Department of Informatics
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The Department of Informatics is an academic unit within UC Irvine’s Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences that focuses on the study and design of sociotechnical, human-centered, and organizational aspects of computing and information systems.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Department of Informatics canonical | 1 |
| Department of Informatics, University of California, Irvine | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6880401 — 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 Informatics Context triple: [Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, hasAcademicUnit, Department of Informatics]
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A.
Department of Informatics
The Department of Informatics at King’s College London is an academic unit focused on research and education in computer science, artificial intelligence, and related areas of information technology.
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B.
School of Informatics
The School of Informatics at Nagoya University is an academic division specializing in research and education in information science, computing, and related interdisciplinary fields.
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C.
Faculty of Informatics
The Faculty of Informatics is an academic division of Vytautas Magnus University in Lithuania specializing in computer science, information technologies, and related fields.
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D.
Faculty of Informatics
The Faculty of Informatics is the computer science and information technology division of the Vienna University of Technology, responsible for education and research in computing-related fields.
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E.
Department of Computer Science
The Department of Computer Science at Cairo University's Faculty of Science is an academic unit specializing in education and research in computing, software, and information technology.
- 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 Informatics Target entity description: The Department of Informatics is an academic unit within UC Irvine’s Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences that focuses on the study and design of sociotechnical, human-centered, and organizational aspects of computing and information systems.
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A.
Department of Informatics
The Department of Informatics at King’s College London is an academic unit focused on research and education in computer science, artificial intelligence, and related areas of information technology.
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B.
School of Informatics
The School of Informatics at Nagoya University is an academic division specializing in research and education in information science, computing, and related interdisciplinary fields.
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C.
Faculty of Informatics
The Faculty of Informatics is an academic division of Vytautas Magnus University in Lithuania specializing in computer science, information technologies, and related fields.
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D.
Faculty of Informatics
The Faculty of Informatics is the computer science and information technology division of the Vienna University of Technology, responsible for education and research in computing-related fields.
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E.
Department of Computer Science
The Department of Computer Science at Cairo University's Faculty of Science is an academic unit specializing in education and research in computing, software, and information technology.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic department
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university unit ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline | information and computer sciences ⓘ |
| affiliation | University of California system ⓘ |
| campus |
UC Irvine
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linked to:
University of California, Irvine
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| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| emphasizes |
empirical study of computing in practice
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human-centered design ⓘ interdisciplinary research ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy | informatics ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
computer-supported cooperative work
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design of computing systems ⓘ health informatics ⓘ human-centered computing ⓘ human-computer interaction ⓘ organizational aspects of information systems ⓘ organizational informatics ⓘ social implications of information technology ⓘ sociotechnical aspects of computing ⓘ software design and development practices ⓘ ubiquitous computing ⓘ use of computing systems in organizations ⓘ |
| hasResearchArea |
ICT for development
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computer-supported cooperative work ⓘ digital media and learning ⓘ health informatics ⓘ human-computer interaction ⓘ organizational and social informatics ⓘ software engineering ⓘ ubiquitous computing ⓘ |
| languageOfInstruction | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Irvine, California
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linked to:
Irvine
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| namedAfter | Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences (as parent school) ⓘ |
| offers |
PhD programs
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graduate programs ⓘ undergraduate programs ⓘ |
| offersDegree |
B.S. in Data Science (jointly with other units)
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B.S. in Informatics ⓘ B.S. in Software Engineering ⓘ M.S. in Informatics ⓘ Ph.D. in Informatics ⓘ |
| parentOrganization |
Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences
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University of California, Irvine ⓘ |
| partOf |
Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences
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University of California, Irvine ⓘ |
| website | https://www.informatics.uci.edu/ ⓘ |
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 Informatics Description of subject: The Department of Informatics is an academic unit within UC Irvine’s Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences that focuses on the study and design of sociotechnical, human-centered, and organizational aspects of computing and information systems.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences
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hasAcademicUnit
→
Department of Informatics
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linked to: Department of Informatics