Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (University of Utah)
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The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Utah is an academic unit that educates students and conducts research in areas such as infrastructure, transportation, water resources, environmental protection, and sustainable development.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (University of Utah) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8405548 — 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 (University of Utah) Context triple: [College of Engineering (University of Utah), hasUnit, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (University of Utah)]
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Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (University of Michigan)
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan is an academic department that educates engineers and conducts research in areas such as infrastructure, transportation, environmental sustainability, and water resources.
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Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is an academic unit at Nagaoka University of Technology focused on education and research in infrastructure, environmental protection, and sustainable development.
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C.
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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D.
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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E.
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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.
- 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 (University of Utah) Target entity description: The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Utah is an academic unit that educates students and conducts research in areas such as infrastructure, transportation, water resources, environmental protection, and sustainable development.
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Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (University of Michigan)
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan is an academic department that educates engineers and conducts research in areas such as infrastructure, transportation, environmental sustainability, and water resources.
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Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is an academic unit that educates students and conducts research in areas such as infrastructure design, construction, and environmental protection within the Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science.
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C.
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is an academic unit at Nagaoka University of Technology focused on education and research in infrastructure, environmental protection, and sustainable development.
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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 at UC Berkeley is a leading academic department focused on advancing infrastructure, environmental sustainability, and resilient systems through education and research.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | academic department ⓘ |
| affiliation |
American Society of Civil Engineers
NERFINISHED
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University of Utah Graduate School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| campus | University of Utah main campus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| educates |
graduate students
ⓘ
undergraduate students ⓘ |
| employs |
civil engineering faculty
ⓘ
environmental engineering faculty ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
civil engineering
ⓘ
environmental engineering ⓘ environmental protection ⓘ infrastructure engineering ⓘ sustainable development ⓘ transportation engineering ⓘ water resources engineering ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
climate change impacts on infrastructure
ⓘ
environmental protection policy ⓘ infrastructure resilience ⓘ sustainable transportation ⓘ water quality ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDiscipline |
engineering
ⓘ
environmental science ⓘ |
| languageOfInstruction | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Salt Lake City, Utah NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mission |
conduct of research in civil and environmental engineering
ⓘ
education of students in civil and environmental engineering ⓘ |
| offersProgram |
MS program in civil and environmental engineering
ⓘ
PhD program in civil and environmental engineering ⓘ undergraduate program in civil engineering ⓘ undergraduate program in construction engineering ⓘ undergraduate program in environmental engineering ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | University of Utah NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
John and Marcia Price College of Engineering (University of Utah)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
University of Utah NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| researchArea |
air quality and atmospheric environment
ⓘ
construction engineering and management ⓘ environmental remediation ⓘ geotechnical engineering ⓘ hydrology ⓘ structural engineering ⓘ sustainable infrastructure ⓘ transportation systems ⓘ urban water systems ⓘ water resources ⓘ |
| website | https://www.civil.utah.edu/ ⓘ |
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 (University of Utah) Description of subject: The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Utah is an academic unit that educates students and conducts research in areas such as infrastructure, transportation, water resources, environmental protection, and sustainable development.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
College of Engineering
→
hasUnit
→
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (University of Utah)
ⓘ
subject surface form:
College of Engineering (University of Utah)