WikiLeaks
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WikiLeaks is an international whistleblowing organization and website that publishes classified, censored, or otherwise restricted documents to promote transparency and expose government and corporate misconduct.
All labels observed (10)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1159484 — 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: WikiLeaks Context triple: [EFF Pioneer Award, notableRecipient, WikiLeaks]
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A.
Edward Snowden
Edward Snowden is a former National Security Agency contractor who became internationally known in 2013 for leaking classified documents revealing global mass surveillance programs.
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B.
Julian Assange
Julian Assange is an Australian journalist, publisher, and activist best known as the founder of WikiLeaks, which released classified and sensitive documents from governments and organizations worldwide.
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C.
United States v. Julian Assange
United States v. Julian Assange is a high-profile U.S. criminal case against WikiLeaks’ founder over the publication of classified government documents, raising major debates about press freedom, national security, and whistleblowing.
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D.
Glenn Greenwald
Glenn Greenwald is an American journalist, author, and former constitutional lawyer best known for his investigative reporting on mass surveillance and civil liberties, including publishing Edward Snowden’s NSA revelations.
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E.
Freedom of the Press Foundation
Freedom of the Press Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting and defending public-interest journalism and press freedom in the digital age.
- 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: WikiLeaks Target entity description: WikiLeaks is an international whistleblowing organization and website that publishes classified, censored, or otherwise restricted documents to promote transparency and expose government and corporate misconduct.
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A.
Edward Snowden
Edward Snowden is a former National Security Agency contractor who became internationally known in 2013 for leaking classified documents revealing global mass surveillance programs.
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B.
Julian Assange
Julian Assange is an Australian journalist, publisher, and activist best known as the founder of WikiLeaks, which released classified and sensitive documents from governments and organizations worldwide.
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C.
United States v. Julian Assange
United States v. Julian Assange is a high-profile U.S. criminal case against WikiLeaks’ founder over the publication of classified government documents, raising major debates about press freedom, national security, and whistleblowing.
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D.
Glenn Greenwald
Glenn Greenwald is an American journalist, author, and former constitutional lawyer best known for his investigative reporting on mass surveillance and civil liberties, including publishing Edward Snowden’s NSA revelations.
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E.
Freedom of the Press Foundation
Freedom of the Press Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting and defending public-interest journalism and press freedom in the digital age.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
nonprofit organization
ⓘ
website ⓘ whistleblowing organization ⓘ |
| areaServed | worldwide ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Australia ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Julian Assange ⓘ |
| founder | Julian Assange ⓘ |
| genre |
investigative journalism
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leak site ⓘ |
| hasPart |
WikiLeaks
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
WikiLeaks.org website
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| hasPublicationPolicy |
publishes full primary source documents
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redacts some sensitive personal data ⓘ |
| hasSlogan | We open governments ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | None (operates as a distributed organization) ⓘ |
| inception | 2006 ⓘ |
| influenced |
debates on digital whistleblowing
ⓘ
global transparency movements ⓘ |
| keyPerson |
Julian Assange
ⓘ
Kristinn Hrafnsson ⓘ |
| legalForm | nonprofit ⓘ |
| mediaType | online digital media ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Afghan War Diary leak
ⓘ
surface form:
Afghan War Diary
U.S. diplomatic cables leak ⓘ
surface form:
Cablegate
Collateral Murder video release ⓘ
surface form:
Collateral Murder video
DNC email leak ⓘ Iraq War documents leak ⓘ John Podesta ⓘ
surface form:
Podesta emails
U.S. diplomatic cables leak ⓘ
surface form:
United States diplomatic cables leak
|
| operatingLanguage | English ⓘ |
| operationalModel | leaks submitted by anonymous sources ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment |
anti‑secrecy
ⓘ
transparency advocacy ⓘ |
| publishes |
censored documents
ⓘ
classified documents ⓘ corporate documents ⓘ diplomatic cables ⓘ military documents ⓘ restricted documents ⓘ |
| purpose |
corporate transparency
ⓘ
government transparency ⓘ publication of leaked documents ⓘ whistleblower protection ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
United States criminal investigation of Julian Assange
ⓘ
controversies about national security ⓘ debate over press freedom ⓘ |
| uses |
anonymous electronic drop box
ⓘ
encryption technologies ⓘ |
| website | https://wikileaks.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: WikiLeaks Description of subject: WikiLeaks is an international whistleblowing organization and website that publishes classified, censored, or otherwise restricted documents to promote transparency and expose government and corporate misconduct.
Referenced by (35)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
WikiLeaks publication of U.S. diplomatic cables
this entity surface form:
WikiLeaks publication of Iraq War documents
this entity surface form:
WikiLeaks publication of Afghan War documents
this entity surface form:
Cablegate releases
this entity surface form:
https://wikileaks.org/
this entity surface form:
United States diplomatic cables leak
this entity surface form:
WikiLeaks.org website
this entity surface form:
WikiLeaks website
this entity surface form:
WikiLeaks (through family connection)
subject surface form:
Daniel Domscheit-Berg
subject surface form:
The Fifth Estate
subject surface form:
Sarah Shaw
subject surface form:
James Boswell (The Fifth Estate character)