Department of Contemporary History

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academic department organizational unit

The Department of Contemporary History is an academic unit specializing in the study and research of recent and modern historical developments within the broader field of historical and cultural studies.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Department of Contemporary History canonical	2
Department of Modern and Contemporary History	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5438588 — 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 Contemporary History
Context triple: [Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies, hasUnit, Department of Contemporary History]

A. Department of Historical Sciences
The Department of Historical Sciences is a scholarly division of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts dedicated to research and advancement in history and related disciplines.
B. Institute of History
The Institute of History is a research body within the Royal Academy of Cambodia dedicated to the study and documentation of Cambodian and regional history.
C. Institute of History
The Institute of History is an academic research and teaching unit specializing in historical studies within the Faculty of History, Art and Oriental Studies.
D. Department of History
The Department of History at Quaid-i-Azam University is an academic unit dedicated to teaching and research in historical studies, particularly focusing on South Asian and Pakistani history.
E. Department of History
The Department of History at St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi, is an academic unit known for its rigorous historical scholarship and teaching within one of India's most prestigious colleges.
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 Contemporary History
Target entity description: The Department of Contemporary History is an academic unit specializing in the study and research of recent and modern historical developments within the broader field of historical and cultural studies.

A. Department of Historical Sciences
The Department of Historical Sciences is a scholarly division of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts dedicated to research and advancement in history and related disciplines.
B. Institute of History
The Institute of History is a research body within the Royal Academy of Cambodia dedicated to the study and documentation of Cambodian and regional history.
C. Institute of History
The Institute of History is an academic research and teaching unit specializing in historical studies within the Faculty of History, Art and Oriental Studies.
D. Department of History
The Department of History at Quaid-i-Azam University is an academic unit dedicated to teaching and research in historical studies, particularly focusing on South Asian and Pakistani history.
E. Department of History
The Department of History at St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi, is an academic unit known for its rigorous historical scholarship and teaching within one of India's most prestigious colleges.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (46)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	academic department ⓘ organizational unit ⓘ
aimsTo	advance understanding of recent historical processes ⓘ contribute to historical scholarship ⓘ train specialists in contemporary history ⓘ
collaboratesWith	cultural studies departments ⓘ other history departments ⓘ research institutes ⓘ
employs	historians ⓘ lecturers ⓘ professors ⓘ researchers ⓘ
fieldOfActivity	contemporary history ⓘ cultural studies ⓘ historical studies ⓘ modern history ⓘ recent historical developments ⓘ
hasAcademicFocus	research in contemporary history ⓘ research in modern history ⓘ study of modern historical developments ⓘ study of recent history ⓘ
hasActivity	academic supervision ⓘ organization of academic events ⓘ publication of scholarly work ⓘ research ⓘ teaching ⓘ
offers	graduate courses ⓘ research seminars ⓘ supervision for theses ⓘ undergraduate courses ⓘ
partOf	faculty of humanities ⓘ school of historical and cultural studies ⓘ
produces	academic publications ⓘ conference presentations ⓘ research reports ⓘ
studies	cultural history of the 20th century ⓘ global contemporary history ⓘ political history of the 20th century ⓘ recent cultural transformations ⓘ recent international relations ⓘ recent social movements ⓘ social history of the 20th century ⓘ
usesMethod	archival research ⓘ comparative historical analysis ⓘ interdisciplinary approaches ⓘ oral history ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies → hasUnit → Department of Contemporary History ⓘ

Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Turku → hasDepartment → Department of Contemporary History ⓘ

subject linked to: Faculty of Social Sciences

Faculty of History, Belarusian State University → hasDepartment → Department of Modern and Contemporary History ⓘ

subject linked to: Faculty of History

linked to: Department of Contemporary History

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