libwww
E171239
libwww is a modular, open-source HTTP client library developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) that provides core web protocol functionality for applications.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| W3C libwww | 2 |
| libwww canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1490500 — 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: libwww Context triple: [Arena, basedOn, libwww]
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A.
WorldWideWeb (web browser)
WorldWideWeb was the first web browser and editor, created in 1990 as the original client for navigating and editing content on the World Wide Web.
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B.
World Wide Web
The World Wide Web is a global system of interlinked hypertext documents and resources accessed via the internet, enabling users worldwide to browse, share, and interact with information through web browsers.
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C.
LWP
LWP is the abbreviation for the Polish People’s Army, the communist-era armed forces of Poland that existed from the end of World War II until 1989.
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D.
GNU Wget
GNU Wget is a free, command-line utility for non-interactive downloading of files from the web, supporting HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP protocols.
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E.
Netscape Navigator
Netscape Navigator was a pioneering mid-1990s web browser that played a central role in popularizing the World Wide Web and ignited the first major “browser war.”
- 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: libwww Target entity description: libwww is a modular, open-source HTTP client library developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) that provides core web protocol functionality for applications.
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A.
WorldWideWeb (web browser)
WorldWideWeb was the first web browser and editor, created in 1990 as the original client for navigating and editing content on the World Wide Web.
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B.
World Wide Web
The World Wide Web is a global system of interlinked hypertext documents and resources accessed via the internet, enabling users worldwide to browse, share, and interact with information through web browsers.
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C.
LWP
LWP is the abbreviation for the Polish People’s Army, the communist-era armed forces of Poland that existed from the end of World War II until 1989.
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D.
GNU Wget
GNU Wget is a free, command-line utility for non-interactive downloading of files from the web, supporting HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP protocols.
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E.
Netscape Navigator
Netscape Navigator was a pioneering mid-1990s web browser that played a central role in popularizing the World Wide Web and ignited the first major “browser war.”
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
HTTP client library
ⓘ
W3C software project ⓘ open-source software ⓘ software library ⓘ |
| description | a modular, open-source web protocol library for Unix and Windows ⓘ |
| developer |
W3C
ⓘ
linked to:
World Wide Web Consortium
World Wide Web Consortium ⓘ |
| genre | networking library ⓘ |
| influenced | early web client implementations ⓘ |
| license | W3C Software Notice and License ⓘ |
| maintainer | World Wide Web Consortium ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
Mac OS
ⓘ
linked to:
macOS
Unix-like systems ⓘ Windows ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage | C ⓘ |
| shortName |
W3C libwww
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linked to:
libwww
|
| softwareVersion | 5.4.1 ⓘ |
| supportsFeature |
HTML parsing
ⓘ
URI parsing ⓘ access control ⓘ authentication ⓘ caching ⓘ compression ⓘ content negotiation ⓘ event-driven I/O ⓘ non-blocking I/O ⓘ persistent connections ⓘ plug-in I/O modules ⓘ plug-in cache modules ⓘ plug-in protocol modules ⓘ proxy support ⓘ stream-based I/O model ⓘ |
| supportsProtocol |
FTP
ⓘ
File ⓘ Gopher ⓘ HTTP ⓘ HTTPS ⓘ News ⓘ Telnet ⓘ WAIS ⓘ |
| supportsStandard |
HTTP/1.0
ⓘ
HTTP/1.1 ⓘ |
| useCase |
embedded web applications
ⓘ
test tools for web protocols ⓘ web clients ⓘ web robots ⓘ |
| website | https://www.w3.org/Library/ ⓘ |
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: libwww Description of subject: libwww is a modular, open-source HTTP client library developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) that provides core web protocol functionality for applications.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.