CDE
E427655
CDE (Common Desktop Environment) is a classic Unix desktop environment providing a graphical user interface with a consistent look and feel across multiple Unix systems.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| CDE canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4278824 — 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: CDE Context triple: [HP-UX, supportsUserInterface, CDE]
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A.
CDE
CDE is the standard abbreviation for a Community Development Entity, a specialized organization that channels investment into low-income or underserved communities.
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B.
CDE
CDE is the abbreviated designation for the French Space Command, the military organization responsible for France’s space operations and defense in outer space.
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C.
CED
CED is an academic unit focused on the study and practice of environmental design, including fields such as architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning.
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D.
CED
CED is the commonly used abbreviation for the United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearances, the expert body overseeing implementation of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance.
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E.
CADE
CADE is a leading international conference focused on research and advances in automated reasoning and automated theorem proving.
- 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: CDE Target entity description: CDE (Common Desktop Environment) is a classic Unix desktop environment providing a graphical user interface with a consistent look and feel across multiple Unix systems.
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A.
CDE
CDE is the abbreviated designation for the French Space Command, the military organization responsible for France’s space operations and defense in outer space.
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B.
CDE
CDE is the standard abbreviation for a Community Development Entity, a specialized organization that channels investment into low-income or underserved communities.
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C.
CED
CED is an academic unit focused on the study and practice of environmental design, including fields such as architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning.
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D.
CED
CED is the commonly used abbreviation for the United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearances, the expert body overseeing implementation of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance.
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E.
CADE
CADE is a leading international conference focused on research and advances in automated reasoning and automated theorem proving.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (60)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
desktop environment
ⓘ
graphical user interface ⓘ |
| abbreviation | CDE ⓘ |
| basedOn | Motif ⓘ |
| category |
Unix desktop environment
ⓘ
free and open-source software ⓘ |
| configurationStorage | text configuration files ⓘ |
| defaultDesktopEnvironmentOf |
AIX
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
HP-UX NERFINISHED ⓘ Solaris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| designGoal | consistent look and feel across multiple Unix systems ⓘ |
| developedBy |
Hewlett-Packard
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
IBM NERFINISHED ⓘ Novell NERFINISHED ⓘ Sun Microsystems NERFINISHED ⓘ The Open Group NERFINISHED ⓘ USL NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Common Desktop Environment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalRole | de facto standard Unix desktop in the 1990s ⓘ |
| includesComponent |
application manager
ⓘ
file manager ⓘ front panel ⓘ terminal emulator ⓘ text editor ⓘ |
| influenced |
Java Desktop System
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
later Unix desktop environments ⓘ |
| initialReleaseYear |
1993
ⓘ
1994 ⓘ |
| license |
GPL-2.0-or-later
ⓘ
LGPL-2.0-or-later ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | CDE community ⓘ |
| openSourcedBy | The Open Group NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| openSourceReleaseMonth | August ⓘ |
| openSourceReleaseYear | 2012 ⓘ |
| operatingSystemFamily |
UNIX
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Unix-like operating systems ⓘ |
| originalLicense | proprietary software license ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage |
C
ⓘ
C++ ⓘ |
| provides |
desktop environment
ⓘ
graphical user interface ⓘ |
| replacedBy |
GNOME
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
KDE NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| runsOn |
AIX
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
FreeBSD NERFINISHED ⓘ HP-UX NERFINISHED ⓘ IRIX NERFINISHED ⓘ Linux NERFINISHED ⓘ Solaris NERFINISHED ⓘ Tru64 UNIX NERFINISHED ⓘ UnixWare NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sourceModel |
closed source
ⓘ
open source ⓘ |
| standardizedBy | The Open Group NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| userInterfaceStyle |
taskbar with application launchers
ⓘ
virtual desktops ⓘ |
| usesWidgetToolkit | Motif NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usesWindowManager |
Motif Window Manager
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
mwm ⓘ |
| website | https://sourceforge.net/projects/cdesktopenv/ ⓘ |
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: CDE Description of subject: CDE (Common Desktop Environment) is a classic Unix desktop environment providing a graphical user interface with a consistent look and feel across multiple Unix systems.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.