Faculty of Social Sciences
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The Faculty of Social Sciences at Vancouver Island University is an academic division that offers programs and research opportunities focused on understanding human society, behavior, and social systems.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Faculty of Social Sciences canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9437034 — 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: Faculty of Social Sciences Context triple: [Vancouver Island University, hasFaculty, Faculty of Social Sciences]
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Faculty of Social Sciences
The Faculty of Social Sciences is a major academic unit of Charles University in Prague specializing in disciplines such as sociology, political science, economics, and media studies.
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Faculty of Social Sciences
The Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Tartu is an academic division that focuses on disciplines such as sociology, political science, economics, communication, and related fields within the social sciences.
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Faculty of Social Sciences
The Faculty of Social Sciences at Tel Aviv University is an academic division dedicated to research and teaching in disciplines such as sociology, political science, psychology, economics, and related social science fields.
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Faculty of Social Sciences
The Faculty of Social Sciences is an academic division of the University of Balochistan that offers teaching and research programs in disciplines focused on human society, behavior, and social structures.
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Faculty of Social Sciences
The Faculty of Social Sciences at Chiang Mai University is an academic division specializing in teaching and research across disciplines such as sociology, anthropology, political science, and related social science fields.
- 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: Faculty of Social Sciences Target entity description: The Faculty of Social Sciences at Vancouver Island University is an academic division that offers programs and research opportunities focused on understanding human society, behavior, and social systems.
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Faculty of Social Sciences
The Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Victoria is an academic division that offers interdisciplinary education and research in fields such as psychology, sociology, political science, and related social science disciplines.
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Faculty of Social Sciences
The Faculty of Social Sciences at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam is an academic division dedicated to research and education in disciplines such as sociology, political science, anthropology, and related social science fields.
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Faculty of Social Sciences
The Faculty of Social Sciences at Brock University is an academic division that offers programs and research opportunities focused on understanding human behavior, societies, and social institutions.
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Faculty of Social Sciences
The Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Vienna is an academic division dedicated to research and teaching in disciplines that analyze society, politics, communication, and human behavior.
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Faculty of Social Sciences
The Faculty of Social Sciences at Uppsala University is an academic division encompassing departments and programs focused on the study of human society, behavior, and social structures.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | academic division ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline |
First Nations studies
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anthropology ⓘ criminology ⓘ geography ⓘ global studies ⓘ political studies ⓘ psychology ⓘ sociology ⓘ |
| campus | Nanaimo campus ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| employer | social sciences faculty members ⓘ |
| field | social sciences ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
human behavior
ⓘ
human society ⓘ social systems ⓘ |
| hasType | public university faculty ⓘ |
| languageOfInstruction | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Nanaimo, British Columbia
ⓘ
linked to:
Nanaimo
|
| mission | to advance understanding of human society and social issues through teaching and research ⓘ |
| offers |
bachelor’s degrees
ⓘ
certificates ⓘ graduate programs ⓘ minors ⓘ research opportunities ⓘ undergraduate programs ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | Vancouver Island University Faculty of Arts and Humanities (historical association, if applicable) ⓘ |
| partOf | Vancouver Island University ⓘ |
| regionServed |
British Columbia
ⓘ
Vancouver Island ⓘ |
| researchFocus |
Indigenous issues
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community development ⓘ environment and society ⓘ public policy ⓘ social justice ⓘ |
| sector | higher education ⓘ |
| studentBody |
graduate students
ⓘ
undergraduate students ⓘ |
| university | Vancouver Island University ⓘ |
| website | https://socialsciences.viu.ca/ ⓘ |
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: Faculty of Social Sciences Description of subject: The Faculty of Social Sciences at Vancouver Island University is an academic division that offers programs and research opportunities focused on understanding human society, behavior, and social systems.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.