GNOME Document Scanner
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GNOME Document Scanner is a simple, user-friendly scanning application for the GNOME desktop that lets users digitize documents and images using connected scanners.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| GNOME Document Scanner canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8609047 — 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: GNOME Document Scanner Context triple: [GNOME Core Applications, includesApplication, GNOME Document Scanner]
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A.
Adobe Scan
Adobe Scan is a mobile scanning app by Adobe that converts physical documents into high-quality PDFs and integrates with Adobe’s cloud-based document services.
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B.
Office Lens
Office Lens is a Microsoft mobile scanning app that captures documents, whiteboards, and other content with a device camera and converts them into editable, shareable digital files.
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C.
Kurzweil OCR (optical character recognition) systems
Kurzweil OCR (optical character recognition) systems are pioneering software tools that convert printed text into digital, machine-readable form, widely used for document digitization and accessibility for the visually impaired.
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D.
Shotwell
Shotwell is a lesser-known punk rock band associated with the Bay Area punk scene, notable for having zine writer and musician Aaron Cometbus as a member.
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E.
OCR
OCR is the Office for Civil Rights, a U.S. government agency responsible for enforcing civil rights laws and ensuring equal access and non-discrimination in federally funded programs.
- 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: GNOME Document Scanner Target entity description: GNOME Document Scanner is a simple, user-friendly scanning application for the GNOME desktop that lets users digitize documents and images using connected scanners.
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A.
Adobe Scan
Adobe Scan is a mobile scanning app by Adobe that converts physical documents into high-quality PDFs and integrates with Adobe’s cloud-based document services.
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B.
Office Lens
Office Lens is a Microsoft mobile scanning app that captures documents, whiteboards, and other content with a device camera and converts them into editable, shareable digital files.
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C.
Kurzweil OCR (optical character recognition) systems
Kurzweil OCR (optical character recognition) systems are pioneering software tools that convert printed text into digital, machine-readable form, widely used for document digitization and accessibility for the visually impaired.
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D.
Shotwell
Shotwell is a lesser-known punk rock band associated with the Bay Area punk scene, notable for having zine writer and musician Aaron Cometbus as a member.
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E.
OCR
OCR is the Office for Civil Rights, a U.S. government agency responsible for enforcing civil rights laws and ensuring equal access and non-discrimination in federally funded programs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
GNOME application
ⓘ
document scanning software ⓘ software application ⓘ |
| designGoal |
simplicity
ⓘ
user-friendliness ⓘ |
| desktopEnvironment | GNOME NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| developer | GNOME Project NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distribution |
GNOME core applications
ⓘ
major Linux distributions ⓘ |
| genre |
productivity software
ⓘ
utility software ⓘ |
| license | GPL-2.0-or-later ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
Linux
ⓘ
Unix-like operating systems ⓘ |
| previousName | Simple Scan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage | C ⓘ |
| replaces | Simple Scan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| shortDescription | simple scanning application for the GNOME desktop ⓘ |
| softwareQuality |
follows GNOME Human Interface Guidelines
ⓘ
integrates with GNOME settings ⓘ |
| supportsFunction |
adjust scan color mode
ⓘ
adjust scan resolution ⓘ automatic document feeder scanning ⓘ crop scanned images ⓘ delete pages ⓘ document scanning ⓘ flatbed scanning ⓘ image scanning ⓘ multi-page document scanning ⓘ preview scan ⓘ reorder pages ⓘ rotate scanned images ⓘ save as JPEG ⓘ save as PDF ⓘ save as PNG ⓘ save as TIFF ⓘ scan to email (via saved file) ⓘ scan to file ⓘ select scan source ⓘ set paper size ⓘ set scan quality ⓘ |
| supportsHardware | SANE-compatible scanners ⓘ |
| targetUser |
GNOME desktop users
ⓘ
desktop users ⓘ |
| userInterface | graphical user interface ⓘ |
| usesLibrary |
GTK
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
SANE NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| website | https://apps.gnome.org/DocumentScanner/ ⓘ |
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: GNOME Document Scanner Description of subject: GNOME Document Scanner is a simple, user-friendly scanning application for the GNOME desktop that lets users digitize documents and images using connected scanners.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.