Samba Team
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The Samba Team is the group of developers responsible for creating and maintaining Samba, the widely used free software suite that enables file and print services interoperability between Unix/Linux and Windows systems.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Samba Team canonical | 3 |
| Samba software suite | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T400582 — 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: Samba Team Context triple: [Award for the Advancement of Free Software, notableRecipient, Samba Team]
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A.
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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B.
SMB
SMB (Server Message Block) is a network file sharing protocol widely used in Windows environments to enable shared access to files, printers, and other network resources.
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C.
Sugar Labs
Sugar Labs is a nonprofit organization that develops and maintains the Sugar learning platform, an open-source educational software environment originally created for the One Laptop per Child project.
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D.
W3C Team
The W3C Team is the group of staff and technical experts responsible for leading, coordinating, and supporting the World Wide Web Consortium’s standards development and related activities.
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E.
Scratch Team
Scratch Team is the official group responsible for developing and maintaining the Scratch programming platform and its related tools and extensions.
- 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: Samba Team Target entity description: The Samba Team is the group of developers responsible for creating and maintaining Samba, the widely used free software suite that enables file and print services interoperability between Unix/Linux and Windows systems.
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A.
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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B.
SMB
SMB (Server Message Block) is a network file sharing protocol widely used in Windows environments to enable shared access to files, printers, and other network resources.
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C.
Sugar Labs
Sugar Labs is a nonprofit organization that develops and maintains the Sugar learning platform, an open-source educational software environment originally created for the One Laptop per Child project.
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D.
W3C Team
The W3C Team is the group of staff and technical experts responsible for leading, coordinating, and supporting the World Wide Web Consortium’s standards development and related activities.
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E.
Scratch Team
Scratch Team is the official group responsible for developing and maintaining the Scratch programming platform and its related tools and extensions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
free software community
ⓘ
open source project team ⓘ software development team ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith |
Linux distributions
ⓘ
Unix system vendors ⓘ free software community ⓘ |
| develops | Samba ⓘ |
| enables |
file services interoperability between Unix-like and Windows systems
ⓘ
print services interoperability between Unix-like and Windows systems ⓘ |
| field |
computer networking
ⓘ
computer software ⓘ file sharing ⓘ interoperability ⓘ print services ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
Active Directory domain controller functionality
ⓘ
Windows domain integration ⓘ network file sharing ⓘ network printing ⓘ |
| goal |
compatibility with Windows networking protocols
ⓘ
interoperability with Microsoft Windows file and print services ⓘ |
| hasContributionModel | community contributions via patches and merge requests ⓘ |
| hostsCodeOn | Samba Git repositories ⓘ |
| implementsProtocol |
CIFS
ⓘ
linked to:
SMB
SMB ⓘ Server Message Block protocol ⓘ parts of the Microsoft Active Directory protocols ⓘ |
| licenseModel |
free software
ⓘ
open source software ⓘ |
| maintains | Samba ⓘ |
| produces |
Samba documentation
ⓘ
Samba security updates ⓘ Samba stable releases ⓘ Samba test suites ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
creation of Samba
ⓘ
maintenance of Samba ⓘ |
| softwareProject | Samba ⓘ |
| softwareTypeMaintained |
Active Directory compatible server
ⓘ
SMB/CIFS implementation ⓘ file and print services suite ⓘ |
| supportsPlatform |
BSD
ⓘ
Linux ⓘ Unix ⓘ macOS ⓘ other POSIX-compatible systems ⓘ |
| usesVersionControlSystem | Git ⓘ |
| website | https://www.samba.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: Samba Team Description of subject: The Samba Team is the group of developers responsible for creating and maintaining Samba, the widely used free software suite that enables file and print services interoperability between Unix/Linux and Windows systems.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Samba Team