Ghostscript
E155913
Ghostscript is a suite of software that interprets and renders PostScript and PDF files, widely used for document viewing, printing, and conversion.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ghostscript canonical | 3 |
| ESP Ghostscript | 1 |
| GhostPCL | 1 |
| GhostPDL | 1 |
| Ghostscript for Windows | 1 |
| Ghostscript library | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1368143 — 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: Ghostscript Context triple: [PostScript, influenced, Ghostscript]
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A.
PostScript
PostScript is a page description and programming language widely used in desktop publishing and printing to precisely define the layout and appearance of text and graphics.
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B.
Adobe Acrobat
Adobe Acrobat is a widely used software application for creating, viewing, editing, and managing PDF (Portable Document Format) documents across multiple platforms.
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C.
Postscript-1969
Postscript-1969 is Thomas S. Kuhn’s later-added reflective essay to *The Structure of Scientific Revolutions*, in which he clarifies and refines key concepts such as paradigms and incommensurability in response to critics.
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D.
METAFONT
METAFONT is a font description and rasterization system created by Donald Knuth for designing and generating bitmap fonts, particularly for use with the TeX typesetting system.
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E.
CUPS
CUPS (Common UNIX Printing System) is an open-source modular printing system for Unix-like operating systems that manages print jobs and queues using the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP).
- 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: Ghostscript Target entity description: Ghostscript is a suite of software that interprets and renders PostScript and PDF files, widely used for document viewing, printing, and conversion.
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A.
PostScript
PostScript is a page description and programming language widely used in desktop publishing and printing to precisely define the layout and appearance of text and graphics.
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B.
Adobe Acrobat
Adobe Acrobat is a widely used software application for creating, viewing, editing, and managing PDF (Portable Document Format) documents across multiple platforms.
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C.
Postscript-1969
Postscript-1969 is Thomas S. Kuhn’s later-added reflective essay to *The Structure of Scientific Revolutions*, in which he clarifies and refines key concepts such as paradigms and incommensurability in response to critics.
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D.
METAFONT
METAFONT is a font description and rasterization system created by Donald Knuth for designing and generating bitmap fonts, particularly for use with the TeX typesetting system.
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E.
CUPS
CUPS (Common UNIX Printing System) is an open-source modular printing system for Unix-like operating systems that manages print jobs and queues using the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP).
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (56)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
PDF interpreter
ⓘ
PostScript interpreter ⓘ page description language interpreter ⓘ software suite ⓘ |
| component |
GhostPCL
ⓘ
linked to:
Ghostscript
GhostPDL ⓘ
linked to:
Ghostscript
GhostXPS ⓘ Ghostscript interpreter ⓘ Ghostscript library ⓘ
linked to:
Ghostscript
|
| developer | Artifex Software ⓘ |
| dualLicensed | true ⓘ |
| feature |
PDF merging
ⓘ
PDF optimization ⓘ PDF splitting ⓘ PDF to image conversion ⓘ PDF/A creation ⓘ PostScript to PDF conversion ⓘ color management ⓘ command-line interface ⓘ font rendering ⓘ raster image output ⓘ vector output ⓘ |
| license |
GNU Affero General Public License
ⓘ
proprietary license ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
Linux
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Unix-like systems ⓘ Windows ⓘ macOS ⓘ |
| originalDeveloper | L. Peter Deutsch ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage | C ⓘ |
| relatedSoftware |
GSview
ⓘ
Ghostscript for Windows ⓘ
linked to:
Ghostscript
|
| supportsFormat |
BMP
ⓘ
EPS ⓘ JPEG ⓘ PBM ⓘ PCL ⓘ PDF ⓘ PDF/A ⓘ PDF/X ⓘ PGM ⓘ PNG ⓘ PPM ⓘ PostScript ⓘ TIFF ⓘ XPS ⓘ |
| supportsStandard |
PDF/A archival standard
ⓘ
PDF/X printing standard ⓘ Portable Document Format ⓘ PostScript language ⓘ
linked to:
PostScript
|
| useCase |
PDF processing
ⓘ
PostScript rasterization ⓘ document conversion ⓘ document printing ⓘ document viewing ⓘ |
| website | https://ghostscript.com/ ⓘ |
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: Ghostscript Description of subject: Ghostscript is a suite of software that interprets and renders PostScript and PDF files, widely used for document viewing, printing, and conversion.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
PS
linked to: Ghostscript
linked to: Ghostscript
linked to: Ghostscript
linked to: Ghostscript
linked to: Ghostscript