The Tor Project
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The Tor Project is a nonprofit organization that develops and maintains privacy-focused tools—most notably the Tor anonymity network—to enable secure, uncensored communication online.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tor Browser | 6 |
| The Tor Project canonical | 4 |
| Tor Project | 2 |
| The Tor Project, Inc. | 1 |
| Tor | 1 |
| Tor network | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1159485 — 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: The Tor Project Context triple: [EFF Pioneer Award, notableRecipient, The Tor Project]
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A.
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.
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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.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is a leading nonprofit organization that defends civil liberties, privacy, and free expression in the digital world through legal action, advocacy, and technology.
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D.
Mozilla Foundation
The Mozilla Foundation is a nonprofit organization best known for promoting an open and accessible internet and stewarding projects like the Firefox web browser and the JavaScript language’s early development.
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E.
Epic Privacy Browser
Epic Privacy Browser is a Chromium-based web browser focused on protecting user privacy through built-in ad and tracker blocking, encrypted proxy, and minimal data collection.
- 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: The Tor Project Target entity description: The Tor Project is a nonprofit organization that develops and maintains privacy-focused tools—most notably the Tor anonymity network—to enable secure, uncensored communication online.
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A.
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.
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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.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is a leading nonprofit organization that defends civil liberties, privacy, and free expression in the digital world through legal action, advocacy, and technology.
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D.
Mozilla Foundation
The Mozilla Foundation is a nonprofit organization best known for promoting an open and accessible internet and stewarding projects like the Firefox web browser and the JavaScript language’s early development.
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E.
Epic Privacy Browser
Epic Privacy Browser is a Chromium-based web browser focused on protecting user privacy through built-in ad and tracker blocking, encrypted proxy, and minimal data collection.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
nonprofit organization
ⓘ
privacy advocacy organization ⓘ software organization ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
The Tor Project
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Tor Project
|
| coreTechnology |
distributed volunteer-run relay network
ⓘ
onion routing ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| develops |
Onion services
ⓘ
Onionoo ⓘ Pluggable transports ⓘ Snowflake ⓘ Stem ⓘ The Tor Project self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Tor Browser
Tor Metrics ⓘ Tor ⓘ
surface form:
Tor anonymity network
|
| focusesOn |
anonymity
ⓘ
censorship circumvention ⓘ privacy ⓘ secure communications ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Nick Mathewson
ⓘ
Paul Syverson ⓘ Roger Dingledine ⓘ |
| fundingSource |
foundations
ⓘ
government grants ⓘ grants ⓘ individual donations ⓘ |
| hasCommunity |
digital rights activists
ⓘ
researchers ⓘ software developers ⓘ volunteer relay operators ⓘ |
| hasLogo | purple onion logo ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Seattle, Washington, United States ⓘ |
| inception | 2006 ⓘ |
| legalForm | 501(c)(3) nonprofit ⓘ |
| license | free and open-source software licenses ⓘ |
| mission |
to advance human rights and freedoms by creating and deploying free and open source anonymity and privacy technologies
ⓘ
to enable anonymous communication online ⓘ to provide censorship circumvention tools ⓘ |
| name |
The Tor Project
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
The Tor Project, Inc.
|
| notableSoftware |
The Tor Project
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Tor Browser
Tor client ⓘ Tor relay software ⓘ |
| originatedFrom | U.S. Naval Research Laboratory work on onion routing ⓘ |
| previousHeadquartersLocation |
Cambridge, Massachusetts
ⓘ
surface form:
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
|
| primaryProduct |
The Tor Project
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Tor Browser
The Tor Project self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Tor network
|
| supports |
human rights defenders
ⓘ
journalists ⓘ users in censored regions ⓘ whistleblowers ⓘ |
| usesCryptography | multi-layer encryption ⓘ |
| usesProtocol |
Transmission Control Protocol
ⓘ
surface form:
TCP
|
| website | https://www.torproject.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: The Tor Project Description of subject: The Tor Project is a nonprofit organization that develops and maintains privacy-focused tools—most notably the Tor anonymity network—to enable secure, uncensored communication online.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Tor Project
this entity surface form:
Tor Browser
this entity surface form:
The Tor Project, Inc.
this entity surface form:
Tor Project
this entity surface form:
Tor network
this entity surface form:
Tor Browser
this entity surface form:
Tor Browser
this entity surface form:
Tor Browser
this entity surface form:
Tor
subject surface form:
Gecko
this entity surface form:
Tor Browser