Winget
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Winget is Microsoft's official Windows Package Manager command-line tool for discovering, installing, upgrading, and managing software on Windows.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Winget canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11654021 — 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: Winget Context triple: [Azure CLI, availableVia, Winget]
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A.
Whiterose
Whiterose is a mysterious and powerful hacker and leader of the Dark Army in the television series "Mr. Robot," known for her secretive agenda and dual identity as a high-ranking Chinese government official.
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B.
Geth
Geth is a widely used open-source Ethereum client implementation in Go that enables users to run full nodes, interact with smart contracts, and participate in the Ethereum network.
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C.
Upstart
Upstart is an event-based init daemon developed for Linux systems to manage services and system startup and shutdown.
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D.
Kanmu
Kanmu was a powerful Japanese emperor of the late 8th and early 9th centuries best known for relocating the capital to Heian-kyō, laying the foundations of the Heian period.
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E.
NonStop OS
NonStop OS is a fault-tolerant, high-availability operating system from Hewlett Packard Enterprise designed for mission-critical, continuously running enterprise systems, including those based on Itanium processors.
- 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: Winget Target entity description: Winget is Microsoft's official Windows Package Manager command-line tool for discovering, installing, upgrading, and managing software on Windows.
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A.
Whiterose
Whiterose is a mysterious and powerful hacker and leader of the Dark Army in the television series "Mr. Robot," known for her secretive agenda and dual identity as a high-ranking Chinese government official.
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B.
Geth
Geth is a widely used open-source Ethereum client implementation in Go that enables users to run full nodes, interact with smart contracts, and participate in the Ethereum network.
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C.
Upstart
Upstart is an event-based init daemon developed for Linux systems to manage services and system startup and shutdown.
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D.
Kanmu
Kanmu was a powerful Japanese emperor of the late 8th and early 9th centuries best known for relocating the capital to Heian-kyō, laying the foundations of the Heian period.
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E.
NonStop OS
NonStop OS is a fault-tolerant, high-availability operating system from Hewlett Packard Enterprise designed for mission-critical, continuously running enterprise systems, including those based on Itanium processors.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (70)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Windows package manager
ⓘ
command-line tool ⓘ |
| category |
software distribution tool
ⓘ
system administration tool ⓘ |
| commandName | winget ⓘ |
| configurationFileFormat | YAML NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| developer | Microsoft ⓘ |
| distributionChannel |
App Installer MSIX package
ⓘ
Microsoft Store NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| introducedBy | Microsoft Build 2020 announcement ⓘ |
| license | MIT License ⓘ |
| manifestFormat | YAML ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
Windows 10
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Windows 11 NERFINISHED ⓘ Windows Server NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | App Installer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryRepository | winget-pkgs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryRepositoryURL | https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs GENERATED ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage | C++ ⓘ |
| repository | https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli ⓘ |
| runsOn |
PowerShell
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
command prompt ⓘ |
| supportsArchitecture |
ARM64
ⓘ
x64 ⓘ x86 ⓘ |
| supportsCommand |
winget configure
ⓘ
winget export ⓘ winget features ⓘ winget hash ⓘ winget import ⓘ winget install ⓘ winget list ⓘ winget pin ⓘ winget search ⓘ winget settings ⓘ winget show ⓘ winget source ⓘ winget uninstall ⓘ winget upgrade ⓘ winget validate ⓘ |
| supportsFeature |
dependency resolution
ⓘ
locale selection ⓘ package notes ⓘ package upgrade all ⓘ pre-release packages ⓘ scope selection ⓘ silent installation ⓘ version pinning ⓘ |
| supportsFunction |
discover software
ⓘ
export package list ⓘ hash installer files ⓘ import package list ⓘ install software ⓘ list installed packages ⓘ manage package sources ⓘ show package details ⓘ uninstall software ⓘ upgrade software ⓘ validate manifests ⓘ |
| supportsInstallerType |
APPX
ⓘ
EXE ⓘ MSI ⓘ MSIX NERFINISHED ⓘ ZIP ⓘ inno ⓘ nullsoft NERFINISHED ⓘ wix NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| supportsSourceType |
Microsoft Store source
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Microsoft community repository ⓘ private repository ⓘ |
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: Winget Description of subject: Winget is Microsoft's official Windows Package Manager command-line tool for discovering, installing, upgrading, and managing software on Windows.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.