Ecosia
E127272
Ecosia is a privacy-focused search engine that uses its ad revenue to fund tree-planting and reforestation projects around the world.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ecosia canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1096871 — 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: Ecosia Context triple: [Apple Safari, supportsSearchEngine, Ecosia]
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A.
Goole
Goole is an inland port town in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, known for its significant docks and role in regional maritime trade.
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B.
Alexa Internet
Alexa Internet was a web traffic analysis and ranking company best known for providing website popularity metrics and analytics services before its shutdown in 2022.
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C.
Cốc Cốc
Cốc Cốc is a Vietnamese web browser and search engine tailored to local users, offering features like improved downloading, integrated ad-blocking, and support for Vietnamese language and services.
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D.
Ecolo
Ecolo is a Belgian French- and German-speaking green political party known for its focus on environmentalism, social justice, and progressive policies.
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E.
OGLE
OGLE (Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment) is a long-term astronomical survey focused on detecting dark matter, exoplanets, and variable stars through gravitational microlensing and photometric monitoring.
- 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: Ecosia Target entity description: Ecosia is a privacy-focused search engine that uses its ad revenue to fund tree-planting and reforestation projects around the world.
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A.
Goole
Goole is an inland port town in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, known for its significant docks and role in regional maritime trade.
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B.
Alexa Internet
Alexa Internet was a web traffic analysis and ranking company best known for providing website popularity metrics and analytics services before its shutdown in 2022.
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C.
Cốc Cốc
Cốc Cốc is a Vietnamese web browser and search engine tailored to local users, offering features like improved downloading, integrated ad-blocking, and support for Vietnamese language and services.
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D.
Ecolo
Ecolo is a Belgian French- and German-speaking green political party known for its focus on environmentalism, social justice, and progressive policies.
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E.
OGLE
OGLE (Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment) is a long-term astronomical survey focused on detecting dark matter, exoplanets, and variable stars through gravitational microlensing and photometric monitoring.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
environmental organization
ⓘ
search engine ⓘ social business ⓘ web search engine ⓘ |
| businessModel | ad-supported ⓘ |
| claimsToBe | CO2-positive search engine ⓘ |
| commitsTo |
not paying out profits to private shareholders
ⓘ
not selling the company ⓘ |
| coreFeature |
donating ad revenue to tree planting
ⓘ
privacy-focused search ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Germany ⓘ |
| donatesPercentageOfProfits | at least 80% ⓘ |
| donationTarget | tree-planting organizations ⓘ |
| environmentalGoal |
carbon sequestration
ⓘ
planting billions of trees ⓘ restoring degraded land ⓘ supporting local communities ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
biodiversity restoration
ⓘ
climate action ⓘ environmental sustainability ⓘ |
| founder | Christian Kroll ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
browser extension
ⓘ
encrypted searches ⓘ mobile apps ⓘ no third-party trackers in search results pages (by default) ⓘ transparent financial reports ⓘ tree counter on website ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Berlin ⓘ |
| inception | 2009 ⓘ |
| industry |
environmental services
ⓘ
internet ⓘ online advertising ⓘ |
| launchDate | 2009-12-07 ⓘ |
| legalForm | steward-owned company ⓘ |
| operatesIn | worldwide ⓘ |
| runsOn | renewable energy ⓘ |
| searchResultsPoweredBy | Bing ⓘ |
| supportsCause | renewable energy ⓘ |
| supportsProjectRegion |
Africa
ⓘ
Asia ⓘ Europe ⓘ Oceania ⓘ South America ⓘ |
| supportsProjectType |
afforestation
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agroforestry ⓘ reforestation ⓘ |
| usesRevenueFor |
reforestation projects
ⓘ
tree planting ⓘ |
| usesSearchTechnologyFrom |
Microsoft Bing
ⓘ
linked to:
Bing
|
| website | https://www.ecosia.org ⓘ |
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: Ecosia Description of subject: Ecosia is a privacy-focused search engine that uses its ad revenue to fund tree-planting and reforestation projects around the world.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.