Inferno
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Inferno is a distributed operating system developed at Bell Labs, known for its use of the Limbo programming language and its focus on portable, networked computing.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Inferno canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1413093 — 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: Inferno Context triple: [Ken Thompson, notableWork, Inferno]
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A.
Inferno
Inferno is the first cantica of Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy, depicting the poet’s allegorical journey through the nine circles of Hell.
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B.
The Inferno
The Inferno is the passionate and raucous student section that supports the Arizona State Sun Devils football team at their home games.
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C.
Inferno (film)
Inferno is a 2016 mystery thriller film based on Dan Brown’s novel, following symbologist Robert Langdon as he races to stop a global catastrophe linked to Dante’s "Divine Comedy."
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D.
Christian's Inferno
"Christian's Inferno" is a punk rock song by Green Day from their rock opera-style album *21st Century Breakdown*, contributing to the album’s narrative of political and personal unrest.
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E.
De Ira Dei
De Ira Dei is a Christian theological treatise by Lactantius that defends and explains the concept of God's wrath against human sin and injustice.
- 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: Inferno Target entity description: Inferno is a distributed operating system developed at Bell Labs, known for its use of the Limbo programming language and its focus on portable, networked computing.
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A.
Inferno
Inferno is the first cantica of Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy, depicting the poet’s allegorical journey through the nine circles of Hell.
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B.
The Inferno
The Inferno is the passionate and raucous student section that supports the Arizona State Sun Devils football team at their home games.
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C.
Inferno (film)
Inferno is a 2016 mystery thriller film based on Dan Brown’s novel, following symbologist Robert Langdon as he races to stop a global catastrophe linked to Dante’s "Divine Comedy."
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D.
Christian's Inferno
"Christian's Inferno" is a punk rock song by Green Day from their rock opera-style album *21st Century Breakdown*, contributing to the album’s narrative of political and personal unrest.
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E.
De Ira Dei
De Ira Dei is a Christian theological treatise by Lactantius that defends and explains the concept of God's wrath against human sin and injustice.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
distributed operating system
ⓘ
operating system ⓘ |
| basedOn | Plan 9 from Bell Labs ⓘ |
| canRunOn |
Plan 9 from Bell Labs
ⓘ
surface form:
Plan 9
Unix-like systems ⓘ Windows ⓘ bare hardware ⓘ hosted operating systems ⓘ |
| communicationModel | Styx protocol ⓘ |
| designedFor |
networked computing
ⓘ
portable computing ⓘ |
| developer |
Bell Telephone Laboratories
ⓘ
surface form:
Bell Labs
Lucent Technologies ⓘ |
| fileSystemModel | namespaces ⓘ |
| GUIFramework | Tk-like toolkit for Limbo ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
Dis virtual machine
ⓘ
Limbo compiler ⓘ Styx file server ⓘ graphical window system ⓘ |
| initialReleaseYear | mid-1990s ⓘ |
| inspiredBy |
Plan 9 from Bell Labs
ⓘ
surface form:
Plan 9 namespace model
|
| license | open source (later releases) ⓘ |
| namespacePerProcess | yes ⓘ |
| networkTransparency | yes ⓘ |
| originOrganization |
Bell Telephone Laboratories
ⓘ
surface form:
Bell Labs Computing Sciences Research Center
|
| programmingLanguage | Limbo ⓘ |
| runsOnArchitecture |
ARM
ⓘ
MIPS ⓘ PowerPC ⓘ x86 ⓘ |
| supports |
distributed computing
ⓘ
graphical user interface ⓘ portable bytecode ⓘ resource-limited devices ⓘ virtual machine ⓘ |
| supportsLanguage |
C
ⓘ
Java ⓘ
surface form:
Java (via hosted environments)
Limbo ⓘ |
| supportsSecurity |
authentication mechanisms
ⓘ
encryption ⓘ |
| targetDomain |
distributed services
ⓘ
embedded systems ⓘ network appliances ⓘ |
| uses | Dis virtual machine ⓘ |
| usesProtocol | Styx ⓘ |
| virtualMachineName | Dis ⓘ |
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: Inferno Description of subject: Inferno is a distributed operating system developed at Bell Labs, known for its use of the Limbo programming language and its focus on portable, networked computing.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.