Buildah
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Buildah is an open-source command-line tool for building Open Container Initiative (OCI) and Docker-compatible container images without requiring a running container daemon.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Buildah canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9712799 — 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: Buildah Context triple: [Podman, relatedTo, Buildah]
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A.
cl-builder
cl-builder is a specialized tool used in the Calculate Linux ecosystem to automate building, customizing, and configuring system images and installations.
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B.
Dockerfile
A Dockerfile is a text-based configuration script that defines how to build a Docker container image by specifying its base image, dependencies, configuration, and commands.
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C.
Packer
Packer is a surname most notably associated with American film and television producer Will Packer.
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D.
flatpak-builder
flatpak-builder is a command-line tool used to build and package applications into Flatpak bundles from manifest files in a reproducible way.
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E.
Cloud Build
Cloud Build is Google Cloud’s fully managed continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) service for building, testing, and deploying applications at scale.
- 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: Buildah Target entity description: Buildah is an open-source command-line tool for building Open Container Initiative (OCI) and Docker-compatible container images without requiring a running container daemon.
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A.
cl-builder
cl-builder is a specialized tool used in the Calculate Linux ecosystem to automate building, customizing, and configuring system images and installations.
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B.
Dockerfile
A Dockerfile is a text-based configuration script that defines how to build a Docker container image by specifying its base image, dependencies, configuration, and commands.
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C.
Packer
Packer is a surname most notably associated with American film and television producer Will Packer.
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D.
flatpak-builder
flatpak-builder is a command-line tool used to build and package applications into Flatpak bundles from manifest files in a reproducible way.
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E.
Cloud Build
Cloud Build is Google Cloud’s fully managed continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) service for building, testing, and deploying applications at scale.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
container image build tool
ⓘ
open-source software ⓘ |
| canBuildFrom |
Containerfile
ⓘ
linked to:
Dockerfile
Dockerfile ⓘ OCI container configuration ⓘ |
| category |
DevOps tool
ⓘ
containerization tool ⓘ software build tool ⓘ |
| command |
buildah bud
ⓘ
buildah commit ⓘ buildah containers ⓘ buildah from ⓘ buildah images ⓘ buildah pull ⓘ buildah push ⓘ buildah run ⓘ |
| designedFor | daemonless container image builds ⓘ |
| developer |
Red Hat
ⓘ
containers organization on GitHub ⓘ |
| feature |
build images from existing base images
ⓘ
build images from scratch ⓘ commit containers to images ⓘ mount container root filesystems ⓘ pull images from registries ⓘ push images to registries ⓘ rootless container image builds ⓘ scripting-friendly CLI ⓘ |
| implements |
OCI Image Specification
ⓘ
linked to:
OCI image specification
OCI Runtime Specification (for build-related operations) ⓘ
linked to:
OCI runtime specification
|
| integratesWith |
Kubernetes workflows
ⓘ
OpenShift ⓘ
linked to:
OpenShift Platform
Podman ⓘ
linked to:
podman
|
| license | Apache License 2.0 ⓘ |
| operatingSystem | Linux ⓘ |
| primaryFunction |
build Docker-compatible images
ⓘ
build OCI images ⓘ build container images ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage | Go ⓘ |
| repository | https://github.com/containers/buildah ⓘ |
| requiresDaemon | false ⓘ |
| supportsArchitecture |
amd64
ⓘ
arm64 ⓘ ppc64le ⓘ s390x ⓘ |
| supportsPlatform | Linux distributions ⓘ |
| supportsStandard |
Docker image format
ⓘ
Open Container Initiative image format ⓘ
linked to:
OCI image specification
|
| writtenFor |
DevOps engineers
ⓘ
container image authors ⓘ system administrators ⓘ |
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: Buildah Description of subject: Buildah is an open-source command-line tool for building Open Container Initiative (OCI) and Docker-compatible container images without requiring a running container daemon.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.