School of Modern Languages, University of St Andrews
E486902
The School of Modern Languages at the University of St Andrews is an academic unit specializing in the teaching and research of a range of modern European and global languages, literatures, and cultures.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| School of Modern Languages, University of St Andrews canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4985320 — 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: School of Modern Languages, University of St Andrews Context triple: [Faculty of Arts, University of St Andrews, governs, School of Modern Languages, University of St Andrews]
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Faculty of Arts, University of St Andrews
The Faculty of Arts at the University of St Andrews is a major academic division encompassing a range of humanities and social science disciplines, including the renowned School of International Relations.
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B.
Faculty of Science, University of St Andrews
The Faculty of Science at the University of St Andrews is the division that oversees the university’s science disciplines, including departments such as Physics and Astronomy, and coordinates their teaching and research activities.
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C.
School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, University of Edinburgh
The School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures at the University of Edinburgh is an academic division specializing in the study and research of literature, languages, and cultural studies.
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D.
School of the University of St Andrews
The School of the University of St Andrews is an academic division within the University of St Andrews, responsible for teaching and research in a specific disciplinary area.
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E.
University of St Andrews
The University of St Andrews is a historic and prestigious Scottish university, renowned for its academic excellence and status as one of the oldest universities in the English-speaking world.
- 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: School of Modern Languages, University of St Andrews Target entity description: The School of Modern Languages at the University of St Andrews is an academic unit specializing in the teaching and research of a range of modern European and global languages, literatures, and cultures.
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A.
Faculty of Arts, University of St Andrews
The Faculty of Arts at the University of St Andrews is a major academic division encompassing a range of humanities and social science disciplines, including the renowned School of International Relations.
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B.
Faculty of Science, University of St Andrews
The Faculty of Science at the University of St Andrews is the division that oversees the university’s science disciplines, including departments such as Physics and Astronomy, and coordinates their teaching and research activities.
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C.
School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, University of Edinburgh
The School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures at the University of Edinburgh is an academic division specializing in the study and research of literature, languages, and cultural studies.
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D.
School of the University of St Andrews
The School of the University of St Andrews is an academic division within the University of St Andrews, responsible for teaching and research in a specific disciplinary area.
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E.
University of St Andrews
The University of St Andrews is a historic and prestigious Scottish university, renowned for its academic excellence and status as one of the oldest universities in the English-speaking world.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic department
ⓘ
school of modern languages ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline |
cultural studies
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film studies ⓘ literary studies ⓘ modern languages ⓘ translation studies ⓘ |
| affiliation | University of St Andrews Students' Association (through student societies) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| employs |
academic staff
ⓘ
professional services staff ⓘ research staff ⓘ |
| engagesIn |
research
ⓘ
teaching ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
global languages
ⓘ
modern European languages ⓘ modern cultures ⓘ modern literatures ⓘ |
| hasOrganizationalUnit |
Arabic section
ⓘ
Comparative Literature section NERFINISHED ⓘ French section ⓘ German section ⓘ Italian section NERFINISHED ⓘ Russian section NERFINISHED ⓘ Spanish section ⓘ |
| languageOfInstruction | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Fife
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Scotland ⓘ St Andrews NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOnCampus | University of St Andrews central campus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| offersDegree |
Doctor of Philosophy
NERFINISHED
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Master of Arts ⓘ |
| offersProgrammeIn |
Arabic
ⓘ
Comparative Literature ⓘ French ⓘ German ⓘ Italian ⓘ Russian ⓘ Spanish ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | Faculty of Arts, University of St Andrews NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | University of St Andrews NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionServed |
United Kingdom students
ⓘ
international students ⓘ |
| sector | higher education ⓘ |
| typeOfEducation |
postgraduate education
ⓘ
undergraduate education ⓘ |
| website | https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modlangs/ ⓘ |
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: School of Modern Languages, University of St Andrews Description of subject: The School of Modern Languages at the University of St Andrews is an academic unit specializing in the teaching and research of a range of modern European and global languages, literatures, and cultures.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Faculty of Arts, University of St Andrews