DNF
E184321
DNF is a modern, dependency-resolving package manager primarily used on Red Hat–based Linux distributions to install, update, and remove software.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1636257 — 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: DNF Context triple: [Red Hat Enterprise Linux, packageManager, DNF]
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A.
Gra
Gra, an acronym for the Vilna Gaon (Rabbi Elijah ben Solomon Zalman), was an 18th-century Lithuanian Jewish sage renowned for his profound Talmudic, halachic, and Kabbalistic scholarship.
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B.
Ximending
Ximending is a bustling shopping and entertainment district in Taipei known for its youth culture, street performances, and vibrant nightlife.
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C.
ST Arena
ST Arena was the former name of Ondrej Nepela Arena, a major multi-purpose ice hockey and events venue in Bratislava, Slovakia.
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D.
DN
DN is the official vehicle registration code used for the Indian union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu.
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E.
Crossfire
"Crossfire" is a blues-rock song by Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, known for its driving groove, punchy horn section, and socially conscious lyrics.
- 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: DNF Target entity description: DNF is a modern, dependency-resolving package manager primarily used on Red Hat–based Linux distributions to install, update, and remove software.
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A.
Gra
Gra, an acronym for the Vilna Gaon (Rabbi Elijah ben Solomon Zalman), was an 18th-century Lithuanian Jewish sage renowned for his profound Talmudic, halachic, and Kabbalistic scholarship.
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B.
Ximending
Ximending is a bustling shopping and entertainment district in Taipei known for its youth culture, street performances, and vibrant nightlife.
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C.
ST Arena
ST Arena was the former name of Ondrej Nepela Arena, a major multi-purpose ice hockey and events venue in Bratislava, Slovakia.
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D.
DN
DN is the official vehicle registration code used for the Indian union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu.
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E.
Crossfire
"Crossfire" is a blues-rock song by Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, known for its driving groove, punchy horn section, and socially conscious lyrics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
free and open-source software
ⓘ
package manager ⓘ software management tool ⓘ |
| abbreviationOf |
YUM
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surface form:
Dandified YUM
|
| command |
dnf group
ⓘ
dnf history ⓘ dnf info ⓘ dnf install ⓘ dnf module ⓘ dnf remove ⓘ dnf search ⓘ dnf update ⓘ dnf upgrade ⓘ |
| configurationFile | /etc/dnf/dnf.conf ⓘ |
| developedBy |
Fedora Linux
ⓘ
surface form:
Fedora Project
Red Hat ⓘ |
| feature |
automatic dependency resolution
ⓘ
group operations ⓘ history and rollback of transactions ⓘ metadata caching ⓘ modularity support ⓘ package search ⓘ plugin system ⓘ repository management ⓘ |
| fullName |
YUM
ⓘ
surface form:
Dandified YUM
|
| homepage | https://dnf.readthedocs.io/ ⓘ |
| license |
GNU General Public License
ⓘ
surface form:
GPL
|
| operatingSystem | Linux ⓘ |
| packageFormat | RPM ⓘ |
| platform | Red Hat–based Linux distributions ⓘ |
| primaryUse |
install software packages
ⓘ
remove software packages ⓘ update software packages ⓘ |
| replaces | YUM ⓘ |
| successorOf | Yellowdog Updater, Modified ⓘ |
| supports |
command-line interface
ⓘ
dependency resolution ⓘ modular repositories ⓘ package groups ⓘ plug-in architecture ⓘ transactional package operations ⓘ |
| supportsRepositoryType | YUM-compatible repositories ⓘ |
| usedOn |
AlmaLinux
ⓘ
CentOS ⓘ Fedora Linux ⓘ
surface form:
Fedora
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ⓘ Rocky Linux ⓘ |
| usesLibrary |
libdnf
ⓘ
libsolv ⓘ |
| writtenInLanguage |
C
ⓘ
Python ⓘ |
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: DNF Description of subject: DNF is a modern, dependency-resolving package manager primarily used on Red Hat–based Linux distributions to install, update, and remove software.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Amazon Linux 2023
this entity surface form:
dnf