CERN httpd
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CERN httpd was one of the earliest web server software programs, developed at CERN in the early 1990s to serve and test the first World Wide Web pages.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| CERN httpd canonical | 5 |
| CERN httpd web server | 1 |
| W3C httpd | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T353932 — 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: CERN httpd Context triple: [WorldWideWeb, relatedTo, CERN httpd]
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A.
WorldWideWeb (web browser)
WorldWideWeb was the first web browser and editor, created in 1990 as the original client for navigating and editing content on the World Wide Web.
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B.
MIT CMS/W
MIT CMS/W is an academic program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that focuses on the study and practice of media, communication, and writing across diverse platforms and disciplines.
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C.
CERN Large Hadron Collider surface facilities
The CERN Large Hadron Collider surface facilities are the above-ground buildings and infrastructure that support and control the LHC’s particle physics experiments near Geneva.
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D.
World Wide Web
The World Wide Web is a global system of interlinked hypertext documents and resources accessed via the internet, enabling users worldwide to browse, share, and interact with information through web browsers.
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E.
CERN
CERN is the European Organization for Nuclear Research, renowned for its large particle accelerators and fundamental physics experiments that have led to major discoveries such as the Higgs boson.
- 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: CERN httpd Target entity description: CERN httpd was one of the earliest web server software programs, developed at CERN in the early 1990s to serve and test the first World Wide Web pages.
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A.
WorldWideWeb (web browser)
WorldWideWeb was the first web browser and editor, created in 1990 as the original client for navigating and editing content on the World Wide Web.
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B.
MIT CMS/W
MIT CMS/W is an academic program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that focuses on the study and practice of media, communication, and writing across diverse platforms and disciplines.
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C.
CERN Large Hadron Collider surface facilities
The CERN Large Hadron Collider surface facilities are the above-ground buildings and infrastructure that support and control the LHC’s particle physics experiments near Geneva.
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D.
World Wide Web
The World Wide Web is a global system of interlinked hypertext documents and resources accessed via the internet, enabling users worldwide to browse, share, and interact with information through web browsers.
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E.
CERN
CERN is the European Organization for Nuclear Research, renowned for its large particle accelerators and fundamental physics experiments that have led to major discoveries such as the Higgs boson.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
HTTP server
ⓘ
web server software ⓘ |
| basedOn | HTTP protocol ⓘ |
| developer |
Ari Luotonen
ⓘ
CERN ⓘ Tim Berners-Lee ⓘ |
| discontinued | mid-1990s ⓘ |
| firstReleaseVersion | 0.x series ⓘ |
| genre | free software ⓘ |
| implements | Common Gateway Interface ⓘ |
| inception |
1990
ⓘ
early 1990s ⓘ |
| influenced |
Apache HTTP Server
ⓘ
NCSA HTTPd ⓘ |
| latestReleaseDate | mid-1990s ⓘ |
| latestReleaseVersion | 3.0A ⓘ |
| license | open source software ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | CERN ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of the first web servers
ⓘ
being the first publicly available web server software ⓘ |
| operatingSystem | Unix-like systems ⓘ |
| originallyCalled |
W3C httpd
ⓘ
linked to:
CERN httpd
|
| partOf | early World Wide Web project at CERN ⓘ |
| platform |
NeXT computer
ⓘ
linked to:
NeXT Inc.
Unix workstations ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage | C ⓘ |
| replacedBy |
Apache HTTP Server
ⓘ
NCSA HTTPd ⓘ |
| sourceCodeRepository | https://github.com/w3c/httpd ⓘ |
| status | discontinued ⓘ |
| supportsFeature |
CGI
ⓘ
HTTP content negotiation ⓘ access control ⓘ caching ⓘ configuration via text files ⓘ directory indexing ⓘ logging ⓘ proxy gateway mode ⓘ proxying ⓘ server-side includes (early forms) ⓘ virtual document trees ⓘ |
| supportsProtocol |
HTTP/0.9
ⓘ
early HTTP/1.0 features ⓘ |
| use |
serving early World Wide Web pages
ⓘ
testing early World Wide Web pages ⓘ |
| usedAt | CERN ⓘ |
| usedFor | hosting the first website at info.cern.ch ⓘ |
| website | https://www.w3.org/Daemon/ ⓘ |
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: CERN httpd Description of subject: CERN httpd was one of the earliest web server software programs, developed at CERN in the early 1990s to serve and test the first World Wide Web pages.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.