in Boston renowned for its leading research, education, and clinical training in medicine and biomedical sciences.
- 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 Surgery, Duke University Target entity description: The Department of Surgery at Duke University is a major academic surgical department known for its clinical excellence, surgical innovation, and research and training programs within Duke’s medical school.
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School of Medicine, Duke University
The School of Medicine at Duke University is a leading U.S. medical school renowned for its research-intensive programs, innovative medical education, and strong clinical partnerships.
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B.
Faculty of Medicine
The Faculty of Medicine at the University of Göttingen is a major academic division responsible for medical education, clinical training, and biomedical research within the university.
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C.
School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge
The School of Clinical Medicine at the University of Cambridge is the institution’s primary center for medical education, clinical training, and biomedical research.
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Drexel University College of Medicine (facilities)
Drexel University College of Medicine (facilities) comprises the medical and research campuses, laboratories, clinical spaces, and educational infrastructure that support Drexel University’s medical education and biomedical research programs in Philadelphia.
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Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania is a major academic medical center in Philadelphia that serves as the primary teaching hospital for the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic department
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surgical department ⓘ |
| affiliatedWith | Duke University ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith |
Duke Cancer Institute
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Duke University Hospital ⓘ other departments in Duke University School of Medicine ⓘ |
| conductsResearchIn |
clinical surgery
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health services research ⓘ surgical innovation ⓘ surgical outcomes research ⓘ translational surgery research ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| educates |
fellows
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medical students ⓘ residents ⓘ |
| field |
acute care surgery
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cardiothoracic surgery ⓘ colorectal surgery ⓘ endocrine surgery ⓘ hepatobiliary surgery ⓘ minimally invasive surgery ⓘ pediatric surgery ⓘ plastic and reconstructive surgery ⓘ surgery ⓘ surgical oncology ⓘ transplant surgery ⓘ trauma surgery ⓘ vascular surgery ⓘ |
| hasAcademicMission |
clinical care
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education ⓘ research ⓘ |
| hasTypeOfInstitution | academic medical center department ⓘ |
| knownFor |
academic research in surgery
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clinical excellence in surgery ⓘ surgical innovation ⓘ training surgeons and surgical scientists ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Durham, North Carolina ⓘ |
| locatedOnCampusOf | Duke University ⓘ |
| offersProgram |
continuing medical education
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general surgery residency ⓘ medical student surgical education ⓘ surgical subspecialty fellowships ⓘ |
| operatesWithin |
Duke University Health System
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surface form:
Duke Health system
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| partOf |
School of Medicine, Duke University
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surface form:
Duke University School of Medicine
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| providesServiceTo |
patients in North Carolina
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regional referral patients ⓘ |
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 Surgery, Duke University Description of subject: The Department of Surgery at Duke University is a major academic surgical department known for its clinical excellence, surgical innovation, and research and training programs within Duke’s medical school.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
School of Medicine, Duke University
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hasAcademicDepartment
→
Department of Surgery, Duke University
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