Kestrel
E182236
Kestrel is a cross-platform, high-performance web server built into ASP.NET Core for hosting and serving web applications.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kestrel canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1610542 — 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: Kestrel Context triple: [ASP.NET, supportsHostingEnvironment, Kestrel]
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A.
Kestrel
Kestrel is a pressure-fed, liquid-fueled rocket engine developed by SpaceX for the second stage of its early Falcon 1 launch vehicle.
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B.
Hawk
The Hawk is a bird of prey commonly symbolizing keen vision, strength, and agility, and serves as the mascot for various schools and sports teams.
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C.
Raptor
Raptor is SpaceX’s next-generation methane-fueled rocket engine designed to power the company’s Starship launch system with high efficiency and reusability.
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D.
Foal Eagle
Foal Eagle is a large-scale annual joint military exercise conducted by the United States and South Korea to enhance readiness and deterrence on the Korean Peninsula.
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E.
Harry the Hawk
Harry the Hawk is the high-flying, red-and-yellow costumed mascot of the NBA’s Atlanta Hawks, known for entertaining fans with acrobatics and crowd interaction at home games.
- 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: Kestrel Target entity description: Kestrel is a cross-platform, high-performance web server built into ASP.NET Core for hosting and serving web applications.
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A.
Kestrel
Kestrel is a pressure-fed, liquid-fueled rocket engine developed by SpaceX for the second stage of its early Falcon 1 launch vehicle.
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B.
Hawk
The Hawk is a bird of prey commonly symbolizing keen vision, strength, and agility, and serves as the mascot for various schools and sports teams.
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C.
Raptor
Raptor is SpaceX’s next-generation methane-fueled rocket engine designed to power the company’s Starship launch system with high efficiency and reusability.
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D.
Foal Eagle
Foal Eagle is a large-scale annual joint military exercise conducted by the United States and South Korea to enhance readiness and deterrence on the Korean Peninsula.
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E.
Harry the Hawk
Harry the Hawk is the high-flying, red-and-yellow costumed mascot of the NBA’s Atlanta Hawks, known for entertaining fans with acrobatics and crowd interaction at home games.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ASP.NET Core component
ⓘ
software component ⓘ web server ⓘ |
| canBeFrontedBy |
Apache HTTP Server (via mod_spdy and later modules)
ⓘ
surface form:
Apache HTTP Server
IIS ⓘ nginx ⓘ
surface form:
Nginx
|
| configurationVia |
appsettings.json
ⓘ
code-based configuration ⓘ |
| defaultWebServerFor |
dotnet/aspnetcore
ⓘ
surface form:
ASP.NET Core
|
| developer | Microsoft ⓘ |
| documentation | https://learn.microsoft.com/aspnet/core/fundamentals/servers/kestrel ⓘ |
| exposedThrough |
dotnet/aspnetcore
ⓘ
surface form:
Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.Kestrel.Core namespace
|
| feature |
HTTP/1.1 support
ⓘ
HTTP/2 support ⓘ TLS/SSL support ⓘ asynchronous I/O ⓘ connection limits configuration ⓘ cross-platform ⓘ endpoint configuration ⓘ high performance ⓘ in-process hosting model support ⓘ integration with ASP.NET Core middleware pipeline ⓘ out-of-process hosting model support ⓘ |
| introducedIn | .NET Core 1.0 era ⓘ |
| license | MIT License ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
Linux
ⓘ
Windows ⓘ macOS ⓘ |
| partOf |
dotnet/aspnetcore
ⓘ
surface form:
ASP.NET Core
|
| platform |
.NET Framework
ⓘ
surface form:
.NET
.NET Core ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage |
.NET Framework
ⓘ
surface form:
.NET
C# programming language ⓘ
surface form:
C#
|
| repository | https://github.com/dotnet/aspnetcore ⓘ |
| supportsFeature |
HTTP request body size limits
ⓘ
HTTPS certificate configuration ⓘ SNI (Server Name Indication) ⓘ request rate limits ⓘ |
| supportsProtocol |
HTTP
ⓘ
HTTP/2 ⓘ HTTPS ⓘ |
| useCase |
hosting ASP.NET Core web applications
ⓘ
serving HTTP requests ⓘ serving HTTPS requests ⓘ |
| usedWith |
ASP.NET
ⓘ
surface form:
ASP.NET Core MVC
ASP.NET SignalR ⓘ
surface form:
ASP.NET Core SignalR
dotnet/aspnetcore ⓘ
surface form:
ASP.NET Core minimal APIs
|
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: Kestrel Description of subject: Kestrel is a cross-platform, high-performance web server built into ASP.NET Core for hosting and serving web applications.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.