Department of Physiology
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The Department of Physiology is an academic unit within Tohoku University's Faculty of Medicine that conducts research and education on the functions and mechanisms of living organisms and their systems.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Department of Physiology canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2428052 — 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 Physiology Context triple: [Faculty of Medicine, Tohoku University, hasAcademicDepartment, Department of Physiology]
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A.
Department of Physiology
The Department of Physiology is an academic unit within Cairo University's Faculty of Medicine that focuses on teaching and researching the functions and mechanisms of the human body.
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B.
Department of Physiology
The Department of Physiology at McGill University's Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences is an academic unit dedicated to research and education on the functions and mechanisms of living systems at molecular, cellular, and systemic levels.
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C.
Department of Pharmacology
The Department of Pharmacology is an academic unit within Cairo University's Faculty of Medicine that focuses on teaching and researching the actions, uses, and effects of drugs on biological systems.
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D.
Department of Biophysics
The Department of Biophysics is an academic unit at Cairo University's Faculty of Science that focuses on applying physical principles and methods to the study of biological systems.
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E.
Department of Anatomy
The Department of Anatomy is an academic unit within Cairo University's Faculty of Medicine that specializes in teaching and researching the structure of the human body.
- 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 Physiology Target entity description: The Department of Physiology is an academic unit within Tohoku University's Faculty of Medicine that conducts research and education on the functions and mechanisms of living organisms and their systems.
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A.
Department of Physiology
The Department of Physiology is an academic unit within Cairo University's Faculty of Medicine that focuses on teaching and researching the functions and mechanisms of the human body.
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B.
Department of Physiology
The Department of Physiology at McGill University's Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences is an academic unit dedicated to research and education on the functions and mechanisms of living systems at molecular, cellular, and systemic levels.
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C.
Department of Pharmacology
The Department of Pharmacology is an academic unit within Cairo University's Faculty of Medicine that focuses on teaching and researching the actions, uses, and effects of drugs on biological systems.
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D.
Department of Biophysics
The Department of Biophysics is an academic unit at Cairo University's Faculty of Science that focuses on applying physical principles and methods to the study of biological systems.
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E.
Department of Anatomy
The Department of Anatomy is an academic unit within Cairo University's Faculty of Medicine that specializes in teaching and researching the structure of the human body.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic department
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research organization ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline |
life sciences
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medicine ⓘ |
| affiliation | Tohoku University ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| educationalProgram |
graduate education in physiology
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medical education in physiology ⓘ undergraduate education in physiology ⓘ |
| employer |
faculty members in physiology
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research staff in physiology ⓘ technical staff in physiology laboratories ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
biomedical sciences
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cardiovascular physiology ⓘ cellular physiology ⓘ integrative physiology ⓘ molecular physiology ⓘ neurophysiology ⓘ neuroscience ⓘ physiology ⓘ respiratory physiology ⓘ sensory physiology ⓘ systems biology ⓘ |
| hasPart |
faculty offices
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physiology research laboratories ⓘ physiology teaching laboratories ⓘ seminar rooms ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
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Japanese ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Sendai ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritorialEntity | Miyagi Prefecture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInOrganization |
Aobayama Campus, Tohoku University
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surface form:
Tohoku University School of Medicine campus
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| locatedInTimeZone | Japan Standard Time ⓘ |
| mission |
conduct research on functions and mechanisms of living organisms
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provide education in physiology to medical and graduate students ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Tohoku University ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | Faculty of Medicine, Tohoku University ⓘ |
| partOf |
Faculty of Medicine, Tohoku University
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Tohoku University ⓘ |
| researchActivity |
basic research on functions of living organisms
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experimental physiology ⓘ research on mechanisms of biological systems ⓘ translational physiological research ⓘ |
| sector | public university sector ⓘ |
| studentBody |
doctoral students in biomedical sciences
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graduate students in physiology ⓘ medical students ⓘ |
| website | official website of Department of Physiology, Tohoku University ⓘ |
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 Physiology Description of subject: The Department of Physiology is an academic unit within Tohoku University's Faculty of Medicine that conducts research and education on the functions and mechanisms of living organisms and their systems.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Faculty of Medicine, Tohoku University