Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
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OpenStreetMap community organization
humanitarian organization
non-profit organization
volunteer organization
The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team is a global volunteer-driven organization that uses and coordinates open mapping to support disaster response, humanitarian aid, and community resilience efforts.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10827950 — 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: Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Context triple: [OpenStreetMap, hasRelatedProject, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team]
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A.
OSMG
OSMG is the abbreviation for the Order of St Michael and St George, a British order of chivalry awarded for distinguished service in foreign affairs or service abroad.
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B.
OSM
OSM is the post-nominal abbreviation used by recipients of the Order of the Star of Melanesia, a national honor of Papua New Guinea.
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C.
OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap is a collaborative, open-source mapping project that creates and provides free geographic data and maps to anyone who wants to use them.
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D.
Humanitarian Country Team
The Humanitarian Country Team is a strategic decision-making forum of UN and non-UN humanitarian organizations in a crisis-affected country that coordinates and guides the overall humanitarian response.
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E.
Humanitarian Data Exchange
Humanitarian Data Exchange is an open humanitarian data platform that enables organizations to share, discover, and use data for crisis preparedness and response.
- 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: Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Target entity description: The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team is a global volunteer-driven organization that uses and coordinates open mapping to support disaster response, humanitarian aid, and community resilience efforts.
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A.
OSMG
OSMG is the abbreviation for the Order of St Michael and St George, a British order of chivalry awarded for distinguished service in foreign affairs or service abroad.
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B.
OSM
OSM is the post-nominal abbreviation used by recipients of the Order of the Star of Melanesia, a national honor of Papua New Guinea.
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C.
OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap is a collaborative, open-source mapping project that creates and provides free geographic data and maps to anyone who wants to use them.
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D.
Humanitarian Country Team
The Humanitarian Country Team is a strategic decision-making forum of UN and non-UN humanitarian organizations in a crisis-affected country that coordinates and guides the overall humanitarian response.
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E.
Humanitarian Data Exchange
Humanitarian Data Exchange is an open humanitarian data platform that enables organizations to share, discover, and use data for crisis preparedness and response.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
OpenStreetMap community organization
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humanitarian organization ⓘ non-profit organization ⓘ volunteer organization ⓘ |
| affiliation |
OpenStreetMap community
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linked to:
OpenStreetMap
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| alsoKnownAs |
HOT
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HOTOSM ⓘ |
| coordinates |
field mapping projects
ⓘ
remote mapping campaigns ⓘ volunteer mappers ⓘ |
| develops | Tasking Manager ⓘ |
| field |
community resilience
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crisis mapping ⓘ disaster response ⓘ disaster risk reduction ⓘ humanitarian mapping ⓘ international development ⓘ open data ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
mapping for disaster preparedness
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mapping for emergency response ⓘ mapping for recovery and reconstruction ⓘ mapping vulnerable and underserved communities ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Kate Chapman
ⓘ
Mikel Maron ⓘ members of the OpenStreetMap community ⓘ |
| hasVolunteerBase | global volunteer mappers ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Washington, D.C., United States
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linked to:
Washington, D.C.
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| inception | 2010 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| legalForm | non-profit ⓘ |
| mission |
to apply the principles of open source and open data sharing to humanitarian response and economic development
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to build community resilience with open geographic data ⓘ to support disaster response through open mapping ⓘ |
| notableProject |
Ebola outbreak mapping in West Africa
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Missing Maps project participation ⓘ Nepal earthquake response mapping ⓘ mapping for refugee crises ⓘ response mapping for the 2010 Haiti earthquake ⓘ |
| operatesIn | global ⓘ |
| promotes |
open geospatial data
ⓘ
open mapping ⓘ |
| supports | local OpenStreetMap communities in developing countries ⓘ |
| Tasking Manager | is a web-based tool for coordinating collaborative mapping in OpenStreetMap ⓘ |
| uses |
OpenStreetMap
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open data standards ⓘ open-source software ⓘ |
| website | https://www.hotosm.org/ ⓘ |
| worksWith |
United Nations agencies
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government agencies ⓘ international NGOs ⓘ local community organizations ⓘ |
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: Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Description of subject: The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team is a global volunteer-driven organization that uses and coordinates open mapping to support disaster response, humanitarian aid, and community resilience efforts.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.