Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of York
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The Department of Social Policy and Social Work at the University of York is an academic department renowned for teaching and research on social welfare, inequality, and professional social work practice.
All labels observed (1)
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| Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of York canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3945429 — 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 Policy and Social Work, University of York Context triple: [Faculty of Social Sciences, University of York, hasPart, Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of York]
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Department of Social Work, Durham University
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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School of Social Policy & Practice
The School of Social Policy & Practice is a graduate professional school at the University of Pennsylvania focused on social work, social policy, nonprofit leadership, and social justice.
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C.
School of Sociology and Public Policy
The School of Sociology and Public Policy is an academic unit of ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon specializing in the study and research of social sciences and public policy.
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D.
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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School of Social Science
The School of Social Science is an academic division, likely within a research-focused institution, dedicated to advanced study and scholarship in disciplines such as sociology, political science, economics, and related social sciences.
- 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 Policy and Social Work, University of York Target entity description: The Department of Social Policy and Social Work at the University of York is an academic department renowned for teaching and research on social welfare, inequality, and professional social work practice.
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A.
Department of Social Work, Durham University
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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B.
School of Social Policy & Practice
The School of Social Policy & Practice is a graduate professional school at the University of Pennsylvania focused on social work, social policy, nonprofit leadership, and social justice.
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C.
School of Sociology and Public Policy
The School of Sociology and Public Policy is an academic unit of ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon specializing in the study and research of social sciences and public policy.
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D.
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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E.
School of Social Science
The School of Social Science is an academic division, likely within a research-focused institution, dedicated to advanced study and scholarship in disciplines such as sociology, political science, economics, and related social sciences.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
academic department
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university department ⓘ |
| affiliation | Faculty of Social Sciences, University of York ⓘ |
| campus |
Heslington West Campus, University of York
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linked to:
Heslington West campus
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| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| employs |
professional services staff
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research staff ⓘ social policy academics ⓘ social work academics ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
public policy
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social inequality ⓘ social policy ⓘ social research ⓘ social welfare ⓘ social work ⓘ |
| hasFocus |
evidence-based social policy
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professional social work practice ⓘ social inclusion ⓘ social justice ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
England
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York ⓘ |
| mission |
education of professional social workers
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teaching and research on social welfare and inequality ⓘ |
| offersProgram |
postgraduate research degrees
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postgraduate taught programmes ⓘ undergraduate degree in social policy ⓘ undergraduate degree in social work ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | University of York ⓘ |
| partOf | University of York ⓘ |
| researchActivity |
research on inequality
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research on social policy ⓘ research on social welfare ⓘ research on social work practice ⓘ |
| sector | higher education ⓘ |
| teaches |
social policy students
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social work students ⓘ |
| website | https://www.york.ac.uk/spsw/ ⓘ |
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 Policy and Social Work, University of York Description of subject: The Department of Social Policy and Social Work at the University of York is an academic department renowned for teaching and research on social welfare, inequality, and professional social work practice.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Faculty of Social Sciences, University of York
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hasPart
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Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of York
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subject linked to:
Faculty of Social Sciences
Faculty of Social Sciences, University of York
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hasDepartment
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Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of York
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