LXC
E203904
LXC (Linux Containers) is a lightweight virtualization technology that provides operating-system-level containerization for running multiple isolated Linux systems on a single host.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| LXC canonical | 5 |
| liblxc | 1 |
| lxc-checkconfig | 1 |
| lxc-monitor | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1831934 — 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: LXC Context triple: [LXD, uses, LXC]
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A.
LXD
LXD is a system container and virtual machine manager that provides a user-friendly, image-based way to run and manage Linux environments.
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B.
Proxmox VE
Proxmox VE is an open-source server virtualization platform that combines KVM-based virtual machines and Linux containers with web-based management and clustering features.
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C.
Docker
Docker is an open-source platform that uses containerization to package, distribute, and run applications consistently across different computing environments.
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D.
CRI-O
CRI-O is a lightweight, Kubernetes-focused container runtime that implements the Container Runtime Interface to run Open Container Initiative (OCI) compatible containers.
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E.
Alpine Linux
Alpine Linux is a lightweight, security-focused Linux distribution designed for simplicity, resource efficiency, and containerized environments.
- 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: LXC Target entity description: LXC (Linux Containers) is a lightweight virtualization technology that provides operating-system-level containerization for running multiple isolated Linux systems on a single host.
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A.
LXD
LXD is a system container and virtual machine manager that provides a user-friendly, image-based way to run and manage Linux environments.
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B.
Proxmox VE
Proxmox VE is an open-source server virtualization platform that combines KVM-based virtual machines and Linux containers with web-based management and clustering features.
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C.
Docker
Docker is an open-source platform that uses containerization to package, distribute, and run applications consistently across different computing environments.
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D.
CRI-O
CRI-O is a lightweight, Kubernetes-focused container runtime that implements the Container Runtime Interface to run Open Container Initiative (OCI) compatible containers.
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E.
Alpine Linux
Alpine Linux is a lightweight, security-focused Linux distribution designed for simplicity, resource efficiency, and containerized environments.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (56)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Linux container runtime
ⓘ
containerization technology ⓘ operating-system-level virtualization ⓘ |
| configurationFormat | text-based configuration files ⓘ |
| developer |
Canonical Ltd.
ⓘ
LinuxContainers.org community ⓘ |
| fullName |
Linux containers
ⓘ
surface form:
Linux Containers
|
| hasComponent |
LXC
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
liblxc
lxc-attach ⓘ LXC self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
lxc-checkconfig
lxc-config ⓘ lxc-create ⓘ lxc-info ⓘ lxc-ls ⓘ LXC self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
lxc-monitor
lxc-snapshot ⓘ lxc-start ⓘ lxc-stop ⓘ FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) ⓘ
surface form:
lxcfs
|
| is |
lightweight
ⓘ
open-source ⓘ |
| license |
GNU General Public License
ⓘ
surface form:
GNU GPL v2
GNU Lesser General Public License ⓘ
surface form:
GNU LGPL v2.1
|
| operatingSystem | Linux ⓘ |
| provides |
containerization
ⓘ
system containers ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Docker
ⓘ
LXD ⓘ |
| repository | https://github.com/lxc/lxc ⓘ |
| supports |
IPC namespaces
ⓘ
PID namespaces ⓘ UTS namespaces ⓘ container snapshots ⓘ live container migration (with CRIU) ⓘ mount namespaces ⓘ network namespaces ⓘ privileged containers ⓘ resource limits via cgroups ⓘ running multiple isolated Linux systems on a single host ⓘ template-based container creation ⓘ unprivileged containers ⓘ user namespaces ⓘ |
| usedFor |
application isolation
ⓘ
development and testing environments ⓘ lightweight virtualization on Linux ⓘ system containers ⓘ |
| usesKernelFeature |
AppArmor
ⓘ
Linux namespaces ⓘ SELinux ⓘ capabilities ⓘ cgroups ⓘ chroot ⓘ seccomp ⓘ |
| virtualizationType | OS-level virtualization ⓘ |
| website | https://linuxcontainers.org/lxc/ ⓘ |
| writtenIn | C ⓘ |
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: LXC Description of subject: LXC (Linux Containers) is a lightweight virtualization technology that provides operating-system-level containerization for running multiple isolated Linux systems on a single host.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
liblxc
this entity surface form:
lxc-monitor
this entity surface form:
lxc-checkconfig