CKAN
E120229
CKAN is an open-source data management system widely used by governments and organizations to publish, catalog, and share open data.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| CKAN canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1040706 — 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: CKAN Context triple: [Open Knowledge Foundation, hasProgram, CKAN]
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A.
Open Data Index
Open Data Index is a global initiative that evaluates and ranks the openness and accessibility of government data across countries.
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B.
Open Data Lab
Open Data Lab is a World Wide Web Foundation initiative that supports the use of open data to drive social impact, innovation, and better governance, particularly in developing countries.
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C.
Open Knowledge Foundation
Open Knowledge Foundation is a global nonprofit organization that promotes open data and open knowledge to foster transparency, innovation, and civic engagement.
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D.
Open Knowledge Network
Open Knowledge Network is a collaborative initiative and platform that connects people, data, and tools to promote the creation, sharing, and use of open knowledge worldwide.
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E.
OpenSpending
OpenSpending is an open data project and platform that collects, visualizes, and makes government and public financial information accessible and analyzable.
- 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: CKAN Target entity description: CKAN is an open-source data management system widely used by governments and organizations to publish, catalog, and share open data.
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A.
Open Data Index
Open Data Index is a global initiative that evaluates and ranks the openness and accessibility of government data across countries.
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B.
Open Data Lab
Open Data Lab is a World Wide Web Foundation initiative that supports the use of open data to drive social impact, innovation, and better governance, particularly in developing countries.
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C.
Open Knowledge Foundation
Open Knowledge Foundation is a global nonprofit organization that promotes open data and open knowledge to foster transparency, innovation, and civic engagement.
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D.
Open Knowledge Network
Open Knowledge Network is a collaborative initiative and platform that connects people, data, and tools to promote the creation, sharing, and use of open knowledge worldwide.
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E.
OpenSpending
OpenSpending is an open data project and platform that collects, visualizes, and makes government and public financial information accessible and analyzable.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
data catalog platform
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open data portal software ⓘ open-source data management system ⓘ web application ⓘ |
| deploymentModel |
cloud
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on-premises ⓘ |
| domain |
data management
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e-government ⓘ open data ⓘ |
| goal |
to improve data discoverability
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to make data accessible ⓘ to support open government data initiatives ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
RESTful API
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activity stream ⓘ command-line tools ⓘ data harvesting ⓘ dataset and resource-level metadata ⓘ extension registry ⓘ plugin architecture ⓘ web-based administration interface ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage |
JavaScript
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Python ⓘ |
| repositoryPlatform | GitHub ⓘ |
| softwareLicense | GNU Affero General Public License ⓘ |
| supports |
data API access
ⓘ
data discovery ⓘ data preview for geospatial data ⓘ data preview for tabular data ⓘ data publishing ⓘ dataset cataloging ⓘ extensions and plugins ⓘ faceted search ⓘ harvesting from remote catalogs ⓘ metadata management ⓘ multilingual interfaces ⓘ organizations and groups ⓘ resource preview ⓘ role-based access control ⓘ tagging ⓘ user authentication ⓘ versioning of datasets ⓘ |
| typicalUsers |
governments
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international organizations ⓘ non-governmental organizations ⓘ public sector organizations ⓘ research institutions ⓘ |
| useCase |
city open data portals
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national open data portals ⓘ sectoral data portals ⓘ |
| usesFramework |
Flask
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Pylons ⓘ
linked to:
Pylons Project
|
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: CKAN Description of subject: CKAN is an open-source data management system widely used by governments and organizations to publish, catalog, and share open data.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.