Active Support
E440631
Active Support is a Ruby on Rails component that provides core language extensions, utilities, and helper classes to simplify and enhance Ruby application development.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Active Support canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4442633 — 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: Active Support Context triple: [Ruby on Rails, includesComponent, Active Support]
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A.
Active Component
The Active Component is the full-time, professional segment of the United States Armed Forces whose members serve on continuous active duty as part of the nation’s standing military force.
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B.
Active Service
"Active Service" is a lesser-known novel by American author Stephen Crane that explores themes of war, duty, and personal transformation.
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C.
Active Desktop
Active Desktop was a Windows feature that allowed users to display web content and interactive elements directly on their desktop background.
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D.
Active Edge
Active Edge is a pressure-sensitive frame technology on certain Google Pixel phones that lets users trigger actions, such as launching Google Assistant, by squeezing the sides of the device.
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E.
ACTIV
ACTIV is an off-road-oriented trim level of the Chevrolet Trailblazer that features rugged styling cues and enhanced capability for light adventure driving.
- 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: Active Support Target entity description: Active Support is a Ruby on Rails component that provides core language extensions, utilities, and helper classes to simplify and enhance Ruby application development.
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A.
Active Component
The Active Component is the full-time, professional segment of the United States Armed Forces whose members serve on continuous active duty as part of the nation’s standing military force.
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B.
Active Service
"Active Service" is a lesser-known novel by American author Stephen Crane that explores themes of war, duty, and personal transformation.
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C.
Active Desktop
Active Desktop was a Windows feature that allowed users to display web content and interactive elements directly on their desktop background.
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D.
Active Edge
Active Edge is a pressure-sensitive frame technology on certain Google Pixel phones that lets users trigger actions, such as launching Google Assistant, by squeezing the sides of the device.
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E.
ACTIV
ACTIV is an off-road-oriented trim level of the Chevrolet Trailblazer that features rugged styling cues and enhanced capability for light adventure driving.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Ruby on Rails component
ⓘ
software library ⓘ |
| category |
Ruby library
ⓘ
web development library ⓘ |
| compatibleWith |
JRuby
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
MRI Ruby NERFINISHED ⓘ TruffleRuby NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dependsOn | Ruby standard library ⓘ |
| developedIn | Ruby NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distribution | RubyGems NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| documentation | https://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveSupport.html ⓘ |
| extends |
Ruby core classes
ⓘ
Ruby standard library ⓘ |
| firstAppearedIn | early versions of Ruby on Rails ⓘ |
| follows | semantic versioning (via Rails releases) ⓘ |
| gemName | activesupport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| implements |
autoloading support (historically)
ⓘ
safe constantization ⓘ time zone support ⓘ |
| includes |
array extensions
ⓘ
caching utilities ⓘ callbacks framework ⓘ concern mixin mechanism ⓘ deprecation utilities ⓘ hash extensions ⓘ inflector utilities ⓘ internationalization (I18n) support ⓘ logging utilities ⓘ notifications framework ⓘ string extensions ⓘ thread safety utilities ⓘ time and date helpers ⓘ |
| license | MIT License ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Rails core team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Ruby on Rails NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage | Ruby NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| provides |
core language extensions
ⓘ
helper classes ⓘ utility classes ⓘ |
| purpose |
enhance Ruby application development
ⓘ
simplify Ruby application development ⓘ |
| repository | https://github.com/rails/rails ⓘ |
| supports | Ruby on Rails framework NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Action Cable
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Action Mailer NERFINISHED ⓘ Action Pack NERFINISHED ⓘ Active Record NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
building Ruby on Rails applications
ⓘ
general Ruby development ⓘ |
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: Active Support Description of subject: Active Support is a Ruby on Rails component that provides core language extensions, utilities, and helper classes to simplify and enhance Ruby application development.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.