Faculty of Science
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The Faculty of Science at the University of the Witwatersrand is an academic division offering a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate programs and research opportunities across the natural and physical sciences.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Faculty of Science canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1529927 — 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: Faculty of Science Context triple: [University of the Witwatersrand, hasFaculty, Faculty of Science]
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Faculty of Science
The Faculty of Science at McGill University is an academic division that oversees the university’s undergraduate and graduate programs and research activities in the natural and physical sciences.
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B.
Faculty of Science
The Faculty of Science at Kyushu University is an academic division dedicated to education and research in the natural sciences within one of Japan’s leading national universities.
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C.
Faculty of Science
The Faculty of Science at Gakushuin University is an academic division dedicated to education and research in the natural sciences.
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D.
Faculty of Science
The Faculty of Science at Kobe University is an academic division dedicated to education and research in the natural sciences, including fields such as mathematics, physics, chemistry, and related disciplines.
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E.
Faculty of Science
The Faculty of Science at the University of Waterloo is an academic division that offers undergraduate and graduate programs and conducts research across a wide range of scientific disciplines.
- 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: Faculty of Science Target entity description: The Faculty of Science at the University of the Witwatersrand is an academic division offering a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate programs and research opportunities across the natural and physical sciences.
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A.
Faculty of Science
The Faculty of Science at the University of Waterloo is an academic division that offers undergraduate and graduate programs and conducts research across a wide range of scientific disciplines.
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B.
Faculty of Science
The Faculty of Science at Jadavpur University is an academic division that offers undergraduate, postgraduate, and research programs across various scientific disciplines.
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C.
Faculty of Science
The Faculty of Science at Western University is an academic division dedicated to education and research across the natural and physical sciences.
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D.
Faculty of Science
The Faculty of Science at the University of Victoria is an academic division that offers undergraduate and graduate programs and conducts research across a range of scientific disciplines.
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E.
Faculty of Science
The Faculty of Science at the University of Alberta is a major academic division offering a wide range of undergraduate and graduate programs in the natural, physical, and mathematical sciences and conducting extensive scientific research.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic division
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faculty ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline |
natural sciences
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physical sciences ⓘ |
| affiliation | University of the Witwatersrand Senate ⓘ |
| campus | Braamfontein Campus ⓘ |
| city |
Johannesburg
ⓘ
linked to:
Johannesburg, South Africa
|
| continent | Africa ⓘ |
| country | South Africa ⓘ |
| emphasis |
field-based teaching
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laboratory-based teaching ⓘ scientific research ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy |
biological sciences
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chemical sciences ⓘ environmental sciences ⓘ geosciences ⓘ mathematical sciences ⓘ physics ⓘ |
| focus |
research
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teaching ⓘ |
| governingBody | Faculty Board ⓘ |
| hasUnit |
School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences
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School of Chemistry ⓘ School of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics ⓘ School of Geosciences ⓘ School of Mathematics ⓘ School of Molecular and Cell Biology ⓘ School of Physics ⓘ School of Statistics and Actuarial Science ⓘ |
| institutionType | research-intensive faculty ⓘ |
| languageOfInstruction | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Braamfontein, Johannesburg
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linked to:
Braamfontein
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| offers |
postgraduate programmes
ⓘ
research opportunities ⓘ undergraduate programmes ⓘ |
| offersDegree |
Bachelor of Science
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Doctor of Philosophy ⓘ Honours degree ⓘ Master of Science ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | University of the Witwatersrand ⓘ |
| partOf | University of the Witwatersrand ⓘ |
| region | Gauteng ⓘ |
| sector | higher education ⓘ |
| typeOfInstitution | public university faculty ⓘ |
| website | https://www.wits.ac.za/science/ ⓘ |
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: Faculty of Science Description of subject: The Faculty of Science at the University of the Witwatersrand is an academic division offering a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate programs and research opportunities across the natural and physical sciences.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Faculty Board (Faculty of Science, University of the Witwatersrand)
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hasScope
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Faculty of Science
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subject linked to:
Faculty Board