Sunlight Foundation
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The Sunlight Foundation was a nonpartisan nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing government transparency and accountability through the use of open data, technology, and civic engagement.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sunlight Foundation canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3626604 — 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: Sunlight Foundation Context triple: [Esther Dyson, boardMemberOf, Sunlight Foundation]
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A.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is a leading nonprofit organization that defends civil liberties, privacy, and free expression in the digital world through legal action, advocacy, and technology.
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B.
Kapor Center for Social Impact
The Kapor Center for Social Impact is an organization dedicated to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in the technology and entrepreneurship sectors, particularly for underrepresented communities.
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C.
Center for Democracy and Technology
The Center for Democracy and Technology is a nonprofit advocacy organization focused on promoting civil liberties, human rights, and democratic values in the digital age through policy, legal, and technological initiatives.
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D.
People for the American Way
People for the American Way is a progressive advocacy organization in the United States that promotes civil liberties, democratic values, and social justice through public education, litigation, and political action.
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E.
World Wide Web Foundation
The World Wide Web Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing an open, accessible, and rights-based web for everyone worldwide.
- 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: Sunlight Foundation Target entity description: The Sunlight Foundation was a nonpartisan nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing government transparency and accountability through the use of open data, technology, and civic engagement.
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A.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is a leading nonprofit organization that defends civil liberties, privacy, and free expression in the digital world through legal action, advocacy, and technology.
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B.
Kapor Center for Social Impact
The Kapor Center for Social Impact is an organization dedicated to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in the technology and entrepreneurship sectors, particularly for underrepresented communities.
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C.
Center for Democracy and Technology
The Center for Democracy and Technology is a nonprofit advocacy organization focused on promoting civil liberties, human rights, and democratic values in the digital age through policy, legal, and technological initiatives.
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D.
People for the American Way
People for the American Way is a progressive advocacy organization in the United States that promotes civil liberties, democratic values, and social justice through public education, litigation, and political action.
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E.
World Wide Web Foundation
The World Wide Web Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing an open, accessible, and rights-based web for everyone worldwide.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
advocacy organization
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government transparency organization ⓘ nonprofit organization ⓘ |
| advocatedFor |
online disclosure of government information
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open data standards in government ⓘ stronger transparency laws in the United States ⓘ |
| ceasedOperations | due to funding challenges ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| dissolved | 2020 ⓘ |
| encouraged | public use of government data ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
civic technology
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government accountability ⓘ open government data ⓘ political transparency ⓘ |
| focusArea |
campaign finance transparency
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government data accessibility ⓘ lobbying transparency ⓘ open data policy ⓘ |
| founder |
Ellen S. Miller
ⓘ
Michael R. Klein ⓘ |
| hasMotto | Making government more transparent and accountable ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| inception | 2006 ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| legalForm | 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization ⓘ |
| mission |
increase government accountability
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increase government transparency ⓘ promote open government data ⓘ |
| notableProject |
Influence Explorer
ⓘ
OpenCongress ⓘ Political Party Time ⓘ Sunlight Labs ⓘ |
| operatedInSector |
civic technology
ⓘ
open government ⓘ |
| operatedOnLevel |
federal government of the United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States government
local governments in the United States ⓘ state governments in the United States ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | nonpartisan ⓘ |
| supportedBy |
individual donors
ⓘ
philanthropic foundations ⓘ |
| typeOfNonprofit | public interest organization ⓘ |
| usedMethod |
civic engagement
ⓘ
open data ⓘ technology ⓘ |
| website | https://sunlightfoundation.com ⓘ |
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: Sunlight Foundation Description of subject: The Sunlight Foundation was a nonpartisan nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing government transparency and accountability through the use of open data, technology, and civic engagement.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.