GNU Tar
E61962
GNU Tar is a widely used free software utility for creating, maintaining, modifying, and extracting files from archive files, especially on Unix-like systems.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| GNU Tar canonical | 3 |
| GNU tar | 1 |
| GNU tar format | 1 |
| tar | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T497654 — 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: GNU Tar Context triple: [GNU Project, hasPart, GNU Tar]
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A.
Zip2
Zip2 was an early online city guide and business directory software company from the late 1990s that provided web-based publishing tools for newspapers.
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B.
ISO 9660
ISO 9660 is an international standard file system format primarily used for optical disc media such as CD-ROMs to ensure cross-platform data compatibility.
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C.
TFTP
TFTP (Trivial File Transfer Protocol) is a simple, lightweight file transfer protocol commonly used for tasks like network booting and device configuration in constrained environments.
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D.
Slackware
Slackware is one of the oldest actively maintained Linux distributions, known for its simplicity, stability, and adherence to Unix-like design principles.
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E.
ReiserFS
ReiserFS is a journaling file system for Linux known for its efficient handling of small files and advanced tree-based storage structures.
- 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: GNU Tar Target entity description: GNU Tar is a widely used free software utility for creating, maintaining, modifying, and extracting files from archive files, especially on Unix-like systems.
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A.
Zip2
Zip2 was an early online city guide and business directory software company from the late 1990s that provided web-based publishing tools for newspapers.
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B.
ISO 9660
ISO 9660 is an international standard file system format primarily used for optical disc media such as CD-ROMs to ensure cross-platform data compatibility.
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C.
TFTP
TFTP (Trivial File Transfer Protocol) is a simple, lightweight file transfer protocol commonly used for tasks like network booting and device configuration in constrained environments.
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D.
Slackware
Slackware is one of the oldest actively maintained Linux distributions, known for its simplicity, stability, and adherence to Unix-like design principles.
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E.
ReiserFS
ReiserFS is a journaling file system for Linux known for its efficient handling of small files and advanced tree-based storage structures.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
GNU Project software
ⓘ
command-line utility ⓘ file archiver ⓘ free software ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
GNU Tar
ⓘ
surface form:
tar
|
| commandOption |
-J (xz compression)
ⓘ
-c (create) ⓘ -f (archive file) ⓘ -j (bzip2 compression) ⓘ -t (list) ⓘ -x (extract) ⓘ -z (gzip compression) ⓘ |
| developer |
Free Software Foundation
ⓘ
GNU Project ⓘ |
| distribution |
GNU Core Utilities
ⓘ
surface form:
GNU core utilities ecosystem
most GNU/Linux distributions ⓘ |
| fileFormat | tar archive ⓘ |
| homepage | https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/ ⓘ |
| interface | command-line interface ⓘ |
| license | GNU General Public License ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
BSD
ⓘ
Linux ⓘ Unix-like systems ⓘ macOS ⓘ |
| primaryFunction |
create archive files
ⓘ
extract archive files ⓘ list archive contents ⓘ modify archive files ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage | C ⓘ |
| softwareName |
GNU Tar
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
GNU tar
|
| standardConformance | POSIX tar ⓘ |
| supportsCompression |
bzip2
ⓘ
compress ⓘ gzip ⓘ lzip ⓘ lzma ⓘ xz ⓘ zstd ⓘ |
| supportsFeature |
GNU tar extended format
ⓘ
POSIX ustar format ⓘ checkpointing and resume ⓘ exclusion patterns ⓘ file ownership and permission preservation ⓘ incremental backups ⓘ long file name support ⓘ multi-volume archives ⓘ pattern-based file selection ⓘ pax interchange format ⓘ remote archives via rsh/ssh ⓘ sparse file handling ⓘ symbolic and hard link preservation ⓘ |
| usedFor |
file and directory archiving
ⓘ
software distribution packaging ⓘ system backups ⓘ |
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: GNU Tar Description of subject: GNU Tar is a widely used free software utility for creating, maintaining, modifying, and extracting files from archive files, especially on Unix-like systems.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
GNU tar
this entity surface form:
tar
this entity surface form:
GNU tar format