Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
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Software in the Public Interest, Inc. is a nonprofit organization that provides legal and financial support to free and open-source software projects such as Debian.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Software in the Public Interest, Inc. canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8247500 — 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: Software in the Public Interest, Inc. Context triple: [Debian swirl logo, copyrightHolder, Software in the Public Interest, Inc.]
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A.
Free Software Foundation
The Free Software Foundation is a nonprofit organization that promotes computer users' freedom and defends the rights of all software users through advocacy, licensing, and development of free software.
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B.
Open Software Foundation
Open Software Foundation was a consortium of major technology companies formed in the late 1980s to develop and promote an open, vendor-neutral UNIX operating system and related software standards.
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C.
Free Software Foundation Europe
Free Software Foundation Europe is a non-profit organization that promotes and defends free and open source software, digital rights, and user freedoms across Europe.
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D.
Open Source Initiative
The Open Source Initiative is a non-profit organization that promotes and protects open source software by defining the Open Source Definition and approving licenses that comply with it.
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E.
GNU Project
The GNU Project is a free software initiative that created many core components of the GNU/Linux operating system and pioneered the modern free software movement.
- 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: Software in the Public Interest, Inc. Target entity description: Software in the Public Interest, Inc. is a nonprofit organization that provides legal and financial support to free and open-source software projects such as Debian.
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A.
Free Software Foundation
The Free Software Foundation is a nonprofit organization that promotes computer users' freedom and defends the rights of all software users through advocacy, licensing, and development of free software.
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B.
Open Software Foundation
Open Software Foundation was a consortium of major technology companies formed in the late 1980s to develop and promote an open, vendor-neutral UNIX operating system and related software standards.
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C.
Free Software Foundation Europe
Free Software Foundation Europe is a non-profit organization that promotes and defends free and open source software, digital rights, and user freedoms across Europe.
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D.
Open Source Initiative
The Open Source Initiative is a non-profit organization that promotes and protects open source software by defining the Open Source Definition and approving licenses that comply with it.
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E.
GNU Project
The GNU Project is a free software initiative that created many core components of the GNU/Linux operating system and pioneered the modern free software movement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | nonprofit organization ⓘ |
| abbreviation | SPI ⓘ |
| beneficiary |
developers of free and open-source software
ⓘ
users of free and open-source software ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| donationModel | accepts tax-deductible donations in the United States ⓘ |
| field |
free software
ⓘ
open-source software ⓘ software freedom advocacy ⓘ |
| focus | infrastructure for free and open-source software projects ⓘ |
| foundedFor | supporting free and open-source software projects ⓘ |
| governanceModel | community-elected board ⓘ |
| hasBoard | board of directors ⓘ |
| hasMember |
associated projects
ⓘ
contributing members ⓘ non-contributing members ⓘ |
| hasPolicy | by-laws governing member projects and board ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| legalForm | non-stock corporation ⓘ |
| nonProfitStatus | public charity ⓘ |
| operatesOn | donations and sponsorships ⓘ |
| purpose |
provide financial support to free and open-source software projects
ⓘ
provide legal support to free and open-source software projects ⓘ |
| sector | nonprofit sector ⓘ |
| service |
accepting donations on behalf of projects
ⓘ
fiscal sponsorship ⓘ holding assets and trademarks for member projects ⓘ managing funds for projects ⓘ providing legal umbrella for projects ⓘ |
| supportsCommunity |
free software community
ⓘ
open-source software community ⓘ |
| supportsProject |
Debian
ⓘ
Debian Project ⓘ
linked to:
Debian
GNOME (historical) ⓘ
linked to:
GNOME Foundation
LibreOffice ⓘ OpenVAS ⓘ PostgreSQL ⓘ systemd ⓘ |
| taxStatusJurisdiction |
Internal Revenue Code of the United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Internal Revenue Code
|
| typeOfSupport |
administrative support for projects
ⓘ
asset management for projects ⓘ contract and agreement handling for projects ⓘ |
| website | https://www.spi-inc.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: Software in the Public Interest, Inc. Description of subject: Software in the Public Interest, Inc. is a nonprofit organization that provides legal and financial support to free and open-source software projects such as Debian.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.