Mozilla Foundation

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foundation nonprofit organization

The Mozilla Foundation is a nonprofit organization best known for promoting an open and accessible internet and stewarding projects like the Firefox web browser and the JavaScript language’s early development.

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All labels observed (4)

Label	Occurrences
Mozilla Foundation canonical	38
Mozilla Corporation	4
Mozilla Foundation (past)	1
Mozilla project	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T192077 — 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: Mozilla Foundation
Context triple: [JavaScript, developer, Mozilla Foundation]

A. World Wide Web Foundation
The World Wide Web Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing an open, accessible, and rights-based web for everyone worldwide.
B. Wikimedia Foundation
The Wikimedia Foundation is a nonprofit organization that hosts and supports Wikipedia and other free-knowledge projects worldwide.
C. Electronic Frontier Foundation
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is a leading nonprofit organization that defends civil liberties, privacy, and free expression in the digital world through legal action, advocacy, and technology.
D. Free Software Foundation
The Free Software Foundation is a nonprofit organization that promotes computer users' freedom and defends the rights of all software users through advocacy, licensing, and development of free software.
E. Open Knowledge Foundation
Open Knowledge Foundation is a global nonprofit organization that promotes open data and open knowledge to foster transparency, innovation, and civic engagement.
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: Mozilla Foundation
Target entity description: The Mozilla Foundation is a nonprofit organization best known for promoting an open and accessible internet and stewarding projects like the Firefox web browser and the JavaScript language’s early development.

A. World Wide Web Foundation
The World Wide Web Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing an open, accessible, and rights-based web for everyone worldwide.
B. Wikimedia Foundation
The Wikimedia Foundation is a nonprofit organization that hosts and supports Wikipedia and other free-knowledge projects worldwide.
C. Electronic Frontier Foundation
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is a leading nonprofit organization that defends civil liberties, privacy, and free expression in the digital world through legal action, advocacy, and technology.
D. Free Software Foundation
The Free Software Foundation is a nonprofit organization that promotes computer users' freedom and defends the rights of all software users through advocacy, licensing, and development of free software.
E. Open Knowledge Foundation
Open Knowledge Foundation is a global nonprofit organization that promotes open data and open knowledge to foster transparency, innovation, and civic engagement.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (46)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	foundation ⓘ nonprofit organization ⓘ
advocatesFor	internet freedom ⓘ net neutrality ⓘ open source software ⓘ user privacy ⓘ
associatedWith	JavaScript ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
developed	Mozilla Firefox ⓘ surface form: Firefox (through Mozilla community and Mozilla Corporation)
focusesOn	internet policy ⓘ open source community support ⓘ technology advocacy ⓘ
foundedBy	Brendan Eich ⓘ Mitchell Baker ⓘ Mozilla ⓘ surface form: Mozilla Organization
hasKeyPerson	Mark Surman ⓘ Mitchell Baker ⓘ
headquartersLocation	California, United States ⓘ surface form: California Mountain View ⓘ surface form: Mountain View, California United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
inception	2003 ⓘ
industry	internet ⓘ technology ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	English ⓘ
legalForm	501(c)(3) nonprofit ⓘ
motto	Internet for people, not profit ⓘ
name	Mozilla Foundation self-link ⓘ
nonprofitStatus	charitable organization ⓘ
nonprofitType	public-benefit organization ⓘ
operates	Mozilla ⓘ surface form: Mozilla Corporation
oversees	Mozilla ⓘ surface form: Mozilla project
owns	Mozilla ⓘ surface form: Mozilla Corporation
promoted	open web standards ⓘ
purpose	promotion of an open and accessible internet ⓘ public benefit ⓘ
shortName	Mozilla ⓘ
stewards	Bugzilla ⓘ Mozilla Firefox ⓘ surface form: Firefox Mozilla Firefox ⓘ surface form: Firefox web browser MDN Web Docs ⓘ Thunderbird email client ⓘ
subsidiary	Mozilla ⓘ surface form: Mozilla Corporation
supportsProject	Mozilla Firefox ⓘ surface form: Firefox Rust programming language community ⓘ open web education ⓘ
website	https://www.mozilla.org/ ⓘ

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Referenced by (44)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

JavaScript → developer → Mozilla Foundation ⓘ

Netscape Communications Corporation → influenced → Mozilla Foundation ⓘ

this entity surface form: Mozilla project

Brendan Eich → employer → Mozilla Foundation ⓘ

this entity surface form: Mozilla Corporation

Brendan Eich → coFounded → Mozilla Foundation ⓘ

this entity surface form: Mozilla Corporation

Brendan Eich → boardMemberOf → Mozilla Foundation ⓘ

Mozilla Firefox → developer → Mozilla Foundation ⓘ

Mozilla Foundation → name → Mozilla Foundation self-link ⓘ

Mitchell → boardMemberOf → Mozilla Foundation ⓘ

subject surface form: Mitchell Kapor

Tim O'Reilly → boardMemberOf → Mozilla Foundation ⓘ

this entity surface form: Mozilla Foundation (past)

Mountain View → hasHeadquartersOf → Mozilla Foundation ⓘ

open-source movement → associatedWithOrganization → Mozilla Foundation ⓘ

Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group → foundedBy → Mozilla Foundation ⓘ

Alan Davidson → employer → Mozilla Foundation ⓘ

Mozilla → foundationOf → Mozilla Foundation ⓘ

this entity surface form: Mozilla Corporation

Mozilla → operatedBy → Mozilla Foundation ⓘ

Eich → coFounderOf → Mozilla Foundation ⓘ

subject surface form: Brendan Eich

Thunderbird → developer → Mozilla Foundation ⓘ

MPL 2.0 → publisher → Mozilla Foundation ⓘ

MPL 2.0 → author → Mozilla Foundation ⓘ

MPL 2.0 → maintainedBy → Mozilla Foundation ⓘ

Gecko → developer → Mozilla Foundation ⓘ

this entity surface form: Mozilla Corporation

Thunderbird email client → originalDeveloper → Mozilla Foundation ⓘ

subject surface form: Thunderbird

Bugzilla → developer → Mozilla Foundation ⓘ

MDN Web Docs → operatedBy → Mozilla Foundation ⓘ

MDN Web Docs → ownedBy → Mozilla Foundation ⓘ

Mark Surman → employer → Mozilla Foundation ⓘ

Mark Surman → affiliation → Mozilla Foundation ⓘ

Mountain View, California, United States → headquartersOf → Mozilla Foundation ⓘ

Mitchell Baker → employer → Mozilla Foundation ⓘ

Firefox Add-ons → operatedBy → Mozilla Foundation ⓘ

Mozilla Messaging → parentOrganization → Mozilla Foundation ⓘ

Mozilla Messaging → foundedBy → Mozilla Foundation ⓘ

Firefox OS → developerOrganization → Mozilla Foundation ⓘ

Common Voice → developer → Mozilla Foundation ⓘ

Common Voice → maintainer → Mozilla Foundation ⓘ

Gecko layout engine → developer → Mozilla Foundation ⓘ

subject surface form: Gecko

XUL user interface language → developer → Mozilla Foundation ⓘ

subject surface form: XUL

Common Voice dataset → sponsor → Mozilla Foundation ⓘ

Mozilla VPN → brandOwner → Mozilla Foundation ⓘ

Mozilla Manifesto → author → Mozilla Foundation ⓘ

Mozilla Manifesto → publisher → Mozilla Foundation ⓘ

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