GDB
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GDB is a powerful open-source debugger from the GNU Project used to analyze and control the execution of programs written in languages like C, C++, and Fortran.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| GDB canonical | 19 |
| GDB manual | 2 |
| GDB (Guile scripting) | 1 |
| Intel Distribution for GDB | 1 |
| gdb | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T477844 — 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: GDB Context triple: [GNU Debugger, abbreviation, GDB]
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A.
Gassel
Gassel is a village in the Dutch province of North Brabant, known historically as a separate municipality before being incorporated into a larger administrative unit.
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B.
GTS
GTS is an abbreviation commonly used for the Global Telecommunication System, an international network for exchanging meteorological data.
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C.
GBE
GBE is the highest grade of the Order of the British Empire, typically awarded for exceptionally distinguished service to the arts, sciences, public services, or charitable work.
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D.
EDB
EDB is the National Rail station code for Edinburgh Waverley, the main railway station in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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E.
Wonko the Sane
Wonko the Sane is an eccentric Californian marine biologist from Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide series, known for building an inside-out asylum called the Outside of the Asylum to cope with the world's madness.
- 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: GDB Target entity description: GDB is a powerful open-source debugger from the GNU Project used to analyze and control the execution of programs written in languages like C, C++, and Fortran.
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A.
Gassel
Gassel is a village in the Dutch province of North Brabant, known historically as a separate municipality before being incorporated into a larger administrative unit.
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B.
GTS
GTS is an abbreviation commonly used for the Global Telecommunication System, an international network for exchanging meteorological data.
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C.
GBE
GBE is the highest grade of the Order of the British Empire, typically awarded for exceptionally distinguished service to the arts, sciences, public services, or charitable work.
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D.
EDB
EDB is the National Rail station code for Edinburgh Waverley, the main railway station in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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E.
Wonko the Sane
Wonko the Sane is an eccentric Californian marine biologist from Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide series, known for building an inside-out asylum called the Outside of the Asylum to cope with the world's madness.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (74)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
GNU Project software
ⓘ
debugger ⓘ free and open-source software ⓘ software ⓘ |
| canDebug |
core files
ⓘ
native processes ⓘ remote targets ⓘ |
| developedBy | Free Software Foundation ⓘ |
| documentationURL | https://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/ ⓘ |
| fullName | GNU Debugger ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
breakpoints
ⓘ
command-line interface ⓘ core dump analysis ⓘ multi-threaded debugging ⓘ remote debugging ⓘ reverse debugging ⓘ scriptable with Python ⓘ source-level debugging ⓘ stack inspection ⓘ step-by-step execution ⓘ variable inspection ⓘ watchpoints ⓘ |
| hasFrontend |
Code::Blocks
ⓘ
DDD ⓘ Eclipse CDT ⓘ KDevelop ⓘ Visual Studio Code via extensions ⓘ |
| hasInterface |
TUI (text user interface)
ⓘ
command-line interface ⓘ |
| license | GNU General Public License ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | GNU Project ⓘ |
| partOf | GNU toolchain ⓘ |
| primaryProgrammingLanguage | C ⓘ |
| repository | https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git ⓘ |
| softwareModel | free software ⓘ |
| sourceModel | open source ⓘ |
| supportsArchitecture |
AArch64
ⓘ
linked to:
ARMv8-A
ARM ⓘ MIPS ⓘ PowerPC ⓘ RISC-V ⓘ SPARC ⓘ
linked to:
SPARC microprocessor architecture
s390 ⓘ
linked to:
IBM System/390
x86 ⓘ x86-64 ⓘ |
| supportsDebugFormat |
COFF
ⓘ
DWARF ⓘ ELF ⓘ stabs ⓘ |
| supportsOperatingSystem |
AIX
ⓘ
FreeBSD ⓘ GNU Hurd ⓘ GNU/Linux ⓘ HP-UX ⓘ NetBSD ⓘ OpenBSD ⓘ Solaris ⓘ
linked to:
Solaris operating system
Windows ⓘ macOS ⓘ |
| supportsProgrammingLanguage |
Ada
ⓘ
linked to:
Ada (programming language)
Assembly language ⓘ C ⓘ C++ ⓘ Fortran ⓘ Go ⓘ Objective-C ⓘ Pascal ⓘ Rust ⓘ |
| supportsScriptingLanguage |
Guile
ⓘ
Python ⓘ |
| supportsStandard | POSIX ⓘ |
| usedWith |
GCC
ⓘ
linked to:
GNU Compiler Collection
binutils ⓘ
linked to:
GNU Binutils
|
| website | https://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/ ⓘ |
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: GDB Description of subject: GDB is a powerful open-source debugger from the GNU Project used to analyze and control the execution of programs written in languages like C, C++, and Fortran.
Referenced by (24)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: GDB
linked to: GDB
linked to: GDB