University of the Witwatersrand Faculty of Humanities
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The University of the Witwatersrand Faculty of Humanities is a major academic division of Wits University in Johannesburg, South Africa, offering a wide range of disciplines in the arts, social sciences, and human sciences.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| University of the Witwatersrand Faculty of Humanities canonical | 2 |
| Wits Faculty of Humanities | 1 |
| Wits School of Arts | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7663193 — 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: University of the Witwatersrand Faculty of Humanities Context triple: [William Cullen Library, affiliation, University of the Witwatersrand Faculty of Humanities]
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A.
Faculty of Humanities
The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Graz is an academic division dedicated to teaching and research in disciplines such as languages, literature, history, philosophy, and cultural studies.
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B.
Faculty of Humanities
The Faculty of Humanities is a division of Charles University in Prague focused on interdisciplinary studies in the humanities and social sciences.
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C.
Faculty of Humanities
The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Haifa is an academic division dedicated to disciplines such as history, literature, philosophy, languages, and cultural studies within the university.
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D.
Faculty of Humanities
The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Bergen is an academic division dedicated to research and education in disciplines such as languages, history, culture, philosophy, and related humanistic fields.
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E.
Faculty of Humanities
The Faculty of Humanities is an academic division of the Central University of Technology that focuses on disciplines related to human culture, society, and communication.
- 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: University of the Witwatersrand Faculty of Humanities Target entity description: The University of the Witwatersrand Faculty of Humanities is a major academic division of Wits University in Johannesburg, South Africa, offering a wide range of disciplines in the arts, social sciences, and human sciences.
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A.
Faculty of Humanities
The Faculty of Humanities is a division of Charles University in Prague focused on interdisciplinary studies in the humanities and social sciences.
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B.
Faculty of Humanities
The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Haifa is an academic division dedicated to disciplines such as history, literature, philosophy, languages, and cultural studies within the university.
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C.
Faculty of Humanities
The Faculty of Humanities at Tel Aviv University is an academic division dedicated to teaching and research in fields such as history, philosophy, languages, literature, and cultural studies.
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D.
Faculty of Humanities
The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Graz is an academic division dedicated to teaching and research in disciplines such as languages, literature, history, philosophy, and cultural studies.
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E.
Faculty of Humanities
The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Victoria is an academic division that offers programs and research in disciplines such as languages, literature, history, philosophy, and related fields within the humanities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
academic division
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university faculty ⓘ |
| affiliation | University of the Witwatersrand ⓘ |
| campus | Braamfontein Campus ⓘ |
| city |
Johannesburg
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linked to:
Johannesburg, South Africa
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| country | South Africa ⓘ |
| emphasizes |
interdisciplinary study
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public scholarship ⓘ social justice ⓘ |
| field |
creative arts
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humanities ⓘ social sciences ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
critical thinking
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research ⓘ social engagement ⓘ |
| hasDepartment |
School of Education
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School of Human and Community Development ⓘ School of Literature, Language and Media ⓘ School of Social Sciences ⓘ Wits School of Arts ⓘ |
| languageOfInstruction | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Gauteng
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Johannesburg ⓘ
linked to:
Johannesburg, South Africa
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| offersDiscipline |
arts
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human sciences ⓘ social sciences ⓘ |
| offersProgramType |
doctoral degrees
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honours degrees ⓘ master’s degrees ⓘ postgraduate degrees ⓘ undergraduate degrees ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | University of the Witwatersrand ⓘ |
| partOf | University of the Witwatersrand ⓘ |
| region | Southern Africa ⓘ |
| shortName | Wits Faculty of Humanities ⓘ |
| specializesIn |
African and global social issues
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cultural studies ⓘ development studies ⓘ languages and literature ⓘ psychology and related human sciences ⓘ |
| website | https://www.wits.ac.za/humanities/ ⓘ |
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: University of the Witwatersrand Faculty of Humanities Description of subject: The University of the Witwatersrand Faculty of Humanities is a major academic division of Wits University in Johannesburg, South Africa, offering a wide range of disciplines in the arts, social sciences, and human sciences.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: University of the Witwatersrand Faculty of Humanities
linked to: University of the Witwatersrand Faculty of Humanities
East Campus, University of the Witwatersrand
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affiliation
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University of the Witwatersrand Faculty of Humanities
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