Department of Biological Sciences
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The Department of Biological Sciences is a major academic unit at the National University of Singapore’s Faculty of Science, focusing on education and research across diverse areas of modern biology.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Department of Biological Sciences canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11039549 — 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 Biological Sciences Context triple: [Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore, hasDepartment, Department of Biological Sciences]
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A.
Department of Biological Sciences
The Department of Biological Sciences is an academic unit within Carnegie Mellon University's Mellon College of Science that focuses on research and education in the life sciences.
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B.
Department of Biological Sciences
The Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Tokyo’s Faculty of Science is a leading academic unit dedicated to research and education in the life sciences, spanning molecular biology to ecology and evolution.
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C.
Department of Biological Sciences
The Department of Biological Sciences is an academic division of the Indian Institute of Science that focuses on research and education in the life sciences.
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D.
Department of Biological Sciences
The Department of Biological Sciences at Osaka University is an academic unit within the Graduate School of Science dedicated to research and education in the biological sciences, spanning molecular to organismal and ecological biology.
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E.
Department of Biological Sciences
The Department of Biological Sciences is an academic unit at the University of Swaziland’s Faculty of Science that focuses on teaching and research in the biological and life sciences.
- 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 Biological Sciences Target entity description: The Department of Biological Sciences is a major academic unit at the National University of Singapore’s Faculty of Science, focusing on education and research across diverse areas of modern biology.
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A.
Department of Biological Sciences
The Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Tokyo’s Faculty of Science is a leading academic unit dedicated to research and education in the life sciences, spanning molecular biology to ecology and evolution.
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B.
Department of Biological Sciences
The Department of Biological Sciences is an academic division of the Indian Institute of Science that focuses on research and education in the life sciences.
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C.
Department of Biological Sciences
The Department of Biological Sciences is an academic unit within Kyushu University's Faculty of Science that focuses on education and research in the biological sciences.
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D.
Department of Biological Sciences
The Department of Biological Sciences at Osaka University is an academic unit within the Graduate School of Science dedicated to research and education in the biological sciences, spanning molecular to organismal and ecological biology.
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E.
Department of Biological Sciences
The Department of Biological Sciences is an academic unit at the University of Swaziland’s Faculty of Science that focuses on teaching and research in the biological and life sciences.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic department
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university department ⓘ |
| affiliation | National University of Singapore ⓘ |
| campus | Kent Ridge ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith |
external research institutes
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industry partners ⓘ other departments in the Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore ⓘ |
| country | Singapore ⓘ |
| educates |
graduate students
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undergraduate students ⓘ |
| employs |
administrative staff
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faculty members ⓘ research staff ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
biology
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biomedical science ⓘ cell biology ⓘ conservation biology ⓘ ecology ⓘ environmental biology ⓘ evolutionary biology ⓘ genomics ⓘ life sciences ⓘ marine biology ⓘ microbiology ⓘ molecular biology ⓘ plant biology ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
education in biological sciences
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research in biological sciences ⓘ |
| hasParentOrganization |
Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore
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linked to:
NUS Faculty of Science
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| hasType | major academic unit ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.dbs.nus.edu.sg/ ⓘ |
| languageOfInstruction | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Kent Ridge campus
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Singapore ⓘ |
| offers |
coursework-based graduate degrees
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postgraduate programmes in biological sciences ⓘ research-based graduate degrees ⓘ undergraduate programmes in biological sciences ⓘ |
| partOf |
Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore
ⓘ
linked to:
NUS Faculty of Science
National University of Singapore ⓘ |
| regionServed | Singapore ⓘ |
| researchActivity |
applied biological research
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basic biological research ⓘ |
| sector | public university ⓘ |
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 Biological Sciences Description of subject: The Department of Biological Sciences is a major academic unit at the National University of Singapore’s Faculty of Science, focusing on education and research across diverse areas of modern biology.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore
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hasDepartment
→
Department of Biological Sciences
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subject linked to:
Faculty of Science