World Trade Organization
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The World Trade Organization is an international body that regulates global trade rules between nations, aiming to ensure trade flows smoothly, predictably, and freely.
All labels observed (19)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T748 — 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: World Trade Organization Context triple: [United States of America, memberOf, World Trade Organization]
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A.
United Nations
The United Nations is an international organization founded in 1945 that brings together most of the world’s countries to promote peace, security, cooperation, and human rights.
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B.
OECD
The OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) is an international organization of mostly high-income democracies that works to promote economic growth, trade, and policy coordination among its member countries.
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C.
Organisation for European Economic Co-operation
The Organisation for European Economic Co-operation was an intergovernmental body founded in 1948 to promote economic cooperation and reconstruction among Western European countries after World War II, and later evolved into the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
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D.
G20
The G20 is an international forum of major advanced and emerging economies that meets to coordinate global economic policy, financial stability, and sustainable development.
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E.
G7
G7 is an intergovernmental forum of seven major advanced economies that coordinates on global economic policy, security, and international issues.
- 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: World Trade Organization Target entity description: The World Trade Organization is an international body that regulates global trade rules between nations, aiming to ensure trade flows smoothly, predictably, and freely.
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A.
United Nations
The United Nations is an international organization founded in 1945 that brings together most of the world’s countries to promote peace, security, cooperation, and human rights.
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B.
OECD
The OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) is an international organization of mostly high-income democracies that works to promote economic growth, trade, and policy coordination among its member countries.
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C.
Organisation for European Economic Co-operation
The Organisation for European Economic Co-operation was an intergovernmental body founded in 1948 to promote economic cooperation and reconstruction among Western European countries after World War II, and later evolved into the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
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D.
G20
The G20 is an international forum of major advanced and emerging economies that meets to coordinate global economic policy, financial stability, and sustainable development.
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E.
G7
G7 is an intergovernmental forum of seven major advanced economies that coordinates on global economic policy, security, and international issues.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
intergovernmental organization
ⓘ
international organization ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
World Trade Organization
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
WTO
|
| budgetCurrency | Swiss franc ⓘ |
| cameIntoForceOn | 1995-01-01 ⓘ |
| coreAgreement |
Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights
ⓘ
Dispute Settlement Understanding ⓘ General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ⓘ
surface form:
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994
General Agreement on Trade in Services ⓘ Trade Policy Review Mechanism ⓘ |
| currentDirectorGeneral | Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala ⓘ |
| directorGeneralStartDate | 2021-03-01 ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Uruguay Round participants ⓘ |
| foundedOn | 1995-01-01 ⓘ |
| foundingTreaty | Marrakesh Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization ⓘ |
| foundingTreatySignedOn | 1994-04-15 ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
administers WTO agreements
ⓘ
assists developing countries in trade policy ⓘ cooperates with other international organizations ⓘ forum for trade negotiations ⓘ handles trade disputes between members ⓘ monitors national trade policies ⓘ |
| hasLeader | Director-General of the World Trade Organization ⓘ |
| hasObserverStatusWith | United Nations General Assembly ⓘ |
| headquartersCountry | Switzerland ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Geneva ⓘ |
| legalStatus | treaty-based organization ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central European Time ⓘ |
| mainOrgan |
World Trade Organization
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Council for Trade in Goods
Council for Trade in Services ⓘ World Trade Organization self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Council for Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights
World Trade Organization self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Dispute Settlement Body
General Council ⓘ Ministerial Conference ⓘ World Trade Organization self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Trade Policy Review Body
|
| memberCount | 164 ⓘ |
| membershipType | sovereign states and customs territories ⓘ |
| officialLanguage |
English
ⓘ
French ⓘ Spanish ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | United Nations system (observer relationship, not specialized agency) ⓘ |
| policyArea |
international trade law
ⓘ
trade dispute settlement ⓘ trade liberalization ⓘ |
| predecessor |
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
ⓘ
surface form:
GATT 1947
|
| predecessorDirectorGeneral | Roberto Azevêdo ⓘ |
| purpose |
ensuring trade flows smoothly, predictably and freely
ⓘ
regulation of international trade ⓘ |
| regionServed | worldwide ⓘ |
| replaced | General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ⓘ |
| shortName | World Trade Organization self-link ⓘ |
| website | https://www.wto.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: World Trade Organization Description of subject: The World Trade Organization is an international body that regulates global trade rules between nations, aiming to ensure trade flows smoothly, predictably, and freely.
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