School of Religious Studies (McGill University)
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The School of Religious Studies at McGill University is an academic unit dedicated to the scholarly study of religion, theology, and related fields within the broader context of the university’s humanities disciplines.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| School of Religious Studies (McGill University) canonical | 2 |
| Faculty of Religious Studies (historical) (McGill University) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T716501 — 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 Religious Studies (McGill University) Context triple: [Faculty of Arts (McGill University), hasSchool, School of Religious Studies (McGill University)]
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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.
Faculty of Religion and Theology
The Faculty of Religion and Theology is an academic division of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam dedicated to the scholarly study and research of religion, theology, and related disciplines.
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C.
Faculty of Theology
The Faculty of Theology at the University of Geneva is an academic division dedicated to the scholarly study and teaching of theology, religious thought, and related disciplines.
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D.
Faculty of Theology
The Faculty of Theology at the University of Zurich is an academic division dedicated to the scholarly study and teaching of theology, religion, and related disciplines.
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E.
Faculty of Theology
The Faculty of Theology at the University of Oslo is a leading academic division dedicated to the study of religion, theology, and related disciplines in Norway.
- 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 Religious Studies (McGill University) Target entity description: The School of Religious Studies at McGill University is an academic unit dedicated to the scholarly study of religion, theology, and related fields within the broader context of the university’s humanities disciplines.
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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.
Faculty of Religion and Theology
The Faculty of Religion and Theology is an academic division of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam dedicated to the scholarly study and research of religion, theology, and related disciplines.
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C.
Faculty of Theology
The Faculty of Theology at the University of Geneva is an academic division dedicated to the scholarly study and teaching of theology, religious thought, and related disciplines.
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D.
Faculty of Theology
The Faculty of Theology at the University of Zurich is an academic division dedicated to the scholarly study and teaching of theology, religion, and related disciplines.
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E.
Faculty of Theology
The Faculty of Theology at the University of Oslo is a leading academic division dedicated to the study of religion, theology, and related disciplines in Norway.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic unit
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religious studies school ⓘ theological school ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline | humanities ⓘ |
| academicLevel | tertiary education ⓘ |
| affiliation |
Faculty of Arts (McGill University)
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School of Religious Studies (McGill University) self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Faculty of Religious Studies (historical) (McGill University)
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| associatedWith |
Faculty of Arts (McGill University)
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surface form:
McGill Faculty of Arts
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| campusType | urban campus ⓘ |
| city | Montreal ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| emphasis |
critical and historical approaches to religion
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interdisciplinary humanities perspectives on religion ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy |
Christian theology
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Islamic studies ⓘ Jewish studies ⓘ biblical studies ⓘ comparative religion ⓘ ethics ⓘ history of religions ⓘ pastoral studies ⓘ philosophy of religion ⓘ religion and society ⓘ religious studies ⓘ theology ⓘ |
| focus |
community engagement
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research ⓘ teaching ⓘ |
| hasParentOrganization | McGill University ⓘ |
| hasType | public university unit ⓘ |
| languageOfInstruction | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn | McGill University downtown campus ⓘ |
| offersProgram |
certificate programs
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doctoral programs ⓘ graduate degree programs ⓘ undergraduate degree programs ⓘ |
| partOf | McGill University ⓘ |
| province |
Quebec, Canada
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surface form:
Quebec
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| regionServed | international ⓘ |
| religiousOrientation |
multi-religious
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nonsectarian ⓘ |
| researchFocus |
ethics and public life
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interdisciplinary study of religion and society ⓘ scholarly study of religion ⓘ theological research ⓘ |
| website | https://www.mcgill.ca/religiousstudies/ ⓘ |
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 Religious Studies (McGill University) Description of subject: The School of Religious Studies at McGill University is an academic unit dedicated to the scholarly study of religion, theology, and related fields within the broader context of the university’s humanities disciplines.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Faculty of Arts (McGill University)
School of Religious Studies (McGill University)
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affiliation
→
School of Religious Studies (McGill University)
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Faculty of Religious Studies (historical) (McGill University)