Institute of Religious Studies
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The Institute of Religious Studies is an academic unit of the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas dedicated to the scholarly study and teaching of religion and theology.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Institute of Religious Studies canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2278697 — 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: Institute of Religious Studies Context triple: [Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, hasInstitute, Institute of Religious Studies]
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A.
Center for the Study of World Religions
The Center for the Study of World Religions is an academic institute at Harvard dedicated to the scholarly and interdisciplinary study of global religious traditions and their contemporary significance.
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B.
College of Usul al-Din (Foundations of Religion)
The College of Usul al-Din (Foundations of Religion) is an academic faculty specializing in Islamic theology, creed, and Qur’anic and Hadith sciences within Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University.
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C.
Faculty of Theology and Islamic Studies
The Faculty of Theology and Islamic Studies is a major academic division of the University of Tehran specializing in religious scholarship, particularly Islamic theology, philosophy, and related fields.
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D.
Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies
The Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies is an academic division of the University of Groningen specializing in the scholarly study of religion, theology, and related disciplines.
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E.
Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies
The Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies is an academic division of the University of Lausanne dedicated to the scholarly study of religion, theology, and related 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: Institute of Religious Studies Target entity description: The Institute of Religious Studies is an academic unit of the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas dedicated to the scholarly study and teaching of religion and theology.
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A.
Center for the Study of World Religions
The Center for the Study of World Religions is an academic institute at Harvard dedicated to the scholarly and interdisciplinary study of global religious traditions and their contemporary significance.
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B.
College of Usul al-Din (Foundations of Religion)
The College of Usul al-Din (Foundations of Religion) is an academic faculty specializing in Islamic theology, creed, and Qur’anic and Hadith sciences within Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University.
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C.
Faculty of Theology and Islamic Studies
The Faculty of Theology and Islamic Studies is a major academic division of the University of Tehran specializing in religious scholarship, particularly Islamic theology, philosophy, and related fields.
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D.
Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies
The Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies is an academic division of the University of Groningen specializing in the scholarly study of religion, theology, and related disciplines.
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E.
Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies
The Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies is an academic division of Shahid Beheshti University dedicated to teaching and research in Islamic theology, religious thought, and related humanities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic unit
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institute ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline |
religious studies
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theology ⓘ |
| affiliation |
Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum)
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surface form:
Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas
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| educationLevel | higher education ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy |
religion
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theology ⓘ |
| focus |
academic study of religion
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academic study of theology ⓘ |
| hasParentOrganization |
Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum)
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surface form:
Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas
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| offers |
courses in religious studies
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courses in theology ⓘ |
| partOf |
Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum)
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surface form:
Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas
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| purpose |
scholarly study of religion
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scholarly study of theology ⓘ teaching of religion ⓘ teaching of theology ⓘ |
| religiousAffiliation |
Roman Catholicism
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surface form:
Roman Catholic Church
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| typeOfOrganization | educational institution unit ⓘ |
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: Institute of Religious Studies Description of subject: The Institute of Religious Studies is an academic unit of the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas dedicated to the scholarly study and teaching of religion and theology.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum)
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hasInstitute
→
Institute of Religious Studies
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subject surface form:
Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas