Wikipedia
E19879
Wikipedia is a free, collaboratively edited online encyclopedia that allows users worldwide to create and modify its articles.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia canonical | 62 |
| English Wikipedia | 4 |
| L’encyclopédie libre | 1 |
| Nupedia | 1 |
| Wikipedia (historically) | 1 |
| Wikipedia multilingual project | 1 |
| Wikipedia visual identity | 1 |
| Wikipedia website | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T161271 — 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: Wikipedia Context triple: [Web 2.0, hasExample, Wikipedia]
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A.
Encyclopédie
The Encyclopédie was an influential 18th-century French reference work edited by Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d’Alembert that sought to compile and disseminate Enlightenment knowledge, science, and philosophy.
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B.
World Wide Web
The World Wide Web is a global system of interlinked hypertext documents and resources accessed via the internet, enabling users worldwide to browse, share, and interact with information through web browsers.
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C.
Wikimedia Foundation
The Wikimedia Foundation is a nonprofit organization that hosts and supports Wikipedia and other free-knowledge projects worldwide.
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D.
Wholly New Forms of Encyclopedias
"Wholly New Forms of Encyclopedias" is a section of Vannevar Bush’s essay "As We May Think" that envisions future, highly interconnected and dynamically organized knowledge systems beyond traditional printed encyclopedias.
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E.
the internet
The internet is a global network of interconnected computers and servers that enables worldwide communication, information sharing, and access to digital services.
- 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: Wikipedia Target entity description: Wikipedia is a free, collaboratively edited online encyclopedia that allows users worldwide to create and modify its articles.
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A.
Encyclopédie
The Encyclopédie was an influential 18th-century French reference work edited by Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d’Alembert that sought to compile and disseminate Enlightenment knowledge, science, and philosophy.
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B.
World Wide Web
The World Wide Web is a global system of interlinked hypertext documents and resources accessed via the internet, enabling users worldwide to browse, share, and interact with information through web browsers.
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C.
Wikimedia Foundation
The Wikimedia Foundation is a nonprofit organization that hosts and supports Wikipedia and other free-knowledge projects worldwide.
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D.
Wholly New Forms of Encyclopedias
"Wholly New Forms of Encyclopedias" is a section of Vannevar Bush’s essay "As We May Think" that envisions future, highly interconnected and dynamically organized knowledge systems beyond traditional printed encyclopedias.
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E.
the internet
The internet is a global network of interconnected computers and servers that enables worldwide communication, information sharing, and access to digital services.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
online encyclopedia
ⓘ
reference work ⓘ website ⓘ wiki ⓘ |
| accessModel | free access ⓘ |
| availableIn | multiple languages ⓘ |
| businessModel | nonprofit ⓘ |
| coFounder | Larry Sanger ⓘ |
| commercial | no ⓘ |
| contentPolicy |
neutral point of view
ⓘ
no original research ⓘ verifiability ⓘ |
| contentType | encyclopedic articles ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| editingModel |
collaborative editing
ⓘ
open editing ⓘ |
| EnglishEditionURL | https://en.wikipedia.org/ ⓘ |
| founder | Jimmy Wales ⓘ |
| FrenchEditionURL | https://fr.wikipedia.org/ ⓘ |
| fundingModel |
donations
ⓘ
grants ⓘ |
| GermanEditionURL | https://de.wikipedia.org/ ⓘ |
| governingBody |
Board of Trustees
ⓘ
surface form:
Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
|
| hasLogo | Wikipedia puzzle globe ⓘ |
| hasSisterProject |
Wikibooks
ⓘ
Wikidata ⓘ Wikimedia Commons ⓘ Wikinews ⓘ Wikiquote ⓘ Wikisource ⓘ Wikiversity ⓘ Wikivoyage ⓘ Wiktionary ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | San Francisco ⓘ |
| launchDate | 2001-01-15 ⓘ |
| license |
Creative Commons license
ⓘ
surface form:
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License
GNU Free Documentation License ⓘ
surface form:
GNU Free Documentation License (historical)
|
| mainPageURL | https://www.wikipedia.org/ ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
anyone can edit most articles
ⓘ
crowdsourced content ⓘ |
| operator | Wikimedia Foundation ⓘ |
| owner | Wikimedia Foundation ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | Wikimedia Foundation ⓘ |
| primaryLanguage | English ⓘ |
| registration | optional ⓘ |
| softwareUsed | MediaWiki ⓘ |
| SpanishEditionURL | https://es.wikipedia.org/ ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
academic research
ⓘ
media coverage ⓘ |
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: Wikipedia Description of subject: Wikipedia is a free, collaboratively edited online encyclopedia that allows users worldwide to create and modify its articles.
Referenced by (72)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
English Wikipedia
this entity surface form:
Wikipedia multilingual project
subject surface form:
Larry Sanger