open government licence (United Kingdom)
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The Open Government Licence (United Kingdom) is a permissive copyright license that allows free use, adaptation, and sharing of UK public sector information with minimal conditions such as attribution.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Open Government Licence | 2 |
| Open Government Licence (UK) | 1 |
| open government licence (United Kingdom) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6378364 — 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 government licence (United Kingdom) Context triple: [Crown copyright, relatedTo, open government licence (United Kingdom)]
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A.
OPEN Government Data Act
The OPEN Government Data Act is a U.S. law that requires federal agencies to manage their information as open, machine-readable data by default to promote transparency, accessibility, and reuse.
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B.
World Bank Open Data license
The World Bank Open Data license is a permissive data license that allows free access, use, and redistribution of World Bank datasets, typically with requirements for attribution and proper citation.
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C.
Office of Public Sector Information
The Office of Public Sector Information was a UK government body responsible for overseeing the re-use and licensing of public sector information and promoting open access to official data.
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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.
UK government’s Public Sector Transparency Board
The UK government’s Public Sector Transparency Board was an advisory body established to promote open data and transparency across the public sector, helping to shape policies on releasing government information to the public.
- 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 government licence (United Kingdom) Target entity description: The Open Government Licence (United Kingdom) is a permissive copyright license that allows free use, adaptation, and sharing of UK public sector information with minimal conditions such as attribution.
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A.
OPEN Government Data Act
The OPEN Government Data Act is a U.S. law that requires federal agencies to manage their information as open, machine-readable data by default to promote transparency, accessibility, and reuse.
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B.
World Bank Open Data license
The World Bank Open Data license is a permissive data license that allows free access, use, and redistribution of World Bank datasets, typically with requirements for attribution and proper citation.
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C.
Office of Public Sector Information
The Office of Public Sector Information was a UK government body responsible for overseeing the re-use and licensing of public sector information and promoting open access to official data.
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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.
UK government’s Public Sector Transparency Board
The UK government’s Public Sector Transparency Board was an advisory body established to promote open data and transparency across the public sector, helping to shape policies on releasing government information to the public.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
copyright license
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open government data license ⓘ permissive license ⓘ |
| administeredBy | The National Archives (United Kingdom) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| allows |
adaptation
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commercial use ⓘ copying ⓘ distribution ⓘ publishing ⓘ |
| appliesTo | UK public sector information ⓘ |
| compatibleWith | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (in many reuse scenarios) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| encourages | open data publication ⓘ |
| excludes |
departmental or public body logos
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military insignia ⓘ personal data ⓘ royal arms and royal names ⓘ third-party rights not owned by the Crown or public body ⓘ |
| governingBody | UK Government NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAttributionRequirement |
include statement that information is licensed under the Open Government Licence
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provide URI or link to the licence text ⓘ |
| introducedBy | UK Government Licensing Framework NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| latestVersion | OGL v3.0 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| legalSystem |
law of England and Wales
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law of Northern Ireland ⓘ law of Scotland ⓘ |
| licenseType |
non-exclusive
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royalty-free ⓘ worldwide ⓘ |
| prohibits |
misleading use of information
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suggesting official endorsement ⓘ |
| purpose | facilitate reuse of public sector information ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
open access to public sector information
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open government data ⓘ |
| requires |
attribution
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indication of source ⓘ |
| scope |
copyright
ⓘ
database rights ⓘ |
| shortName | OGL NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectOf | UK Government Open Data policy ⓘ |
| usedBy |
UK central government departments
NERFINISHED
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local authorities in the United Kingdom ⓘ non-departmental public bodies in the United Kingdom ⓘ |
| version |
OGL v1.0
NERFINISHED
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OGL v2.0 NERFINISHED ⓘ OGL v3.0 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| website | https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/ ⓘ |
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: open government licence (United Kingdom) Description of subject: The Open Government Licence (United Kingdom) is a permissive copyright license that allows free use, adaptation, and sharing of UK public sector information with minimal conditions such as attribution.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Open Government Licence (UK)
Re-use of Public Sector Information Regulations 2005
→
relatedTo
→
open government licence (United Kingdom)
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this entity surface form:
Open Government Licence
this entity surface form:
Open Government Licence