Apache Software Foundation
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The Apache Software Foundation is a non-profit organization that oversees and supports a large ecosystem of open-source software projects, including the Apache HTTP Server and many other widely used tools and frameworks.
All labels observed (9)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T575246 — 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: Apache Software Foundation Context triple: [Apache License 2.0, author, Apache Software Foundation]
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A.
Mozilla Foundation
The Mozilla Foundation is a nonprofit organization best known for promoting an open and accessible internet and stewarding projects like the Firefox web browser and the JavaScript language’s early development.
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B.
Apache
The Apache are a group of culturally related Native American peoples of the Southwestern United States, known for their distinct languages, nomadic traditions, and resistance to colonial expansion.
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C.
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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D.
GNU Project
The GNU Project is a free software initiative that created many core components of the GNU/Linux operating system and pioneered the modern free software movement.
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E.
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.
- 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: Apache Software Foundation Target entity description: The Apache Software Foundation is a non-profit organization that oversees and supports a large ecosystem of open-source software projects, including the Apache HTTP Server and many other widely used tools and frameworks.
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A.
Mozilla Foundation
The Mozilla Foundation is a nonprofit organization best known for promoting an open and accessible internet and stewarding projects like the Firefox web browser and the JavaScript language’s early development.
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B.
Apache
The Apache are a group of culturally related Native American peoples of the Southwestern United States, known for their distinct languages, nomadic traditions, and resistance to colonial expansion.
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C.
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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D.
GNU Project
The GNU Project is a free software initiative that created many core components of the GNU/Linux operating system and pioneered the modern free software movement.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
non-profit organization
ⓘ
open-source organization ⓘ software foundation ⓘ |
| abbreviation | ASF ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| encouragesDevelopmentModel |
collaborative software development
ⓘ
open development ⓘ |
| foundedInYear | 1999 ⓘ |
| foundedOn | 1999-06-01 ⓘ |
| fundingSource |
donations
ⓘ
grants ⓘ sponsorships ⓘ |
| governanceModel | meritocratic ⓘ |
| governancePrinciple | The Apache Way ⓘ |
| hasBoardOfDirectors | yes ⓘ |
| hasCommitters | project committers ⓘ |
| hasMembers | individual members ⓘ |
| hasProgram |
Apache Incubator
ⓘ
Apache Software Foundation self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Apache Security Team
Google Summer of Code participation ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Forest Hill, Maryland, United States ⓘ |
| legalStatus | 501(c)(3) non-profit ⓘ |
| licenseModel |
Apache License 2.0
ⓘ
surface form:
Apache License
|
| motto | Community over Code ⓘ |
| name | Apache Software Foundation self-link ⓘ |
| organizesEvent | ApacheCon ⓘ |
| overseesProject |
Apache Cassandra
ⓘ
Apache HTTP Server (via mod_spdy and later modules) ⓘ
surface form:
Apache HTTP Server
Hadoop ⓘ
surface form:
Apache Hadoop
Apache Kafka ⓘ Apache Lucene ⓘ Maven ⓘ
surface form:
Apache Maven
Apache OpenOffice ⓘ Apache Solr ⓘ Apache Spark ⓘ Apache Struts ⓘ Subversion ⓘ
surface form:
Apache Subversion
Jetty ⓘ
surface form:
Apache Tomcat
|
| primaryLanguage | English ⓘ |
| promotesLicense | Apache License 2.0 ⓘ |
| purpose |
provide organizational, legal, and financial support for Apache projects
ⓘ
support open-source software projects ⓘ |
| scope | global ⓘ |
| softwareDomain |
big data
ⓘ
build and deployment tools ⓘ cloud computing ⓘ programming frameworks ⓘ web servers ⓘ |
| supportsCommunity |
developer communities
ⓘ
user communities ⓘ |
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: Apache Software Foundation Description of subject: The Apache Software Foundation is a non-profit organization that oversees and supports a large ecosystem of open-source software projects, including the Apache HTTP Server and many other widely used tools and frameworks.
Referenced by (68)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Apache Software Foundation
this entity surface form:
Apache Group
this entity surface form:
Apache Software Foundation board
this entity surface form:
Apache Group