Salt
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Salt is an open-source configuration management and remote execution tool used to automate and manage large-scale IT infrastructure.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Salt canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7938567 — 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: Salt Context triple: [Foreman, supportsConfigurationManagement, Salt]
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A.
Salt
Salt is the stage name of Cheryl James, an American rapper best known as one-third of the pioneering hip hop group Salt-N-Pepa.
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B.
Salt
Salt is a 2010 action thriller film starring Angelina Jolie as a CIA officer accused of being a Russian spy.
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C.
Salt
"Salt" is a 1962 poetry collection by Nobel Prize–winning Polish poet Wisława Szymborska, known for its reflective, ironic, and philosophically rich explorations of everyday life and history.
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D.
Salt Works
Salt Works is a historic site within the Lewis and Clark National Historical Park that preserves the location where members of the expedition boiled seawater to produce salt during the winter of 1805–1806.
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E.
SALT
SALT refers to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, a series of Cold War negotiations between the United States and the Soviet Union aimed at curbing the growth of their nuclear arsenals.
- 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: Salt Target entity description: Salt is an open-source configuration management and remote execution tool used to automate and manage large-scale IT infrastructure.
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A.
Salt
Salt is a 2010 action thriller film starring Angelina Jolie as a CIA officer accused of being a Russian spy.
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B.
Salt
Salt is the stage name of Cheryl James, an American rapper best known as one-third of the pioneering hip hop group Salt-N-Pepa.
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C.
Salt
"Salt" is a 1962 poetry collection by Nobel Prize–winning Polish poet Wisława Szymborska, known for its reflective, ironic, and philosophically rich explorations of everyday life and history.
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D.
Salt Works
Salt Works is a historic site within the Lewis and Clark National Historical Park that preserves the location where members of the expedition boiled seawater to produce salt during the winter of 1805–1806.
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E.
SALT
SALT refers to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, a series of Cold War negotiations between the United States and the Soviet Union aimed at curbing the growth of their nuclear arsenals.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
IT automation software
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configuration management tool ⓘ open-source software ⓘ remote execution tool ⓘ |
| configurationFormat |
Jinja templates
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linked to:
Jinja
YAML ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
Salt API
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Salt Cloud ⓘ Salt SSH ⓘ Salt Syndic ⓘ Salt master ⓘ Salt minion ⓘ |
| hasName | SaltStack ⓘ |
| license | Apache License 2.0 ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage | Python ⓘ |
| supportsFeature |
beacons for event detection
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cloud provisioning ⓘ configuration management ⓘ event-driven automation ⓘ grains for system data ⓘ orchestration ⓘ pillars for sensitive data ⓘ reactors for automated responses ⓘ remote command execution ⓘ role-based access control ⓘ state management ⓘ system monitoring ⓘ |
| supportsIntegration |
container platforms
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private cloud platforms ⓘ public cloud providers ⓘ virtualization platforms ⓘ |
| supportsModel |
agent-based management
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agentless management via SSH ⓘ master-minion architecture ⓘ |
| supportsPlatform |
Linux
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Unix-like operating systems ⓘ Windows ⓘ cloud environments ⓘ hybrid infrastructure ⓘ macOS ⓘ on-premises infrastructure ⓘ |
| supportsUseCase |
DevOps automation
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application deployment ⓘ compliance enforcement ⓘ configuration drift remediation ⓘ continuous delivery pipelines ⓘ large-scale infrastructure management ⓘ server provisioning ⓘ |
| usesTransport |
TCP
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linked to:
Transmission Control Protocol
ZeroMQ ⓘ |
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: Salt Description of subject: Salt is an open-source configuration management and remote execution tool used to automate and manage large-scale IT infrastructure.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.