Web Science Trust
E141109
The Web Science Trust is a charitable organization that promotes the interdisciplinary study and advancement of the World Wide Web and its impact on society.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Web Science Trust canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1234509 — 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: Web Science Trust Context triple: [Wendy Hall, coFounderOf, Web Science Trust]
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A.
Information Technology and Web Science
Information Technology and Web Science is a multidisciplinary academic program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute that integrates computing, data science, and the study of the web’s technical and societal impacts.
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ACM Web Science Conference
The ACM Web Science Conference is an interdisciplinary academic conference that explores the complex interactions between the Web’s technical infrastructure and its social, economic, and political impacts.
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ACM SIGWEB
ACM SIGWEB is a Special Interest Group of the Association for Computing Machinery focused on hypertext, hypermedia, and the web.
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D.
Finding: Publishing and Linking on the Web
"Finding: Publishing and Linking on the Web" is a W3C Technical Architecture Group document that provides best-practice guidance on how web resources should be published and linked to ensure durability, interoperability, and clarity on the Web.
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E.
Finding: The Self-Describing Web
"Finding: The Self-Describing Web" is a W3C Technical Architecture Group document that explains how web resources should carry or link to enough metadata and semantics to allow automated agents and humans to understand and use them without prior agreement.
- 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: Web Science Trust Target entity description: The Web Science Trust is a charitable organization that promotes the interdisciplinary study and advancement of the World Wide Web and its impact on society.
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A.
Information Technology and Web Science
Information Technology and Web Science is a multidisciplinary academic program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute that integrates computing, data science, and the study of the web’s technical and societal impacts.
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B.
ACM Web Science Conference
The ACM Web Science Conference is an interdisciplinary academic conference that explores the complex interactions between the Web’s technical infrastructure and its social, economic, and political impacts.
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C.
ACM SIGWEB
ACM SIGWEB is a Special Interest Group of the Association for Computing Machinery focused on hypertext, hypermedia, and the web.
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D.
Finding: Publishing and Linking on the Web
"Finding: Publishing and Linking on the Web" is a W3C Technical Architecture Group document that provides best-practice guidance on how web resources should be published and linked to ensure durability, interoperability, and clarity on the Web.
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E.
Finding: The Self-Describing Web
"Finding: The Self-Describing Web" is a W3C Technical Architecture Group document that explains how web resources should carry or link to enough metadata and semantics to allow automated agents and humans to understand and use them without prior agreement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
charitable organization
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educational charity ⓘ non-profit organization ⓘ |
| abbreviation | WST ⓘ |
| activity |
organizing conferences
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promoting research networks in Web science ⓘ public outreach about the Web and society ⓘ supporting academic programs in Web science ⓘ |
| field |
Web science
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linked to:
Web Science
World Wide Web studies ⓘ
linked to:
Web Science
interdisciplinary research ⓘ |
| focus |
governance of the World Wide Web
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interdisciplinary collaboration on Web-related issues ⓘ policy aspects of the World Wide Web ⓘ social impact of the World Wide Web ⓘ technical aspects of the World Wide Web ⓘ |
| goal |
to encourage interdisciplinary approaches to Web-related problems
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to foster a better understanding of the Web as a socio-technical system ⓘ to inform policy-making about the Web ⓘ to support the development of Web science curricula ⓘ |
| hasScope | global ⓘ |
| name | Web Science Trust ⓘ |
| promotes |
awareness of the societal implications of the Web
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interdisciplinary collaboration between academia, industry, and government on Web issues ⓘ responsible development and use of Web technologies ⓘ |
| purpose |
advancement of understanding of the Web and its impact on society
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promotion of the interdisciplinary study of the World Wide Web ⓘ support of Web science education ⓘ support of Web science research ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
World Wide Web
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computer science ⓘ digital policy ⓘ economics ⓘ law ⓘ social sciences ⓘ |
| sector |
civil society
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education ⓘ research ⓘ technology ⓘ |
| studies |
Web governance
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Web standards and their societal implications ⓘ economic impact of the Web ⓘ ethics of Web technologies ⓘ interaction between the Web and society ⓘ legal issues related to the Web ⓘ social networks on the Web ⓘ |
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: Web Science Trust Description of subject: The Web Science Trust is a charitable organization that promotes the interdisciplinary study and advancement of the World Wide Web and its impact on society.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.