GiveWell
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GiveWell is a nonprofit charity evaluator that conducts in-depth research to identify and recommend highly cost-effective giving opportunities to donors.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| GiveWell canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4395604 — 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: GiveWell Context triple: [Cari Tuna, hasGivenFundingTo, GiveWell]
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A.
effective altruism
Effective altruism is a philosophical and social movement that uses evidence and reason to determine how individuals can do the most good, particularly through impactful charitable giving and career choices.
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B.
Good Ventures
Good Ventures is a philanthropic foundation co-founded by Facebook billionaire Dustin Moskovitz that focuses on high-impact, evidence-based charitable giving, often in partnership with the effective altruism community.
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C.
Charity
Charity is the alternative name for South Sister, a prominent volcanic peak in Oregon’s Cascade Range.
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D.
Giving 2.0
Giving 2.0 is a book by Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen that offers a modern, strategic approach to effective philanthropy for individual donors.
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E.
Skoll Global Threats Fund
Skoll Global Threats Fund is a philanthropic organization focused on addressing global challenges such as climate change, pandemics, water security, nuclear proliferation, and Middle East conflict through targeted grants and initiatives.
- 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: GiveWell Target entity description: GiveWell is a nonprofit charity evaluator that conducts in-depth research to identify and recommend highly cost-effective giving opportunities to donors.
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A.
effective altruism
Effective altruism is a philosophical and social movement that uses evidence and reason to determine how individuals can do the most good, particularly through impactful charitable giving and career choices.
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B.
Good Ventures
Good Ventures is a philanthropic foundation co-founded by Facebook billionaire Dustin Moskovitz that focuses on high-impact, evidence-based charitable giving, often in partnership with the effective altruism community.
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C.
Charity
Charity is the alternative name for South Sister, a prominent volcanic peak in Oregon’s Cascade Range.
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D.
Giving 2.0
Giving 2.0 is a book by Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen that offers a modern, strategic approach to effective philanthropy for individual donors.
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E.
Skoll Global Threats Fund
Skoll Global Threats Fund is a philanthropic organization focused on addressing global challenges such as climate change, pandemics, water security, nuclear proliferation, and Middle East conflict through targeted grants and initiatives.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
501(c)(3) organization
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charity evaluator ⓘ nonprofit organization ⓘ |
| associatedMovement |
effective altruism movement
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linked to:
effective altruism
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| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| dataTransparencyPolicy | publishes full reasoning and calculations for recommendations ⓘ |
| evaluationMethod |
cost-effectiveness analysis
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evidence-based review ⓘ room for more funding analysis ⓘ |
| focusArea |
effective altruism
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global development ⓘ global health ⓘ poverty alleviation ⓘ |
| formerHeadquartersLocation |
New York City
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San Francisco, California ⓘ
linked to:
San Francisco
|
| foundedBy |
Elie Hassenfeld
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Holden Karnofsky ⓘ |
| fundingSource |
grants from philanthropic foundations
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individual donations ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation | GiveWell ⓘ |
| hasDonationsDirected | hundreds of millions of US dollars ⓘ |
| hasFormerName | The Clear Fund ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Oakland, California
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linked to:
Oakland
|
| inception | 2007 ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| legalForm | nonprofit corporation ⓘ |
| missionStatement | to find outstanding giving opportunities and publish the full details of its analysis to help donors decide where to give ⓘ |
| notableConcept |
maximum impact fund
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top charities ⓘ unrestricted funding recommendations ⓘ |
| operatesIn | online ⓘ |
| primaryActivity |
charity evaluation
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grantmaking ⓘ philanthropic research ⓘ |
| publishes |
charity recommendations
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cost-effectiveness models ⓘ detailed charity reviews ⓘ |
| recommends |
Against Malaria Foundation
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END Fund deworming programs ⓘ Evidence Action’s Deworm the World Initiative ⓘ Helen Keller International ⓘ Malaria Consortium ⓘ Malaria Consortium’s seasonal malaria chemoprevention program ⓘ New Incentives ⓘ Sightsavers deworming programs ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
individual donors
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large donors ⓘ philanthropic foundations ⓘ |
| website | https://www.givewell.org ⓘ |
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: GiveWell Description of subject: GiveWell is a nonprofit charity evaluator that conducts in-depth research to identify and recommend highly cost-effective giving opportunities to donors.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.