Pacman
E197005
Pacman is a lightweight, command-line package manager originally developed for Arch Linux, known for its speed and simple binary package handling.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Pacman canonical | 3 |
| pacman (early versions) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1753481 — 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: Pacman Context triple: [Manjaro, hasPackageManager, Pacman]
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A.
Taitō
Taitō is a special ward in central Tokyo known for its historic districts, traditional temples, and major cultural attractions such as Ueno Park and Asakusa.
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B.
Crash Bandicoot
Crash Bandicoot is a popular platform video game franchise featuring a genetically enhanced bandicoot protagonist battling the evil Dr. Neo Cortex across colorful, obstacle-filled levels.
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C.
Pitfall
Pitfall is a 1948 American film noir crime drama directed by André De Toth, noted for its dark exploration of suburban discontent and moral compromise.
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D.
Stomper
Stomper is the elephant mascot of Major League Baseball’s Oakland Athletics.
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E.
Donkey Kong
Donkey Kong is a powerful, gorilla-like video game character from Nintendo’s Donkey Kong and Mario franchises, known for his strength, barrel-throwing antics, and role as both rival and ally to Mario.
- 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: Pacman Target entity description: Pacman is a lightweight, command-line package manager originally developed for Arch Linux, known for its speed and simple binary package handling.
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A.
Taitō
Taitō is a special ward in central Tokyo known for its historic districts, traditional temples, and major cultural attractions such as Ueno Park and Asakusa.
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B.
Crash Bandicoot
Crash Bandicoot is a popular platform video game franchise featuring a genetically enhanced bandicoot protagonist battling the evil Dr. Neo Cortex across colorful, obstacle-filled levels.
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C.
Pitfall
Pitfall is a 1948 American film noir crime drama directed by André De Toth, noted for its dark exploration of suburban discontent and moral compromise.
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D.
Stomper
Stomper is the elephant mascot of Major League Baseball’s Oakland Athletics.
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E.
Donkey Kong
Donkey Kong is a powerful, gorilla-like video game character from Nintendo’s Donkey Kong and Mario franchises, known for his strength, barrel-throwing antics, and role as both rival and ally to Mario.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
command-line tool
ⓘ
free software ⓘ package manager ⓘ |
| cacheDirectory | /var/cache/pacman/pkg ⓘ |
| command |
pacman -Qi
ⓘ
pacman -Ql ⓘ pacman -Qs ⓘ pacman -R ⓘ pacman -S ⓘ pacman -Sc ⓘ pacman -Scc ⓘ pacman -Sy ⓘ pacman -Syu ⓘ pacman -U ⓘ |
| configurationDirectory | /etc/pacman.d ⓘ |
| configurationFile | /etc/pacman.conf ⓘ |
| defaultOn | Arch Linux ⓘ |
| designGoal |
lightweight operation
ⓘ
simplicity ⓘ speed ⓘ |
| developer | Judd Vinet ⓘ |
| homepage | https://archlinux.org/pacman/ ⓘ |
| license | GPL-2.0-or-later ⓘ |
| operatingSystem | Arch Linux ⓘ |
| packageFormat |
.pkg.tar.xz
ⓘ
.pkg.tar.zst ⓘ |
| platform |
Linux
ⓘ
Unix-like systems ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage | C ⓘ |
| supports |
binary packages
ⓘ
dependency resolution ⓘ local package cache ⓘ package database synchronization ⓘ package downgrade ⓘ package installation ⓘ package removal ⓘ package upgrade ⓘ |
| supportsFrontEnd |
octopi
ⓘ
pamac ⓘ yay ⓘ |
| usedBy |
ArcoLinux
ⓘ
Artix Linux ⓘ EndeavourOS ⓘ Manjaro ⓘ
surface form:
Manjaro Linux
|
| usesDatabase | /var/lib/pacman ⓘ |
| usesRepository |
community
ⓘ
core ⓘ extra ⓘ multilib ⓘ |
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: Pacman Description of subject: Pacman is a lightweight, command-line package manager originally developed for Arch Linux, known for its speed and simple binary package handling.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
pacman (early versions)