Upstart
E203895
Upstart is an event-based init daemon developed for Linux systems to manage services and system startup and shutdown.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Upstart canonical | 5 |
| SystemStarter | 1 |
| Upstart (historically in some distributions) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1831731 — 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: Upstart Context triple: [ChromiumOS, usesInitSystem, Upstart]
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A.
Bootjack
Bootjack is a small unincorporated community located in Mariposa County, California, near the Sierra Nevada foothills and the gateway to Yosemite National Park.
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B.
Uprising
Uprising is a 1980 reggae album by Bob Marley and the Wailers, known for its spiritual themes and including the iconic track "Redemption Song."
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C.
Surefire
"Surefire" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Jon Bellion, featured on his album "The Human Condition."
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D.
This Ain't a Game
"This Ain't a Game" is the second studio album by American R&B singer Ray J, showcasing his early-2000s blend of contemporary R&B and hip hop.
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E.
Blitz
The Blitz was the sustained German bombing campaign against the United Kingdom, particularly London, during 1940–1941 in World War II.
- 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: Upstart Target entity description: Upstart is an event-based init daemon developed for Linux systems to manage services and system startup and shutdown.
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A.
Bootjack
Bootjack is a small unincorporated community located in Mariposa County, California, near the Sierra Nevada foothills and the gateway to Yosemite National Park.
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B.
Uprising
Uprising is a 1980 reggae album by Bob Marley and the Wailers, known for its spiritual themes and including the iconic track "Redemption Song."
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C.
Surefire
"Surefire" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Jon Bellion, featured on his album "The Human Condition."
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D.
This Ain't a Game
"This Ain't a Game" is the second studio album by American R&B singer Ray J, showcasing his early-2000s blend of contemporary R&B and hip hop.
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E.
Blitz
The Blitz was the sustained German bombing campaign against the United Kingdom, particularly London, during 1940–1941 in World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
event-based init daemon
ⓘ
init system ⓘ |
| architecture | event-based ⓘ |
| category |
service management software
ⓘ
system software ⓘ |
| componentOf |
Ubuntu operating system
ⓘ
linked to:
Ubuntu
|
| configurationFormat | job configuration files ⓘ |
| configurationLocation | /etc/init ⓘ |
| defaultInitIn |
Ubuntu 9.10
ⓘ
linked to:
Ubuntu
|
| designGoal |
manage system services
ⓘ
manage system shutdown ⓘ manage system startup ⓘ |
| developer | Canonical Ltd. ⓘ |
| feature |
event-driven service management
ⓘ
job dependency handling ⓘ logging of job events ⓘ on-demand starting of services ⓘ parallel service startup ⓘ service supervision ⓘ |
| hasCommand |
initctl
ⓘ
restart ⓘ start ⓘ stop ⓘ |
| influenced | later init systems design ⓘ |
| introducedIn | Ubuntu 6.10 ⓘ |
| license |
GNU General Public License
ⓘ
GPL-2.0-or-later ⓘ |
| operatingSystem | Linux ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage | C ⓘ |
| replacedBy | systemd ⓘ |
| replacedByIn | Ubuntu 15.04 ⓘ |
| replaces | System V init ⓘ |
| status |
discontinued
ⓘ
legacy software ⓘ |
| supports |
emulation of sysvinit scripts
ⓘ
file system events ⓘ hardware events ⓘ network events ⓘ respawn of crashed services ⓘ runlevels ⓘ system shutdown events ⓘ system startup events ⓘ user sessions ⓘ |
| targetEnvironment | GNU/Linux ⓘ |
| usedIn |
CentOS 6
ⓘ
linked to:
CentOS
Fedora (older versions) ⓘ
linked to:
Fedora Linux
RHEL 6 ⓘ
linked to:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Ubuntu ⓘ |
| website | http://upstart.ubuntu.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: Upstart Description of subject: Upstart is an event-based init daemon developed for Linux systems to manage services and system startup and shutdown.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Upstart