EFF
E131667
EFF is a leading nonprofit organization that defends civil liberties, privacy, and free expression in the digital world.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| EFF canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1159266 — 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: EFF Context triple: [Electronic Frontier Foundation, abbreviation, EFF]
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A.
EEF
EEF is the abbreviation for the Economist Educational Foundation, a charity that promotes economic and financial literacy through educational resources and programs.
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B.
FFF
FFF is a global youth-led climate movement advocating for urgent action against climate change through school strikes and public demonstrations.
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C.
CEF
CEF is the abbreviation for the Canadian Expeditionary Force, the field force of the Canadian Army raised for service overseas during the First World War.
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D.
EMA
EMA is the European Union’s regulatory authority responsible for the scientific evaluation, supervision, and safety monitoring of medicines.
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E.
FEC
FEC is the independent U.S. regulatory agency responsible for enforcing federal campaign finance laws and overseeing the financing of elections for federal office.
- 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: EFF Target entity description: EFF is a leading nonprofit organization that defends civil liberties, privacy, and free expression in the digital world.
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A.
EEF
EEF is the abbreviation for the Economist Educational Foundation, a charity that promotes economic and financial literacy through educational resources and programs.
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B.
FFF
FFF is a global youth-led climate movement advocating for urgent action against climate change through school strikes and public demonstrations.
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C.
CEF
CEF is the abbreviation for the Canadian Expeditionary Force, the field force of the Canadian Army raised for service overseas during the First World War.
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D.
EMA
EMA is the European Union’s regulatory authority responsible for the scientific evaluation, supervision, and safety monitoring of medicines.
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E.
FEC
FEC is the independent U.S. regulatory agency responsible for enforcing federal campaign finance laws and overseeing the financing of elections for federal office.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
digital rights organization
ⓘ
nonprofit organization ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| fieldOfWork |
civil liberties
ⓘ
consumer rights in technology ⓘ cryptography policy ⓘ digital rights ⓘ freedom of expression ⓘ intellectual property ⓘ internet law ⓘ open government ⓘ privacy ⓘ surveillance law ⓘ technology policy ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
John Gilmore
ⓘ
John Perry Barlow ⓘ Mitch Kapor ⓘ
linked to:
Mitchell Kapor
|
| foundedIn | 1990 ⓘ |
| fullName | Electronic Frontier Foundation ⓘ |
| hasCampaign |
HTTPS Everywhere (historical project)
ⓘ
linked to:
HTTPS Everywhere
Let’s Encrypt (co-founding support) ⓘ
linked to:
Let’s Encrypt
Save the Internet ⓘ Stop Watching Us ⓘ |
| hasOfficeLocation | San Francisco, California ⓘ |
| hasProgram |
EFF Activism Team
ⓘ
EFF Legal Team ⓘ EFF Technology Projects ⓘ |
| hasPublication | Deeplinks blog ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | San Francisco, California ⓘ |
| knownFor |
advocacy on online privacy
ⓘ
amicus briefs in technology-related court cases ⓘ campaigns against mass surveillance ⓘ defense of encryption ⓘ litigation on digital civil liberties ⓘ opposition to internet censorship ⓘ public education on digital rights ⓘ |
| legalStatus | 501(c)(3) nonprofit ⓘ |
| mission |
defend civil liberties in the digital world
ⓘ
defend free expression online ⓘ defend privacy online ⓘ promote digital rights ⓘ |
| opposes |
internet censorship
ⓘ
mandatory data retention ⓘ mass surveillance ⓘ overbroad intellectual property enforcement ⓘ warrantless surveillance ⓘ |
| primaryLanguage | English ⓘ |
| supports | strong encryption ⓘ |
| website | https://www.eff.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: EFF Description of subject: EFF is a leading nonprofit organization that defends civil liberties, privacy, and free expression in the digital world.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.