Growl (third‑party notification system for many users)
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Growl is a once-popular third-party notification system for macOS that provided customizable, system-wide alerts for many different applications.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Growl (third‑party notification system for many users) canonical | 1 |
| Growl framework | 1 |
| Growl notification system | 1 |
| Growl preference pane | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1935524 — 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: Growl (third‑party notification system for many users) Context triple: [Notification Center, replacedFeature, Growl (third‑party notification system for many users)]
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A.
GCM
GCM (Galois/Counter Mode) is an authenticated encryption mode for block ciphers that provides both data confidentiality and integrity with high performance and parallelizability.
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B.
SolarWinds
SolarWinds is an American software company best known for its IT infrastructure management tools and for being at the center of a major 2020 supply-chain cyberattack.
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C.
Syntrillium Software
Syntrillium Software was a software company best known for creating the audio editing program Cool Edit, which later evolved into Adobe Audition after Adobe acquired the firm.
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D.
Bigfire
Bigfire is a rustic, American-style restaurant at Universal CityWalk Orlando known for its open-fire cooking and wood-smoked dishes.
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E.
Norton
Norton is a residential suburb within the town of Runcorn in Cheshire, England.
- 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: Growl (third‑party notification system for many users) Target entity description: Growl is a once-popular third-party notification system for macOS that provided customizable, system-wide alerts for many different applications.
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A.
GCM
GCM (Galois/Counter Mode) is an authenticated encryption mode for block ciphers that provides both data confidentiality and integrity with high performance and parallelizability.
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B.
SolarWinds
SolarWinds is an American software company best known for its IT infrastructure management tools and for being at the center of a major 2020 supply-chain cyberattack.
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C.
Syntrillium Software
Syntrillium Software was a software company best known for creating the audio editing program Cool Edit, which later evolved into Adobe Audition after Adobe acquired the firm.
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D.
Bigfire
Bigfire is a rustic, American-style restaurant at Universal CityWalk Orlando known for its open-fire cooking and wood-smoked dishes.
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E.
Norton
Norton is a residential suburb within the town of Runcorn in Cheshire, England.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
notification system
ⓘ
software ⓘ third-party application ⓘ |
| category |
desktop notification tool
ⓘ
macOS utility ⓘ |
| developer | The Growl Project ⓘ |
| feature |
AppleScript support
ⓘ
customizable notifications ⓘ multiple notification styles ⓘ network notifications ⓘ notification history ⓘ notification priority levels ⓘ per-application notification settings ⓘ plug-in architecture ⓘ sound alerts ⓘ support for many applications ⓘ system-wide alerts ⓘ visual themes ⓘ |
| genre | system-wide notification framework ⓘ |
| influenced | macOS Notification Center design concepts ⓘ |
| inspired | third-party notification systems on other platforms ⓘ |
| integrationMethod |
AppleScript
ⓘ
application frameworks and APIs ⓘ plug-ins ⓘ |
| license | GNU General Public License ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a de facto notification standard on Mac before Notification Center
ⓘ
broad third-party application support ⓘ highly customizable notification styles ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
Mac OS X
ⓘ
linked to:
macOS
macOS ⓘ |
| platform |
Macintosh
ⓘ
linked to:
Apple Macintosh computers
|
| popularity | once popular among Mac users ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage | Objective-C ⓘ |
| status |
largely discontinued
ⓘ
superseded by macOS Notification Center ⓘ |
| supportedBy |
Adium
ⓘ
Mail applications ⓘ Transmission ⓘ iTunes (via plug-ins) ⓘ various third-party Mac apps ⓘ |
| targetUser |
developers integrating notifications
ⓘ
macOS power users ⓘ |
| useCase |
centralized notification management
ⓘ
custom visual notification themes ⓘ remote notifications over a network ⓘ unified alerts from multiple applications ⓘ |
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: Growl (third‑party notification system for many users) Description of subject: Growl is a once-popular third-party notification system for macOS that provided customizable, system-wide alerts for many different applications.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Growl (third‑party notification system for many users)
linked to: Growl (third‑party notification system for many users)
linked to: Growl (third‑party notification system for many users)