Common Crawl
E102298
Common Crawl is a massive, publicly available web archive that regularly crawls and stores petabytes of web page data for use in research and large-scale data analysis.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Common Crawl canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T871360 — 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: Common Crawl Context triple: [GPT-3, trainingDataSource, Common Crawl]
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A.
Internet Archive
The Internet Archive is a nonprofit digital library that preserves and provides free access to vast collections of websites, books, audio, video, and other cultural artifacts online.
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B.
Alexa Internet
Alexa Internet was a web traffic analysis and ranking company best known for providing website popularity metrics and analytics services before its shutdown in 2022.
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C.
World Wide Web
The World Wide Web is a global system of interlinked hypertext documents and resources accessed via the internet, enabling users worldwide to browse, share, and interact with information through web browsers.
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D.
Open Data Index
Open Data Index is a global initiative that evaluates and ranks the openness and accessibility of government data across countries.
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E.
WebText dataset
The WebText dataset is a large-scale corpus of web pages curated by OpenAI to train language models like GPT-2 on diverse, high-quality internet text.
- 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: Common Crawl Target entity description: Common Crawl is a massive, publicly available web archive that regularly crawls and stores petabytes of web page data for use in research and large-scale data analysis.
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A.
Internet Archive
The Internet Archive is a nonprofit digital library that preserves and provides free access to vast collections of websites, books, audio, video, and other cultural artifacts online.
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B.
Alexa Internet
Alexa Internet was a web traffic analysis and ranking company best known for providing website popularity metrics and analytics services before its shutdown in 2022.
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C.
World Wide Web
The World Wide Web is a global system of interlinked hypertext documents and resources accessed via the internet, enabling users worldwide to browse, share, and interact with information through web browsers.
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D.
Open Data Index
Open Data Index is a global initiative that evaluates and ranks the openness and accessibility of government data across countries.
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E.
WebText dataset
The WebText dataset is a large-scale corpus of web pages curated by OpenAI to train language models like GPT-2 on diverse, high-quality internet text.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
non-profit organization
ⓘ
open data project ⓘ web crawl corpus ⓘ |
| accessCost | free ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| coverage |
billions of URLs
ⓘ
worldwide web ⓘ |
| dataAccess | publicly available ⓘ |
| dataCollectionMethod | large-scale web crawling ⓘ |
| dataFormat |
WARC
ⓘ
WAT ⓘ WET ⓘ |
| dataType |
HTML content
ⓘ
metadata ⓘ outlinks ⓘ text extracts ⓘ web pages ⓘ |
| dataVolume | petabytes of data ⓘ |
| distributionPlatform |
Amazon Web Services Open Data
ⓘ
surface form:
AWS Open Data Sponsorship Program
Amazon S3 ⓘ HTTP download ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Gil Elbaz ⓘ |
| hasAPI | index and access tools provided by third parties ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
URL index
ⓘ
crawl archives ⓘ metadata files ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | multilingual ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
San Francisco, California, United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
San Francisco, California, United States
|
| inception | 2007 ⓘ |
| legalForm | 501(c)(3) non-profit organization ⓘ |
| license |
CC-BY for metadata
ⓘ
no known copyright restrictions on raw crawl data to the extent permitted by law ⓘ |
| mission | to build and maintain an open repository of web crawl data that is accessible to everyone ⓘ |
| name | Common Crawl self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor | providing one of the largest publicly accessible web corpora ⓘ |
| operatesOn | publicly accessible web pages ⓘ |
| purpose |
enable innovation with open web data
ⓘ
support large-scale data analysis ⓘ support research ⓘ |
| supportedBy |
donations
ⓘ
sponsorships ⓘ |
| updateFrequency |
regular crawls
ⓘ
typically monthly crawls in recent years ⓘ |
| useCase |
computational social science
ⓘ
data mining ⓘ machine learning training data ⓘ natural language processing research ⓘ search and information retrieval research ⓘ web graph analysis ⓘ web-scale language modeling ⓘ |
| website | https://commoncrawl.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: Common Crawl Description of subject: Common Crawl is a massive, publicly available web archive that regularly crawls and stores petabytes of web page data for use in research and large-scale data analysis.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.