Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (USF)
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The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of South Florida is an academic unit that educates students and conducts research in areas such as infrastructure, transportation, water resources, and environmental sustainability.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (USF) canonical | 1 |
| USF CEE | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5444916 — 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 Civil and Environmental Engineering (USF) Context triple: [College of Engineering (University of South Florida), hasDepartment, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (USF)]
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Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is an academic unit at Rice University's George R. Brown School of Engineering that focuses on education and research in infrastructure, environmental systems, and sustainable engineering.
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B.
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is an academic unit that educates students and conducts research in areas such as infrastructure design, construction, and environmental protection within the Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science.
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C.
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is an academic unit focused on education and research in infrastructure, construction, and environmental systems within the broader field of engineering.
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D.
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is an academic unit specializing in infrastructure, environmental systems, and related engineering disciplines within the Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
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E.
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is an academic unit within Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering that focuses on education and research in infrastructure, environmental systems, and sustainable engineering.
- 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 Civil and Environmental Engineering (USF) Target entity description: The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of South Florida is an academic unit that educates students and conducts research in areas such as infrastructure, transportation, water resources, and environmental sustainability.
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Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is an academic unit at Rice University's George R. Brown School of Engineering that focuses on education and research in infrastructure, environmental systems, and sustainable engineering.
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B.
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is an academic unit that educates students and conducts research in areas such as infrastructure design, construction, and environmental protection within the Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science.
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C.
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is an academic unit focused on education and research in infrastructure, construction, and environmental systems within the broader field of engineering.
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D.
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is an academic unit specializing in infrastructure, environmental systems, and related engineering disciplines within the Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
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Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is an academic unit within Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering that focuses on education and research in infrastructure, environmental systems, and sustainable engineering.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | academic department ⓘ |
| acronym | USF CEE ⓘ |
| campus | USF Tampa campus ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith |
government agencies
ⓘ
industry partners ⓘ nonprofit organizations ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| educates |
graduate students
ⓘ
undergraduate students ⓘ |
| employs |
civil engineering faculty
ⓘ
environmental engineering faculty ⓘ |
| field |
civil engineering
ⓘ
construction engineering ⓘ environmental engineering ⓘ environmental sustainability ⓘ geotechnical engineering ⓘ structural engineering ⓘ transportation engineering ⓘ water resources engineering ⓘ |
| focus |
preparation of professional engineers
ⓘ
preparation of researchers ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.usf.edu/engineering/civil-environmental/ ⓘ |
| languageOfInstruction | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Tampa, Florida ⓘ |
| mission |
education in civil and environmental engineering
ⓘ
research in civil and environmental engineering ⓘ service to the profession and community ⓘ |
| offersDegree |
Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering
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Bachelor of Science in Environmental Engineering ⓘ Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering ⓘ Master of Science in Civil Engineering ⓘ Master of Science in Environmental Engineering ⓘ |
| offersProgram |
graduate civil engineering program
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graduate environmental engineering program ⓘ undergraduate civil engineering program ⓘ undergraduate environmental engineering program ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | College of Engineering (University of South Florida) ⓘ |
| partOf | University of South Florida ⓘ |
| researchArea |
coastal and ocean engineering
ⓘ
environmental protection ⓘ infrastructure systems ⓘ materials and structures ⓘ resilient infrastructure ⓘ sustainable development ⓘ transportation systems ⓘ water resources ⓘ |
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 Civil and Environmental Engineering (USF) Description of subject: The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of South Florida is an academic unit that educates students and conducts research in areas such as infrastructure, transportation, water resources, and environmental sustainability.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
College of Engineering (University of South Florida)
→
hasDepartment
→
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (USF)
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subject linked to:
College of Engineering
linked to: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (USF)