GOA
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GOA, short for Guerrilla Open Access, is an activist movement advocating for the free and unrestricted sharing of scholarly and cultural information, often in defiance of traditional copyright and paywall systems.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| GOA canonical | 2 |
| GOA (informal) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10827503 — 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: GOA Context triple: [Guerrilla Open Access, hasAlternativeName, GOA]
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A.
GOA
GOA is the IATA airport code for Genoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport, the main international airport serving the city of Genoa in Italy.
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B.
Goa
Goa is a coastal state on India’s western shore known for its beaches, distinctive blend of Indian and Portuguese heritage, and vibrant tourism industry.
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C.
GOI
GOI is the station code for General Osório, a major Rio de Janeiro Metro station serving the Ipanema area.
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D.
GOI
GOI is the IATA airport code for Goa International Airport, the main commercial airport serving the Indian state of Goa.
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E.
Cochin
Cochin, now known as Kochi, is a historic port city on the southwest coast of India that became an important center of the spice trade and early European colonial activity.
- 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: GOA Target entity description: GOA, short for Guerrilla Open Access, is an activist movement advocating for the free and unrestricted sharing of scholarly and cultural information, often in defiance of traditional copyright and paywall systems.
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A.
GOA
GOA is the IATA airport code for Genoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport, the main international airport serving the city of Genoa in Italy.
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B.
Goa
Goa is a coastal state on India’s western shore known for its beaches, distinctive blend of Indian and Portuguese heritage, and vibrant tourism industry.
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C.
GOI
GOI is the station code for General Osório, a major Rio de Janeiro Metro station serving the Ipanema area.
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D.
GOI
GOI is the IATA airport code for Goa International Airport, the main commercial airport serving the Indian state of Goa.
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E.
Cochin
Cochin, now known as Kochi, is a historic port city on the southwest coast of India that became an important center of the spice trade and early European colonial activity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | activist movement ⓘ |
| aim |
free and unrestricted sharing of cultural information
ⓘ
free and unrestricted sharing of scholarly information ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Aaron Swartz ⓘ |
| contrastsWith |
publisher-controlled access models
ⓘ
subscription-based journal access ⓘ |
| criticizes |
enclosure of the public domain
ⓘ
high subscription fees for academic journals ⓘ publisher monopolies in scholarly publishing ⓘ |
| ethicalJustification |
knowledge as a human right
ⓘ
moral obligation to share publicly funded research ⓘ |
| field |
digital rights activism
ⓘ
open access ⓘ scholarly communication ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
academic books
ⓘ
cultural works ⓘ scholarly articles ⓘ |
| fullName | Guerrilla Open Access ⓘ |
| geographicScope | global ⓘ |
| hasKeyText |
Guerrilla Open Access Manifesto
ⓘ
linked to:
Guerrilla Open Access
|
| influenced |
debates on reforming copyright in academia
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public discussion of paywalls in scientific publishing ⓘ |
| inspiredByDocument |
Guerrilla Open Access Manifesto
ⓘ
linked to:
Guerrilla Open Access
|
| legalStatus | often involves copyright infringement under current law ⓘ |
| motivatedBy |
barriers faced by researchers without institutional access
ⓘ
inequalities in global access to knowledge ⓘ |
| normativePosition | places moral duty above copyright law ⓘ |
| opposes |
commercial control of scholarly communication
ⓘ
paywalled access to scholarly literature ⓘ traditional copyright restrictions on academic publishing ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
Library Genesis
ⓘ
Sci-Hub ⓘ copyleft ⓘ information freedom ⓘ open access movement ⓘ shadow libraries ⓘ |
| shortName | GOA ⓘ |
| strategy |
circumventing paywalls
ⓘ
mass downloading and redistribution of scholarly content ⓘ unauthorized sharing of academic articles ⓘ |
| supports |
information freedom
ⓘ
knowledge commons ⓘ open access to research ⓘ |
| usesMedium |
digital networks
ⓘ
online repositories ⓘ peer-to-peer sharing ⓘ |
| value |
sharing over ownership
ⓘ
universal access to knowledge ⓘ |
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: GOA Description of subject: GOA, short for Guerrilla Open Access, is an activist movement advocating for the free and unrestricted sharing of scholarly and cultural information, often in defiance of traditional copyright and paywall systems.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: GOA