Imake in many projects
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Imake in many projects is an older, makefile-generation system once widely used in Unix and X Window System builds before being largely superseded by tools like GNU Autoconf.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Imake in many projects canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2792562 — 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: Imake in many projects Context triple: [GNU Autoconf, replaced, Imake in many projects]
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A.
The Project
The Project is an Australian television news and current affairs panel show on Network Ten that blends serious journalism with comedy and pop culture commentary.
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B.
Machen
Machen is a surname most notably associated with J. Gresham Machen, an influential early 20th-century American Presbyterian theologian and New Testament scholar.
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C.
Mono project
The Mono project is an open-source implementation of Microsoft's .NET framework designed to enable cross-platform development, particularly for Linux and other non-Windows systems.
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D.
There Is More Than One Way To Do It
"There Is More Than One Way To Do It" is a famous Perl programming motto coined by Larry Wall that celebrates flexibility and multiple valid approaches to solving problems in code.
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E.
Makers
Makers is a science fiction novel by Cory Doctorow that explores a near-future maker culture, disruptive innovation, and the social and economic upheavals caused by rapid technological change.
- 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: Imake in many projects Target entity description: Imake in many projects is an older, makefile-generation system once widely used in Unix and X Window System builds before being largely superseded by tools like GNU Autoconf.
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A.
The Project
The Project is an Australian television news and current affairs panel show on Network Ten that blends serious journalism with comedy and pop culture commentary.
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B.
Machen
Machen is a surname most notably associated with J. Gresham Machen, an influential early 20th-century American Presbyterian theologian and New Testament scholar.
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C.
Mono project
The Mono project is an open-source implementation of Microsoft's .NET framework designed to enable cross-platform development, particularly for Linux and other non-Windows systems.
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D.
There Is More Than One Way To Do It
"There Is More Than One Way To Do It" is a famous Perl programming motto coined by Larry Wall that celebrates flexibility and multiple valid approaches to solving problems in code.
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E.
Makers
Makers is a science fiction novel by Cory Doctorow that explores a near-future maker culture, disruptive innovation, and the social and economic upheavals caused by rapid technological change.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
build configuration system
ⓘ
makefile generation tool ⓘ software build tool ⓘ |
| basedOn | C preprocessor ⓘ |
| configurationStyle |
macro-based configuration
ⓘ
template-driven Makefile generation ⓘ |
| developer |
X Consortium, Inc.
ⓘ
surface form:
X Consortium
X.Org community ⓘ |
| documentation | Imake manual pages ⓘ |
| era | pre-Autoconf Unix build systems ⓘ |
| genre | build automation ⓘ |
| influenced | later build configuration tools ⓘ |
| notableFor |
historical use in X11 builds
ⓘ
portability across Unix variants ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
Unix
ⓘ
Unix-like systems ⓘ |
| output | Makefile ⓘ |
| partOf | X Window System build infrastructure ⓘ |
| replacedBy |
GNU Autoconf
ⓘ
GNU Automake ⓘ GNU Autotools ⓘ
surface form:
autotools
modern build systems ⓘ |
| requires | C compiler preprocessor ⓘ |
| scope | multi-platform Unix builds ⓘ |
| status | largely obsolete ⓘ |
| targetEnvironment | C and C++ projects ⓘ |
| usedFor |
building Unix software
ⓘ
building X Window System software ⓘ configuring software builds ⓘ generating Makefiles ⓘ |
| uses |
C preprocessor macros
ⓘ
Imakefile input files ⓘ |
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: Imake in many projects Description of subject: Imake in many projects is an older, makefile-generation system once widely used in Unix and X Window System builds before being largely superseded by tools like GNU Autoconf.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.