Division of Social Sciences (UC Berkeley L&S)
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The Division of Social Sciences in UC Berkeley’s College of Letters and Science is the campus’s largest academic unit for disciplines such as economics, political science, sociology, psychology, and related fields that study human society and behavior.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Division of Social Sciences (UC Berkeley L&S) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T76990 — 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: Division of Social Sciences (UC Berkeley L&S) Context triple: [College of Letters and Science (UC Berkeley), hasDivision, Division of Social Sciences (UC Berkeley L&S)]
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A.
Division of Arts and Humanities (UC Berkeley L&S)
The Division of Arts and Humanities in UC Berkeley’s College of Letters and Science is the academic unit that encompasses the campus’s humanities and arts departments, supporting scholarship and teaching in fields such as literature, languages, philosophy, history, and the creative arts.
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B.
Division of Mathematical and Physical Sciences (UC Berkeley L&S)
The Division of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at UC Berkeley’s College of Letters and Science is the academic unit that encompasses departments focused on fundamental research and education in mathematics, statistics, and the physical sciences.
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C.
Division of Biological Sciences (UC Berkeley L&S)
The Division of Biological Sciences in UC Berkeley’s College of Letters and Science is the academic unit that oversees and coordinates the university’s undergraduate and graduate programs in the life sciences within L&S.
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D.
College of Letters and Science
The College of Letters and Science is UC Berkeley’s largest and most academically diverse college, encompassing a wide range of liberal arts, natural sciences, and social science disciplines.
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E.
School of Social Sciences
The School of Social Sciences is an academic division within the University of Manchester that focuses on disciplines such as sociology, politics, economics, 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: Division of Social Sciences (UC Berkeley L&S) Target entity description: The Division of Social Sciences in UC Berkeley’s College of Letters and Science is the campus’s largest academic unit for disciplines such as economics, political science, sociology, psychology, and related fields that study human society and behavior.
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A.
Division of Arts and Humanities (UC Berkeley L&S)
The Division of Arts and Humanities in UC Berkeley’s College of Letters and Science is the academic unit that encompasses the campus’s humanities and arts departments, supporting scholarship and teaching in fields such as literature, languages, philosophy, history, and the creative arts.
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B.
Division of Mathematical and Physical Sciences (UC Berkeley L&S)
The Division of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at UC Berkeley’s College of Letters and Science is the academic unit that encompasses departments focused on fundamental research and education in mathematics, statistics, and the physical sciences.
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C.
Division of Biological Sciences (UC Berkeley L&S)
The Division of Biological Sciences in UC Berkeley’s College of Letters and Science is the academic unit that oversees and coordinates the university’s undergraduate and graduate programs in the life sciences within L&S.
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D.
College of Letters and Science
The College of Letters and Science is UC Berkeley’s largest and most academically diverse college, encompassing a wide range of liberal arts, natural sciences, and social science disciplines.
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E.
School of Social Sciences
The School of Social Sciences is an academic division within the University of Manchester that focuses on disciplines such as sociology, politics, economics, and related social science fields.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic division
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administrative unit ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline | social sciences ⓘ |
| affiliatedWith | University of California, Berkeley ⓘ |
| campus |
UC Berkeley
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linked to:
University of California, Berkeley
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| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| employs |
faculty
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researchers ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy |
African American studies
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Asian American and Asian diaspora studies ⓘ Chicano/Latino studies ⓘ anthropology ⓘ cognitive science ⓘ demography ⓘ development studies ⓘ economics ⓘ ethnic studies ⓘ gender and women’s studies ⓘ geography ⓘ global studies ⓘ history ⓘ legal studies ⓘ media studies ⓘ political economy ⓘ political science ⓘ psychology ⓘ sociology ⓘ urban studies ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
human behavior
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human society ⓘ |
| governingBody |
Academic Senate of the University of California, Berkeley
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linked to:
Academic Senate of UC Berkeley
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| hasType | research-intensive division ⓘ |
| isLargestDivisionOf | College of Letters and Science (UC Berkeley) ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Berkeley, California
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linked to:
Berkeley
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| offers |
graduate programs
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undergraduate programs ⓘ |
| parentOrganization |
University of California
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linked to:
University of California system
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| partOf | College of Letters and Science (UC Berkeley) ⓘ |
| sector | public higher education ⓘ |
| serves |
graduate students
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undergraduate students ⓘ |
| website | https://ls.berkeley.edu/social-sciences ⓘ |
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: Division of Social Sciences (UC Berkeley L&S) Description of subject: The Division of Social Sciences in UC Berkeley’s College of Letters and Science is the campus’s largest academic unit for disciplines such as economics, political science, sociology, psychology, and related fields that study human society and behavior.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
College of Letters and Science (UC Berkeley)
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hasDivision
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Division of Social Sciences (UC Berkeley L&S)
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subject linked to:
College of Letters and Science