Open Source Development Labs
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Open Source Development Labs was a non-profit organization that supported and promoted Linux and open-source software development, notably serving as a home base for Linus Torvalds before it merged into The Linux Foundation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Open Source Development Labs canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T398241 — 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: Open Source Development Labs Context triple: [Linus Torvalds, previousEmployer, Open Source Development Labs]
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A.
Software Development Laboratories
Software Development Laboratories was the original name of the company that later became Oracle Corporation, a major multinational database and enterprise software company.
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B.
Sugar Labs
Sugar Labs is a nonprofit organization that develops and maintains the Sugar learning platform, an open-source educational software environment originally created for the One Laptop per Child project.
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C.
Channelside
Channelside is a waterfront entertainment and residential district in downtown Tampa, Florida, known for its restaurants, nightlife, and proximity to the cruise port.
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D.
Open Data Lab
Open Data Lab is a World Wide Web Foundation initiative that supports the use of open data to drive social impact, innovation, and better governance, particularly in developing countries.
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E.
Habana Labs
Habana Labs is an Israeli-based company specializing in artificial intelligence accelerators and deep learning processors for data centers.
- 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: Open Source Development Labs Target entity description: Open Source Development Labs was a non-profit organization that supported and promoted Linux and open-source software development, notably serving as a home base for Linus Torvalds before it merged into The Linux Foundation.
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A.
Software Development Laboratories
Software Development Laboratories was the original name of the company that later became Oracle Corporation, a major multinational database and enterprise software company.
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B.
Sugar Labs
Sugar Labs is a nonprofit organization that develops and maintains the Sugar learning platform, an open-source educational software environment originally created for the One Laptop per Child project.
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C.
Channelside
Channelside is a waterfront entertainment and residential district in downtown Tampa, Florida, known for its restaurants, nightlife, and proximity to the cruise port.
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D.
Open Data Lab
Open Data Lab is a World Wide Web Foundation initiative that supports the use of open data to drive social impact, innovation, and better governance, particularly in developing countries.
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E.
Habana Labs
Habana Labs is an Israeli-based company specializing in artificial intelligence accelerators and deep learning processors for data centers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
industry consortium
ⓘ
non-profit organization ⓘ |
| abbreviation | OSDL ⓘ |
| activity |
hosted technical working groups
ⓘ
organized industry initiatives around Linux ⓘ promoted enterprise use of Linux ⓘ supported Linux kernel development ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
Linux vendors
ⓘ
enterprise users ⓘ hardware manufacturers ⓘ software companies ⓘ |
| coreTheme |
collaborative development
ⓘ
open standards ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| dissolutionMethod | merged ⓘ |
| employed | Linus Torvalds ⓘ |
| focus |
Linux
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open-source software ⓘ |
| fundingSource | member companies ⓘ |
| geographicScope | international ⓘ |
| industry | open-source software industry ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mergedInto |
Linux Foundation
ⓘ
surface form:
The Linux Foundation
|
| mergerDate | 2007 ⓘ |
| mergerPartner |
The Open Group
ⓘ
surface form:
Free Standards Group
|
| mergerResult |
Linux Foundation
ⓘ
surface form:
The Linux Foundation
|
| mission | to accelerate the adoption of Linux in the enterprise ⓘ |
| name | Open Source Development Labs self-link ⓘ |
| notableRole | served as a home base for Linus Torvalds ⓘ |
| operationalModel | membership-based consortium ⓘ |
| primaryArea | enterprise Linux ⓘ |
| promotedConcept | Linux as an enterprise-class operating system ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Free Standards Group
ⓘ
Linux Foundation ⓘ
surface form:
The Linux Foundation
|
| sector |
information technology
ⓘ
open-source ecosystem ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
| succeededBy |
Linux Foundation
ⓘ
surface form:
The Linux Foundation
|
| supportedCommunity |
Linux kernel developers
ⓘ
open-source developers ⓘ |
| supportedProject |
Linux kernel
ⓘ
open-source software projects ⓘ |
| supportedStandardization | Linux standards ⓘ |
| typeOfSupport |
funding
ⓘ
infrastructure ⓘ technical resources ⓘ |
| website | http://www.osdl.org/ ⓘ |
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: Open Source Development Labs Description of subject: Open Source Development Labs was a non-profit organization that supported and promoted Linux and open-source software development, notably serving as a home base for Linus Torvalds before it merged into The Linux Foundation.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Linux Foundation