Linux
E5903
Linux is a widely used open-source Unix-like operating system kernel that powers servers, desktops, mobile devices, and embedded systems around the world.
All labels observed (21)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Linux canonical | 1,421 |
| Linux kernel | 19 |
| GNU/Linux | 10 |
| Linux operating system | 4 |
| linux | 2 |
| Linux (selected distributions) | 1 |
| Linux 2.6.20 | 1 |
| Linux 3.8 | 1 |
| Linux 6.6 | 1 |
| Linux kernel (version 2) | 1 |
| Linux kernel 2.6.29 | 1 |
| Linux kernel community | 1 |
| Linux kernel driver core | 1 |
| Linux kernel mainline tree | 1 |
| Linux kernel scheduler | 1 |
| Linux on MIPS | 1 |
| Linux on Power | 1 |
| Linux operating system (in newer versions) | 1 |
| Linux x64 | 1 |
| Linux x86 | 1 |
| embedded Linux | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T63764 — 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: Linux Context triple: [SSH, runsOn, Linux]
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A.
Android
Android is a mobile operating system developed by Google, widely used on smartphones, tablets, and other smart devices around the world.
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B.
DOS
DOS is the commonly used acronym for the United States Department of State, the federal executive department responsible for U.S. foreign policy and international relations.
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C.
Chromebook
Chromebook is a line of lightweight laptops that run Google's ChromeOS, designed primarily for web-based computing and cloud-centric use.
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D.
Microsoft
Microsoft is a multinational technology company best known for its Windows operating system, Office productivity suite, and Azure cloud computing platform.
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E.
USBOS
USBOS is the UN/LOCODE identifier assigned to the Port of Boston in the United States for international shipping and logistics.
- 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: Linux Target entity description: Linux is a widely used open-source Unix-like operating system kernel that powers servers, desktops, mobile devices, and embedded systems around the world.
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A.
Android
Android is a mobile operating system developed by Google, widely used on smartphones, tablets, and other smart devices around the world.
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B.
DOS
DOS is the commonly used acronym for the United States Department of State, the federal executive department responsible for U.S. foreign policy and international relations.
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C.
Chromebook
Chromebook is a line of lightweight laptops that run Google's ChromeOS, designed primarily for web-based computing and cloud-centric use.
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D.
Microsoft
Microsoft is a multinational technology company best known for its Windows operating system, Office productivity suite, and Azure cloud computing platform.
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E.
USBOS
USBOS is the UN/LOCODE identifier assigned to the Port of Boston in the United States for international shipping and logistics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (95)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Unix-like kernel
ⓘ
free and open-source software ⓘ operating system kernel ⓘ |
| developer | Linus Torvalds ⓘ |
| governedBy |
Linux
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Linux kernel community
|
| hasComponent |
Linux
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Linux kernel scheduler
Virtual File System layer ⓘ device driver subsystem ⓘ inter-process communication subsystem ⓘ memory management subsystem ⓘ module loader ⓘ network stack ⓘ process management subsystem ⓘ |
| hasDistributions |
Alpine Linux
ⓘ
Arch Linux ⓘ CentOS ⓘ Debian ⓘ Fedora Linux ⓘ
surface form:
Fedora
Fedora Linux ⓘ
surface form:
Gentoo
Kali Linux ⓘ Linux Mint ⓘ Manjaro ⓘ Oracle Linux ⓘ Red Hat Enterprise Linux ⓘ openSUSE ⓘ
surface form:
SUSE Linux Enterprise
Slackware ⓘ Debian ⓘ
surface form:
Ubuntu
openSUSE ⓘ |
| inception | 1991 ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | Unix ⓘ |
| kernelType | monolithic kernel ⓘ |
| license |
GNU General Public License
ⓘ
surface form:
GNU General Public License version 2
|
| partOf |
GNU Project
ⓘ
surface form:
GNU/Linux operating system
|
| programmingLanguage |
C
ⓘ
assembly language ⓘ |
| repository | https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git ⓘ |
| stableReleasesMaintainedBy | Greg Kroah-Hartman ⓘ |
| supports |
ANSI
ⓘ
surface form:
POSIX
multiprocessing ⓘ multiuser operation ⓘ preemptive multitasking ⓘ virtual memory ⓘ |
| supportsArchitecture |
ARM
ⓘ
IBM System z ⓘ MIPS ⓘ PowerPC ⓘ RISC-V ⓘ x86 ⓘ x86-64 ⓘ |
| supportsFileSystem |
Btrfs
ⓘ
F2FS ⓘ ISO 9660 ⓘ NFS ⓘ NTFS (via driver) ⓘ ReiserFS ⓘ SMB/CIFS ⓘ VFAT ⓘ XFS ⓘ ext2 ⓘ ext3 ⓘ ext4 ⓘ |
| supportsInterface |
netlink sockets
ⓘ
procfs ⓘ sysfs ⓘ system call interface ⓘ |
| supportsSecurityFeature |
AppArmor
ⓘ
Linux capabilities ⓘ SELinux ⓘ address space layout randomization ⓘ control groups ⓘ namespaces ⓘ seccomp ⓘ |
| supportsVirtualization |
KVM
ⓘ
Xen ⓘ containers ⓘ |
| usedFor |
enterprise servers
ⓘ
high-performance computing ⓘ network infrastructure ⓘ personal computing ⓘ scientific computing ⓘ software development ⓘ web hosting ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Android
ⓘ
surface form:
Android operating system
ChromeOS ⓘ Internet of Things devices ⓘ cloud infrastructure ⓘ desktop computers ⓘ embedded systems ⓘ laptops ⓘ network devices ⓘ servers ⓘ smartphones ⓘ supercomputers ⓘ tablets ⓘ web servers ⓘ |
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: Linux Description of subject: Linux is a widely used open-source Unix-like operating system kernel that powers servers, desktops, mobile devices, and embedded systems around the world.
Referenced by (1,472)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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subject surface form:
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subject surface form:
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