Live Software
E637138
Live Software was a software company best known for creating the JRun Java application server, one of the early commercial servlet and JSP engines for web applications.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Live Software canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7033844 — 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: Live Software Context triple: [JRun, developer, Live Software]
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A.
OnLive
OnLive was a pioneering but ultimately short-lived cloud gaming service that streamed high-end video games over the internet to low-powered devices.
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B.
Live Music Now
Live Music Now is a UK-based charity that brings high-quality live music performances and educational workshops to schools, hospitals, care homes, and community settings, particularly for people who might not otherwise have access to them.
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C.
5 Live Drive
5 Live Drive is a BBC Radio 5 Live news and current affairs programme that provides in-depth coverage and analysis of the day's top stories during the late afternoon and early evening.
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D.
NT Live recording
NT Live recording is a filmed performance produced by the National Theatre Live program, capturing stage productions for broadcast in cinemas and other venues.
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E.
Channel Live
Channel Live is a 1990s American hip hop duo best known for their politically charged, KRS-One-affiliated single “Mad Izm.”
- 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: Live Software Target entity description: Live Software was a software company best known for creating the JRun Java application server, one of the early commercial servlet and JSP engines for web applications.
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A.
OnLive
OnLive was a pioneering but ultimately short-lived cloud gaming service that streamed high-end video games over the internet to low-powered devices.
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B.
Live Music Now
Live Music Now is a UK-based charity that brings high-quality live music performances and educational workshops to schools, hospitals, care homes, and community settings, particularly for people who might not otherwise have access to them.
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C.
5 Live Drive
5 Live Drive is a BBC Radio 5 Live news and current affairs programme that provides in-depth coverage and analysis of the day's top stories during the late afternoon and early evening.
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D.
NT Live recording
NT Live recording is a filmed performance produced by the National Theatre Live program, capturing stage productions for broadcast in cinemas and other venues.
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E.
Channel Live
Channel Live is a 1990s American hip hop duo best known for their politically charged, KRS-One-affiliated single “Mad Izm.”
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | software company ⓘ |
| acquiredBy |
Allaire
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Macromedia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| category |
Java enterprise software
ⓘ
web middleware ⓘ |
| competitor |
Apache JServ
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
BEA WebLogic NERFINISHED ⓘ IBM WebSphere NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| deploymentEnvironment |
enterprise Java applications
ⓘ
web servers ⓘ |
| era | early commercial Java web era ⓘ |
| field | web application servers ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
JRun JSP engine
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
JRun management console NERFINISHED ⓘ JRun servlet engine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| industry | software ⓘ |
| knownFor |
JRun Java application server
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
early commercial JSP engine ⓘ early commercial servlet engine ⓘ |
| notableProduct |
JRun 2.3
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
JRun 3.0 NERFINISHED ⓘ JRun 3.1 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| product | JRun NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productType |
application server
ⓘ
web server add-on ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage | Java ⓘ |
| specialization | Java application servers ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
| successor |
Adobe JRun
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Macromedia JRun NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| supportsStandard |
Java Servlet API
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
JavaServer Pages specification NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| targetUser |
enterprise application developers
ⓘ
web developers ⓘ |
| technology |
Java Servlets
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
JavaServer Pages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Live Software Description of subject: Live Software was a software company best known for creating the JRun Java application server, one of the early commercial servlet and JSP engines for web applications.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.