Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
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The Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at IIT Kanpur is an academic unit that integrates disciplines such as literature, philosophy, economics, sociology, psychology, and related fields to provide a broad-based humanistic and social science education within a premier engineering and technology institute.
All labels observed (1)
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| Department of Humanities and Social Sciences canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5236684 — 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 Humanities and Social Sciences Context triple: [Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, hasDepartment, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences]
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Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
The Department of Humanities and Social Sciences is an academic unit at the University of Tokyo’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences that focuses on research and education in human culture, society, and related interdisciplinary fields.
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Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
The Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at IIT Madras is an academic unit that integrates disciplines such as literature, linguistics, economics, philosophy, and sociology to provide interdisciplinary teaching and research within a premier engineering and technology institute.
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College of Humanities and Social Sciences
The College of Humanities and Social Sciences is an academic division of North Carolina State University that offers programs in disciplines such as history, languages, communication, sociology, and political science.
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College of Humanities and Social Sciences
The College of Humanities and Social Sciences is a major academic division of California State University, Fullerton that offers a wide range of programs in the liberal arts, social sciences, and related interdisciplinary fields.
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College of Humanities and Social Sciences
The College of Humanities and Social Sciences is a major academic division of Makerere University in Uganda, offering a wide range of programs in the arts, humanities, and 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 Humanities and Social Sciences Target entity description: The Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at IIT Kanpur is an academic unit that integrates disciplines such as literature, philosophy, economics, sociology, psychology, and related fields to provide a broad-based humanistic and social science education within a premier engineering and technology institute.
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Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
The Department of Humanities and Social Sciences is an academic unit at the University of Tokyo’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences that focuses on research and education in human culture, society, and related interdisciplinary fields.
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B.
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
The Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at IIT Madras is an academic unit that integrates disciplines such as literature, linguistics, economics, philosophy, and sociology to provide interdisciplinary teaching and research within a premier engineering and technology institute.
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C.
College of Humanities and Social Sciences
The College of Humanities and Social Sciences is an academic division of North Carolina State University that offers programs in disciplines such as history, languages, communication, sociology, and political science.
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College of Humanities and Social Sciences
The College of Humanities and Social Sciences is a major academic division of California State University, Fullerton that offers a wide range of programs in the liberal arts, social sciences, and related interdisciplinary fields.
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E.
College of Humanities and Social Sciences
The College of Humanities and Social Sciences is a major academic division of Makerere University in Uganda, offering a wide range of programs in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic department
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humanities department ⓘ social sciences department ⓘ |
| affiliatedWith | Ministry of Education, Government of India ⓘ |
| campusType | residential campus ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith |
Indian and international universities
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other departments at IIT Kanpur ⓘ |
| country | India ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy |
English studies
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cognitive science ⓘ economics ⓘ fine arts ⓘ humanities ⓘ linguistics ⓘ literature ⓘ philosophy ⓘ psychology ⓘ social sciences ⓘ sociology ⓘ |
| focus |
communication skills training
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critical thinking education ⓘ ethics and values education ⓘ |
| hasAcademicStaffType |
assistant professor
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associate professor ⓘ professor ⓘ visiting faculty ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Kanpur
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Uttar Pradesh ⓘ |
| locatedOnCampusOf | Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur ⓘ |
| mission |
to integrate humanistic and social science perspectives into a technology-focused institute
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to provide broad-based education to engineering and science students ⓘ |
| offersDegree |
MS (by research)
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PhD ⓘ |
| offersProgramType |
doctoral programs
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elective courses for BTech students ⓘ postgraduate programs ⓘ undergraduate courses ⓘ |
| parentOrganizationType | Institute of National Importance ⓘ |
| partOf | Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur ⓘ |
| regionServed |
international
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national ⓘ |
| researchActivity |
interdisciplinary research in humanities and social sciences
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research on Indian society and culture ⓘ research on cognition and behavior ⓘ research on development and public policy ⓘ |
| teachingLanguage | English ⓘ |
| website | https://www.iitk.ac.in/hss/ ⓘ |
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 Humanities and Social Sciences Description of subject: The Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at IIT Kanpur is an academic unit that integrates disciplines such as literature, philosophy, economics, sociology, psychology, and related fields to provide a broad-based humanistic and social science education within a premier engineering and technology institute.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
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hasDepartment
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Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
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