Department of Surgery
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The Department of Surgery at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine is a major academic surgical department that provides clinical care, surgical training, and research across a wide range of surgical specialties.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Department of Surgery canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11389508 — 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 Surgery Context triple: [Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, hasDivision, Department of Surgery]
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Department of Surgery
The Department of Surgery at the University of Tokyo’s Faculty of Medicine is a leading academic and clinical center specializing in surgical education, research, and advanced patient care.
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Department of Surgery
The Department of Surgery at Osaka University’s Graduate School of Medicine is a clinical and academic unit responsible for surgical education, research, and advanced patient care.
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Department of Surgery
The Department of Surgery at the Geisel School of Medicine is an academic surgical department responsible for clinical care, surgical education, and research within Dartmouth’s medical school and affiliated hospitals.
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Department of Surgery
The Department of Surgery at King George’s Medical University is a clinical and academic unit responsible for surgical education, research, and comprehensive surgical care within the institution.
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Department of Surgery
The Department of Surgery is a clinical and academic unit within Baystate Medical Center that provides surgical care, training, and research across a range of surgical specialties.
- 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 Surgery Target entity description: The Department of Surgery at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine is a major academic surgical department that provides clinical care, surgical training, and research across a wide range of surgical specialties.
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A.
Department of Surgery
The Department of Surgery at the UNC School of Medicine is an academic surgical department that provides clinical care, surgical training, and research across a broad range of surgical specialties.
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Department of Surgery
The Department of Surgery is an academic and clinical unit within the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry that oversees surgical education, research, and patient care across multiple surgical specialties.
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Department of Surgery
The Department of Surgery at NYU Grossman School of Medicine is a major academic surgical department known for its clinical care, surgical training programs, and research in a wide range of surgical specialties.
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Department of Surgery
The Department of Surgery is a clinical and academic unit within Baystate Medical Center that provides surgical care, training, and research across a range of surgical specialties.
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Department of Surgery
The Department of Surgery is an academic and clinical unit within McGill University's Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences that oversees surgical education, research, and patient care.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic surgical department
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university department ⓘ |
| affiliatedWith | Vanderbilt University Medical Center ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith |
other departments at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
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regional hospitals and clinics ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| employs |
clinical staff
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faculty surgeons ⓘ research scientists ⓘ |
| field |
clinical care
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medical education ⓘ surgery ⓘ surgical research ⓘ |
| hasActivity |
basic science research in surgery
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clinical care across a wide range of surgical specialties ⓘ clinical outcomes research in surgery ⓘ continuing medical education for surgeons ⓘ education of medical students ⓘ education of surgical residents ⓘ translational surgical research ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Nashville, Tennessee ⓘ |
| mission |
to advance surgical knowledge through research
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to provide high-quality surgical care ⓘ to train future surgeons ⓘ |
| offers |
fellowship training in surgical subspecialties
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surgical residency programs ⓘ |
| partOf | Vanderbilt University School of Medicine ⓘ |
| sector | academic medicine ⓘ |
| specializesIn |
cardiac surgery
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colorectal surgery ⓘ endocrine surgery ⓘ general surgery ⓘ hepatobiliary surgery ⓘ minimally invasive surgery ⓘ pediatric surgery ⓘ plastic and reconstructive surgery ⓘ surgical oncology ⓘ thoracic surgery ⓘ transplant surgery ⓘ trauma surgery ⓘ vascular surgery ⓘ |
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 Surgery Description of subject: The Department of Surgery at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine is a major academic surgical department that provides clinical care, surgical training, and research across a wide range of surgical specialties.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.