Mutter
E203867
Mutter is the window manager and Wayland compositor used by the GNOME desktop environment to handle graphical display and window management.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mutter canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1831359 — 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: Mutter Context triple: [GNOME, hasComponent, Mutter]
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A.
Mama
"Mama" is a 1987 debut novel by Terry McMillan that follows a resilient Black single mother struggling to raise her children and rebuild her life amid poverty and personal turmoil.
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B.
Daddy
"Daddy" is a powerful and controversial confessional poem by Sylvia Plath that explores themes of trauma, oppression, and the speaker’s fraught relationship with her father.
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C.
Mother
Mother is a character from the virtual reality co-op shooter game "After the Fall," set in a post-apocalyptic, frozen Los Angeles.
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D.
Mother
"Mother" is a 1906 socialist realist novel by Russian writer Maksim Gorky that portrays a working-class woman's political awakening during the revolutionary ferment in pre-revolutionary Russia.
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E.
The Mother
"The Mother" is a politically charged play by Bertolt Brecht that follows a working-class woman’s radicalization into socialist activism amid early 20th-century labor struggles.
- 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: Mutter Target entity description: Mutter is the window manager and Wayland compositor used by the GNOME desktop environment to handle graphical display and window management.
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A.
Mama
"Mama" is a 1987 debut novel by Terry McMillan that follows a resilient Black single mother struggling to raise her children and rebuild her life amid poverty and personal turmoil.
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B.
Daddy
"Daddy" is a powerful and controversial confessional poem by Sylvia Plath that explores themes of trauma, oppression, and the speaker’s fraught relationship with her father.
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C.
Mother
"Mother" is a 1906 socialist realist novel by Russian writer Maksim Gorky that portrays a working-class woman's political awakening during the revolutionary ferment in pre-revolutionary Russia.
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D.
Mother
Mother is a character from the virtual reality co-op shooter game "After the Fall," set in a post-apocalyptic, frozen Los Angeles.
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E.
The Mother
"The Mother" is a politically charged play by Bertolt Brecht that follows a working-class woman’s radicalization into socialist activism amid early 20th-century labor struggles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Wayland compositor
ⓘ
free and open-source software ⓘ software ⓘ window manager ⓘ |
| basedOn |
metacity
ⓘ
surface form:
Metacity
|
| developer |
GNOME community
ⓘ
surface form:
GNOME Project
|
| genre |
compositing window manager
ⓘ
stacking window manager ⓘ |
| handles |
compositing
ⓘ
graphical display ⓘ input events ⓘ window management ⓘ |
| implements |
Wayland compositor role for GNOME
ⓘ
X11 window manager role for GNOME ⓘ |
| integratesWith |
GNOME Shell
ⓘ
GNOME settings daemon ⓘ |
| license | GNU General Public License ⓘ |
| maintainer | GNOME developers ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
Linux
ⓘ
Unix-like systems ⓘ |
| partOf |
GNOME Shell
ⓘ
surface form:
GNOME Shell stack
|
| platform |
GNOME Shell
ⓘ
surface form:
GNOME
|
| programmingLanguage | C ⓘ |
| replaces |
metacity
ⓘ
surface form:
Metacity
|
| repository | https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter.git ⓘ |
| role |
compositing window manager
ⓘ
display server ⓘ |
| supports |
Clutter toolkit
ⓘ
DRM (Direct Rendering Manager) ⓘ EGL ⓘ HiDPI scaling ⓘ KMS (Kernel Mode Setting) ⓘ Mutter extensions via GNOME Shell ⓘ OpenGL ⓘ XRandR-like monitor configuration under Wayland ⓘ XWayland ⓘ hardware-accelerated compositing ⓘ monitor configuration ⓘ multiple workspaces ⓘ window effects ⓘ window tiling ⓘ |
| supportsProtocol |
Wayland
ⓘ
X11 ⓘ |
| targetUserInterface |
desktop
ⓘ
laptop ⓘ |
| usedAs | default window manager in GNOME Shell ⓘ |
| usedBy | GNOME desktop environment ⓘ |
| website | https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter ⓘ |
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: Mutter Description of subject: Mutter is the window manager and Wayland compositor used by the GNOME desktop environment to handle graphical display and window management.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
GNOME
subject surface form:
GNOME
subject surface form:
Metacity
subject surface form:
Metacity