Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation
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The Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation is the governing body responsible for overseeing the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia and its sister free-knowledge projects worldwide.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation canonical | 13 |
| trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8391026 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation Context triple: [Governance Committee of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation, partOf, Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation]
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Wikimedia Foundation
The Wikimedia Foundation is a nonprofit organization that hosts and supports Wikipedia and other free-knowledge projects worldwide.
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Community Affairs Committee of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation
The Community Affairs Committee of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation is a trustee-led body that oversees and advises on the Foundation’s relationships, policies, and strategic engagement with the global Wikimedia communities.
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Audit Committee of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation
The Audit Committee of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation is a trustee-led oversight body responsible for monitoring the organization’s financial reporting, internal controls, and compliance with relevant legal and ethical standards.
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Governance Committee of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation
The Governance Committee of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation is a standing board committee responsible for overseeing and improving the Board’s structure, policies, and governance practices.
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Talent and Culture Committee of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation
The Talent and Culture Committee of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation is a board-level body that oversees matters related to leadership, human resources, and organizational culture within the Foundation.
- 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: Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation Target entity description: The Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation is the governing body responsible for overseeing the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia and its sister free-knowledge projects worldwide.
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Wikimedia Foundation
The Wikimedia Foundation is a nonprofit organization that hosts and supports Wikipedia and other free-knowledge projects worldwide.
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B.
Community Affairs Committee of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation
The Community Affairs Committee of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation is a trustee-led body that oversees and advises on the Foundation’s relationships, policies, and strategic engagement with the global Wikimedia communities.
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C.
Audit Committee of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation
The Audit Committee of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation is a trustee-led oversight body responsible for monitoring the organization’s financial reporting, internal controls, and compliance with relevant legal and ethical standards.
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D.
Governance Committee of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation
The Governance Committee of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation is a standing board committee responsible for overseeing and improving the Board’s structure, policies, and governance practices.
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Talent and Culture Committee of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation
The Talent and Culture Committee of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation is a board-level body that oversees matters related to leadership, human resources, and organizational culture within the Foundation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
board of trustees
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governing body ⓘ oversight body ⓘ |
| appliesPolicy | Wikimedia Foundation Bylaws NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| follows |
U.S. nonprofit governance standards
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fiduciary duties of care and loyalty ⓘ |
| governs | Wikimedia Foundation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCommittee |
Audit Committee
NERFINISHED
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Community Affairs Committee NERFINISHED ⓘ Governance Committee NERFINISHED ⓘ Product and Technology Committee NERFINISHED ⓘ Talent and Culture Committee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMemberType |
affiliate-selected trustee
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board-appointed trustee ⓘ community-selected trustee ⓘ founder seat ⓘ |
| hasPosition |
chair
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secretary ⓘ treasurer ⓘ vice chair ⓘ |
| hasRole |
appointing executive leadership
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approving annual plan ⓘ approving budget ⓘ fiduciary oversight ⓘ governance ⓘ setting high-level policies ⓘ strategic oversight ⓘ ultimate corporate authority of the Wikimedia Foundation ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
Wikimedia Foundation
NERFINISHED
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global Wikimedia projects ⓘ |
| meets | regularly ⓘ |
| oversees |
Wikibooks
NERFINISHED
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Wikidata NERFINISHED ⓘ Wikimedia Commons NERFINISHED ⓘ Wikimedia Foundation NERFINISHED ⓘ Wikimedia free-knowledge projects ⓘ Wikinews NERFINISHED ⓘ Wikipedia NERFINISHED ⓘ Wikiquote NERFINISHED ⓘ Wikisource NERFINISHED ⓘ Wikiversity NERFINISHED ⓘ Wikivoyage NERFINISHED ⓘ Wiktionary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Wikimedia Foundation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
ensuring mission alignment of Wikimedia projects
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long-term strategy of the Wikimedia Foundation ⓘ oversight of legal and ethical compliance ⓘ oversight of major financial decisions ⓘ |
| supervises |
Chief Executive Officer of the Wikimedia Foundation
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Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation Description of subject: The Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation is the governing body responsible for overseeing the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia and its sister free-knowledge projects worldwide.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Governance Committee of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation
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partOf
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Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation
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Governance Committee of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation
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reportsTo
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Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation
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Audit Committee of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation
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partOf
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Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation
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Audit Committee of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation
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composition
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Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation
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this entity surface form:
trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation
Audit Committee of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation
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reportsTo
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Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation
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Product and Technology Committee of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation
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partOf
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Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation
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Product and Technology Committee of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation
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ledBy
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Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation
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this entity surface form:
trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation
Product and Technology Committee of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation
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reportsTo
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Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation
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Talent and Culture Committee of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation
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partOf
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Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation
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Talent and Culture Committee of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation
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reportsTo
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Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation
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Community Affairs Committee of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation
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partOf
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Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation
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Community Affairs Committee of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation
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ledBy
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Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation
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this entity surface form:
trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation
Community Affairs Committee of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation
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reportsTo
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Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation
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Board Treasurer of the Wikimedia Foundation
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partOf
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Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation
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Board Treasurer of the Wikimedia Foundation
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reportsTo
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Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation
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Board Treasurer of the Wikimedia Foundation
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appointedBy
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Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation
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