Meta Object Facility
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Meta Object Facility is an OMG standard for defining, manipulating, and integrating metadata and models, serving as a core foundation for model-driven engineering.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Meta Object Facility canonical | 4 |
| OMG MOF specification documents | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7936999 — 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: Meta Object Facility Context triple: [Model Driven Architecture, supportsStandard, Meta Object Facility]
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A.
Objectory
Objectory is an object-oriented software development methodology created by Ivar Jacobson that introduced use cases and significantly shaped modern modeling approaches later incorporated into UML.
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B.
Z Object Publishing Environment
Z Object Publishing Environment is an open-source web application server and framework written in Python, best known for its object-oriented approach to building dynamic web applications.
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C.
Enterprise Objects Framework
Enterprise Objects Framework is an object-relational mapping and persistence framework from Apple (originally NeXT) used to manage database-backed business objects in WebObjects applications.
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D.
Object Modeling Technique
Object Modeling Technique (OMT) is an early object-oriented analysis and design methodology that introduced structured notations for modeling systems, helping lay the groundwork for what became the Unified Modeling Language (UML).
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E.
ObjectStudio
ObjectStudio is a commercial Smalltalk development environment and IDE, historically known for its strong Windows integration and enterprise application support.
- 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: Meta Object Facility Target entity description: Meta Object Facility is an OMG standard for defining, manipulating, and integrating metadata and models, serving as a core foundation for model-driven engineering.
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A.
Objectory
Objectory is an object-oriented software development methodology created by Ivar Jacobson that introduced use cases and significantly shaped modern modeling approaches later incorporated into UML.
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B.
Z Object Publishing Environment
Z Object Publishing Environment is an open-source web application server and framework written in Python, best known for its object-oriented approach to building dynamic web applications.
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C.
Enterprise Objects Framework
Enterprise Objects Framework is an object-relational mapping and persistence framework from Apple (originally NeXT) used to manage database-backed business objects in WebObjects applications.
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D.
Object Modeling Technique
Object Modeling Technique (OMT) is an early object-oriented analysis and design methodology that introduced structured notations for modeling systems, helping lay the groundwork for what became the Unified Modeling Language (UML).
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E.
ObjectStudio
ObjectStudio is a commercial Smalltalk development environment and IDE, historically known for its strong Windows integration and enterprise application support.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
OMG standard
ⓘ
metadata management framework ⓘ metamodeling standard ⓘ |
| abbreviation | MOF ⓘ |
| acronym | OMG ⓘ |
| category |
metamodeling language
ⓘ
software engineering standard ⓘ |
| definesLevel | meta-metamodel level ⓘ |
| domain |
metadata management
ⓘ
model-driven engineering ⓘ software modeling ⓘ |
| foundationFor |
Common Warehouse Metamodel
ⓘ
Model-Driven Architecture ⓘ
linked to:
Model Driven Architecture
Unified Modeling Language ⓘ XML Metadata Interchange ⓘ model-driven engineering ⓘ |
| fullName | Meta Object Facility ⓘ |
| governingBody | Object Management Group ⓘ |
| hasVersion |
MOF 1.x
ⓘ
linked to:
MOF
MOF 2.0 ⓘ
linked to:
MOF
MOF 2.4.1 ⓘ
linked to:
MOF
MOF 2.5 ⓘ
linked to:
MOF
MOF 2.5.1 ⓘ
linked to:
MOF
|
| includesSubspecification |
Complete MOF
ⓘ
Essential MOF ⓘ XMI Mapping ⓘ |
| layerInArchitecture | meta-metamodel layer ⓘ |
| purpose |
defining metadata
ⓘ
defining models ⓘ integrating metadata ⓘ integrating models ⓘ manipulating metadata ⓘ manipulating models ⓘ |
| relatedStandard |
Common Warehouse Metamodel
ⓘ
Object Constraint Language ⓘ
linked to:
OCL
Unified Modeling Language ⓘ XML Metadata Interchange ⓘ |
| standardizedBy | Object Management Group ⓘ |
| supportsConcept |
abstraction levels
ⓘ
metadata ⓘ metamodel ⓘ model ⓘ reflection ⓘ |
| supportsOperation |
metadata integration
ⓘ
model interchange ⓘ model transformation ⓘ |
| usedFor |
defining CWM metamodel
ⓘ
defining UML metamodel ⓘ defining domain-specific modeling languages ⓘ |
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: Meta Object Facility Description of subject: Meta Object Facility is an OMG standard for defining, manipulating, and integrating metadata and models, serving as a core foundation for model-driven engineering.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Meta Object Facility