Blender Foundation
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The Blender Foundation is a non-profit organization that oversees the development and promotion of the open-source 3D creation suite Blender and supports its user and developer community.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Blender Foundation canonical | 11 |
| Blender Institute | 5 |
| Blender Foundation board | 1 |
| Blender core developers | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8823000 — 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: Blender Foundation Context triple: [Blender, developer, Blender Foundation]
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A.
Blender
Blender is a free and open-source 3D creation suite widely used for modeling, animation, rendering, and visual effects in film, games, and design.
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B.
BLI
BLI is the commonly used abbreviation for the OECD Better Life Index, an interactive tool that compares well-being across countries using multiple quality-of-life indicators.
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C.
GNOME Foundation
The GNOME Foundation is a non-profit organization that oversees and supports the development, promotion, and community governance of the GNOME desktop environment and related free software projects.
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D.
Mozilla Foundation
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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E.
The Document Foundation
The Document Foundation is a non-profit organization that oversees the development of the LibreOffice open-source office suite and promotes free, community-driven productivity 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: Blender Foundation Target entity description: The Blender Foundation is a non-profit organization that oversees the development and promotion of the open-source 3D creation suite Blender and supports its user and developer community.
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A.
Blender
Blender is a free and open-source 3D creation suite widely used for modeling, animation, rendering, and visual effects in film, games, and design.
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B.
BLI
BLI is the commonly used abbreviation for the OECD Better Life Index, an interactive tool that compares well-being across countries using multiple quality-of-life indicators.
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C.
GNOME Foundation
The GNOME Foundation is a non-profit organization that oversees and supports the development, promotion, and community governance of the GNOME desktop environment and related free software projects.
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D.
Mozilla Foundation
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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E.
The Document Foundation
The Document Foundation is a non-profit organization that oversees the development of the LibreOffice open-source office suite and promotes free, community-driven productivity software.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
foundation
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non-profit organization ⓘ |
| affiliatedWith |
Blender Institute
ⓘ
linked to:
Blender Foundation
|
| businessModel |
development fund
ⓘ
donation-funded ⓘ sponsorship-funded ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith |
film studios
ⓘ
game studios ⓘ graphics hardware vendors ⓘ open-source communities ⓘ |
| country | Netherlands ⓘ |
| field |
3D computer graphics software
ⓘ
computer graphics ⓘ open-source software ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
3D content creation
ⓘ
3D modeling ⓘ animation ⓘ compositing ⓘ game creation ⓘ rendering ⓘ video editing ⓘ visual effects ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Ton Roosendaal ⓘ |
| founder | Ton Roosendaal ⓘ |
| hasSubsidiary |
Blender Institute
ⓘ
linked to:
Blender Foundation
|
| headquartersLocation |
Amsterdam, Netherlands
ⓘ
linked to:
Amsterdam
|
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| licenseModelSupported | free and open-source software ⓘ |
| name | Blender Foundation ⓘ |
| nonProfitType | public-benefit organization ⓘ |
| operates | Blender.org website ⓘ |
| operatingArea | worldwide ⓘ |
| organizes |
Blender Conference
ⓘ
Blender events ⓘ |
| product | Blender ⓘ |
| purpose |
oversee development of Blender
ⓘ
promote Blender ⓘ support Blender developer community ⓘ support Blender user community ⓘ |
| softwareLicenseUsed | GNU General Public License ⓘ |
| supports |
cross-platform development
ⓘ
open standards ⓘ |
| supportsProject |
Blender
ⓘ
Blender Documentation ⓘ
linked to:
Blender
Blender community projects ⓘ |
| topicOf |
Blender development roadmap
ⓘ
Blender release planning ⓘ |
| website | https://www.blender.org ⓘ |
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: Blender Foundation Description of subject: The Blender Foundation is a non-profit organization that oversees the development and promotion of the open-source 3D creation suite Blender and supports its user and developer community.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Blender Foundation
linked to: Blender Foundation
linked to: Blender Foundation
linked to: Blender Foundation
linked to: Blender Foundation
linked to: Blender Foundation