Finder
E452821
Finder is a Symfony component that provides an intuitive, object-oriented API for locating and filtering files and directories in a filesystem.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Finder canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4555386 — 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: Finder Context triple: [Symfony, hasComponent, Finder]
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A.
Finder
Finder is the primary file management and desktop navigation application for Apple's Macintosh operating systems, providing users with a graphical interface to access and organize files, folders, and drives.
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B.
Findon
Findon is a village in West Sussex, England, situated near the South Downs and known for its rural character and historic charm.
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C.
Alexander Search
Alexander Search is one of Fernando Pessoa’s English-writing heteronyms, used to compose poetry and prose distinct in style and persona from Pessoa himself.
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D.
Find My
Find My is Apple's device and item tracking service that lets users locate lost or stolen Apple products and compatible accessories across their devices.
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E.
Qwant
Qwant is a French privacy-focused search engine that emphasizes user anonymity and does not track or profile its users.
- 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: Finder Target entity description: Finder is a Symfony component that provides an intuitive, object-oriented API for locating and filtering files and directories in a filesystem.
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A.
Finder
Finder is the primary file management and desktop navigation application for Apple's Macintosh operating systems, providing users with a graphical interface to access and organize files, folders, and drives.
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B.
Findon
Findon is a village in West Sussex, England, situated near the South Downs and known for its rural character and historic charm.
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C.
Alexander Search
Alexander Search is one of Fernando Pessoa’s English-writing heteronyms, used to compose poetry and prose distinct in style and persona from Pessoa himself.
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D.
Find My
Find My is Apple's device and item tracking service that lets users locate lost or stolen Apple products and compatible accessories across their devices.
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E.
Qwant
Qwant is a French privacy-focused search engine that emphasizes user anonymity and does not track or profile its users.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
PHP library
ⓘ
Symfony component ⓘ filesystem utility ⓘ |
| composerPackageName | symfony/finder ⓘ |
| distributedAs | Composer package ⓘ |
| domain | filesystem operations ⓘ |
| ecosystem |
Symfony Components
ⓘ
linked to:
Symfony
|
| feature |
chainable filter methods
ⓘ
fluent interface for query building ⓘ support for Symfony Finder expressions ⓘ support for custom filters via callbacks ⓘ support for following or ignoring symbolic links ⓘ support for glob patterns ⓘ support for ignoring VCS files ⓘ support for ignoring dotfiles ⓘ support for ignoring unreadable directories ⓘ support for regular expressions ⓘ support for searching in multiple locations ⓘ |
| license | MIT License ⓘ |
| maintainer |
Symfony core team
ⓘ
linked to:
Symfony community
|
| partOf |
Symfony framework
ⓘ
linked to:
Symfony
|
| programmingLanguage | PHP ⓘ |
| provides |
object-oriented API for filtering directories
ⓘ
object-oriented API for filtering files ⓘ object-oriented API for locating directories ⓘ object-oriented API for locating files ⓘ |
| repositoryPlatform | GitHub ⓘ |
| supports |
excluding directories from search
ⓘ
excluding files from search ⓘ iterating over search results ⓘ searching directories recursively ⓘ searching files by contents ⓘ searching files by date ⓘ searching files by depth ⓘ searching files by name ⓘ searching files by path ⓘ searching files by permissions ⓘ searching files by size ⓘ sorting search results ⓘ |
| targetAudience | PHP developers ⓘ |
| useCase |
automated deployment scripts
ⓘ
batch processing of files ⓘ build and asset pipelines ⓘ building file search tools ⓘ implementing filesystem crawlers ⓘ |
| usedWith |
Symfony Console component
ⓘ
linked to:
Symfony console component
Symfony Filesystem component ⓘ
linked to:
Filesystem
Symfony HttpKernel component ⓘ
linked to:
HttpKernel
|
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: Finder Description of subject: Finder is a Symfony component that provides an intuitive, object-oriented API for locating and filtering files and directories in a filesystem.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.