WikiWikiWeb
E139360
WikiWikiWeb is the first-ever wiki website, launched in 1995 as a collaborative platform for software developers to share ideas and documentation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| WikiWikiWeb canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1224355 — 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: WikiWikiWeb Context triple: [Ward Cunningham, created, WikiWikiWeb]
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A.
Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a free, collaboratively edited online encyclopedia that allows users worldwide to create and modify its articles.
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B.
Wikia
Wikia is a for-profit, community-driven wiki hosting platform (now known as Fandom) that provides free tools for fans to create and manage collaborative encyclopedias on their favorite topics.
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C.
WWW
WWW is the standard abbreviation for World Weather Watch, a global program coordinated by the World Meteorological Organization to support international weather observation, data exchange, and forecasting.
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D.
Meta-Wiki
Meta-Wiki is a central coordination and documentation wiki for Wikimedia projects, used for planning, discussion, and global community collaboration.
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E.
Wikiversity
Wikiversity is a Wikimedia Foundation project that provides a free, collaborative platform for creating and using educational resources and learning materials.
- 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: WikiWikiWeb Target entity description: WikiWikiWeb is the first-ever wiki website, launched in 1995 as a collaborative platform for software developers to share ideas and documentation.
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A.
Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a free, collaboratively edited online encyclopedia that allows users worldwide to create and modify its articles.
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B.
Wikia
Wikia is a for-profit, community-driven wiki hosting platform (now known as Fandom) that provides free tools for fans to create and manage collaborative encyclopedias on their favorite topics.
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C.
WWW
WWW is the standard abbreviation for World Weather Watch, a global program coordinated by the World Meteorological Organization to support international weather observation, data exchange, and forecasting.
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D.
Meta-Wiki
Meta-Wiki is a central coordination and documentation wiki for Wikimedia projects, used for planning, discussion, and global community collaboration.
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E.
Wikiversity
Wikiversity is a Wikimedia Foundation project that provides a free, collaborative platform for creating and using educational resources and learning materials.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
collaborative software
ⓘ
online community ⓘ website ⓘ wiki ⓘ |
| contentLicense | unspecified / custom ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| creator | Ward Cunningham ⓘ |
| developer | Ward Cunningham ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
best practices in programming
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collaborative documentation ⓘ patterns for software design ⓘ |
| hasEditor | Ward Cunningham ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
editable pages by visitors
ⓘ
page versioning ⓘ simple text-based markup ⓘ threaded discussions on pages ⓘ |
| hasNotableUser |
Kent Beck
ⓘ
Martin Fowler ⓘ Robert C. Martin ⓘ |
| hasPart | Portland Pattern Repository ⓘ |
| inception | 1995 ⓘ |
| inspired |
MediaWiki
ⓘ
MoinMoin ⓘ UseModWiki ⓘ Wikipedia ⓘ |
| inspiredBy |
HyperCard
ⓘ
Usenet culture ⓘ |
| license | proprietary ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
agile software development
ⓘ
extreme programming ⓘ programming ⓘ software design patterns ⓘ software development ⓘ |
| nameOrigin | Hawaiian word "wiki" meaning "quick" ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the first wiki website ⓘ |
| operatingLanguage | English ⓘ |
| operationalStatus | online ⓘ |
| originalHost | c2.com ⓘ |
| partOf | c2.com ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage | Perl ⓘ |
| softwareFramework | custom wiki engine by Ward Cunningham ⓘ |
| topicHasInfluenced |
collaborative knowledge bases
ⓘ
enterprise wikis ⓘ wiki concept ⓘ |
| URL | http://wiki.c2.com/ ⓘ |
| websiteGenre |
developer community
ⓘ
technical documentation site ⓘ |
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: WikiWikiWeb Description of subject: WikiWikiWeb is the first-ever wiki website, launched in 1995 as a collaborative platform for software developers to share ideas and documentation.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Ward Cunningham
subject surface form:
Ward Cunningham