CentOS
E38036
CentOS is a free, community-supported Linux distribution that provides a stable, enterprise-class operating system largely compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| CentOS canonical | 27 |
| CentOS Project | 3 |
| CentOS 6 | 1 |
| CentOS Board of Directors | 1 |
| CentOS Linux | 1 |
| CentOS Linux (as RHEL-compatible community rebuild) | 1 |
| CentOS Stream | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T286853 — 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: CentOS Context triple: [Linux, hasDistributions, CentOS]
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A.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a commercially supported, enterprise-grade Linux distribution widely used for servers, cloud deployments, and mission-critical applications.
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B.
Fedora Linux
Fedora Linux is a community-driven, cutting-edge Linux distribution sponsored by Red Hat, known for integrating the latest open-source technologies and serving as a foundation for other projects and operating systems.
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C.
Red Hat
Red Hat is a leading American open-source software company best known for its enterprise Linux distribution and related cloud and middleware solutions.
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D.
Oracle Linux
Oracle Linux is an enterprise-focused Linux distribution developed and maintained by Oracle, optimized for running Oracle software and cloud workloads.
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E.
Red Hat Satellite
Red Hat Satellite is a systems management platform that helps organizations deploy, configure, and maintain Red Hat Enterprise Linux environments at scale.
- 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: CentOS Target entity description: CentOS is a free, community-supported Linux distribution that provides a stable, enterprise-class operating system largely compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
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A.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a commercially supported, enterprise-grade Linux distribution widely used for servers, cloud deployments, and mission-critical applications.
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B.
Fedora Linux
Fedora Linux is a community-driven, cutting-edge Linux distribution sponsored by Red Hat, known for integrating the latest open-source technologies and serving as a foundation for other projects and operating systems.
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C.
Red Hat
Red Hat is a leading American open-source software company best known for its enterprise Linux distribution and related cloud and middleware solutions.
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D.
Oracle Linux
Oracle Linux is an enterprise-focused Linux distribution developed and maintained by Oracle, optimized for running Oracle software and cloud workloads.
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E.
Red Hat Satellite
Red Hat Satellite is a systems management platform that helps organizations deploy, configure, and maintain Red Hat Enterprise Linux environments at scale.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Linux distribution
ⓘ
free and open-source software ⓘ operating system ⓘ |
| aim | provide a free enterprise-class computing platform ⓘ |
| architectureSupport |
ARM64
ⓘ
PowerPC (ppc64le) ⓘ
linked to:
PowerPC
x86_64 ⓘ |
| basedOn | Red Hat Enterprise Linux ⓘ |
| bugTracker | https://bugs.centos.org/ ⓘ |
| communicationChannel |
IRC channels
ⓘ
forums ⓘ mailing lists ⓘ |
| compatibility | binary compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux ⓘ |
| defaultFileSystem | XFS (in later releases) ⓘ |
| defaultInitSystem | systemd ⓘ |
| desktopEnvironmentOptions |
GNOME
ⓘ
linked to:
GNOME desktop environment
KDE Plasma ⓘ
linked to:
KDE Plasma desktop environment
|
| developer |
CentOS Project
ⓘ
linked to:
CentOS
|
| discontinuationAnnounced | 2020-12 ⓘ |
| discontinuationReason | shift of focus to CentOS Stream ⓘ |
| discontinued | true ⓘ |
| documentation | https://docs.centos.org/ ⓘ |
| firstReleaseDate | 2004-05-14 ⓘ |
| forkedInto |
AlmaLinux
ⓘ
Rocky Linux ⓘ |
| governanceChange | joined Red Hat as a sponsored project in 2014 ⓘ |
| kernelType | monolithic Linux kernel ⓘ |
| lastMajorVersion | 8 ⓘ |
| license | GNU General Public License ⓘ |
| longTermSupport | yes ⓘ |
| packageManager |
DNF
ⓘ
YUM ⓘ |
| previousDefaultFileSystem | ext3 ⓘ |
| relationship | downstream rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ⓘ |
| securityUpdates | provided for each supported major release ⓘ |
| sourceCodeFrom | Red Hat Enterprise Linux source packages ⓘ |
| sourceModel | open source ⓘ |
| spinOff | CentOS Stream ⓘ |
| stabilityFocus | high stability and long-term support ⓘ |
| supportedBy | community ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
developers
ⓘ
enterprise environments ⓘ servers ⓘ web hosting providers ⓘ |
| updateModel | rolling release of point updates within major versions ⓘ |
| useCase |
database servers
ⓘ
development and testing for RHEL deployments ⓘ virtualization hosts ⓘ web servers ⓘ |
| website | https://www.centos.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: CentOS Description of subject: CentOS is a free, community-supported Linux distribution that provides a stable, enterprise-class operating system largely compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Referenced by (35)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: CentOS
linked to: CentOS
linked to: CentOS
linked to: CentOS
subject linked to:
podman
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linked to: CentOS