ASF
E358073
ASF is the commonly used acronym for the Apache Software Foundation, a nonprofit organization that supports numerous open-source software projects.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| ASF canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3418846 — 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: ASF Context triple: [Apache Software Foundation, abbreviation, ASF]
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A.
ASF
ASF is a major French motorway concession company responsible for operating and maintaining a significant portion of France’s autoroute network.
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B.
ADF
ADF is the abbreviation for the Australian Defence Force, the unified military organization responsible for defending Australia and its national interests.
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C.
ARS
ARS is the principal in-house research agency of the United States Department of Agriculture, conducting scientific studies to improve agriculture, food safety, and environmental quality.
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D.
ARS
ARS is the commonly used acronym for the Sicilian Regional Assembly, the legislative body of the autonomous region of Sicily in Italy.
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E.
AFP
AFP is the unified military organization responsible for the defense and security of the Republic of the Philippines.
- 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: ASF Target entity description: ASF is the commonly used acronym for the Apache Software Foundation, a nonprofit organization that supports numerous open-source software projects.
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A.
ASF
ASF is a major French motorway concession company responsible for operating and maintaining a significant portion of France’s autoroute network.
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B.
ADF
ADF is the abbreviation for the Australian Defence Force, the unified military organization responsible for defending Australia and its national interests.
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C.
ARS
ARS is the principal in-house research agency of the United States Department of Agriculture, conducting scientific studies to improve agriculture, food safety, and environmental quality.
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D.
ARS
ARS is the commonly used acronym for the Sicilian Regional Assembly, the legislative body of the autonomous region of Sicily in Italy.
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E.
AFP
AFP is the unified military organization responsible for the defense and security of the Republic of the Philippines.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
nonprofit organization
ⓘ
software foundation ⓘ |
| abbreviation | ASF self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| focusesOn |
big data
ⓘ
cloud computing ⓘ data processing ⓘ developer tools ⓘ middleware ⓘ software infrastructure ⓘ web servers ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Apache Software Foundation
ⓘ
surface form:
Apache Group
|
| foundedOn | 1999-06-01 ⓘ |
| fundingSource |
corporate sponsorships
ⓘ
donations ⓘ grants ⓘ |
| governs |
Apache Cassandra
ⓘ
Apache HTTP Server (via mod_spdy and later modules) ⓘ
surface form:
Apache HTTP Server
Apache Software Foundation ⓘ
surface form:
Apache HTTP Server Project
Hadoop ⓘ
surface form:
Apache Hadoop
Apache Kafka ⓘ Apache Lucene ⓘ Maven ⓘ
surface form:
Apache Maven
Apache OpenOffice ⓘ Apache Spark ⓘ Apache Struts ⓘ Subversion ⓘ
surface form:
Apache Subversion
Apache Tomcat ⓘ |
| hasKeyProject |
Apache HTTP Server
ⓘ
Hadoop ⓘ
surface form:
Apache Hadoop
Apache Spark ⓘ |
| hasOrganizationalStructure |
board of directors
ⓘ
members ⓘ project management committees ⓘ |
| hasProjectCountApprox | more than 300 projects and initiatives ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Forest Hill, Maryland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| legalStatus | 501(c)(3) nonprofit ⓘ |
| licenseModel |
Apache License 2.0
ⓘ
surface form:
Apache License
|
| motto |
Apache Software Foundation
ⓘ
surface form:
The Apache Software Foundation provides support for the Apache community of open-source software projects
|
| operates | Apache Incubator ⓘ |
| predecessor |
Apache Software Foundation
ⓘ
surface form:
Apache Group
|
| primaryLanguage | English ⓘ |
| promotes |
meritocratic governance
ⓘ
open development ⓘ |
| regionServed | worldwide ⓘ |
| standsFor | Apache Software Foundation ⓘ |
| supports | open-source software projects ⓘ |
| usesGovernanceModel | The Apache Way ⓘ |
| website | https://www.apache.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: ASF Description of subject: ASF is the commonly used acronym for the Apache Software Foundation, a nonprofit organization that supports numerous open-source software projects.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Apache Software Foundation