Department of Human Genetics
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The Department of Human Genetics is an academic unit at McGill University's Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences dedicated to research and education on the genetic basis of human health and disease.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Department of Human Genetics canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T360599 — 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 Human Genetics Context triple: [Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (McGill University), hasUnit, Department of Human Genetics]
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A.
Center for Applied Genomics
The Center for Applied Genomics is a major pediatric genomics research institute specializing in identifying genetic factors underlying childhood diseases and advancing precision medicine.
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B.
Department of Biochemistry
The Department of Biochemistry is an academic unit within Cairo University's Faculty of Medicine that focuses on teaching and research in the chemical processes underlying human health and disease.
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C.
National Human Genome Research Institute
The National Human Genome Research Institute is a U.S. government biomedical research organization that leads and funds research on the structure, function, and impact of the human genome.
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D.
Department of Physiology
The Department of Physiology is an academic unit within Cairo University's Faculty of Medicine that focuses on teaching and researching the functions and mechanisms of the human body.
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E.
Department of Biostatistics
The Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is a leading academic center for developing and applying statistical methods to advance biomedical, public health, and quantitative science research.
- 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 Human Genetics Target entity description: The Department of Human Genetics is an academic unit at McGill University's Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences dedicated to research and education on the genetic basis of human health and disease.
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A.
Center for Applied Genomics
The Center for Applied Genomics is a major pediatric genomics research institute specializing in identifying genetic factors underlying childhood diseases and advancing precision medicine.
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B.
Department of Biochemistry
The Department of Biochemistry is an academic unit within Cairo University's Faculty of Medicine that focuses on teaching and research in the chemical processes underlying human health and disease.
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C.
National Human Genome Research Institute
The National Human Genome Research Institute is a U.S. government biomedical research organization that leads and funds research on the structure, function, and impact of the human genome.
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D.
Department of Physiology
The Department of Physiology is an academic unit within Cairo University's Faculty of Medicine that focuses on teaching and researching the functions and mechanisms of the human body.
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E.
Department of Biostatistics
The Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is a leading academic center for developing and applying statistical methods to advance biomedical, public health, and quantitative science research.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic department
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research organization unit ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline |
genetics
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health sciences ⓘ medicine ⓘ |
| affiliation |
McGill University Health Centre
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research institutes associated with McGill University ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
bioinformatics
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cancer genetics ⓘ complex disease genetics ⓘ epigenetics ⓘ functional genomics ⓘ genetic counseling ⓘ genetic epidemiology ⓘ genomics ⓘ human genetics ⓘ medical genetics ⓘ molecular genetics ⓘ neurogenetics ⓘ pharmacogenomics ⓘ population genetics ⓘ rare disease genetics ⓘ translational genetics ⓘ |
| focus |
human disease
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human health ⓘ |
| languageOfInstruction | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
McGill University, downtown campus
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Montreal ⓘ Quebec ⓘ
linked to:
Quebec, Canada
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| mission |
education in human genetics
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research on the genetic basis of human health and disease ⓘ training of genetic counselors ⓘ training of graduate students in genetics ⓘ training of postdoctoral fellows in genetics ⓘ |
| offersProgram |
MSc program in human genetics
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PhD program in human genetics ⓘ genetic counseling program ⓘ graduate program in human genetics ⓘ |
| partOf |
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University
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McGill University ⓘ |
| sector |
biomedical research
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higher education ⓘ |
| usesMethod |
computational biology
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genomic sequencing ⓘ molecular biology ⓘ statistical genetics ⓘ |
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 Human Genetics Description of subject: The Department of Human Genetics is an academic unit at McGill University's Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences dedicated to research and education on the genetic basis of human health and disease.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (McGill University)
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hasUnit
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Department of Human Genetics
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subject linked to:
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of McGill University
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hasUnit
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Department of Human Genetics
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