MELPA

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Emacs package archive software repository

MELPA is a popular community-maintained package repository for the Emacs text editor, offering a large collection of third-party extensions and tools.

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All labels observed (4)

Label	Occurrences
MELPA canonical	8
Emacs package manager	1
Milkypostman’s Emacs Lisp Package Archive	1
NonGNU ELPA	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2889582 — 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: MELPA
Context triple: [Evil mode, availableFrom, MELPA]

A. GitHub Packages
GitHub Packages is a software package hosting and management service integrated into GitHub, enabling developers to publish, share, and reuse packages alongside their source code and workflows.
B. Spacemacs
Spacemacs is a community-driven Emacs distribution that combines Vim- and Emacs-style editing with a highly organized, modular configuration system.
C. Doom Emacs
Doom Emacs is a fast, modular, and highly-configurable Emacs distribution that provides a modern, Vim-inspired editing experience with curated defaults and packages.
D. npm
npm is the default package manager and registry for Node.js, widely used to share, install, and manage JavaScript libraries and tools.
E. Eshell
Eshell is a powerful, Emacs-integrated command shell written in Emacs Lisp that provides a Unix-like shell environment tightly coupled with Emacs features and workflows.
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: MELPA
Target entity description: MELPA is a popular community-maintained package repository for the Emacs text editor, offering a large collection of third-party extensions and tools.

A. GitHub Packages
GitHub Packages is a software package hosting and management service integrated into GitHub, enabling developers to publish, share, and reuse packages alongside their source code and workflows.
B. Spacemacs
Spacemacs is a community-driven Emacs distribution that combines Vim- and Emacs-style editing with a highly organized, modular configuration system.
C. Doom Emacs
Doom Emacs is a fast, modular, and highly-configurable Emacs distribution that provides a modern, Vim-inspired editing experience with curated defaults and packages.
D. npm
npm is the default package manager and registry for Node.js, widely used to share, install, and manage JavaScript libraries and tools.
E. Eshell
Eshell is a powerful, Emacs-integrated command shell written in Emacs Lisp that provides a Unix-like shell environment tightly coupled with Emacs features and workflows.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Emacs package archive ⓘ software repository ⓘ
accessedVia	MELPA self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Emacs package manager package.el ⓘ
category	package management ⓘ software development tools ⓘ
dataFormat	JSON metadata for packages ⓘ
describedAs	community-maintained package repository for Emacs ⓘ
distributionModel	rolling release ⓘ
fullName	MELPA self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Milkypostman’s Emacs Lisp Package Archive
hasFeature	continuous package builds from upstream repositories ⓘ package statistics page ⓘ searchable package index ⓘ versioned packages ⓘ
implements	recipe-based build system for packages ⓘ
licensePolicy	accepts free and open-source licenses ⓘ
maintainedBy	MELPA maintainers ⓘ community contributors ⓘ
name	MELPA self-link ⓘ
notableFor	large collection of Emacs packages ⓘ rapid availability of new Emacs packages ⓘ
operatesOn	the internet ⓘ surface form: Internet
packageFormat	.el Emacs Lisp files ⓘ tar package archives ⓘ
packageSubmission	pull requests on GitHub ⓘ
popularity	popular Emacs package archive ⓘ
programmingLanguage	Emacs Lisp (for GNU Emacs environment) ⓘ surface form: Emacs Lisp
provides	Emacs development tools ⓘ Emacs packages ⓘ third-party Emacs extensions ⓘ
relatedTo	GNU ELPA ⓘ MELPA self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: NonGNU ELPA
repositoryHostingService	GitHub ⓘ
softwareDomain	Emacs family of editors ⓘ surface form: Emacs
sourceCodeRepository	https://github.com/melpa/melpa ⓘ
supports	GNU Emacs ⓘ
supportsUpdateMechanism	automatic package updates via package.el ⓘ
supportsVCS	Bazaar ⓘ Git ⓘ Mercurial ⓘ Subversion ⓘ
targetUser	Emacs developers ⓘ Emacs users ⓘ
typicalInstallMethod	configure package-archives in Emacs init file ⓘ
usedFor	discovering Emacs extensions ⓘ installing Emacs packages ⓘ updating Emacs packages ⓘ
website	https://melpa.org ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (11)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Evil mode → availableFrom → MELPA ⓘ

Spacemacs → supportsPackageManager → MELPA ⓘ

MELPA → name → MELPA self-link ⓘ

MELPA → fullName → MELPA self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Milkypostman’s Emacs Lisp Package Archive

MELPA → accessedVia → MELPA self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Emacs package manager

MELPA → relatedTo → MELPA self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: NonGNU ELPA

GNU ELPA (via external packages depending on it) → alternativeTo → MELPA ⓘ

subject surface form: GNU ELPA

GNU ELPA (via external packages depending on it) → relatedTo → MELPA ⓘ

subject surface form: GNU ELPA

ELPA → relatedRepository → MELPA ⓘ

GNU ELPA → alternativeTo → MELPA ⓘ

GNU ELPA → relatedRepository → MELPA ⓘ

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Referenced by (11)

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