Western Science
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Western Science is the Faculty of Science at Western University in Canada, offering a range of undergraduate and graduate programs across the natural and physical sciences.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Western Science canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5616191 — 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: Western Science Context triple: [Faculty of Science (Western University), alternativeName, Western Science]
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A.
Western mathematics
Western mathematics is the tradition of mathematical thought and practice that developed primarily in Europe and later the Western world, encompassing fields from classical geometry and arithmetic to modern algebra, analysis, and applied mathematics.
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Enlightenment science
Enlightenment science was an 18th-century intellectual movement that applied reason, empirical observation, and experimental methods to understand and systematically explain the natural world.
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Scientific Thought
Scientific Thought is a major 1923 work of analytic philosophy by C. D. Broad that examines the nature of scientific knowledge, causation, and the structure of scientific theories.
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D.
Modern Science and Its Philosophy
Modern Science and Its Philosophy is a philosophical work by physicist and logical empiricist Philipp Frank that examines the conceptual foundations, methods, and implications of modern scientific thought.
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E.
unity of science
Unity of science is a philosophical doctrine holding that all scientific disciplines are fundamentally interconnected and can, in principle, be integrated into a single coherent framework.
- 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: Western Science Target entity description: Western Science is the Faculty of Science at Western University in Canada, offering a range of undergraduate and graduate programs across the natural and physical sciences.
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A.
Western mathematics
Western mathematics is the tradition of mathematical thought and practice that developed primarily in Europe and later the Western world, encompassing fields from classical geometry and arithmetic to modern algebra, analysis, and applied mathematics.
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B.
Enlightenment science
Enlightenment science was an 18th-century intellectual movement that applied reason, empirical observation, and experimental methods to understand and systematically explain the natural world.
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C.
Scientific Thought
Scientific Thought is a major 1923 work of analytic philosophy by C. D. Broad that examines the nature of scientific knowledge, causation, and the structure of scientific theories.
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D.
Modern Science and Its Philosophy
Modern Science and Its Philosophy is a philosophical work by physicist and logical empiricist Philipp Frank that examines the conceptual foundations, methods, and implications of modern scientific thought.
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E.
unity of science
Unity of science is a philosophical doctrine holding that all scientific disciplines are fundamentally interconnected and can, in principle, be integrated into a single coherent framework.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | faculty ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline |
natural sciences
ⓘ
physical sciences ⓘ |
| affiliation | Western University ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Faculty of Science at Western University
ⓘ
linked to:
Faculty of Science (Western University)
Western University Faculty of Science ⓘ
linked to:
Western University
|
| campus |
Western University main campus
ⓘ
linked to:
Western University
|
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| educationSystem | Canadian university system ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy |
actuarial science
ⓘ
astronomy ⓘ biology ⓘ chemistry ⓘ computer science ⓘ earth sciences ⓘ environmental science ⓘ geology ⓘ mathematics ⓘ physics ⓘ statistics ⓘ |
| hasDepartment |
Department of Biology
ⓘ
Department of Chemistry ⓘ Department of Computer Science ⓘ Department of Earth Sciences ⓘ Department of Mathematics ⓘ Department of Physics and Astronomy ⓘ Department of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences ⓘ |
| hasResearchActivity |
scientific research in natural sciences
ⓘ
scientific research in physical sciences ⓘ |
| hasSchool | School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.uwo.ca/sci/ ⓘ |
| languageOfInstruction | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn | London, Ontario ⓘ |
| offersDegree |
Bachelor of Science
ⓘ
Doctor of Philosophy ⓘ Honours Bachelor of Science ⓘ Master of Science ⓘ |
| offersProgram |
Honours Specialization in Actuarial Science
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Honours Specialization in Applied Mathematics ⓘ Honours Specialization in Biology ⓘ Honours Specialization in Computer Science ⓘ Honours Specialization in Environmental Science ⓘ Honours Specialization in Physics ⓘ Honours Specialization in Statistics ⓘ |
| offersProgramType |
graduate programs
ⓘ
undergraduate programs ⓘ |
| parentOrganization |
Western University Faculty of Science
ⓘ
linked to:
Western University
|
| partOf | Western University ⓘ |
| sector | higher education ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Western Science Description of subject: Western Science is the Faculty of Science at Western University in Canada, offering a range of undergraduate and graduate programs across the natural and physical sciences.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Faculty of Science