Global Forest Watch
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Global Forest Watch is an online forest monitoring and alert system that uses satellite data and other sources to track deforestation and forest change worldwide in near real time.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Global Forest Watch canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1953608 — 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: Global Forest Watch Context triple: [World Resources Institute, hasProgram, Global Forest Watch]
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A.
Global Forest Resources Assessment
The Global Forest Resources Assessment is a periodic, comprehensive report by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) that evaluates the status, trends, and management of the world’s forests using standardized global data.
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B.
ForestGEO global forest monitoring network
The ForestGEO global forest monitoring network is an international consortium of long-term forest research plots that tracks tree dynamics and biodiversity to understand how forests function and respond to environmental change.
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C.
State of the World’s Forests
State of the World’s Forests is a recurring flagship report that provides global assessments and analysis of the status, trends, and policy issues related to the world’s forests and forestry sector.
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D.
World Forestry Center
The World Forestry Center is a nonprofit museum and educational institution in Portland, Oregon, dedicated to global forestry, conservation, and sustainable management of forest resources.
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E.
Barro Colorado Island 50-hectare forest dynamics plot
The Barro Colorado Island 50-hectare forest dynamics plot is a long-term, large-scale tropical forest research site in Panama where every tree is regularly mapped, measured, and monitored to study forest ecology, dynamics, and biodiversity.
- 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: Global Forest Watch Target entity description: Global Forest Watch is an online forest monitoring and alert system that uses satellite data and other sources to track deforestation and forest change worldwide in near real time.
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A.
Global Forest Resources Assessment
The Global Forest Resources Assessment is a periodic, comprehensive report by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) that evaluates the status, trends, and management of the world’s forests using standardized global data.
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B.
ForestGEO global forest monitoring network
The ForestGEO global forest monitoring network is an international consortium of long-term forest research plots that tracks tree dynamics and biodiversity to understand how forests function and respond to environmental change.
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C.
State of the World’s Forests
State of the World’s Forests is a recurring flagship report that provides global assessments and analysis of the status, trends, and policy issues related to the world’s forests and forestry sector.
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D.
World Forestry Center
The World Forestry Center is a nonprofit museum and educational institution in Portland, Oregon, dedicated to global forestry, conservation, and sustainable management of forest resources.
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E.
Barro Colorado Island 50-hectare forest dynamics plot
The Barro Colorado Island 50-hectare forest dynamics plot is a long-term, large-scale tropical forest research site in Panama where every tree is regularly mapped, measured, and monitored to study forest ecology, dynamics, and biodiversity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
environmental data platform
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forest monitoring platform ⓘ online monitoring system ⓘ |
| availableAtURL | https://www.globalforestwatch.org ⓘ |
| developedBy | World Resources Institute ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
deforestation
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forest cover change ⓘ forest fires ⓘ forest loss alerts ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
country and regional dashboards
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customizable analysis tools ⓘ near real-time forest loss alerts ⓘ open data access ⓘ |
| hasLicenseType | open data (with some restrictions) ⓘ |
| hasPurpose |
monitor global forests
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provide near real-time forest change information ⓘ track deforestation ⓘ track forest degradation ⓘ |
| hasUser |
NGOs
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general public ⓘ governments ⓘ journalists ⓘ private sector companies ⓘ researchers ⓘ |
| isBasedIn |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| language | English ⓘ |
| monitorsArea |
global forests
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tropical forests ⓘ |
| operatedBy | World Resources Institute ⓘ |
| partnerOf |
Google
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NASA ⓘ United Nations Environment Programme ⓘ
surface form:
UN Environment Programme
University of Maryland ⓘ |
| predecessor | earlier Global Forest Watch initiative launched in 1997 ⓘ |
| provides |
APIs for forest data access
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data visualization tools ⓘ downloadable forest data ⓘ forest change alerts ⓘ interactive online maps ⓘ |
| startDate | 2014 ⓘ |
| supportsActivity |
climate change mitigation efforts
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forest conservation ⓘ law enforcement against illegal deforestation ⓘ supply chain monitoring ⓘ |
| usesDataFrom |
NGO datasets
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crowdsourced data ⓘ government datasets ⓘ remote sensing data ⓘ satellite imagery ⓘ |
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: Global Forest Watch Description of subject: Global Forest Watch is an online forest monitoring and alert system that uses satellite data and other sources to track deforestation and forest change worldwide in near real time.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.