Department of Religion and Culture (University of Saskatchewan)
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The Department of Religion and Culture at the University of Saskatchewan is an academic unit that studies diverse religious traditions and their cultural, historical, and social contexts.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Department of Religion and Culture (University of Saskatchewan) canonical | 1 |
| Department of Religious Studies (University of Saskatchewan) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6366811 — 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 Religion and Culture (University of Saskatchewan) Context triple: [College of Arts and Science (University of Saskatchewan), hasDepartment, Department of Religion and Culture (University of Saskatchewan)]
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A.
School of Religious Studies (McGill University)
The School of Religious Studies at McGill University is an academic unit dedicated to the scholarly study of religion, theology, and related fields within the broader context of the university’s humanities disciplines.
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B.
Department of Religious Studies
The Department of Religious Studies is an academic unit that focuses on the scholarly study of religions, beliefs, and related cultural practices.
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C.
Institute of Religious Studies
The Institute of Religious Studies is an academic unit of the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas dedicated to the scholarly study and teaching of religion and theology.
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D.
Center for the Study of World Religions
The Center for the Study of World Religions is an academic institute at Harvard dedicated to the scholarly and interdisciplinary study of global religious traditions and their contemporary significance.
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E.
Faculty of Culture and Society
The Faculty of Culture and Society is an academic division of Auckland University of Technology focused on disciplines such as humanities, social sciences, and cultural studies.
- 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 Religion and Culture (University of Saskatchewan) Target entity description: The Department of Religion and Culture at the University of Saskatchewan is an academic unit that studies diverse religious traditions and their cultural, historical, and social contexts.
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A.
School of Religious Studies (McGill University)
The School of Religious Studies at McGill University is an academic unit dedicated to the scholarly study of religion, theology, and related fields within the broader context of the university’s humanities disciplines.
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B.
Department of Religious Studies
The Department of Religious Studies is an academic unit that focuses on the scholarly study of religions, beliefs, and related cultural practices.
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C.
Institute of Religious Studies
The Institute of Religious Studies is an academic unit of the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas dedicated to the scholarly study and teaching of religion and theology.
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D.
Center for the Study of World Religions
The Center for the Study of World Religions is an academic institute at Harvard dedicated to the scholarly and interdisciplinary study of global religious traditions and their contemporary significance.
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E.
Faculty of Culture and Society
The Faculty of Culture and Society is an academic division of Auckland University of Technology focused on disciplines such as humanities, social sciences, and cultural studies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | academic department ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline |
humanities
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social sciences ⓘ |
| affiliatedWith | University of Saskatchewan ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Department of Religious Studies (University of Saskatchewan) ⓘ |
| campus |
University of Saskatchewan main campus
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linked to:
University of Saskatchewan
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| country | Canada ⓘ |
| educationalInstitutionType | public university department ⓘ |
| employs |
administrative staff
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faculty members ⓘ sessional lecturers ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
anthropology of religion
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comparative religion ⓘ cultural studies of religion ⓘ history of religions ⓘ philosophy of religion ⓘ religious studies ⓘ sociology of religion ⓘ study of religion ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
interdisciplinary approaches to religion
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non-confessional study of religion ⓘ religion and ethics ⓘ religion and modernity ⓘ religion and politics ⓘ religion and popular culture ⓘ |
| hasAcademicFocus |
global religious traditions
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religion and culture ⓘ religion in contemporary society ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Saskatoon ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritorialEntity | Saskatchewan ⓘ |
| missionStatement | to study religion in its cultural, historical, and social contexts ⓘ |
| offers |
graduate courses
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undergraduate courses ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | University of Saskatchewan ⓘ |
| partOf | College of Arts and Science (University of Saskatchewan) ⓘ |
| studies |
cultural contexts of religion
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diverse religious traditions ⓘ historical contexts of religion ⓘ social contexts of religion ⓘ |
| teaches |
critical approaches to religion
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methods in the study of religion ⓘ theories of religion ⓘ |
| website | https://artsandscience.usask.ca/rlst/ ⓘ |
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 Religion and Culture (University of Saskatchewan) Description of subject: The Department of Religion and Culture at the University of Saskatchewan is an academic unit that studies diverse religious traditions and their cultural, historical, and social contexts.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
College of Arts and Science (University of Saskatchewan)
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hasDepartment
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Department of Religion and Culture (University of Saskatchewan)
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subject linked to:
College of Arts and Science
Department of Religion and Culture (University of Saskatchewan)
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alsoKnownAs
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Department of Religious Studies (University of Saskatchewan)
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linked to: Department of Religion and Culture (University of Saskatchewan)