Ninja
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Ninja is a fast, small, and focused build system designed to efficiently handle incremental builds in large software projects.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ninja canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2629688 — 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: Ninja Context triple: [Clang, supportsBuildSystem, Ninja]
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A.
Ronin
Ronin is a 1998 action thriller film directed by John Frankenheimer, best known for its intricate espionage plot and realistic, high-intensity car chases set in France.
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B.
Baki
Baki was a prominent 16th-century Ottoman Turkish poet renowned for his refined ghazals and mastery of classical divan literature.
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C.
Marichi
Marichi is a revered Vedic sage (one of the Saptarishi) regarded as a mind-born son of Brahma and an important progenitor in Hindu cosmology.
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D.
Shiki, Saitama
Shiki, Saitama is a city in Saitama Prefecture, Japan, known as a residential suburb within the Greater Tokyo metropolitan area.
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E.
Shoto
Shoto is an upscale residential neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shibuya ward, known for its quiet streets, cultural institutions, and affluent atmosphere.
- 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: Ninja Target entity description: Ninja is a fast, small, and focused build system designed to efficiently handle incremental builds in large software projects.
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A.
Ronin
Ronin is a 1998 action thriller film directed by John Frankenheimer, best known for its intricate espionage plot and realistic, high-intensity car chases set in France.
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B.
Baki
Baki was a prominent 16th-century Ottoman Turkish poet renowned for his refined ghazals and mastery of classical divan literature.
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C.
Marichi
Marichi is a revered Vedic sage (one of the Saptarishi) regarded as a mind-born son of Brahma and an important progenitor in Hindu cosmology.
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D.
Shiki, Saitama
Shiki, Saitama is a city in Saitama Prefecture, Japan, known as a residential suburb within the Greater Tokyo metropolitan area.
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E.
Shoto
Shoto is an upscale residential neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shibuya ward, known for its quiet streets, cultural institutions, and affluent atmosphere.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
build system
ⓘ
command-line tool ⓘ free and open-source software ⓘ |
| category | software build automation tool ⓘ |
| createdAtOrganization | Google ⓘ |
| designGoal |
focused
ⓘ
small ⓘ |
| developer | Evan Martin ⓘ |
| documentation | online documentation on GitHub ⓘ |
| doesNotInclude |
built-in dependency discovery
ⓘ
high-level build description language ⓘ |
| emphasis | efficient incremental rebuilds over full builds ⓘ |
| feature |
deterministic builds
ⓘ
low build file parsing overhead ⓘ minimal build logic ⓘ parallel builds ⓘ simple text-based build files ⓘ |
| inputFileExtension | .ninja ⓘ |
| inputFormat | ninja build files ⓘ |
| interactionMode | command-line interface ⓘ |
| license | Apache License 2.0 ⓘ |
| name | Ninja ⓘ |
| optimizedFor |
low overhead
ⓘ
speed ⓘ |
| originallyDevelopedFor |
Chromium
ⓘ
Google Chrome ⓘ |
| platform |
Linux
ⓘ
Windows ⓘ macOS ⓘ other Unix-like systems ⓘ |
| primaryGoal | fast incremental builds ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage | C++ ⓘ |
| reads | dependency graph from .ninja files ⓘ |
| repositoryHost | GitHub ⓘ |
| requires | external meta-build system for project configuration ⓘ |
| supports |
build graph execution
ⓘ
incremental builds ⓘ |
| typicallyGeneratedBy |
Bazel (via generators or rules)
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CMake ⓘ GN build system ⓘ Meson ⓘ |
| useCase |
C and C++ projects
ⓘ
large software projects ⓘ multi-language build workflows ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Android Open Source Project build workflows
ⓘ
Chromium build infrastructure ⓘ
linked to:
The Chromium Project
LLVM build workflows ⓘ |
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: Ninja Description of subject: Ninja is a fast, small, and focused build system designed to efficiently handle incremental builds in large software projects.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.