Distributed Proofreaders
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Distributed Proofreaders is an online volunteer-based project that converts public domain books into high-quality eBooks, primarily for inclusion in Project Gutenberg’s digital library.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Distributed Proofreaders canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3571140 — 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)
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Target entity: Distributed Proofreaders Context triple: [Project Gutenberg, hasProject, Distributed Proofreaders]
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A.
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg is a pioneering digital library that offers free access to thousands of public-domain ebooks in multiple formats.
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B.
Wikisource
Wikisource is a free online digital library of public domain and freely licensed texts that anyone can read and help transcribe.
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C.
Dover Publications
Dover Publications is an American publishing company known for producing inexpensive reprints of classic works in science, mathematics, literature, and the arts.
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D.
Gutenberg
Gutenberg is the block-based content editor introduced in WordPress to enable more flexible, visual page and post creation.
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E.
Open Library project
The Open Library project is an online initiative to create a comprehensive, publicly accessible catalog of every book ever published, offering digital borrowing and reading where possible.
- 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: Distributed Proofreaders Target entity description: Distributed Proofreaders is an online volunteer-based project that converts public domain books into high-quality eBooks, primarily for inclusion in Project Gutenberg’s digital library.
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A.
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg is a pioneering digital library that offers free access to thousands of public-domain ebooks in multiple formats.
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B.
Wikisource
Wikisource is a free online digital library of public domain and freely licensed texts that anyone can read and help transcribe.
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C.
Dover Publications
Dover Publications is an American publishing company known for producing inexpensive reprints of classic works in science, mathematics, literature, and the arts.
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D.
Gutenberg
Gutenberg is the block-based content editor introduced in WordPress to enable more flexible, visual page and post creation.
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E.
Open Library project
The Open Library project is an online initiative to create a comprehensive, publicly accessible catalog of every book ever published, offering digital borrowing and reading where possible.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crowdsourcing platform
ⓘ
digital humanities project ⓘ nonprofit organization ⓘ online volunteer project ⓘ |
| abbreviation | DP ⓘ |
| affiliatedWith | Project Gutenberg ⓘ |
| contentLicense | public domain ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| endDestinationOfMostEbooks | Project Gutenberg ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
optical character recognition correction
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public domain literature ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Charles Franks ⓘ |
| hasCommunity | international volunteer base ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
forums for volunteers
ⓘ
image and text side-by-side display ⓘ project management system for books ⓘ statistics and progress tracking ⓘ |
| hasNotableRecognition | major contributor of texts to Project Gutenberg ⓘ |
| hasProcess |
first-round proofreading
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formatting round ⓘ post-processing ⓘ second-round proofreading ⓘ |
| hasUserRegistration |
free of charge
ⓘ
required for proofreading ⓘ |
| hasVolunteerRole |
formatter
ⓘ
post-processor ⓘ project manager ⓘ proofreader ⓘ site administrator ⓘ |
| inception | 2000 ⓘ |
| incorporatedIn |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| legalStatus | nonprofit corporation ⓘ |
| mainOutput |
HTML eBooks
ⓘ
plain text eBooks ⓘ proofread eBooks ⓘ |
| name | Distributed Proofreaders self-link ⓘ |
| operatesOn | round-based proofreading system ⓘ |
| operationalModel |
crowdsourced text correction
ⓘ
distributed proofreading ⓘ |
| purpose |
convert public domain books into high-quality eBooks
ⓘ
support Project Gutenberg ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
academic studies on crowdsourcing
ⓘ
media coverage about digital libraries ⓘ |
| typicalSourceMaterial |
OCR text
ⓘ
scanned page images ⓘ |
| uses | web-based proofreading interface ⓘ |
| website | https://www.pgdp.net/ ⓘ |
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: Distributed Proofreaders Description of subject: Distributed Proofreaders is an online volunteer-based project that converts public domain books into high-quality eBooks, primarily for inclusion in Project Gutenberg’s digital library.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.