Department of English (McGill University)
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The Department of English at McGill University is an academic unit renowned for its teaching and research in literature, drama, and related fields within the Faculty of Arts.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Department of English (McGill University) canonical | 2 |
| McGill University English Department | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T716498 — 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 English (McGill University) Context triple: [Faculty of Arts (McGill University), hasDepartment, Department of English (McGill University)]
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Faculty of Arts and Science, University of Toronto
The Faculty of Arts and Science at the University of Toronto is the university’s largest academic division, encompassing a wide range of undergraduate and graduate programs in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences across its affiliated colleges.
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B.
Faculty of Arts and Science
The Faculty of Arts and Science is the largest academic division at Queen's University at Kingston, offering a broad range of undergraduate and graduate programs across the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences.
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C.
Faculty of Arts and Science
The Faculty of Arts and Science at Kyushu University is an academic division that offers interdisciplinary undergraduate education spanning the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences.
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D.
Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics, University of Cambridge
The Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics at the University of Cambridge is a leading academic division specializing in the study and research of European and global languages, their literatures, cultures, and linguistic structures.
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E.
School of Foreign Languages
The School of Foreign Languages is an academic faculty of Central China Normal University specializing in the teaching and research of foreign languages and related disciplines.
- 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 English (McGill University) Target entity description: The Department of English at McGill University is an academic unit renowned for its teaching and research in literature, drama, and related fields within the Faculty of Arts.
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A.
Faculty of Arts and Science, University of Toronto
The Faculty of Arts and Science at the University of Toronto is the university’s largest academic division, encompassing a wide range of undergraduate and graduate programs in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences across its affiliated colleges.
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B.
Faculty of Arts and Science
The Faculty of Arts and Science is the largest academic division at Queen's University at Kingston, offering a broad range of undergraduate and graduate programs across the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences.
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C.
Faculty of Arts and Science
The Faculty of Arts and Science at Kyushu University is an academic division that offers interdisciplinary undergraduate education spanning the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences.
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D.
Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics, University of Cambridge
The Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics at the University of Cambridge is a leading academic division specializing in the study and research of European and global languages, their literatures, cultures, and linguistic structures.
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E.
School of Foreign Languages
The School of Foreign Languages is an academic faculty of Central China Normal University specializing in the teaching and research of foreign languages and related disciplines.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic department
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university department ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline | humanities ⓘ |
| affiliation | McGill University ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| employer |
faculty members in English
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professors of English literature ⓘ professors of drama and theatre ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy |
American literature
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British literature ⓘ Canadian literature ⓘ English literature ⓘ cultural studies ⓘ drama ⓘ film studies ⓘ literary theory ⓘ theatre studies ⓘ |
| hasAcademicUnitType | department of English ⓘ |
| hasFocus |
research
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teaching ⓘ |
| hasNotableStrength | reputation in literature and drama ⓘ |
| languageOfInstruction | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
McGill University, downtown campus
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Montreal ⓘ Quebec ⓘ
linked to:
Quebec, Canada
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| offersDegree |
BA in English
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MA in English ⓘ PhD in English ⓘ |
| offersProgram |
Master’s program in English
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PhD program in English ⓘ graduate program in English ⓘ undergraduate program in English ⓘ |
| parentOrganization |
McGill University Faculty of Arts
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linked to:
Faculty of Arts (McGill University)
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| partOf |
Faculty of Arts (McGill University)
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McGill University ⓘ |
| researchArea |
Renaissance literature
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Shakespeare studies ⓘ contemporary literature ⓘ critical theory ⓘ cultural theory ⓘ drama studies ⓘ gender and sexuality studies in literature ⓘ literary studies ⓘ modernism ⓘ performance studies ⓘ postcolonial studies ⓘ |
| sector | higher education ⓘ |
| university | McGill University ⓘ |
| website | https://www.mcgill.ca/english ⓘ |
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 English (McGill University) Description of subject: The Department of English at McGill University is an academic unit renowned for its teaching and research in literature, drama, and related fields within the Faculty of Arts.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.