MELPA
E308597
MELPA is a popular community-maintained package repository for the Emacs text editor, offering a large collection of third-party extensions and tools.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| MELPA canonical | 10 |
| Emacs package manager | 1 |
| MELPA repository (via configuration) | 1 |
| Milkypostman’s Emacs Lisp Package Archive | 1 |
| NonGNU ELPA | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2889582 — 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: MELPA Context triple: [Evil mode, availableFrom, MELPA]
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A.
GitHub Packages
GitHub Packages is a software package hosting and management service integrated into GitHub, enabling developers to publish, share, and reuse packages alongside their source code and workflows.
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B.
Spacemacs
Spacemacs is a community-driven Emacs distribution that combines Vim- and Emacs-style editing with a highly organized, modular configuration system.
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C.
Doom Emacs
Doom Emacs is a fast, modular, and highly-configurable Emacs distribution that provides a modern, Vim-inspired editing experience with curated defaults and packages.
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D.
npm
npm is the default package manager and registry for Node.js, widely used to share, install, and manage JavaScript libraries and tools.
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E.
Eshell
Eshell is a powerful, Emacs-integrated command shell written in Emacs Lisp that provides a Unix-like shell environment tightly coupled with Emacs features and workflows.
- 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: MELPA Target entity description: MELPA is a popular community-maintained package repository for the Emacs text editor, offering a large collection of third-party extensions and tools.
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A.
GitHub Packages
GitHub Packages is a software package hosting and management service integrated into GitHub, enabling developers to publish, share, and reuse packages alongside their source code and workflows.
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B.
Spacemacs
Spacemacs is a community-driven Emacs distribution that combines Vim- and Emacs-style editing with a highly organized, modular configuration system.
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C.
Doom Emacs
Doom Emacs is a fast, modular, and highly-configurable Emacs distribution that provides a modern, Vim-inspired editing experience with curated defaults and packages.
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D.
npm
npm is the default package manager and registry for Node.js, widely used to share, install, and manage JavaScript libraries and tools.
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E.
Eshell
Eshell is a powerful, Emacs-integrated command shell written in Emacs Lisp that provides a Unix-like shell environment tightly coupled with Emacs features and workflows.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Emacs package archive
ⓘ
software repository ⓘ |
| accessedVia |
Emacs package manager
ⓘ
linked to:
MELPA
package.el ⓘ |
| category |
package management
ⓘ
software development tools ⓘ |
| dataFormat | JSON metadata for packages ⓘ |
| describedAs | community-maintained package repository for Emacs ⓘ |
| distributionModel | rolling release ⓘ |
| fullName |
Milkypostman’s Emacs Lisp Package Archive
ⓘ
linked to:
MELPA
|
| hasFeature |
continuous package builds from upstream repositories
ⓘ
package statistics page ⓘ searchable package index ⓘ versioned packages ⓘ |
| implements | recipe-based build system for packages ⓘ |
| licensePolicy | accepts free and open-source licenses ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
MELPA maintainers
ⓘ
community contributors ⓘ |
| name | MELPA ⓘ |
| notableFor |
large collection of Emacs packages
ⓘ
rapid availability of new Emacs packages ⓘ |
| operatesOn |
Internet
ⓘ
linked to:
the internet
|
| packageFormat |
.el Emacs Lisp files
ⓘ
tar package archives ⓘ |
| packageSubmission | pull requests on GitHub ⓘ |
| popularity | popular Emacs package archive ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage |
Emacs Lisp
ⓘ
linked to:
Emacs Lisp (for GNU Emacs environment)
|
| provides |
Emacs development tools
ⓘ
Emacs packages ⓘ third-party Emacs extensions ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
GNU ELPA
ⓘ
NonGNU ELPA ⓘ
linked to:
MELPA
|
| repositoryHostingService | GitHub ⓘ |
| softwareDomain |
Emacs
ⓘ
linked to:
Emacs family of editors
|
| sourceCodeRepository | https://github.com/melpa/melpa ⓘ |
| supports | GNU Emacs ⓘ |
| supportsUpdateMechanism | automatic package updates via package.el ⓘ |
| supportsVCS |
Bazaar
ⓘ
Git ⓘ Mercurial ⓘ Subversion ⓘ |
| targetUser |
Emacs developers
ⓘ
Emacs users ⓘ |
| typicalInstallMethod | configure package-archives in Emacs init file ⓘ |
| usedFor |
discovering Emacs extensions
ⓘ
installing Emacs packages ⓘ updating Emacs packages ⓘ |
| website | https://melpa.org ⓘ |
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: MELPA Description of subject: MELPA is a popular community-maintained package repository for the Emacs text editor, offering a large collection of third-party extensions and tools.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: MELPA
subject linked to:
GNU ELPA (via external packages depending on it)
subject linked to:
GNU ELPA (via external packages depending on it)
linked to: MELPA