GNU Screen
E61968
GNU Screen is a terminal multiplexer that allows users to manage multiple shell sessions within a single terminal window, detach and reattach sessions, and persist processes across logins.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| GNU Screen canonical | 10 |
| GNU Screen project | 1 |
| GNU Screen terminal multiplexer | 1 |
| tmux | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T497660 — 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 Screen Context triple: [GNU Project, hasPart, GNU Screen]
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A.
Terminal
Terminal is the built-in command-line interface application for macOS that allows users to interact with the operating system using text-based commands.
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B.
PuTTY
PuTTY is a widely used free and open-source terminal emulator and network client for Windows and other platforms, supporting protocols like SSH, Telnet, and serial connections.
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C.
Telnet
Telnet is a network protocol and command-line tool that allows users to remotely access and manage devices over a text-based terminal connection.
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D.
Cygwin
Cygwin is a compatibility layer that provides a Unix-like environment and command-line tools for Microsoft Windows, enabling users to run and build POSIX-compliant software on the Windows platform.
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E.
Desktop Window Manager
Desktop Window Manager is the compositing window manager in modern Microsoft Windows that handles visual effects, window rendering, and desktop composition using hardware acceleration.
- 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 Screen Target entity description: GNU Screen is a terminal multiplexer that allows users to manage multiple shell sessions within a single terminal window, detach and reattach sessions, and persist processes across logins.
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A.
Terminal
Terminal is the built-in command-line interface application for macOS that allows users to interact with the operating system using text-based commands.
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B.
PuTTY
PuTTY is a widely used free and open-source terminal emulator and network client for Windows and other platforms, supporting protocols like SSH, Telnet, and serial connections.
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C.
Telnet
Telnet is a network protocol and command-line tool that allows users to remotely access and manage devices over a text-based terminal connection.
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D.
Cygwin
Cygwin is a compatibility layer that provides a Unix-like environment and command-line tools for Microsoft Windows, enabling users to run and build POSIX-compliant software on the Windows platform.
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E.
Desktop Window Manager
Desktop Window Manager is the compositing window manager in modern Microsoft Windows that handles visual effects, window rendering, and desktop composition using hardware acceleration.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
command-line program
ⓘ
free software ⓘ terminal multiplexer ⓘ |
| command | screen ⓘ |
| defaultCommandPrefix | Ctrl-a ⓘ |
| developer |
GNU Project
ⓘ
Juergen Weigert ⓘ Michael Schroeder ⓘ Oliver Laumann ⓘ |
| feature |
configurable key bindings
ⓘ
copy and paste within terminal ⓘ customizable status line ⓘ logging of terminal output ⓘ multiple virtual terminals ⓘ named sessions ⓘ scrollback buffer ⓘ session detaching ⓘ session reattaching ⓘ session sharing between users ⓘ split-screen regions ⓘ |
| function |
detach terminal sessions
ⓘ
manage multiple shell sessions in a single terminal window ⓘ persist processes across logins ⓘ reattach terminal sessions ⓘ |
| genre | terminal multiplexer ⓘ |
| license | GNU General Public License ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
BSD
ⓘ
Linux ⓘ Solaris operating system ⓘ
surface form:
Solaris
Unix-like systems ⓘ macOS ⓘ |
| partOf |
GNU userland
ⓘ
surface form:
GNU operating system ecosystem
|
| programmingLanguage | C ⓘ |
| similarTo |
dtach
ⓘ
GNU Screen self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
tmux
|
| supports |
UTF-8
ⓘ
configuration file .screenrc ⓘ interactive shells ⓘ multiple windows per session ⓘ per-session configuration ⓘ per-user configuration ⓘ remote SSH sessions ⓘ running programs after logout ⓘ |
| useCase |
collaborative terminal sessions
ⓘ
long-running console applications ⓘ remote server administration ⓘ unstable network connections ⓘ |
| website | https://www.gnu.org/software/screen/ ⓘ |
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 Screen Description of subject: GNU Screen is a terminal multiplexer that allows users to manage multiple shell sessions within a single terminal window, detach and reattach sessions, and persist processes across logins.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
tmux
this entity surface form:
GNU Screen project
this entity surface form:
GNU Screen terminal multiplexer