NumFOCUS
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NumFOCUS is a nonprofit organization that supports and promotes open-source scientific computing projects and the communities around them.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| NumFOCUS canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4325897 — 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: NumFOCUS Context triple: [SciPy Developers, associatedWith, NumFOCUS]
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A.
Open Source Initiative
The Open Source Initiative is a non-profit organization that promotes and protects open source software by defining the Open Source Definition and approving licenses that comply with it.
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B.
Free Software Foundation
The Free Software Foundation is a nonprofit organization that promotes computer users' freedom and defends the rights of all software users through advocacy, licensing, and development of free software.
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C.
Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation is a nonprofit consortium that supports and promotes the growth of the Linux operating system and other open-source software projects through collaboration, funding, and industry partnerships.
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D.
Free Software Foundation Europe
Free Software Foundation Europe is a non-profit organization that promotes and defends free and open source software, digital rights, and user freedoms across Europe.
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E.
Python Software Foundation
The Python Software Foundation is a non-profit organization that manages the development, licensing, and community support of the Python programming language.
- 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: NumFOCUS Target entity description: NumFOCUS is a nonprofit organization that supports and promotes open-source scientific computing projects and the communities around them.
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A.
Open Source Initiative
The Open Source Initiative is a non-profit organization that promotes and protects open source software by defining the Open Source Definition and approving licenses that comply with it.
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B.
Free Software Foundation
The Free Software Foundation is a nonprofit organization that promotes computer users' freedom and defends the rights of all software users through advocacy, licensing, and development of free software.
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C.
Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation is a nonprofit consortium that supports and promotes the growth of the Linux operating system and other open-source software projects through collaboration, funding, and industry partnerships.
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D.
Free Software Foundation Europe
Free Software Foundation Europe is a non-profit organization that promotes and defends free and open source software, digital rights, and user freedoms across Europe.
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E.
Python Software Foundation
The Python Software Foundation is a non-profit organization that manages the development, licensing, and community support of the Python programming language.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (57)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
501(c)(3) organization
ⓘ
nonprofit organization ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith |
academic institutions
ⓘ
industry partners ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| field |
data science
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open-source software ⓘ scientific computing ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
community building
ⓘ
education and outreach ⓘ sustainability of open-source projects ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Jarrod Millman
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Travis Oliphant NERFINISHED ⓘ William Stein NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | NumFOCUS Foundation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasProgram |
conferences and events
ⓘ
fiscal sponsorship ⓘ project sustainability programs ⓘ scholarships ⓘ small development grants ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Austin, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inception | 2012 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mission | to promote open practices in research, data, and scientific computing ⓘ |
| name | NumFOCUS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nonprofitStatus | public charity ⓘ |
| organizes |
PyData conferences
ⓘ
PyData meetups NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| purpose |
promote reproducible science
ⓘ
support open-source data science ⓘ support open-source scientific computing ⓘ |
| regionServed | global ⓘ |
| supports |
community events
ⓘ
data science projects ⓘ open-source software projects ⓘ project sustainability ⓘ scientific computing projects ⓘ |
| supportsProject |
ArviZ
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Astropy NERFINISHED ⓘ Bokeh NERFINISHED ⓘ Conda NERFINISHED ⓘ Dask NERFINISHED ⓘ FEniCS NERFINISHED ⓘ IPython NERFINISHED ⓘ Julia NERFINISHED ⓘ Jupyter NERFINISHED ⓘ Matplotlib NERFINISHED ⓘ NumPy NERFINISHED ⓘ Pandas NERFINISHED ⓘ SciPy NERFINISHED ⓘ Spyder NERFINISHED ⓘ Stan NERFINISHED ⓘ SunPy NERFINISHED ⓘ SymPy NERFINISHED ⓘ Xarray NERFINISHED ⓘ yt ⓘ |
| website | https://numfocus.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: NumFOCUS Description of subject: NumFOCUS is a nonprofit organization that supports and promotes open-source scientific computing projects and the communities around them.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.