free software movement
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The free software movement is a social and political campaign that advocates for users’ freedom to run, study, modify, and share software, prominently championed by Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| free software movement canonical | 27 |
| Four Essential Freedoms of Free Software | 1 |
| Free Software Movement | 1 |
| GNU free software philosophy | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T94431 — 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: free software movement Context triple: [Richard Stallman, movement, free software movement]
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A.
Richard Stallman
Richard Stallman is an American software freedom activist and programmer best known for founding the Free Software Foundation and initiating the GNU Project, which laid the groundwork for the free and open-source software movement.
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B.
Creative Commons
Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that provides free, standardized copyright licenses to help creators legally share and reuse their work.
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C.
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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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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E.
GNU is Not Unix (GNU recursive acronym)
GNU is Not Unix is a recursive acronym coined by Richard Stallman for the GNU project, a free software initiative to create a Unix-compatible operating system composed entirely of free software.
- 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: free software movement Target entity description: The free software movement is a social and political campaign that advocates for users’ freedom to run, study, modify, and share software, prominently championed by Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation.
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A.
Richard Stallman
Richard Stallman is an American software freedom activist and programmer best known for founding the Free Software Foundation and initiating the GNU Project, which laid the groundwork for the free and open-source software movement.
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B.
Creative Commons
Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that provides free, standardized copyright licenses to help creators legally share and reuse their work.
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C.
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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D.
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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E.
GNU is Not Unix (GNU recursive acronym)
GNU is Not Unix is a recursive acronym coined by Richard Stallman for the GNU project, a free software initiative to create a Unix-compatible operating system composed entirely of free software.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
political movement
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social movement ⓘ software freedom movement ⓘ |
| advocatesFor |
copyleft licensing
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software source code availability ⓘ user control over software ⓘ |
| basedOn |
ethical principles
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software freedom ⓘ user rights ⓘ |
| definesTerm | free software ⓘ |
| distinguishedFrom | open source movement ⓘ |
| emergedIn | 1980s ⓘ |
| emphasizes |
community collaboration
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moral arguments for software freedom ⓘ sharing of knowledge ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
legal strategies for software freedom
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public awareness about software freedom ⓘ software licensing ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Richard Stallman ⓘ |
| geographicScope | global ⓘ |
| hasCorePrinciple |
freedom to distribute modified versions of software
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freedom to modify software ⓘ freedom to run software for any purpose ⓘ freedom to share copies of software ⓘ freedom to study how software works ⓘ |
| hasGoal |
elimination of proprietary software
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legal protection of users’ software freedoms ⓘ universal software freedom ⓘ |
| hasKeyFigure | Richard Stallman ⓘ |
| hasKeyOrganization |
Free Software Foundation
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Free Software Foundation Europe ⓘ Free Software Foundation Latin America ⓘ GNU Project ⓘ Software Freedom Law Center ⓘ |
| hasKeyText |
Free Software Definition
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GNU Manifesto ⓘ
linked to:
The GNU Manifesto
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| influenced |
Creative Commons copyleft licenses
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linked to:
Creative Commons license
GNU General Public License ⓘ copyleft licenses ⓘ open source movement ⓘ |
| opposes |
digital restrictions management
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proprietary software ⓘ software patents ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
access to knowledge movement
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linked to:
free culture movement
digital rights movement ⓘ free culture movement ⓘ |
| usesConcept |
copyleft
ⓘ
free as in freedom ⓘ |
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: free software movement Description of subject: The free software movement is a social and political campaign that advocates for users’ freedom to run, study, modify, and share software, prominently championed by Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation.
Referenced by (30)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: free software movement
linked to: free software movement
linked to: free software movement
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