Self-Employed Women’s Association of India
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The Self-Employed Women’s Association of India is a pioneering trade union and movement that organizes and empowers poor, self-employed women workers across the informal sector to secure their rights, livelihoods, and social protection.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Self-Employed Women’s Association of India canonical | 2 |
| SEWA Academy | 1 |
| SEWA Bank | 1 |
| SEWA Bharat | 1 |
| SEWA cooperatives | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2242033 — 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: Self-Employed Women’s Association of India Context triple: [Ela Bhatt, founded, Self-Employed Women’s Association of India]
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A.
All India Mahila Congress
All India Mahila Congress is the women’s wing of the Indian National Congress, focusing on mobilizing and representing women in Indian politics and public life.
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B.
Equality League of Self-Supporting Women
The Equality League of Self-Supporting Women was a New York–based suffrage organization that mobilized wage-earning and working-class women into the fight for women’s voting rights in the early 20th century.
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C.
Rashtra Sevika Samiti
Rashtra Sevika Samiti is a Hindu nationalist women’s organization in India that serves as the female counterpart to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).
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D.
National Council of Women
The National Council of Women was the official mass women’s organization in communist Romania, aligned with and controlled by the Romanian Communist Party to promote state policies on gender, labor, and social life.
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E.
Centre of Indian Trade Unions
The Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) is a major left-oriented national trade union federation in India, historically aligned with the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and active in organizing and advocating for workers’ rights across various sectors.
- 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: Self-Employed Women’s Association of India Target entity description: The Self-Employed Women’s Association of India is a pioneering trade union and movement that organizes and empowers poor, self-employed women workers across the informal sector to secure their rights, livelihoods, and social protection.
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A.
All India Mahila Congress
All India Mahila Congress is the women’s wing of the Indian National Congress, focusing on mobilizing and representing women in Indian politics and public life.
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B.
Equality League of Self-Supporting Women
The Equality League of Self-Supporting Women was a New York–based suffrage organization that mobilized wage-earning and working-class women into the fight for women’s voting rights in the early 20th century.
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C.
Rashtra Sevika Samiti
Rashtra Sevika Samiti is a Hindu nationalist women’s organization in India that serves as the female counterpart to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).
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D.
National Council of Women
The National Council of Women was the official mass women’s organization in communist Romania, aligned with and controlled by the Romanian Communist Party to promote state policies on gender, labor, and social life.
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E.
Centre of Indian Trade Unions
The Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) is a major left-oriented national trade union federation in India, historically aligned with the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and active in organizing and advocating for workers’ rights across various sectors.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
membership-based organization
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non-governmental organization ⓘ social movement ⓘ trade union ⓘ |
| country | India ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cooperative development
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informal sector ⓘ labour rights ⓘ microfinance ⓘ poverty alleviation ⓘ social security ⓘ women’s rights ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
access to credit for poor women
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capacity building and training for women workers ⓘ childcare services for working women ⓘ collective bargaining for informal workers ⓘ health insurance for informal workers ⓘ |
| foundedAs | women’s wing of Textile Labour Association ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Ela Bhatt ⓘ |
| foundingLocation | Ahmedabad ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Self-Employed Women’s Association of India
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surface form:
SEWA Academy
Self-Employed Women’s Association of India self-linksurface differs ⓘ
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SEWA Bank
Self-Employed Women’s Association of India self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
SEWA Bharat
Self-Employed Women’s Association of India self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
SEWA cooperatives
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| headquartersLocation |
Ahmedabad
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Gujarat ⓘ India ⓘ |
| inception | 1972 ⓘ |
| keyPerson |
Ela Bhatt
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Reema Nanavaty ⓘ |
| legalForm | registered trade union ⓘ |
| memberOf |
International Trade Union Confederation
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International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers’ Associations ⓘ |
| motto | self-reliance ⓘ |
| movementSlogan |
organize, struggle, develop
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struggle and development ⓘ |
| notableAward |
Decent Work Agenda
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surface form:
ILO Decent Work recognition
Right Livelihood Award ⓘ |
| operatesIn | multiple Indian states ⓘ |
| purpose |
empowerment of poor women in the informal economy
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improving livelihoods of women workers ⓘ organizing self-employed women workers ⓘ providing social protection to informal women workers ⓘ securing workers’ rights ⓘ |
| unionRepresents |
agricultural labourers
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construction workers ⓘ domestic workers ⓘ home-based workers ⓘ self-employed women ⓘ small producers ⓘ street vendors ⓘ waste pickers ⓘ |
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: Self-Employed Women’s Association of India Description of subject: The Self-Employed Women’s Association of India is a pioneering trade union and movement that organizes and empowers poor, self-employed women workers across the informal sector to secure their rights, livelihoods, and social protection.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Self-Employed Women’s Association of India
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Self-Employed Women’s Association of India
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SEWA Bank
Self-Employed Women’s Association of India
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Self-Employed Women’s Association of India
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SEWA cooperatives
Self-Employed Women’s Association of India
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hasPart
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Self-Employed Women’s Association of India
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SEWA Academy
Self-Employed Women’s Association of India
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Self-Employed Women’s Association of India
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this entity surface form:
SEWA Bharat
subject surface form:
Ela Bhatt