GRAIN (organization)
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GRAIN is an international non-profit organization that supports small farmers and promotes biodiversity-based, community-controlled food systems, often through research and advocacy on land and seed rights.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| GRAIN | 3 |
| GRAIN (organization) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T153445 — 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: GRAIN (organization) Context triple: [Right Livelihood Award, hasLaureate, GRAIN (organization)]
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A.
Committee on World Food Security
The Committee on World Food Security is a United Nations intergovernmental platform that coordinates global efforts to achieve food security and improved nutrition for all.
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B.
CGIAR
CGIAR is a global partnership of agricultural research organizations focused on reducing rural poverty, improving food and nutrition security, and sustainably managing natural resources in developing countries.
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C.
Food and Agriculture Organization
The Food and Agriculture Organization is a United Nations specialized agency that leads international efforts to defeat hunger and improve food security, nutrition, and sustainable agriculture worldwide.
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D.
FAO Council
The FAO Council is the executive governing body of the Food and Agriculture Organization that oversees its programs, budget, and policy direction between sessions of the FAO Conference.
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E.
World Food Programme
The World Food Programme is the United Nations’ leading humanitarian organization focused on combating global hunger and providing emergency food assistance and nutrition support to vulnerable populations worldwide.
- 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: GRAIN (organization) Target entity description: GRAIN is an international non-profit organization that supports small farmers and promotes biodiversity-based, community-controlled food systems, often through research and advocacy on land and seed rights.
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A.
Committee on World Food Security
The Committee on World Food Security is a United Nations intergovernmental platform that coordinates global efforts to achieve food security and improved nutrition for all.
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B.
CGIAR
CGIAR is a global partnership of agricultural research organizations focused on reducing rural poverty, improving food and nutrition security, and sustainably managing natural resources in developing countries.
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C.
Food and Agriculture Organization
The Food and Agriculture Organization is a United Nations specialized agency that leads international efforts to defeat hunger and improve food security, nutrition, and sustainable agriculture worldwide.
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D.
FAO Council
The FAO Council is the executive governing body of the Food and Agriculture Organization that oversees its programs, budget, and policy direction between sessions of the FAO Conference.
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E.
World Food Programme
The World Food Programme is the United Nations’ leading humanitarian organization focused on combating global hunger and providing emergency food assistance and nutrition support to vulnerable populations worldwide.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
international organization
ⓘ
non-governmental organization ⓘ non-profit organization ⓘ |
| advocatesFor |
indigenous communities
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peasants ⓘ rural communities ⓘ small farmers ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
defend food sovereignty
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preserve agricultural biodiversity ⓘ protect small farmers' rights ⓘ |
| areaServed |
Third World
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surface form:
Global South
global ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith |
civil society organizations
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peasant organizations ⓘ social movements ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation |
GRAIN (organization)
self-link
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surface form:
GRAIN
|
| hasActivity |
advocacy
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campaigning ⓘ capacity building ⓘ networking ⓘ policy analysis ⓘ publishing reports ⓘ research ⓘ |
| hasFocus |
agrarian reform
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agricultural biodiversity ⓘ biodiversity-based food systems ⓘ community-controlled food systems ⓘ food sovereignty ⓘ land rights ⓘ seed rights ⓘ supporting small farmers ⓘ supporting small-scale food producers ⓘ |
| hasFullName |
GRAIN (organization)
self-link
ⓘ
surface form:
GRAIN
|
| languageOfWork |
English
ⓘ
French ⓘ Spanish ⓘ |
| opposes |
corporate control over food systems
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industrial agriculture ⓘ land grabbing ⓘ seed privatization ⓘ |
| promotes |
agroecology
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community control over natural resources ⓘ farmer-managed seed systems ⓘ local food systems ⓘ |
| publishes |
case studies
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online articles ⓘ policy briefs ⓘ research papers ⓘ |
| sector |
environmental protection
ⓘ
food and agriculture ⓘ rural development ⓘ |
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: GRAIN (organization) Description of subject: GRAIN is an international non-profit organization that supports small farmers and promotes biodiversity-based, community-controlled food systems, often through research and advocacy on land and seed rights.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
GRAIN
subject surface form:
GRAIN
this entity surface form:
GRAIN
subject surface form:
GRAIN
this entity surface form:
GRAIN