Gmane
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Gmane is an online service that archives and provides searchable, web- and NNTP-based access to mailing list discussions.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gmane canonical | 2 |
| Gmane mailing list archive | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12900856 — 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: Gmane Context triple: [Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, creatorOf, Gmane]
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A.
Gnus
Gnus is a flexible and extensible message reader for news and email, tightly integrated with the Emacs text editor.
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B.
Usenet
Usenet is a worldwide distributed discussion system that predates the modern web, where users post and read messages in topic-based newsgroups.
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C.
Gamilroi
Gamilroi is an alternative name for the Gamilaraay language, an Indigenous Australian language traditionally spoken by the Gamilaraay people of New South Wales and southern Queensland.
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D.
Mailman
Mailman is a widely used open-source mailing list management software that automates the administration and distribution of email discussion lists.
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E.
GNU Mailman
GNU Mailman is a widely used open-source mailing list management software that automates the administration and distribution of email discussion and announcement lists.
- 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: Gmane Target entity description: Gmane is an online service that archives and provides searchable, web- and NNTP-based access to mailing list discussions.
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A.
Gnus
Gnus is a flexible and extensible message reader for news and email, tightly integrated with the Emacs text editor.
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B.
Usenet
Usenet is a worldwide distributed discussion system that predates the modern web, where users post and read messages in topic-based newsgroups.
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C.
Gamilroi
Gamilroi is an alternative name for the Gamilaraay language, an Indigenous Australian language traditionally spoken by the Gamilaraay people of New South Wales and southern Queensland.
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D.
Mailman
Mailman is a widely used open-source mailing list management software that automates the administration and distribution of email discussion lists.
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E.
GNU Mailman
GNU Mailman is a widely used open-source mailing list management software that automates the administration and distribution of email discussion and announcement lists.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NNTP service
ⓘ
mailing list archive service ⓘ web-based service ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
make mailing list content easily searchable and accessible
ⓘ
preserve mailing list discussions ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Gnus ⓘ |
| backupHostedAt | Internet Archive ⓘ |
| contentType | mailing list messages ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Norway ⓘ |
| dataFormat |
NNTP articles
ⓘ
plain text email messages ⓘ |
| dataSource |
open source project mailing lists
ⓘ
public mailing lists ⓘ technical mailing lists ⓘ |
| experiencedEvent | DDoS attacks in 2016 ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
NNTP gateway
ⓘ
mailing list import system ⓘ search index ⓘ web interface ⓘ |
| hasCreator | Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen ⓘ |
| hasLanguage |
English
ⓘ
multiple languages ⓘ |
| hasMirror | https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://gmane.org ⓘ |
| inception | 2001 ⓘ |
| license | archives of public mailing lists under original message licenses ⓘ |
| notableFor |
bridging email and Usenet-like access
ⓘ
long-term archiving of mailing lists ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen ⓘ |
| operationalModel | free access service ⓘ |
| primaryFunction |
archiving mailing list discussions
ⓘ
providing NNTP access to mailing list discussions ⓘ providing searchable access to mailing list archives ⓘ providing web access to mailing list discussions ⓘ |
| protocolUsed |
HTTP
ⓘ
NNTP ⓘ |
| status | partially offline after 2016 ⓘ |
| subjectArea |
open source communities
ⓘ
software development communities ⓘ technical communication ⓘ |
| supportsFeature |
full-text search
ⓘ
message indexing ⓘ message posting via NNTP ⓘ message posting via web interface ⓘ spam filtering ⓘ threaded discussion view ⓘ |
| website |
http://gmane.io/
ⓘ
http://gmane.org/ ⓘ |
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: Gmane Description of subject: Gmane is an online service that archives and provides searchable, web- and NNTP-based access to mailing list discussions.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Gmane