Department of Criminology, University of Cambridge
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The Department of Criminology at the University of Cambridge is a leading academic center for research and teaching on crime, criminal justice, and related social policy.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cambridge Institute of Criminology | 1 |
| Department of Criminology, University of Cambridge canonical | 1 |
| Institute of Criminology | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1924398 — 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 Criminology, University of Cambridge Context triple: [Sidgwick Site, hasDepartment, Department of Criminology, University of Cambridge]
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School of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Cambridge
The School of the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Cambridge is a major academic division encompassing departments such as history, politics, sociology, and economics, and coordinating teaching and research across these disciplines.
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Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge
The Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge is one of the world’s leading law schools, renowned for its rigorous legal education, influential scholarship, and long-standing academic tradition.
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C.
Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge
The Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge is a leading academic centre for the study and research of politics, international relations, and related social sciences.
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D.
Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge
The Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge is a leading academic center for the study and research of human societies, cultures, and social relations.
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E.
Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge
The Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge is a leading academic department specializing in research and teaching in education, teacher training, and educational policy within the University of Cambridge.
- 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 Criminology, University of Cambridge Target entity description: The Department of Criminology at the University of Cambridge is a leading academic center for research and teaching on crime, criminal justice, and related social policy.
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A.
School of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Cambridge
The School of the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Cambridge is a major academic division encompassing departments such as history, politics, sociology, and economics, and coordinating teaching and research across these disciplines.
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B.
Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge
The Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge is one of the world’s leading law schools, renowned for its rigorous legal education, influential scholarship, and long-standing academic tradition.
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C.
Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge
The Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge is a leading academic centre for the study and research of politics, international relations, and related social sciences.
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D.
Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge
The Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge is a leading academic center for the study and research of human societies, cultures, and social relations.
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E.
Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge
The Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge is a leading academic department specializing in research and teaching in education, teacher training, and educational policy within the University of Cambridge.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic department
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research institute ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline | social sciences ⓘ |
| affiliation | Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge ⓘ |
| campus |
Sidgwick Site, University of Cambridge
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surface form:
Sidgwick Site
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| collaboratesWith |
criminal justice agencies in the United Kingdom
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international research institutions ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| educationLevel | postgraduate ⓘ |
| employs |
criminologist
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legal scholar ⓘ research fellow ⓘ sociologist ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
criminal justice
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criminology ⓘ penology ⓘ social policy ⓘ sociology of crime ⓘ |
| hasOfficialName |
Department of Criminology, University of Cambridge
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Institute of Criminology
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| hasParentOrganization |
Cambridge University
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surface form:
University of Cambridge
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| hasStudentBody | postgraduate students only ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.crim.cam.ac.uk/ ⓘ |
| knownFor |
empirical criminological research
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influential work on policing ⓘ influential work on prison policy ⓘ training senior criminal justice practitioners ⓘ |
| languageOfInstruction | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Cambridge, England
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surface form:
Cambridge
England ⓘ |
| offersProgram |
MPhil in Criminological Research
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MPhil in Criminology ⓘ MSt in Applied Criminology ⓘ MSt in Applied Criminology, Penology ⓘ MSt in Applied Criminology, Penology ⓘ
surface form:
MSt in Applied Criminology, Police Management
PhD in Criminology ⓘ |
| partOf |
Cambridge University
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surface form:
University of Cambridge
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| regionServed | international ⓘ |
| researchFocus |
comparative criminal justice
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crime and public policy ⓘ crime and social inequality ⓘ crime prevention ⓘ criminal careers and desistance ⓘ policing ⓘ prisons and imprisonment ⓘ restorative justice ⓘ sentencing and penal policy ⓘ victimology ⓘ youth justice ⓘ |
| shortName |
Department of Criminology, University of Cambridge
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Cambridge Institute of Criminology
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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 Criminology, University of Cambridge Description of subject: The Department of Criminology at the University of Cambridge is a leading academic center for research and teaching on crime, criminal justice, and related social policy.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Sidgwick Site
Department of Criminology, University of Cambridge
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hasOfficialName
→
Department of Criminology, University of Cambridge
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Institute of Criminology
Department of Criminology, University of Cambridge
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shortName
→
Department of Criminology, University of Cambridge
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Cambridge Institute of Criminology