Department of Biology of the University of Zurich
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The Department of Biology of the University of Zurich is a major academic and research unit specializing in biological sciences, located on the university’s Irchel campus in Zurich, Switzerland.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Department of Biology of the University of Zurich canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T755024 — 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 Biology of the University of Zurich Context triple: [Irchel campus, hasPart, Department of Biology of the University of Zurich]
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Vetsuisse Faculty
The Vetsuisse Faculty is the veterinary medicine faculty jointly operated by the University of Zurich and the University of Bern, providing education, research, and clinical services in animal health.
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Faculty of Biology
The Faculty of Biology at the University of Havana is an academic division dedicated to education and research in the biological sciences within Cuba’s oldest and most prestigious university.
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Faculty of Biology
The Faculty of Biology is the division of Moscow State University dedicated to education and research in the biological sciences.
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Department of Biology
The Department of Biology at MIT is a leading academic and research unit focused on advancing fundamental and applied biological sciences, from molecular and cellular biology to genetics and systems biology.
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University of Zurich
The University of Zurich is a major public research university in Switzerland renowned for its contributions to science and scholarship, including being one of the institutions where Albert Einstein taught.
- 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 Biology of the University of Zurich Target entity description: The Department of Biology of the University of Zurich is a major academic and research unit specializing in biological sciences, located on the university’s Irchel campus in Zurich, Switzerland.
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A.
Vetsuisse Faculty
The Vetsuisse Faculty is the veterinary medicine faculty jointly operated by the University of Zurich and the University of Bern, providing education, research, and clinical services in animal health.
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B.
Faculty of Biology
The Faculty of Biology at the University of Havana is an academic division dedicated to education and research in the biological sciences within Cuba’s oldest and most prestigious university.
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C.
Faculty of Biology
The Faculty of Biology is the division of Moscow State University dedicated to education and research in the biological sciences.
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D.
Department of Biology
The Department of Biology at MIT is a leading academic and research unit focused on advancing fundamental and applied biological sciences, from molecular and cellular biology to genetics and systems biology.
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University of Zurich
The University of Zurich is a major public research university in Switzerland renowned for its contributions to science and scholarship, including being one of the institutions where Albert Einstein taught.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic department
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research organization ⓘ university department ⓘ |
| affiliation | Faculty of Science of the University of Zurich ⓘ |
| campus | Irchel campus ⓘ |
| city | Zurich ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| country | Switzerland ⓘ |
| countryAbbreviation |
.ch
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surface form:
CH
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| employer |
administrative staff
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doctoral students ⓘ postdoctoral researchers ⓘ professors ⓘ technical staff ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
biological sciences
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biology ⓘ life sciences ⓘ |
| funding | publicly funded ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDiscipline |
animal biology
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behavioral biology ⓘ biochemistry ⓘ cell biology ⓘ developmental biology ⓘ ecology ⓘ evolutionary biology ⓘ genetics ⓘ microbiology ⓘ molecular biology ⓘ neurobiology ⓘ plant biology ⓘ systems biology ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
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German ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Zurich ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone |
Central European Summer Time
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Central European Time ⓘ |
| offers |
bachelor programs in biology
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doctoral programs in biology ⓘ master programs in biology ⓘ |
| organizationType | non-profit organization ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | University of Zurich ⓘ |
| partOf | University of Zurich ⓘ |
| researchActivity |
applied research in biological sciences
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basic research in biological sciences ⓘ |
| sector | public education ⓘ |
| typeOfEducation | tertiary education ⓘ |
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 Biology of the University of Zurich Description of subject: The Department of Biology of the University of Zurich is a major academic and research unit specializing in biological sciences, located on the university’s Irchel campus in Zurich, Switzerland.
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