nginx
E209791
nginx is a high-performance, open-source web server and reverse proxy known for its scalability, efficient resource usage, and widespread use in modern web infrastructure.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nginx | 6 |
| NGINX Plus | 1 |
| Nginx (via OpenResty) | 1 |
| Nginx WebDAV modules | 1 |
| nginx canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1881569 — 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: nginx Context triple: [SPDY, supportedOnServer, nginx]
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A.
Apache
The Apache are a group of culturally related Native American peoples of the Southwestern United States, known for their distinct languages, nomadic traditions, and resistance to colonial expansion.
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B.
Serving Gateway
The Serving Gateway is a core network node in LTE/EPC architectures that routes and forwards user data packets between base stations and the packet data network.
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C.
Netscape Enterprise Server
Netscape Enterprise Server is a web server software product developed by Netscape Communications Corporation for hosting and managing websites and internet applications.
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D.
Uvicorn
Uvicorn is a high-performance, ASGI-compatible web server implementation for Python, commonly used to run modern async frameworks and applications.
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E.
Cloudflare
Cloudflare is a web infrastructure and security company best known for its global content delivery network (CDN), DDoS protection, and DNS services that help improve the performance and security of websites and internet applications.
- 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: nginx Target entity description: nginx is a high-performance, open-source web server and reverse proxy known for its scalability, efficient resource usage, and widespread use in modern web infrastructure.
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A.
Apache
The Apache are a group of culturally related Native American peoples of the Southwestern United States, known for their distinct languages, nomadic traditions, and resistance to colonial expansion.
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B.
Serving Gateway
The Serving Gateway is a core network node in LTE/EPC architectures that routes and forwards user data packets between base stations and the packet data network.
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C.
Netscape Enterprise Server
Netscape Enterprise Server is a web server software product developed by Netscape Communications Corporation for hosting and managing websites and internet applications.
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D.
Uvicorn
Uvicorn is a high-performance, ASGI-compatible web server implementation for Python, commonly used to run modern async frameworks and applications.
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E.
Cloudflare
Cloudflare is a web infrastructure and security company best known for its global content delivery network (CDN), DDoS protection, and DNS services that help improve the performance and security of websites and internet applications.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (62)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
HTTP server
ⓘ
open-source software ⓘ reverse proxy software ⓘ software load balancer ⓘ web server software ⓘ |
| architecture |
asynchronous
ⓘ
event-driven ⓘ non-blocking I/O ⓘ |
| commercialVariant |
NGINX Plus
ⓘ
linked to:
nginx
|
| configurationFile | nginx.conf ⓘ |
| configurationStyle | declarative ⓘ |
| designGoal |
high concurrency
ⓘ
high performance ⓘ low memory usage ⓘ |
| developer |
Igor Sysoev
ⓘ
NGINX, Inc. ⓘ |
| homepage | https://nginx.org/ ⓘ |
| initialReleaseDate | 2004-10-04 ⓘ |
| license | 2-clause BSD license ⓘ |
| notableUser |
Cloudflare
ⓘ
GitHub ⓘ Netflix ⓘ WordPress.com ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
FreeBSD
ⓘ
Linux ⓘ Unix-like ⓘ Windows ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage | C ⓘ |
| sourceModel | open source ⓘ |
| supportsDynamicModules | yes ⓘ |
| supportsFeature |
FastCGI gateway
ⓘ
linked to:
FastCGI
HTTP proxying ⓘ SCGI gateway ⓘ TLS termination ⓘ URL rewriting ⓘ access control ⓘ content caching ⓘ gzip compression ⓘ load balancing ⓘ logging ⓘ rate limiting ⓘ request buffering ⓘ reverse proxying ⓘ static file serving ⓘ uWSGI gateway ⓘ virtual hosting ⓘ |
| supportsIPv6 | yes ⓘ |
| supportsModuleSystem | yes ⓘ |
| supportsOCSPStapling | yes ⓘ |
| supportsProtocol |
HTTP
ⓘ
HTTP/2 ⓘ HTTPS ⓘ IMAP ⓘ POP3 ⓘ SMTP ⓘ gRPC ⓘ |
| supportsSNI | yes ⓘ |
| usedAs |
load balancer
ⓘ
mail proxy ⓘ reverse proxy ⓘ web server ⓘ |
| writtenIn | C ⓘ |
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: nginx Description of subject: nginx is a high-performance, open-source web server and reverse proxy known for its scalability, efficient resource usage, and widespread use in modern web infrastructure.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: nginx
linked to: nginx
linked to: nginx
subject linked to:
Community Edition
linked to: nginx
linked to: nginx
linked to: nginx
linked to: nginx