Wikimedia Foundation
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The Wikimedia Foundation is a nonprofit organization that hosts and supports Wikipedia and other free-knowledge projects worldwide.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Wikimedia Foundation canonical | 138 |
| Board Secretary of the Wikimedia Foundation | 1 |
| Board policies of the Wikimedia Foundation | 1 |
| Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees | 1 |
| Wikimedia affiliates | 1 |
| Wikimedia movement | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T28382 — 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 Foundation Context triple: [Creative Commons, collaboratesWith, Wikimedia Foundation]
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A.
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.
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B.
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.
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C.
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is a philanthropic organization focused on advancing science, education, and social justice, funded and led by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan.
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D.
World Wide Web Consortium
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the main international standards organization responsible for developing open protocols and guidelines to ensure the long-term growth and interoperability of the Web.
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E.
United Nations Development Programme
The United Nations Development Programme is the UN’s global development agency that works to eradicate poverty, reduce inequalities, and support sustainable development in countries 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: Wikimedia Foundation Target entity description: The Wikimedia Foundation is a nonprofit organization that hosts and supports Wikipedia and other free-knowledge projects worldwide.
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A.
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.
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B.
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.
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C.
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is a philanthropic organization focused on advancing science, education, and social justice, funded and led by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan.
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D.
World Wide Web Consortium
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the main international standards organization responsible for developing open protocols and guidelines to ensure the long-term growth and interoperability of the Web.
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E.
United Nations Development Programme
The United Nations Development Programme is the UN’s global development agency that works to eradicate poverty, reduce inequalities, and support sustainable development in countries worldwide.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (55)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
501(c)(3) organization
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charitable organization ⓘ nonprofit organization ⓘ |
| advocatesFor |
free knowledge
ⓘ
open access to information ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| employs |
community advocates
ⓘ
fundraising staff ⓘ legal staff ⓘ software engineers ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Jimmy Wales
ⓘ
Larry Sanger ⓘ |
| fundingMechanism |
donations
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endowment ⓘ grants ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Board of Trustees
ⓘ
Communications department ⓘ Community Resources department ⓘ Executive Director ⓘ Legal department ⓘ Product department ⓘ Technology department ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
San Francisco, California
ⓘ
linked to:
San Francisco
|
| inception | 2003-06-20 ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| legalForm | nonprofit corporation ⓘ |
| motto | Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. ⓘ |
| movement |
Wikimedia movement
ⓘ
linked to:
Wikimedia Foundation
|
| nonProfitStatusJurisdiction | Florida ⓘ |
| operates |
MediaWiki.org
ⓘ
Meta-Wiki ⓘ Wikibooks ⓘ Wikidata ⓘ Wikifunctions ⓘ Wikimedia Commons ⓘ Wikinews ⓘ Wikipedia ⓘ Wikiquote ⓘ Wikisource ⓘ Wikiversity ⓘ Wikivoyage ⓘ Wiktionary ⓘ |
| operatingArea | worldwide ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | none ⓘ |
| purpose |
host Wikimedia projects
ⓘ
support free knowledge ⓘ |
| relocatedHeadquartersFrom | St. Petersburg, Florida ⓘ |
| relocatedHeadquartersTo |
San Francisco, California
ⓘ
linked to:
San Francisco
|
| relocationDate | 2007 ⓘ |
| supports |
free licenses
ⓘ
open content ⓘ |
| taxID | 20-0049703 ⓘ |
| usesLicense |
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike
ⓘ
linked to:
Creative Commons license
|
| usesSoftware |
MediaWiki
ⓘ
linked to:
MediaWiki.org
|
| website | https://wikimediafoundation.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: Wikimedia Foundation Description of subject: The Wikimedia Foundation is a nonprofit organization that hosts and supports Wikipedia and other free-knowledge projects worldwide.
Referenced by (143)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Wikimedia Foundation
linked to: Wikimedia Foundation
subject linked to:
Board of Trustees
Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation
→
hasOfficerRole
→
Board Secretary of the Wikimedia Foundation
ⓘ
subject linked to:
Board of Trustees
linked to: Wikimedia Foundation
Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation
→
usesInstrument
→
Board policies of the Wikimedia Foundation
ⓘ
subject linked to:
Board of Trustees
linked to: Wikimedia Foundation
linked to: Wikimedia Foundation