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University of Washington

University lab · Research lab · Seattle, Washington

The University of Washington is a public university founded in 1861, with campuses in Seattle, Bothell, and Tacoma. Washington state law designates it as the state university established in Seattle.12Fact reviewed Oct 1, 2026

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Key facts

Legal name
University of Washington2
Ownership (separate from openness)
Public institution

Recorded classification; fact-level ownership verification pending.

Legal form
State university designated by RCW 28B.20.010 and governed by a board of regents whose members are appointed by the governor of Washington with the consent of the state senate (RCW 28B.20.100).23
Headquarters
Seattle, Washington21
Other documented locations
Bothell, Washington1; Tacoma, Washington1
Founded
18611
Sectors
Research

What is and isn’t public

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Products

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Cataloged artifacts

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No artifact records in this catalog list University of Washington. That is not evidence that none exist — only that none have been reviewed here.

Notable documented facts

  • OpenThoughts, a collaboration that publishes open post-training datasets for reasoning and agent models (including OpenThoughts3-1.2M), lists the University of Washington among the institutions whose researchers lead it. The University of Washington is also among the affiliations on the OpenThoughts paper (arXiv 2506.04178).456

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What this catalog does not know

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  • Products: none documented in this record.
  • Openness: no summary has been assessed for this organization.
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U.S. eligibility

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Eligible · basis: U.S. nonprofit or lab

Washington state law (RCW 28B.20.010) designates the state university established in Seattle as the University of Washington, and RCW 28B.20.100 provides for its board of regents appointed by the governor. The university describes itself as a public university.231

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Eligibility policy

Sources

  1. 1.
    About the UW | University of Washington (external site: washington.edu)

    University of Washington · Official page · accessed Oct 1, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 1, 2026

  2. 2.
    RCW 28B.20.010 Designation (external site: app.leg.wa.gov)

    Washington State Legislature · Official page · accessed Oct 1, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 1, 2026

  3. 3.
    RCW 28B.20.100 Regents—Appointment—Terms—Vacancies—Quorum (external site: app.leg.wa.gov)

    Washington State Legislature · Official page · accessed Oct 1, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 1, 2026

  4. 4.
    OpenThoughts (external site: openthoughts.ai)

    OpenThoughts · Official page · accessed Oct 1, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 1, 2026

  5. 5.
    open-thoughts/open-thoughts (GitHub repository README) (external site: github.com)

    OpenThoughts · Repository · accessed Oct 1, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 1, 2026

  6. 6.
    OpenThoughts: Data Recipes for Reasoning Models (arXiv 2506.04178v2) (external site: arxiv.org)

    OpenThoughts team · Paper · published Jun 5, 2025 · accessed Oct 1, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 1, 2026

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