Gecko
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Gecko is Mozilla’s open-source web browser engine that powers the rendering and functionality of Firefox and several other applications.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gecko canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1166499 — 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: Gecko Context triple: [Mozilla Firefox, engine, Gecko]
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A.
Boas
Boas is a surname most prominently associated with Franz Boas, the pioneering anthropologist often regarded as the father of American anthropology.
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B.
Grenouilles
Grenouilles is one of the prestigious Grand Cru vineyard sites in the Chablis wine region of Burgundy, France, known for producing high-quality Chardonnay wines.
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C.
Frog
Frog is the internal codename used by Apple for the Macintosh SE personal computer during its development.
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D.
Tarantula
Tarantula is an experimental, stream-of-consciousness prose poetry book by Bob Dylan, reflecting his surreal and avant-garde literary style of the 1960s.
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E.
Richie Gecko
Richie Gecko is a violent, psychopathic criminal and one half of the infamous Gecko brothers in the horror-crime franchise "From Dusk Till Dawn."
- 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: Gecko Target entity description: Gecko is Mozilla’s open-source web browser engine that powers the rendering and functionality of Firefox and several other applications.
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A.
Boas
Boas is a surname most prominently associated with Franz Boas, the pioneering anthropologist often regarded as the father of American anthropology.
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B.
Grenouilles
Grenouilles is one of the prestigious Grand Cru vineyard sites in the Chablis wine region of Burgundy, France, known for producing high-quality Chardonnay wines.
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C.
Frog
Frog is the internal codename used by Apple for the Macintosh SE personal computer during its development.
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D.
Tarantula
Tarantula is an experimental, stream-of-consciousness prose poetry book by Bob Dylan, reflecting his surreal and avant-garde literary style of the 1960s.
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E.
Richie Gecko
Richie Gecko is a violent, psychopathic criminal and one half of the infamous Gecko brothers in the horror-crime franchise "From Dusk Till Dawn."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
layout engine
ⓘ
open-source software ⓘ web browser engine ⓘ |
| componentOf |
Mozilla Firefox
ⓘ
surface form:
Firefox browser platform
|
| developer |
Mozilla Foundation
ⓘ
surface form:
Mozilla Corporation
Mozilla Foundation ⓘ |
| feature |
accessibility APIs support
ⓘ
hardware-accelerated rendering ⓘ incremental layout ⓘ internationalization and localization support ⓘ multi-process architecture (Electrolysis / e10s) ⓘ sandboxing ⓘ |
| implements |
CSS3 specification (large subset)
ⓘ
ECMAScript ⓘ
surface form:
ECMAScript (JavaScript) specification
HTML5 ⓘ
surface form:
HTML5 specification (large subset)
|
| initialReleaseYear | 1997 ⓘ |
| license |
GNU General Public License
ⓘ
surface form:
GPL
GNU Lesser General Public License ⓘ
surface form:
LGPL
MPL 2.0 ⓘ |
| maintainer |
Mozilla
ⓘ
surface form:
Mozilla community
|
| originalName |
Gecko layout engine
ⓘ
surface form:
NGLayout
|
| partOf |
Mozilla
ⓘ
surface form:
Mozilla application platform
|
| programmingLanguage |
C++
ⓘ
Rust ⓘ |
| replaces | Netscape layout engine (historical) ⓘ |
| repository | https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/ ⓘ |
| supports |
CSS
ⓘ
DOM ⓘ HTML ⓘ HTTP ⓘ JavaScript ⓘ SVG ⓘ WebAssembly specification ⓘ
surface form:
WebAssembly
WebGL ⓘ |
| supportsAPI |
Service Workers
ⓘ
WebExtensions API ⓘ
surface form:
WebExtensions (via Firefox)
WebRTC ⓘ |
| supportsPlatform |
Android
ⓘ
Linux ⓘ Windows ⓘ macOS ⓘ |
| supportsStandard |
W3C web standards
ⓘ
HTML Living Standard ⓘ
surface form:
WHATWG HTML Living Standard
|
| usedBy |
Mozilla Firefox
ⓘ
Pale Moon (historically, via Goanna fork) ⓘ Mozilla SeaMonkey ⓘ
surface form:
SeaMonkey
Thunderbird ⓘ The Tor Project ⓘ
surface form:
Tor Browser
Waterfox ⓘ |
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: Gecko Description of subject: Gecko is Mozilla’s open-source web browser engine that powers the rendering and functionality of Firefox and several other applications.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.