Gopher
E229510
Gopher is an early, menu-driven Internet protocol used for distributing, searching, and retrieving documents before the widespread adoption of the World Wide Web.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gopher protocol | 9 |
| Gopher canonical | 8 |
| Internet Gopher Protocol | 1 |
| The Internet Gopher Protocol (a distributed document search and retrieval protocol) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2040341 — 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: Gopher Context triple: [Mosaic, supportedProtocol, Gopher]
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A.
Gecko
Gecko is Mozilla’s open-source web browser engine that powers the rendering and functionality of Firefox and several other applications.
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B.
Goldy Gopher
Goldy Gopher is the costumed gopher character who serves as the energetic and iconic spirit symbol for the University of Minnesota’s athletic teams and campus events.
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C.
Porcupine
Porcupine is a historic mining community and neighborhood within the city of Timmins in northeastern Ontario, Canada.
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D.
Peutie
Peutie is a village in Flemish Brabant, Belgium, that forms a residential suburb of the nearby city of Vilvoorde.
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E.
Rabbit
Rabbit is a famous stainless-steel sculpture by Jeff Koons, celebrated as an iconic work of contemporary pop and conceptual art.
- 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: Gopher Target entity description: Gopher is an early, menu-driven Internet protocol used for distributing, searching, and retrieving documents before the widespread adoption of the World Wide Web.
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A.
Gecko
Gecko is Mozilla’s open-source web browser engine that powers the rendering and functionality of Firefox and several other applications.
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B.
Goldy Gopher
Goldy Gopher is the costumed gopher character who serves as the energetic and iconic spirit symbol for the University of Minnesota’s athletic teams and campus events.
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C.
Porcupine
Porcupine is a historic mining community and neighborhood within the city of Timmins in northeastern Ontario, Canada.
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D.
Peutie
Peutie is a village in Flemish Brabant, Belgium, that forms a residential suburb of the nearby city of Vilvoorde.
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E.
Rabbit
Rabbit is a famous stainless-steel sculpture by Jeff Koons, celebrated as an iconic work of contemporary pop and conceptual art.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Internet protocol
ⓘ
application-layer protocol ⓘ document retrieval protocol ⓘ menu-driven protocol ⓘ |
| accessedBy |
Gopher client
ⓘ
Gopher-capable web browser ⓘ |
| category |
Application layer protocols
ⓘ
History of the Internet ⓘ Internet protocols ⓘ |
| competedWith | World Wide Web ⓘ |
| creator |
Bob Alberti
ⓘ
Daniel Torrey ⓘ Farhad Anklesaria ⓘ Mark P. McCahill ⓘ Paul Lindner ⓘ |
| dataModel | hierarchical document tree ⓘ |
| declinedDueTo |
lack of inline multimedia support
ⓘ
licensing concerns from University of Minnesota ⓘ rise of the World Wide Web ⓘ |
| designedFor |
distributing documents
ⓘ
retrieving documents ⓘ searching documents ⓘ |
| developedAt | University of Minnesota ⓘ |
| developedInCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| hasFeature |
client–server architecture
ⓘ
hierarchical menu interface ⓘ simple line-oriented protocol ⓘ text-based navigation ⓘ |
| hasSuccessor |
HTTP
ⓘ
World Wide Web ⓘ |
| influenced | early web design ⓘ |
| introducedInYear | 1991 ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Minnesota Golden Gophers ⓘ |
| operatesOn |
Internet
ⓘ
linked to:
the internet
|
| peakPopularityPeriod | early 1990s ⓘ |
| predecessorOf | World Wide Web ⓘ |
| RFCNumber | 1436 ⓘ |
| standardizedIn | RFC 1436 ⓘ |
| status | largely obsolete ⓘ |
| supports |
document menus
ⓘ
links to other Gopher servers ⓘ search services ⓘ |
| supportsContentType |
binary files
ⓘ
directories ⓘ plain text ⓘ |
| URLScheme | gopher:// ⓘ |
| usesAddressScheme | gopher URL scheme ⓘ |
| usesPort | 70 ⓘ |
| usesTransportProtocol |
TCP
ⓘ
linked to:
Transmission Control Protocol
|
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: Gopher Description of subject: Gopher is an early, menu-driven Internet protocol used for distributing, searching, and retrieving documents before the widespread adoption of the World Wide Web.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Mosaic (web browser)
subject linked to:
"The Whole Internet User's Guide & Catalog"
linked to: Gopher
linked to: Gopher
linked to: Gopher
linked to: Gopher
RFC 1436
→
title
→
The Internet Gopher Protocol (a distributed document search and retrieval protocol)
ⓘ
linked to: Gopher
linked to: Gopher
linked to: Gopher
linked to: Gopher
linked to: Gopher