Amazon Linux
E355667
Amazon Linux is a Linux distribution provided by Amazon Web Services, optimized for running applications on AWS cloud infrastructure with long-term support and security updates.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Amazon Linux canonical | 1 |
| Amazon Linux 2 | 1 |
| Amazon Linux 2023 | 1 |
| Amazon Linux AMI | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3415230 — 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: Amazon Linux Context triple: [Amazon Corretto, supportsOperatingSystem, Amazon Linux]
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A.
AlmaLinux
AlmaLinux is a free, community-driven, enterprise-grade Linux distribution designed to be a binary-compatible alternative to Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
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B.
Amazon Corretto
Amazon Corretto is a free, multiplatform, production-ready distribution of the Open Java Development Kit (OpenJDK) provided and supported by Amazon.
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C.
Amazon ECS
Amazon ECS is a fully managed container orchestration service that lets users run, scale, and secure Docker containers on AWS infrastructure.
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D.
Aws
Aws was one of the major Arab tribes of Medina that played a pivotal role in supporting Prophet Muhammad and the early Muslim community after the Hijrah.
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E.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a commercially supported, enterprise-grade Linux distribution widely used for servers, cloud deployments, and mission-critical applications.
- 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: Amazon Linux Target entity description: Amazon Linux is a Linux distribution provided by Amazon Web Services, optimized for running applications on AWS cloud infrastructure with long-term support and security updates.
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A.
AlmaLinux
AlmaLinux is a free, community-driven, enterprise-grade Linux distribution designed to be a binary-compatible alternative to Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
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B.
Amazon Corretto
Amazon Corretto is a free, multiplatform, production-ready distribution of the Open Java Development Kit (OpenJDK) provided and supported by Amazon.
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C.
Amazon ECS
Amazon ECS is a fully managed container orchestration service that lets users run, scale, and secure Docker containers on AWS infrastructure.
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D.
Aws
Aws was one of the major Arab tribes of Medina that played a pivotal role in supporting Prophet Muhammad and the early Muslim community after the Hijrah.
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E.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a commercially supported, enterprise-grade Linux distribution widely used for servers, cloud deployments, and mission-critical applications.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Linux distribution
ⓘ
Linux distribution ⓘ Linux distribution ⓘ Linux distribution ⓘ operating system ⓘ |
| architectureSupport |
ARM64
ⓘ
x86_64 ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Fedora Linux
ⓘ
surface form:
Fedora
GNU/Linux ⓘ Red Hat Enterprise Linux ⓘ |
| developer |
Amazon Web Services
ⓘ
Amazon ⓘ
surface form:
Amazon.com, Inc.
|
| distributionMethod |
AWS Deep Learning AMI
ⓘ
surface form:
Amazon Machine Image
Docker container image ⓘ on-premises via VM images ⓘ |
| distributionModel | free and open-source software ⓘ |
| hasVersion |
Amazon Linux
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Amazon Linux 2
Amazon Linux self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Amazon Linux 2023
Amazon Linux self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Amazon Linux AMI
|
| includes |
AWS command line tools
ⓘ
EC2-specific optimizations ⓘ cloud-init ⓘ |
| kernelFamily | Linux kernel ⓘ |
| kernelType | monolithic kernel ⓘ |
| license | various open-source licenses ⓘ |
| maintainer | Amazon Web Services ⓘ |
| optimizedFor |
AWS Lambda
ⓘ
AWS cloud environment ⓘ Amazon EC2 ⓘ
surface form:
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
Amazon ECS ⓘ
surface form:
Amazon Elastic Container Service
|
| packageFormat | RPM ⓘ |
| packageManager |
DNF
ⓘ
surface form:
dnf
yum ⓘ |
| primaryUse | running applications on AWS cloud infrastructure ⓘ |
| runsOn |
Amazon EC2
ⓘ
bare metal instances on AWS ⓘ virtualized instances on AWS ⓘ |
| securityFocus |
hardened defaults for AWS
ⓘ
timely security updates ⓘ |
| sourceModel | open source ⓘ |
| supportModel |
long-term support
ⓘ
time-bound support per release stream ⓘ |
| targetPlatform |
Amazon Web Services
ⓘ
cloud computing ⓘ container ⓘ server ⓘ virtual machine ⓘ |
| updateModel | rolling security and bugfix updates within major versions ⓘ |
| website | https://aws.amazon.com/amazon-linux/ ⓘ |
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: Amazon Linux Description of subject: Amazon Linux is a Linux distribution provided by Amazon Web Services, optimized for running applications on AWS cloud infrastructure with long-term support and security updates.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Amazon Linux AMI
this entity surface form:
Amazon Linux 2
this entity surface form:
Amazon Linux 2023