Homestead
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Homestead was the first major production-ready upgrade to the Ethereum blockchain, improving its stability, security, and readiness for mainstream use.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Homestead canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3524636 — 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: Homestead Context triple: [Ethereum blockchain, networkUpgrade, Homestead]
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A.
Homestead
Homestead is a suburban city in southern Florida known as a gateway to Everglades and Biscayne National Parks and for its agricultural and military history.
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B.
Homestead, Pennsylvania
Homestead, Pennsylvania is a historic industrial borough near Pittsburgh best known as the site of Andrew Carnegie’s massive steel works and the 1892 Homestead Strike.
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C.
Upland
Upland is a small borough in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, known historically as the original name and early settlement area that later became part of Chester.
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D.
Upland
Upland is a suburban city in Southern California’s Inland Empire, located at the foot of the San Gabriel Mountains.
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E.
Avondale
Avondale is a well-known residential and commercial suburb of Harare, Zimbabwe, noted for its shopping centers and relatively affluent character.
- 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: Homestead Target entity description: Homestead was the first major production-ready upgrade to the Ethereum blockchain, improving its stability, security, and readiness for mainstream use.
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A.
Homestead
Homestead is a suburban city in southern Florida known as a gateway to Everglades and Biscayne National Parks and for its agricultural and military history.
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B.
Homestead, Pennsylvania
Homestead, Pennsylvania is a historic industrial borough near Pittsburgh best known as the site of Andrew Carnegie’s massive steel works and the 1892 Homestead Strike.
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C.
Upland
Upland is a small borough in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, known historically as the original name and early settlement area that later became part of Chester.
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D.
Upland
Upland is a suburban city in Southern California’s Inland Empire, located at the foot of the San Gabriel Mountains.
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E.
Avondale
Avondale is a well-known residential and commercial suburb of Harare, Zimbabwe, noted for its shopping centers and relatively affluent character.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Ethereum network upgrade
ⓘ
hard fork ⓘ |
| activationBlock | 1150000 ⓘ |
| activationDate |
2016-03-14
ⓘ
March 14 2016 ⓘ |
| aimedTo |
improve security of Ethereum
ⓘ
improve stability of Ethereum ⓘ prepare Ethereum for mainstream use ⓘ |
| changed |
contract-creation semantics via EIP-2
ⓘ
difficulty adjustment rules via EIP-2 ⓘ gas cost rules via EIP-2 ⓘ |
| containsEIP |
EIP-2
ⓘ
EIP-7 ⓘ EIP-8 ⓘ |
| documentationURL | https://blog.ethereum.org/2016/02/29/homestead-release/ ⓘ |
| followedBy | Metropolis ⓘ |
| follows | Frontier ⓘ |
| hasMainType | protocol upgrade ⓘ |
| improved |
Ethereum protocol security
ⓘ
Ethereum protocol stability ⓘ network resilience ⓘ |
| introduced | DELEGATECALL opcode via EIP-7 ⓘ |
| introducedBy |
Ethereum Foundation
ⓘ
Ethereum core developers ⓘ |
| network |
Ethereum mainnet
ⓘ
linked to:
Ethereum blockchain
|
| partOf | Ethereum blockchain ⓘ |
| phaseOf | Ethereum development roadmap ⓘ |
| precededBy | Frontier ⓘ |
| preparationFor | Metropolis upgrade ⓘ |
| roadmapStage | second major stage of Ethereum ⓘ |
| status | completed ⓘ |
| updated | Ethereum wire protocol via EIP-8 ⓘ |
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: Homestead Description of subject: Homestead was the first major production-ready upgrade to the Ethereum blockchain, improving its stability, security, and readiness for mainstream use.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.