B Corporation certification
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B Corporation certification is a designation awarded to for-profit companies that meet high standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| B Corporation | 1 |
| B Corporation certification canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13136996 — 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: B Corporation certification Context triple: [New Belgium Brewing Company, knownFor, B Corporation certification]
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A.
Conscious Capitalism, Inc.
Conscious Capitalism, Inc. is a nonprofit organization that promotes a business philosophy emphasizing purpose beyond profit, stakeholder orientation, and ethical leadership, co-founded by Whole Foods Market CEO John Mackey.
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B.
Meaningful Brands
Meaningful Brands is Havas’ global research and marketing platform that measures and analyzes how brands create value and impact in people’s lives and society.
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C.
Skoll Foundation
The Skoll Foundation is a philanthropic organization that supports social entrepreneurs and innovative solutions to the world’s most pressing problems.
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D.
UN Global Compact
The UN Global Compact is a United Nations initiative that encourages businesses worldwide to adopt and report on sustainable and socially responsible policies aligned with ten universally accepted principles in human rights, labor, environment, and anti-corruption.
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E.
CSR
CSR is the Center for Scientific Review at the U.S. National Institutes of Health, which organizes the peer review of most NIH grant applications.
- 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: B Corporation certification Target entity description: B Corporation certification is a designation awarded to for-profit companies that meet high standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency.
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A.
Conscious Capitalism, Inc.
Conscious Capitalism, Inc. is a nonprofit organization that promotes a business philosophy emphasizing purpose beyond profit, stakeholder orientation, and ethical leadership, co-founded by Whole Foods Market CEO John Mackey.
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B.
Meaningful Brands
Meaningful Brands is Havas’ global research and marketing platform that measures and analyzes how brands create value and impact in people’s lives and society.
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C.
Skoll Foundation
The Skoll Foundation is a philanthropic organization that supports social entrepreneurs and innovative solutions to the world’s most pressing problems.
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D.
UN Global Compact
The UN Global Compact is a United Nations initiative that encourages businesses worldwide to adopt and report on sustainable and socially responsible policies aligned with ten universally accepted principles in human rights, labor, environment, and anti-corruption.
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E.
CSR
CSR is the commonly used abbreviation for the Chinese Soviet Republic, a short-lived communist state established in the early 1930s in parts of China under Chinese Communist Party control.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
business certification
ⓘ
social enterprise standard ⓘ sustainability certification ⓘ |
| administeredBy | B Lab NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| alignedWith | triple bottom line principles ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | B Corp certification ⓘ |
| appliesTo | for-profit companies ⓘ |
| assessmentCovers |
community
ⓘ
customers ⓘ environment ⓘ governance ⓘ workers ⓘ |
| basedOn | B Impact Assessment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distinctFrom | benefit corporation legal status ⓘ |
| encourages | continuous improvement in impact ⓘ |
| feeStructureDependsOn |
company revenue
ⓘ
company size ⓘ |
| focusesOn | measurable positive impact ⓘ |
| hasGlobalReach | true ⓘ |
| hasGoal |
balance profit and purpose
ⓘ
promote stakeholder capitalism ⓘ redefine business success ⓘ |
| hasSymbol | encircled capital letter B logo ⓘ |
| headquarteredCertificationBodyIn | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| introducedBy | B Lab NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| introducedInYear | 2006 ⓘ |
| monitoredBy | B Lab standards management team ⓘ |
| recertificationInvolves | updated B Impact Assessment ⓘ |
| requires |
accountability standards
ⓘ
consideration of all stakeholders ⓘ high environmental performance standards ⓘ high social performance standards ⓘ legal accountability to stakeholders ⓘ meeting baseline legal compliance ⓘ payment of certification fees ⓘ public transparency of impact scores ⓘ transparency standards ⓘ |
| requiresMinimumScore | 80 points on the B Impact Assessment ⓘ |
| requiresRecertification | yes ⓘ |
| requiresVerification |
documentation review
ⓘ
possible onsite review ⓘ |
| sectorAgnostic | true ⓘ |
| standardsUpdated | periodically ⓘ |
| targetsCompanySizeRange |
large enterprises
ⓘ
medium enterprises ⓘ small enterprises ⓘ |
| usedAs |
marketing differentiator
ⓘ
signal of responsible business practices ⓘ |
| validityPeriod | typically three years ⓘ |
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: B Corporation certification Description of subject: B Corporation certification is a designation awarded to for-profit companies that meet high standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
B Corporation