Department of Social Work, Durham University
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The Department of Social Work at Durham University is an academic unit specializing in social work education, research, and professional training within the university’s social sciences and health disciplines.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Department of Social Work, Durham University canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2766042 — 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 Social Work, Durham University Context triple: [Faculty of Social Sciences and Health, hasDepartment, Department of Social Work, Durham University]
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Department of Sociology, Lancaster University
The Department of Sociology at Lancaster University is a leading UK centre for sociological teaching and research, known for its strengths in cultural, media, feminist, and science and technology studies.
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Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge
The Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge is a leading academic unit specializing in sociological research and teaching on contemporary social issues, inequalities, and institutions.
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Jan Hofmeyr School of Social Work
The Jan Hofmeyr School of Social Work was a South African institution that trained social workers and became notable as an early educational site for prominent anti-apartheid figures such as Winnie Mandela.
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Faculty of Social Work
The Faculty of Social Work at the University of Calgary is an academic unit dedicated to education, research, and professional training in social work and social welfare practice.
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Faculty of Social Work
The Faculty of Social Work at the University of Manitoba is an academic unit dedicated to education, research, and professional training in social work and social welfare practice.
- 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 Social Work, Durham University Target entity description: The Department of Social Work at Durham University is an academic unit specializing in social work education, research, and professional training within the university’s social sciences and health disciplines.
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A.
Department of Sociology, Lancaster University
The Department of Sociology at Lancaster University is a leading UK centre for sociological teaching and research, known for its strengths in cultural, media, feminist, and science and technology studies.
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B.
Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge
The Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge is a leading academic unit specializing in sociological research and teaching on contemporary social issues, inequalities, and institutions.
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C.
Jan Hofmeyr School of Social Work
The Jan Hofmeyr School of Social Work was a South African institution that trained social workers and became notable as an early educational site for prominent anti-apartheid figures such as Winnie Mandela.
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D.
Faculty of Social Work
The Faculty of Social Work at the University of Calgary is an academic unit dedicated to education, research, and professional training in social work and social welfare practice.
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E.
Faculty of Social Work
The Faculty of Social Work at the University of Manitoba is an academic unit dedicated to education, research, and professional training in social work and social welfare practice.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic department
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university department ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline |
social policy
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social work ⓘ |
| affiliation | Durham University social sciences and health disciplines ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| employer | social work academics ⓘ |
| employs |
professional services staff
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research staff ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
professional social work training
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social work education ⓘ social work research ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
evidence-based social work practice
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interdisciplinary social sciences research ⓘ training professional social workers ⓘ |
| hasResearchArea |
adult social care
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aging and social care ⓘ child and family social work ⓘ children’s services ⓘ community development ⓘ disability and social care ⓘ health and social care integration ⓘ mental health and social work ⓘ safeguarding ⓘ social care ⓘ social justice ⓘ social work education research ⓘ social work ethics ⓘ social work policy ⓘ social work practice ⓘ substance misuse and social work ⓘ vulnerable adults ⓘ |
| languageOfInstruction | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Durham, England ⓘ |
| offersProgram |
postgraduate social work programmes
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professional social work qualifications ⓘ undergraduate social work programmes ⓘ |
| partOf |
Durham University
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Faculty of Social Sciences and Health, Durham University ⓘ |
| regionServed |
North East England
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| sector |
higher education
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public university sector ⓘ |
| websiteLanguage | English ⓘ |
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 Social Work, Durham University Description of subject: The Department of Social Work at Durham University is an academic unit specializing in social work education, research, and professional training within the university’s social sciences and health disciplines.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Faculty of Social Sciences and Health
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hasDepartment
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Department of Social Work, Durham University
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