open-source movement
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The open-source movement is a collaborative software development and licensing philosophy that promotes freely accessible, modifiable, and shareable source code, fostering community-driven innovation and transparency.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| open source movement | 3 |
| open-source movement canonical | 2 |
| open-source software movement | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T327524 — 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: open-source movement Context triple: [Eric Raymond, influenced, open-source movement]
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A.
free software movement
The free software movement is a social and political campaign that advocates for users’ freedom to run, study, modify, and share software, prominently championed by Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation.
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B.
Free Software, Free Society
Free Software, Free Society is a collection of essays by Richard Stallman that articulates the philosophy, ethics, and political implications of the free software movement.
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C.
OpenCourseWare movement
The OpenCourseWare movement is a global initiative in which universities and educators freely share course materials and educational resources online to promote open access to knowledge.
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D.
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.
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E.
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.
- 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: open-source movement Target entity description: The open-source movement is a collaborative software development and licensing philosophy that promotes freely accessible, modifiable, and shareable source code, fostering community-driven innovation and transparency.
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A.
free software movement
The free software movement is a social and political campaign that advocates for users’ freedom to run, study, modify, and share software, prominently championed by Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation.
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B.
Free Software, Free Society
Free Software, Free Society is a collection of essays by Richard Stallman that articulates the philosophy, ethics, and political implications of the free software movement.
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C.
OpenCourseWare movement
The OpenCourseWare movement is a global initiative in which universities and educators freely share course materials and educational resources online to promote open access to knowledge.
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D.
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.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (89)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
licensing philosophy
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social movement ⓘ software development methodology ⓘ |
| advocates |
interoperability
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open development processes in government and public sector ⓘ open standards ⓘ vendor independence ⓘ |
| associatedWithOrganization |
Apache Software Foundation
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Canonical Ltd. ⓘ Debian ⓘ
surface form:
Debian Project
Eclipse Foundation ⓘ Free Software Foundation ⓘ Linux Foundation ⓘ Mozilla Foundation ⓘ Open Source Initiative ⓘ Red Hat ⓘ |
| coinedTerm | open source ⓘ |
| coinedTermInYear | 1998 ⓘ |
| criticizedFor |
maintainer burnout
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sustainability challenges ⓘ unequal corporate influence ⓘ |
| emergedIn | 1990s ⓘ |
| encourages |
code sharing
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collaborative software development ⓘ community-driven innovation ⓘ forking and branching of projects ⓘ transparent development processes ⓘ |
| hasCorePrinciple |
access to source code
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collaborative development ⓘ freedom to modify software ⓘ freedom to redistribute software ⓘ meritocracy ⓘ peer review ⓘ transparency ⓘ |
| hasEconomicModel |
crowdfunding
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dual licensing ⓘ open core ⓘ sponsorship and donations ⓘ support and services ⓘ |
| hasImpactOn |
cloud computing
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mobile operating systems ⓘ programming languages ⓘ software industry ⓘ web infrastructure ⓘ |
| hasKeyFigure |
Bruce Perens
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Eric Raymond ⓘ
surface form:
Eric S. Raymond
Lawrence Lessig ⓘ Linus Torvalds ⓘ Richard Stallman ⓘ Tim O'Reilly ⓘ |
| hasNotableProject |
Android
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surface form:
Android operating system
Apache Software Foundation ⓘ
surface form:
Apache HTTP Server
GNU userland ⓘ
surface form:
GNU operating system
Git ⓘ Kubernetes ⓘ LibreOffice ⓘ Linux kernel ⓘ Mozilla Firefox ⓘ MySQL ⓘ PHP ⓘ PostgreSQL ⓘ Python ⓘ
surface form:
Python programming language
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| influenced |
free culture movement
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surface form:
open access movement
open data movement ⓘ open government movement ⓘ open hardware movement ⓘ open science movement ⓘ |
| influencedBy | free software movement ⓘ |
| opposes | proprietary software restrictions ⓘ |
| promotes | open-source software ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
collaborative innovation
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commons-based peer production ⓘ knowledge commons ⓘ peer production ⓘ |
| relatedTo | free software movement ⓘ |
| reliesOn |
distributed collaboration tools
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version control systems ⓘ |
| supportsLicense |
Apache License 2.0
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surface form:
Apache License
BSD license ⓘ
surface form:
BSD licenses
GNU General Public License ⓘ MIT License ⓘ MPL 2.0 ⓘ
surface form:
Mozilla Public License
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| supportsLicenseType |
copyleft licenses
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permissive licenses ⓘ |
| usesDefinitionFrom |
Open Source Initiative
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surface form:
Open Source Definition
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| usesInfrastructure |
code review systems
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issue trackers ⓘ mailing lists ⓘ public code hosting platforms ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: open-source movement Description of subject: The open-source movement is a collaborative software development and licensing philosophy that promotes freely accessible, modifiable, and shareable source code, fostering community-driven innovation and transparency.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
open source movement
this entity surface form:
open-source software movement
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open source movement
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open source movement