Sway
E284593
Sway is a tiling Wayland compositor and window manager designed as a drop-in, i3-compatible replacement for X11-based setups.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sway canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2629126 — 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: Sway Context triple: [Wayland, influenced, Sway]
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A.
Soar
Soar is a cognitive architecture and artificial intelligence framework co-developed by Allen Newell to model and implement general intelligent behavior.
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B.
It Still Moves
"It Still Moves" is the 2003 breakthrough album by American rock band My Morning Jacket, showcasing Jim James's reverb-drenched vocals and a blend of Southern rock, country, and psychedelic influences.
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C.
On Sight
"On Sight" is the abrasive, electronic-influenced opening track from Kanye West's 2013 album *Yeezus*, known for its distorted production and confrontational tone.
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D.
World of Motion
World of Motion was a former Epcot dark ride that humorously explored the history and evolution of transportation through elaborate animatronic scenes and storytelling.
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E.
Furaha
Furaha is an individual known primarily as the child of Fifi.
- 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: Sway Target entity description: Sway is a tiling Wayland compositor and window manager designed as a drop-in, i3-compatible replacement for X11-based setups.
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A.
Soar
Soar is a cognitive architecture and artificial intelligence framework co-developed by Allen Newell to model and implement general intelligent behavior.
-
B.
It Still Moves
"It Still Moves" is the 2003 breakthrough album by American rock band My Morning Jacket, showcasing Jim James's reverb-drenched vocals and a blend of Southern rock, country, and psychedelic influences.
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C.
On Sight
"On Sight" is the abrasive, electronic-influenced opening track from Kanye West's 2013 album *Yeezus*, known for its distorted production and confrontational tone.
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D.
World of Motion
World of Motion was a former Epcot dark ride that humorously explored the history and evolution of transportation through elaborate animatronic scenes and storytelling.
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E.
Furaha
Furaha is an individual known primarily as the child of Fifi.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Wayland compositor
ⓘ
free and open-source software ⓘ tiling window manager ⓘ |
| basedOn | wlroots ⓘ |
| category |
wlroots
ⓘ
surface form:
Wayland compositors
free software programmed in C ⓘ tiling window managers ⓘ |
| compatibleWith |
i3 IPC protocol
ⓘ
i3 configuration syntax ⓘ i3 keybindings ⓘ |
| configurationFile | ~/.config/sway/config ⓘ |
| designedAs | drop-in replacement for i3 ⓘ |
| developer | Drew DeVault ⓘ |
| doesNotRequire | X.Org Server ⓘ |
| implements | tiling window management ⓘ |
| initialReleaseDate | 2016 ⓘ |
| license | MIT License ⓘ |
| maintainer | Drew DeVault ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
FreeBSD
ⓘ
Linux ⓘ other Unix-like systems ⓘ |
| partOf |
wlroots
ⓘ
surface form:
swaywm project
|
| replaces | X11-based i3 setups ⓘ |
| sourceCodeRepository | https://github.com/swaywm/sway ⓘ |
| supports |
HiDPI displays
ⓘ
XDG shell protocol ⓘ XWayland ⓘ dynamic tiling layouts ⓘ floating windows ⓘ fractional scaling (via wlroots features) ⓘ gaps between windows ⓘ input device configuration ⓘ keyboard-driven workflow ⓘ layer shell protocol ⓘ multi-monitor setups ⓘ output configuration ⓘ screen locking via swaylock ⓘ screen sharing via PipeWire ⓘ screen shots via grim and slurp ⓘ status bars via i3bar protocol ⓘ tablet input (via wlroots) ⓘ touch input (via wlroots) ⓘ wlroots ⓘ workspaces ⓘ |
| supportsProtocol | Wayland ⓘ |
| uses | text-based configuration ⓘ |
| website | https://swaywm.org/ ⓘ |
| writtenInLanguage | 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: Sway Description of subject: Sway is a tiling Wayland compositor and window manager designed as a drop-in, i3-compatible replacement for X11-based setups.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Wayland