AFT
E196954
AFT is a major American labor union representing teachers and other education professionals across the United States.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| AFT canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1751422 — 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: AFT Context triple: [American Federation of Teachers, shortName, AFT]
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AFB
AFB is the commonly used abbreviation for the Belgian Armed Forces, the military organization responsible for Belgium’s national defense and international military commitments.
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B.
AFR
AFR is the ICAO airline designator used to identify Air France flights in international aviation operations.
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AUF
AUF is the youth wing of the Norwegian Labour Party, known in Norwegian as Arbeidernes Ungdomsfylking.
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D.
AUF
AUF (Agence universitaire de la Francophonie) is an international association of French-speaking higher education and research institutions that promotes academic cooperation and the Francophone academic community worldwide.
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E.
ATF
ATF is a United States federal law enforcement agency responsible for regulating and investigating crimes involving alcohol, tobacco, firearms, explosives, and arson.
- 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: AFT Target entity description: AFT is a major American labor union representing teachers and other education professionals across the United States.
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A.
AFB
AFB is the commonly used abbreviation for the Belgian Armed Forces, the military organization responsible for Belgium’s national defense and international military commitments.
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B.
AFR
AFR is the ICAO airline designator used to identify Air France flights in international aviation operations.
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C.
AUF
AUF is the youth wing of the Norwegian Labour Party, known in Norwegian as Arbeidernes Ungdomsfylking.
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D.
AUF
AUF (Agence universitaire de la Francophonie) is an international association of French-speaking higher education and research institutions that promotes academic cooperation and the Francophone academic community worldwide.
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E.
ATF
ATF is a United States federal law enforcement agency responsible for regulating and investigating crimes involving alcohol, tobacco, firearms, explosives, and arson.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
labor union
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trade union ⓘ |
| advocatesFor |
collective bargaining rights
ⓘ
education funding ⓘ public schools ⓘ student learning conditions ⓘ teacher working conditions ⓘ |
| affiliation |
AFL–CIO
ⓘ
Education International ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| focusesOn |
academic freedom
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collective bargaining ⓘ labor rights ⓘ public education policy ⓘ school funding ⓘ workers' rights ⓘ |
| founded | 1916 ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Charles Stillman ⓘ |
| foundedIn |
Chicago, Illinois
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linked to:
Chicago
|
| fullName | American Federation of Teachers ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation | AFT ⓘ |
| hasLeader | Randi Weingarten ⓘ |
| hasMemberType |
K–12 teachers
ⓘ
college and university faculty ⓘ graduate employees ⓘ public sector workers ⓘ school librarians ⓘ school nurses ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| ideology | trade unionism ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| leaderTitle | President ⓘ |
| legalForm | nonprofit organization ⓘ |
| motto | A Union of Professionals ⓘ |
| operatesIn |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| primaryField | education labor relations ⓘ |
| represents |
healthcare professionals
ⓘ
higher education faculty ⓘ paraprofessionals ⓘ public employees ⓘ school support staff ⓘ teachers ⓘ |
| sector | education ⓘ |
| shortName | AFT ⓘ |
| typeOfOrganization | membership organization ⓘ |
| unionClassification | public sector union ⓘ |
| website | https://www.aft.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: AFT Description of subject: AFT is a major American labor union representing teachers and other education professionals across the United States.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
AFT