MIT
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MIT is a widely used permissive open-source software license that allows reuse with minimal restrictions, including in proprietary software.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| MIT canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10167704 — 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: MIT Context triple: [Expat License, hasAbbreviation, MIT]
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A.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a world-renowned research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, known for its pioneering work in science, engineering, and technology.
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B.
MIT Corporation
The MIT Corporation is the governing board and legal entity of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, responsible for overseeing its strategic direction, finances, and major institutional decisions.
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C.
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
The Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences is Harvard University's engineering and applied sciences school, known for interdisciplinary research and education at the intersection of technology, science, and society.
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D.
MIT School of Engineering
The MIT School of Engineering is the largest and most renowned academic unit of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, known globally for pioneering research and education in engineering and applied sciences.
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E.
MIT East Campus
MIT East Campus is a residential area of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology known for its student dormitories, tight-knit community, and distinctive hacker culture.
- 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: MIT Target entity description: MIT is a widely used permissive open-source software license that allows reuse with minimal restrictions, including in proprietary software.
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A.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a world-renowned research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, known for its pioneering work in science, engineering, and technology.
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B.
MIT Corporation
The MIT Corporation is the governing board and legal entity of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, responsible for overseeing its strategic direction, finances, and major institutional decisions.
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C.
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
The Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences is Harvard University's engineering and applied sciences school, known for interdisciplinary research and education at the intersection of technology, science, and society.
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D.
MIT School of Engineering
The MIT School of Engineering is the largest and most renowned academic unit of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, known globally for pioneering research and education in engineering and applied sciences.
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E.
MIT East Campus
MIT East Campus is a residential area of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology known for its student dormitories, tight-knit community, and distinctive hacker culture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
permissive license
ⓘ
software license ⓘ |
| allows |
commercial use
ⓘ
distribution ⓘ modification ⓘ reuse of software ⓘ sublicensing ⓘ use in proprietary software ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Expat License ⓘ |
| category |
FOSS license
ⓘ
free software license ⓘ |
| compatibleWith |
GNU General Public License version 3
ⓘ
linked to:
GNU General Public License
|
| contains |
liability limitation
ⓘ
warranty disclaimer ⓘ |
| copyleft | no ⓘ |
| disclaims |
fitness for a particular purpose
ⓘ
warranty of merchantability ⓘ |
| governingLaw | not specified in standard text ⓘ |
| grants |
rights to copy
ⓘ
rights to distribute ⓘ rights to merge ⓘ rights to modify ⓘ rights to publish ⓘ rights to sell copies ⓘ rights to sublicense ⓘ rights to use ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | worldwide ⓘ |
| licenseType | permissive ⓘ |
| obligation |
retain copyright notice
ⓘ
retain permission notice ⓘ |
| origin | Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ |
| OSIApproved | yes ⓘ |
| patentGrant | not explicit in standard text ⓘ |
| permits | closed-source forks ⓘ |
| popularIn |
JavaScript ecosystem
ⓘ
Node.js ecosystem ⓘ
linked to:
Node.js
web development projects ⓘ |
| requires |
inclusion of copyright notice
ⓘ
inclusion of license text in copies ⓘ inclusion of permission notice ⓘ |
| requiresAttribution | yes ⓘ |
| requiresSourceDisclosure | no ⓘ |
| SPDXIdentifier | MIT ⓘ |
| usedFor |
applications
ⓘ
libraries ⓘ open-source software projects ⓘ proprietary software components ⓘ |
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: MIT Description of subject: MIT is a widely used permissive open-source software license that allows reuse with minimal restrictions, including in proprietary software.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
grep-searcher crate (Rust)
subject linked to:
MIT
subject linked to:
Shtetl-Optimized blog