Wikimedia Commons
E37901
Wikimedia Commons is a free, collaboratively curated online repository of images, audio, video, and other media files that can be used across Wikimedia projects and beyond.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Wikimedia Commons canonical | 53 |
| Commons | 6 |
| Commons.wikimedia.org | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T294248 — 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: Wikimedia Commons Context triple: [Wikimedia Foundation, operates, Wikimedia Commons]
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A.
Commons
Commons is the commonly used abbreviated name for the House of Commons, the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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B.
Wikimedia Foundation
The Wikimedia Foundation is a nonprofit organization that hosts and supports Wikipedia and other free-knowledge projects worldwide.
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C.
Creative Commons
Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that provides free, standardized copyright licenses to help creators legally share and reuse their work.
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D.
Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a free, collaboratively edited online encyclopedia that allows users worldwide to create and modify its articles.
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E.
Open Knowledge Foundation
Open Knowledge Foundation is a global nonprofit organization that promotes open data and open knowledge to foster transparency, innovation, and civic engagement.
- 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: Wikimedia Commons Target entity description: Wikimedia Commons is a free, collaboratively curated online repository of images, audio, video, and other media files that can be used across Wikimedia projects and beyond.
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A.
Commons
Commons is the commonly used abbreviated name for the House of Commons, the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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B.
Wikimedia Foundation
The Wikimedia Foundation is a nonprofit organization that hosts and supports Wikipedia and other free-knowledge projects worldwide.
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C.
Creative Commons
Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that provides free, standardized copyright licenses to help creators legally share and reuse their work.
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D.
Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a free, collaboratively edited online encyclopedia that allows users worldwide to create and modify its articles.
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E.
Open Knowledge Foundation
Open Knowledge Foundation is a global nonprofit organization that promotes open data and open knowledge to foster transparency, innovation, and civic engagement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Wikimedia project
ⓘ
free content website ⓘ online media repository ⓘ |
| authenticationMethod | Wikimedia unified login ⓘ |
| availableIn | multiple languages ⓘ |
| commercial | no ⓘ |
| communityGovernance | volunteer editors ⓘ |
| contentLicense |
Creative Commons Attribution licenses
ⓘ
linked to:
Creative Commons license
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike licenses ⓘ
linked to:
Creative Commons license
public domain ⓘ |
| contentLicensePolicy | only freely licensed or public domain media ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| defaultInterfaceLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
category-based classification of media
ⓘ
structured data on Commons ⓘ |
| hasNamespace |
Category
ⓘ
File ⓘ Gallery ⓘ Help ⓘ Template ⓘ |
| hasWikidataItem | Q565 ⓘ |
| inception | 2004-09-07 ⓘ |
| integratesWith | Wikidata ⓘ |
| language | multilingual ⓘ |
| launchDate | 2004-09-07 ⓘ |
| locationOfHeadquarters |
San Francisco, California, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
San Francisco
|
| logo | Commons-logo.svg ⓘ |
| mainWebsite | https://commons.wikimedia.org ⓘ |
| mediaType |
3D models
ⓘ
audio ⓘ documents ⓘ image ⓘ multimedia ⓘ video ⓘ |
| operator | Wikimedia Foundation ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Wikimedia Foundation ⓘ |
| partOf | Wikimedia ecosystem ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage | PHP ⓘ |
| registration | optional ⓘ |
| slogan | A database of freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute ⓘ |
| uploadPolicy | user uploads with proper licensing and description ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Wikibooks
ⓘ
Wikidata ⓘ Wikinews ⓘ Wikipedia ⓘ Wikiversity ⓘ Wikivoyage ⓘ other Wikimedia projects ⓘ |
| usesSoftware | MediaWiki ⓘ |
| WikimediaProjectCode | commons ⓘ |
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: Wikimedia Commons Description of subject: Wikimedia Commons is a free, collaboratively curated online repository of images, audio, video, and other media files that can be used across Wikimedia projects and beyond.
Referenced by (60)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.