Creative Commons license
E212
A Creative Commons license is a standardized public copyright license that allows creators to grant the public permission to share, use, and sometimes modify their work under specified conditions.
All labels observed (54)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1112 — 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: Creative Commons license Context triple: [MIT OpenCourseWare, license, Creative Commons license]
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A.
MIT OpenCourseWare
MIT OpenCourseWare is a free, web-based publication of virtually all Massachusetts Institute of Technology course content, offering open access to lecture notes, exams, and other educational materials to learners worldwide.
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B.
MIT Libraries
MIT Libraries is the academic library system of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, supporting research, teaching, and learning across science, engineering, and related fields.
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C.
Carnegie endowment trust
The Carnegie endowment trust is a philanthropic foundation established by Andrew Carnegie to fund scientific, educational, and charitable initiatives, including institutions like the Carnegie Institution of Washington.
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D.
NACA
NACA (the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics) was the U.S. government agency that conducted pioneering aeronautical research and served as the predecessor to NASA.
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E.
Loveless Award
The Loveless Award is an honor recognizing significant contributions to the field of computing and information technology.
- 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: Creative Commons license Target entity description: A Creative Commons license is a standardized public copyright license that allows creators to grant the public permission to share, use, and sometimes modify their work under specified conditions.
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A.
MIT OpenCourseWare
MIT OpenCourseWare is a free, web-based publication of virtually all Massachusetts Institute of Technology course content, offering open access to lecture notes, exams, and other educational materials to learners worldwide.
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B.
Fair Deal
The Fair Deal was President Harry S. Truman’s ambitious post–World War II domestic reform program aimed at expanding social welfare, civil rights, and economic opportunity in the United States.
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C.
N8 Research Partnership
N8 Research Partnership is a collaboration of eight research-intensive universities in Northern England focused on advancing world-class research, innovation, and economic growth.
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D.
MIT Libraries
MIT Libraries is the academic library system of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, supporting research, teaching, and learning across science, engineering, and related fields.
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E.
SHASS
SHASS is the abbreviated name commonly used for the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at academic institutions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
open content license
ⓘ
public copyright license ⓘ standardized license ⓘ |
| allows |
copying of works
ⓘ
distribution of works ⓘ sharing of works ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
copyrighted content
ⓘ
creative works ⓘ |
| basedOn | copyright law ⓘ |
| developedBy | Creative Commons ⓘ |
| distinguishesFrom | traditional all-rights-reserved copyright ⓘ |
| encourages |
reuse of creative works
ⓘ
sharing of knowledge and culture ⓘ |
| governs |
rights to adapt works
ⓘ
rights to copy ⓘ rights to distribute ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation |
Creative Commons license
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
CC license
|
| hasCondition |
Attribution
ⓘ
NoDerivatives ⓘ NonCommercial ⓘ ShareAlike ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
human-readable deed
ⓘ
lawyer-readable legal code ⓘ machine-readable metadata ⓘ |
| hasProperty |
non-exclusive
ⓘ
revocable under certain conditions ⓘ royalty-free ⓘ |
| hasPurpose |
to allow creators to grant the public permission to use their works
ⓘ
to facilitate legal sharing of creative works ⓘ to provide a simple, standardized way to manage copyright permissions ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Creative Commons license
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
CC BY
Creative Commons license self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
CC BY-NC
CC BY-NC-ND ⓘ CC BY-NC-SA ⓘ CC BY-ND ⓘ Creative Commons license self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
CC BY-SA
Creative Commons license self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
CC0
Creative Commons license self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Public Domain Mark
|
| isCompatibleWith | certain free and open source licenses ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Creative Commons license
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Creative Commons licensing suite
|
| isUsedFor |
music
ⓘ
open access scholarly publishing ⓘ open data and datasets ⓘ open educational resources ⓘ photography ⓘ textual works ⓘ video ⓘ |
| mayAllow |
commercial use of works
ⓘ
modification of works ⓘ |
| regulates | reuse of copyrighted works ⓘ |
| requires | compliance with specified conditions ⓘ |
| supports | global use across jurisdictions ⓘ |
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: Creative Commons license Description of subject: A Creative Commons license is a standardized public copyright license that allows creators to grant the public permission to share, use, and sometimes modify their work under specified conditions.
Referenced by (149)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License
this entity surface form:
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License
this entity surface form:
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License
this entity surface form:
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike
this entity surface form:
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License
this entity surface form:
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License
this entity surface form:
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License
this entity surface form:
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
this entity surface form:
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike
this entity surface form:
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License
this entity surface form:
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License
this entity surface form:
Creative Commons licenses
this entity surface form:
Creative Commons licenses
this entity surface form:
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license (for Wikipedia content dual-licensing)
this entity surface form:
Creative Commons licenses
this entity surface form:
Creative Commons Attribution license on YouTube
this entity surface form:
Creative Commons Attribution license
this entity surface form:
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license
this entity surface form:
Creative Commons Attribution licence
this entity surface form:
Creative Commons BY-SA
this entity surface form:
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License
this entity surface form:
Creative Commons Attribution license (for many articles)
this entity surface form:
Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike 3.0 license
this entity surface form:
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
this entity surface form:
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
this entity surface form:
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license (for text on debian.org)
this entity surface form:
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
this entity surface form:
Creative Commons licenses
subject surface form:
Help (Wikimedia Commons namespace)
this entity surface form:
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license (for most text)
this entity surface form:
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License
this entity surface form:
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike
this entity surface form:
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License
this entity surface form:
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike
this entity surface form:
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License
this entity surface form:
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License
this entity surface form:
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License
this entity surface form:
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License
this entity surface form:
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License
this entity surface form:
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License
this entity surface form:
Creative Commons Attribution 2.5
this entity surface form:
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
this entity surface form:
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
this entity surface form:
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License
this entity surface form:
Creative Commons Attribution 2.5
this entity surface form:
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
this entity surface form:
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0