Liggins Institute
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The Liggins Institute is a leading biomedical research center at the University of Auckland focused on fetal and child health, nutrition, and developmental origins of health and disease.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Liggins Institute canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11449320 — 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: Liggins Institute Context triple: [Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, hasResearchCentre, Liggins Institute]
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A.
Murdoch Children’s Research Institute
Murdoch Children’s Research Institute is a leading Australian pediatric medical research organization focused on improving the health and wellbeing of children through scientific discovery and clinical innovation.
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B.
Westmead Institute for Medical Research
The Westmead Institute for Medical Research is a leading Australian biomedical research institute based in Sydney, focused on advancing the understanding, prevention, and treatment of major diseases.
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C.
Beatson Institute
The Beatson Institute is a leading cancer research center in Glasgow, Scotland, focused on understanding the biology of cancer and developing new therapeutic strategies.
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D.
James Cook University College of Medicine and Dentistry
James Cook University College of Medicine and Dentistry is a medical and dental school in northern Queensland, Australia, focused on training health professionals for regional, rural, and remote communities.
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E.
GNS Science
GNS Science is New Zealand’s government-owned geoscience research institute, responsible for studying and monitoring geological hazards such as earthquakes and volcanoes.
- 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: Liggins Institute Target entity description: The Liggins Institute is a leading biomedical research center at the University of Auckland focused on fetal and child health, nutrition, and developmental origins of health and disease.
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A.
Murdoch Children’s Research Institute
Murdoch Children’s Research Institute is a leading Australian pediatric medical research organization focused on improving the health and wellbeing of children through scientific discovery and clinical innovation.
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B.
Westmead Institute for Medical Research
The Westmead Institute for Medical Research is a leading Australian biomedical research institute based in Sydney, focused on advancing the understanding, prevention, and treatment of major diseases.
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C.
Beatson Institute
The Beatson Institute is a leading cancer research center in Glasgow, Scotland, focused on understanding the biology of cancer and developing new therapeutic strategies.
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D.
James Cook University College of Medicine and Dentistry
James Cook University College of Medicine and Dentistry is a medical and dental school in northern Queensland, Australia, focused on training health professionals for regional, rural, and remote communities.
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E.
GNS Science
GNS Science is New Zealand’s government-owned geoscience research institute, responsible for studying and monitoring geological hazards such as earthquakes and volcanoes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biomedical research institute
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research centre ⓘ |
| affiliatedWith | University of Auckland Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences ⓘ |
| city | Auckland ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith |
New Zealand hospitals
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international research institutions ⓘ |
| country | New Zealand ⓘ |
| engagesIn |
basic science research
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clinical research ⓘ population health research ⓘ translational research ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy |
biomedicine
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developmental biology ⓘ public health ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
child health
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developmental origins of health and disease ⓘ early-life nutrition ⓘ fetal health ⓘ life-course health ⓘ nutrition ⓘ pregnancy and birth outcomes ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasParentOrganization | University of Auckland ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.liggins.auckland.ac.nz/ ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Auckland ⓘ |
| mission | to improve lifelong health through research into early life influences on health ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Sir Graham Liggins ⓘ |
| offers | postgraduate research training ⓘ |
| partOf | University of Auckland ⓘ |
| region | Auckland Region ⓘ |
| researchArea |
endocrinology
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epigenetics ⓘ growth and development ⓘ maternal and perinatal health ⓘ metabolic disease ⓘ |
| sector |
higher education
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medical research ⓘ |
| typeOfOrganization | non-profit ⓘ |
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: Liggins Institute Description of subject: The Liggins Institute is a leading biomedical research center at the University of Auckland focused on fetal and child health, nutrition, and developmental origins of health and disease.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.