Free Software Foundation
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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.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Free Software Foundation canonical | 156 |
| Free Software Foundation network | 2 |
| FSF | 1 |
| FSF Associate Membership | 1 |
| Free Software Foundation (GNU implementation) | 1 |
| Free Software Foundation (with conditions) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T94433 — 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 Foundation Context triple: [Richard Stallman, founded, Free Software Foundation]
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
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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D.
Wikimedia Foundation
The Wikimedia Foundation is a nonprofit organization that hosts and supports Wikipedia and other free-knowledge projects worldwide.
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E.
Creative Commons
Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that provides free, standardized copyright licenses to help creators legally share and reuse their work.
- 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 Foundation Target entity description: 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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A.
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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B.
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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C.
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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D.
Wikimedia Foundation
The Wikimedia Foundation is a nonprofit organization that hosts and supports Wikipedia and other free-knowledge projects worldwide.
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E.
Creative Commons
Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that provides free, standardized copyright licenses to help creators legally share and reuse their work.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
501(c)(3) organization
ⓘ
advocacy organization ⓘ free software organization ⓘ nonprofit organization ⓘ |
| advocatesFor |
use of free software
ⓘ
users' control over computing ⓘ |
| basedIn |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| fieldOfWork |
copyleft
ⓘ
digital rights ⓘ free software ⓘ software licensing ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Richard Stallman ⓘ |
| founder | Richard Stallman ⓘ |
| fundedBy |
donations
ⓘ
membership fees ⓘ |
| hasOrganizationalRole |
executive director
ⓘ
president ⓘ |
| hasPart | GNU Project ⓘ |
| hasProgram |
FSF Associate Membership
ⓘ
linked to:
Free Software Foundation
GNU Project sponsorship ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Boston, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| ideology |
copyleft licensing
ⓘ
software freedom ⓘ |
| inception | 1985 ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| legalForm | charitable organization ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| maintains |
GNU Affero General Public License
ⓘ
GNU Free Documentation License ⓘ GNU General Public License ⓘ GNU Lesser General Public License ⓘ |
| motto | Free as in freedom ⓘ |
| movement | free software movement ⓘ |
| nonProfitStatus | nonprofit ⓘ |
| operatesInSector |
information technology
ⓘ
software ⓘ |
| opposes |
digital restrictions management
ⓘ
proprietary software ⓘ |
| organizes |
GNU project fundraising
ⓘ
campaigns for software freedom ⓘ |
| publisher |
GNU Free Documentation License
ⓘ
GNU General Public License ⓘ |
| purpose |
defense of rights of software users
ⓘ
promotion of computer users' freedom ⓘ promotion of free software ⓘ |
| sponsor | GNU Project ⓘ |
| website | https://www.fsf.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: Free Software Foundation Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (162)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
GNU is Not Unix (GNU recursive acronym)
linked to: Free Software Foundation
linked to: Free Software Foundation
subject linked to:
Emacs Lisp (for GNU Emacs environment)
subject linked to:
gnat
linked to: Free Software Foundation