XLink
E242857
XLink is an XML standard that extends basic linking capabilities by enabling rich, multidirectional, and metadata-enhanced hyperlinks between resources.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| XLink canonical | 8 |
| XFN | 1 |
| XLink hyperlinks | 1 |
| XLink specification | 1 |
| XML Linking Language | 1 |
| XML linking technologies | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2175330 — 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: XLink Context triple: [HyTime, influenced, XLink]
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A.
l’X
l’X is the traditional nickname of École Polytechnique, France’s elite engineering grande école renowned for its rigorous scientific education and prestigious alumni.
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B.
XDS
XDS (Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing) is an IHE IT Infrastructure profile that defines standards-based methods for registering, storing, and sharing clinical documents across healthcare enterprises.
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C.
Fieldlink
Fieldlink was an early digital payments and security startup co-founded by Max Levchin that later evolved into the company behind PayPal.
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D.
LX
LX is the second-generation Holden Torana series produced in the mid-1970s, notable for introducing the A9X performance package and being a popular Australian mid-size car in both road and racing forms.
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E.
Getlink
Getlink is a French-based company that owns and operates the infrastructure of the Channel Tunnel rail link between the United Kingdom and continental Europe.
- 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: XLink Target entity description: XLink is an XML standard that extends basic linking capabilities by enabling rich, multidirectional, and metadata-enhanced hyperlinks between resources.
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A.
l’X
l’X is the traditional nickname of École Polytechnique, France’s elite engineering grande école renowned for its rigorous scientific education and prestigious alumni.
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B.
XDS
XDS (Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing) is an IHE IT Infrastructure profile that defines standards-based methods for registering, storing, and sharing clinical documents across healthcare enterprises.
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C.
Fieldlink
Fieldlink was an early digital payments and security startup co-founded by Max Levchin that later evolved into the company behind PayPal.
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D.
LX
LX is the second-generation Holden Torana series produced in the mid-1970s, notable for introducing the A9X performance package and being a popular Australian mid-size car in both road and racing forms.
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E.
Getlink
Getlink is a French-based company that owns and operates the infrastructure of the Channel Tunnel rail link between the United Kingdom and continental Europe.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
XML standard
ⓘ
hyperlinking specification ⓘ |
| abbreviation | XLink ⓘ |
| attribute |
xlink:actuate
ⓘ
xlink:arcrole ⓘ xlink:from ⓘ xlink:href ⓘ xlink:label ⓘ xlink:role ⓘ xlink:show ⓘ xlink:title ⓘ xlink:to ⓘ xlink:type ⓘ |
| category |
XML-related standard
ⓘ
web standard ⓘ |
| definedBy |
W3C
ⓘ
linked to:
World Wide Web Consortium
World Wide Web Consortium ⓘ |
| editorialTeamIncludes |
Eve Maler
ⓘ
Steven DeRose ⓘ |
| enables |
associating metadata with links
ⓘ
linking resources that are not embedded in the same document ⓘ rich linking between multiple resources ⓘ |
| extends | XML ⓘ |
| fullName |
XML Linking Language
ⓘ
linked to:
XLink
|
| namespaceURI | http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink ⓘ |
| purpose | to provide advanced hyperlinking capabilities in XML documents ⓘ |
| recommendationDate |
2001-06-27
ⓘ
2010-05-06 ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
HTML hyperlinks
ⓘ
XPointer ⓘ |
| specificationStatus | W3C Recommendation ⓘ |
| standardizes | representation of hyperlinks in XML vocabularies ⓘ |
| supports |
arc roles
ⓘ
bi-directional links ⓘ extended links ⓘ link actuate attributes ⓘ link behaviors ⓘ link roles ⓘ link show attributes ⓘ link titles ⓘ metadata on links ⓘ multi-ended links ⓘ out-of-line links ⓘ simple links ⓘ |
| usedIn |
SVG
ⓘ
XBRL ⓘ XML documents ⓘ |
| version |
1.0
ⓘ
1.1 ⓘ |
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: XLink Description of subject: XLink is an XML standard that extends basic linking capabilities by enabling rich, multidirectional, and metadata-enhanced hyperlinks between resources.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: XLink
linked to: XLink
subject linked to:
Information technology — Hypermedia/Time-based Structuring Language (HyTime)
linked to: XLink