Yeoman
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Yeoman is a scaffolding tool for modern web applications that streamlines project setup by generating boilerplate code and configuration through customizable generators.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yeoman canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2555304 — 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: Yeoman Context triple: [SharePoint Framework, uses, Yeoman]
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A.
Yeomen and Yeowomen
Yeomen and Yeowomen are the athletic teams and mascots representing Oberlin College in intercollegiate sports.
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B.
York Yeomen
York Yeomen was the former name of the varsity athletic teams representing York University in Toronto, Canada, before they were rebranded as the York Lions.
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C.
Weaver
Weaver is a common English occupational surname historically given to people who worked as weavers of cloth or textiles.
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D.
Hoyte
Hoyte is the first name of Hoyte van Hoytema, a renowned Dutch-Swedish cinematographer known for his work on major films such as "Interstellar" and "Dunkirk."
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E.
Sergeant Putnam
Sergeant Putnam is a fictional military character played by British actor Bernard Hill.
- 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: Yeoman Target entity description: Yeoman is a scaffolding tool for modern web applications that streamlines project setup by generating boilerplate code and configuration through customizable generators.
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A.
Yeomen and Yeowomen
Yeomen and Yeowomen are the athletic teams and mascots representing Oberlin College in intercollegiate sports.
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B.
York Yeomen
York Yeomen was the former name of the varsity athletic teams representing York University in Toronto, Canada, before they were rebranded as the York Lions.
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C.
Weaver
Weaver is a common English occupational surname historically given to people who worked as weavers of cloth or textiles.
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D.
Hoyte
Hoyte is the first name of Hoyte van Hoytema, a renowned Dutch-Swedish cinematographer known for his work on major films such as "Interstellar" and "Dunkirk."
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E.
Sergeant Putnam
Sergeant Putnam is a fictional military character played by British actor Bernard Hill.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
scaffolding tool
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software tool ⓘ web development tool ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | yo ⓘ |
| benefit |
accelerates project bootstrapping
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reduces repetitive setup tasks ⓘ standardizes project structure ⓘ |
| category |
code generation framework
ⓘ
developer productivity tool ⓘ |
| distribution | npm package ⓘ |
| domain | modern web applications ⓘ |
| ecosystem | Node.js ecosystem ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
Yeoman environment
ⓘ
Yeoman generator ⓘ Yeoman yo CLI ⓘ |
| interface | command-line interface ⓘ |
| license | open-source ⓘ |
| name | Yeoman ⓘ |
| primaryFunction |
code generation
ⓘ
configuration generation ⓘ project scaffolding ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage | JavaScript ⓘ |
| purpose |
generate boilerplate code
ⓘ
generate configuration files ⓘ streamline project setup ⓘ |
| requires |
Node.js
ⓘ
npm ⓘ |
| supports |
build tool configuration
ⓘ
community generators ⓘ custom project structure ⓘ customizable generators ⓘ file generation ⓘ framework-specific generators ⓘ interactive prompts ⓘ linting configuration ⓘ project configuration ⓘ project templates ⓘ test setup configuration ⓘ |
| targetUsers |
JavaScript developers
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front-end developers ⓘ web developers ⓘ |
| typicalUsage |
run generators from the command line
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scaffold new project components ⓘ scaffold new web projects ⓘ |
| usedFor |
front-end web projects
ⓘ
full-stack JavaScript applications ⓘ single-page 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: Yeoman Description of subject: Yeoman is a scaffolding tool for modern web applications that streamlines project setup by generating boilerplate code and configuration through customizable generators.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.