Ports Collection
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Ports Collection is FreeBSD’s system for building and installing third-party software from source using a large, organized tree of ported applications.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| BSD ports collection | 1 |
| Ports Collection canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4279123 — 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: Ports Collection Context triple: [FreeBSD, packageManagementSystem, Ports Collection]
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A.
The Jetty
The Jetty is a segment of Chicago’s Riverwalk featuring floating gardens, fishing stations, and educational elements that bring visitors closer to the ecology of the Chicago River.
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B.
Dockers
Dockers is the common nickname for the Fremantle Dockers, an Australian Football League (AFL) club based in Fremantle, Western Australia.
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C.
Jetty
Jetty is a lightweight, embeddable Java-based web server and servlet container widely used for hosting web applications and supporting modern web protocols.
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D.
Ports North
Ports North is a Queensland Government-owned port authority that manages and develops several far north Queensland ports, including the Port of Cairns.
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E.
Port
Port is the commonly used short name for the Port Adelaide Football Club, a professional Australian rules football team based in Adelaide, South Australia.
- 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: Ports Collection Target entity description: Ports Collection is FreeBSD’s system for building and installing third-party software from source using a large, organized tree of ported applications.
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A.
The Jetty
The Jetty is a segment of Chicago’s Riverwalk featuring floating gardens, fishing stations, and educational elements that bring visitors closer to the ecology of the Chicago River.
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B.
Dockers
Dockers is the common nickname for the Fremantle Dockers, an Australian Football League (AFL) club based in Fremantle, Western Australia.
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C.
Jetty
Jetty is a lightweight, embeddable Java-based web server and servlet container widely used for hosting web applications and supporting modern web protocols.
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D.
Ports North
Ports North is a Queensland Government-owned port authority that manages and develops several far north Queensland ports, including the Port of Cairns.
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E.
Port
Port is the commonly used short name for the Port Adelaide Football Club, a professional Australian rules football team based in Adelaide, South Australia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
component of FreeBSD
ⓘ
package build framework ⓘ ports tree ⓘ software management system ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
FreeBSD Ports Collection
ⓘ
FreeBSD ports tree ⓘ
linked to:
FreeBSD Ports Collection
|
| contains |
Makefiles
ⓘ
distinfo files ⓘ metadata for each port ⓘ patch files ⓘ pkg-descr files ⓘ pkg-plist files ⓘ |
| defaultLocation | /usr/ports ⓘ |
| distributionMethod | FreeBSD base system tools and source repositories ⓘ |
| documentation |
FreeBSD Handbook Ports chapter
ⓘ
linked to:
FreeBSD Handbook
|
| feature |
ability to set build options via make config
ⓘ
automatic application of patches ⓘ automatic fetching of source distfiles ⓘ automatic handling of build and run dependencies ⓘ integration with binary package creation ⓘ |
| license | various licenses per port ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
FreeBSD community
ⓘ
linked to:
FreeBSD Core Team
|
| managedBy |
FreeBSD Ports Management Team
ⓘ
linked to:
FreeBSD Ports Collection
|
| operatingSystem | FreeBSD ⓘ |
| organizedAs | a hierarchical directory tree ⓘ |
| organizedBy | software categories ⓘ |
| purpose | to build and install third-party software from source on FreeBSD ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
FreeBSD packages
ⓘ
binary package repositories ⓘ |
| relatedTool |
pkg
ⓘ
pkg_add ⓘ pkg_delete ⓘ pkg_info ⓘ portmaster ⓘ portupgrade ⓘ poudriere ⓘ |
| scope | third-party applications and libraries ⓘ |
| supports |
building software from source code
ⓘ
dependency resolution ⓘ installing third-party applications ⓘ package customization via build options ⓘ package deinstallation ⓘ software upgrades ⓘ |
| supportsPlatform |
aarch64
ⓘ
amd64 ⓘ arm ⓘ i386 ⓘ powerpc ⓘ |
| uses |
BSD make
ⓘ
ports infrastructure in /usr/ports/Mk ⓘ |
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: Ports Collection Description of subject: Ports Collection is FreeBSD’s system for building and installing third-party software from source using a large, organized tree of ported applications.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Ports Collection