Department of Surgery
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The Department of Surgery is an academic and clinical unit within McGill University's Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences that oversees surgical education, research, and patient care.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Department of Surgery canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2052253 — 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 Context triple: [Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of McGill University, hasUnit, Department of Surgery]
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Department of Surgery
The Department of Surgery at University Hospital Zurich is a leading academic surgical center known for advanced clinical care, innovative surgical techniques, and internationally recognized research and teaching.
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Department of Surgery
The Department of Surgery at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine is a leading academic surgical department known for pioneering clinical care, innovative research, and advanced surgical training.
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Department of Surgery
The Department of Surgery is an academic and clinical unit within Cairo University's Faculty of Veterinary Medicine that specializes in teaching, research, and surgical care for animals.
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Department of Surgery
The Department of Surgery at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin is a leading academic surgical center known for advanced clinical care, research, and training across a broad spectrum of surgical specialties.
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Department of Surgery
The Department of Surgery at the University of Tokyo’s Faculty of Medicine is a leading academic and clinical center specializing in surgical education, research, and advanced patient care.
- 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 Target entity description: The Department of Surgery is an academic and clinical unit within McGill University's Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences that oversees surgical education, research, and patient care.
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A.
Department of Surgery
The Department of Surgery is an academic and clinical unit within Cairo University's Faculty of Veterinary Medicine that specializes in teaching, research, and surgical care for animals.
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B.
Department of Surgery
The Department of Surgery at University Hospital Zurich is a leading academic surgical center known for advanced clinical care, innovative surgical techniques, and internationally recognized research and teaching.
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C.
Department of Surgery
The Department of Surgery at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin is a leading academic surgical center known for advanced clinical care, research, and training across a broad spectrum of surgical specialties.
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D.
Department of Surgery
The Department of Surgery at the University of Tokyo’s Faculty of Medicine is a leading academic and clinical center specializing in surgical education, research, and advanced patient care.
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E.
Department of Surgery
The Department of Surgery at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine is a leading academic surgical department known for pioneering clinical care, innovative research, and advanced surgical training.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic department
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clinical department ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline |
clinical research
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medical education ⓘ surgery ⓘ |
| affiliatedWith | McGill University ⓘ |
| city | Montreal ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith |
Jewish General Hospital
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surface form:
Jewish General Hospital (Montreal)
McGill University Health Centre ⓘ St. Mary’s Hospital Center (Montreal) ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| field |
health sciences
ⓘ
medicine ⓘ |
| hasRole |
conducting surgical research
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providing surgical care to patients ⓘ training surgeons ⓘ |
| hasUnit | divisions of surgical subspecialties ⓘ |
| languageOfInstruction | English ⓘ |
| offersProgram |
fellowship training in surgical subspecialties
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postgraduate surgical residency training ⓘ undergraduate surgical education ⓘ |
| oversees |
surgical education at McGill University
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surgical patient care within its affiliated hospitals ⓘ surgical research at McGill University ⓘ |
| partOf |
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of McGill University
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surface form:
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University
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| province |
Quebec, Canada
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surface form:
Quebec
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| researchArea |
clinical surgery
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health services research in surgery ⓘ minimally invasive surgery ⓘ surgical education research ⓘ surgical oncology ⓘ transplant surgery ⓘ trauma and acute care surgery ⓘ |
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 Description of subject: The Department of Surgery is an academic and clinical unit within McGill University's Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences that oversees surgical education, research, and patient care.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.