Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is an academic unit within Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering that focuses on education and research in infrastructure, environmental systems, and sustainable engineering.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2035254 — 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 Context triple: [Pratt School of Engineering, hasDepartment, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering]
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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 specializing in infrastructure, environmental systems, and related engineering disciplines within the Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
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C.
Department of Civil Engineering
The Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Tokyo is a leading academic and research unit focused on infrastructure, environmental systems, and urban and regional development.
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D.
Department of Civil Engineering
The Department of Civil Engineering at Sharif University of Technology is a leading Iranian academic unit specializing in education and research across structural, geotechnical, transportation, and environmental engineering disciplines.
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Department of Civil Engineering
The Department of Civil Engineering at McGill University is an academic unit that offers education and conducts research in areas such as structural, environmental, geotechnical, and transportation 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 Target entity description: The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is an academic unit within Duke University's Pratt 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 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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B.
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is an academic unit specializing in infrastructure, environmental systems, and related engineering disciplines within the Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
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C.
Department of Civil Engineering
The Department of Civil Engineering at McGill University is an academic unit that offers education and conducts research in areas such as structural, environmental, geotechnical, and transportation engineering.
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D.
Department of Civil Engineering
The Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Tokyo is a leading academic and research unit focused on infrastructure, environmental systems, and urban and regional development.
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Department of Civil Engineering
The Department of Civil Engineering at Sharif University of Technology is a leading Iranian academic unit specializing in education and research across structural, geotechnical, transportation, and environmental engineering disciplines.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic department
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engineering department ⓘ |
| accreditedBy |
Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology
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surface form:
ABET (for undergraduate engineering programs at Duke)
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| affiliatedWith | Duke University ⓘ |
| campus | Duke University West Campus ⓘ |
| campusType | private research university campus ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| emphasis |
education
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research ⓘ sustainability ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy |
civil engineering
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environmental engineering ⓘ environmental systems ⓘ infrastructure systems ⓘ sustainable engineering ⓘ |
| hasParentOrganization | Duke University ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://cee.duke.edu/ ⓘ |
| languageOfInstruction | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Durham, North Carolina ⓘ |
| offersDegree |
Bachelor of Science in Engineering
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Doctor of Philosophy ⓘ Master of Science ⓘ |
| offersProgram |
graduate program in civil engineering
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graduate program in environmental engineering ⓘ undergraduate program in civil engineering ⓘ undergraduate program in environmental engineering ⓘ |
| partOf |
Duke University
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Pratt School of Engineering ⓘ |
| researchFocus |
computational mechanics
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energy and climate ⓘ environmental health ⓘ hydrology ⓘ resilient infrastructure ⓘ structural engineering ⓘ sustainable infrastructure ⓘ water quality ⓘ water resources ⓘ |
| sector | higher education ⓘ |
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 Description of subject: The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is an academic unit within Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering that focuses on education and research in infrastructure, environmental systems, and sustainable engineering.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.