Debian Release Team
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The Debian Release Team is the group responsible for planning, coordinating, and finalizing official Debian GNU/Linux releases, ensuring the distribution’s stability and quality.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Debian Release Team canonical | 4 |
| Debian release team | 1 |
| Debian stable releases | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8247447 — 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: Debian Release Team Context triple: [Debian Security Team, collaboratesWith, Debian Release Team]
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A.
Debian Security Team
The Debian Security Team is the group responsible for monitoring vulnerabilities and providing timely security updates and advisories for the Debian operating system.
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B.
Debian Bug Tracking System
The Debian Bug Tracking System is the platform used by the Debian project to report, track, and manage bugs and issues in its software packages.
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C.
Debian
Debian is a widely used, community-driven Linux distribution known for its stability, extensive package repository, and role as the basis for many other operating systems such as Ubuntu.
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D.
Debian Constitution
The Debian Constitution is the formal document that defines the organizational structure, decision-making processes, and powers of the various bodies within the Debian Project.
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E.
FreeBSD Core Team
The FreeBSD Core Team is the elected leadership body responsible for overseeing the development, direction, and policies of the FreeBSD operating system project.
- 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: Debian Release Team Target entity description: The Debian Release Team is the group responsible for planning, coordinating, and finalizing official Debian GNU/Linux releases, ensuring the distribution’s stability and quality.
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A.
Debian Developers
Debian Developers are the volunteer contributors who build, maintain, and manage the Debian GNU/Linux distribution and its associated project infrastructure.
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B.
Debian Technical Committee
The Debian Technical Committee is the project’s highest technical decision-making body, responsible for resolving technical disputes and setting binding technical policy within the Debian project.
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C.
Debian Security Team
The Debian Security Team is the group responsible for monitoring vulnerabilities and providing timely security updates and advisories for the Debian operating system.
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D.
Delegates of the Debian Project Leader
The Delegates of the Debian Project Leader are individuals appointed by the Debian Project Leader to oversee and manage specific areas of responsibility within the Debian project’s governance and operations.
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E.
Debian Project Leader
The Debian Project Leader is the elected head of the Debian Project, responsible for providing overall direction, coordination, and representation for the global community that develops the Debian operating system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Debian team
ⓘ
free software community group ⓘ software project team ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Debian Free Software Guidelines
ⓘ
Debian Social Contract ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith |
Debian CD Team
ⓘ
Debian FTP masters ⓘ
linked to:
Debian FTP Masters
Debian Installer Team ⓘ Debian Press Team ⓘ
linked to:
Debian Press and Publicity team
Debian Quality Assurance Team ⓘ
linked to:
Debian QA team
Debian Security Team ⓘ |
| goal |
coordinate timely Debian releases
ⓘ
maintain high quality standards for Debian stable ⓘ minimize regressions in stable releases ⓘ provide a stable Debian operating system release ⓘ |
| hasMemberType |
Debian Developer
ⓘ
linked to:
Debian Developers
|
| hasOutput |
Debian stable releases
ⓘ
linked to:
Debian
freeze announcements ⓘ release notes for Debian stable releases ⓘ release planning documents ⓘ transition tracking information ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryResponsibility | planning Debian stable releases ⓘ |
| hasResponsibility |
approving uploads to the testing distribution during freezes
ⓘ
coordinating Debian stable releases ⓘ coordinating transitions of large package sets ⓘ coordinating with Debian CD and images teams ⓘ coordinating with Debian FTP masters ⓘ coordinating with Debian Security Team ⓘ coordinating with Debian press and publicity teams for releases ⓘ deciding release freezes ⓘ deciding whether release-critical bugs can be ignored for a release ⓘ ensuring quality of Debian stable releases ⓘ ensuring stability of Debian stable releases ⓘ finalizing Debian stable releases ⓘ managing Debian release schedule ⓘ tracking release-critical bugs ⓘ |
| membershipPolicy | members are appointed from experienced Debian contributors ⓘ |
| operatesInDomain |
Debian GNU/Linux distribution
ⓘ
linked to:
Debian
free and open-source software ⓘ |
| oversees |
final release publication
ⓘ
migration of packages from unstable to testing ⓘ release candidate phases ⓘ release freeze process ⓘ |
| partOf |
Debian Project
ⓘ
linked to:
Debian community
|
| reportsTo |
Debian Project Leader (informally)
ⓘ
linked to:
Debian Project Leader
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| usesCommunicationChannel |
Debian bug tracking system
ⓘ
Debian wiki ⓘ IRC channels on OFTC ⓘ debian-release mailing list ⓘ |
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: Debian Release Team Description of subject: The Debian Release Team is the group responsible for planning, coordinating, and finalizing official Debian GNU/Linux releases, ensuring the distribution’s stability and quality.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Debian Release Team
linked to: Debian Release Team