wsgiref
E431932
wsgiref is a Python standard library package that provides reference implementations and utilities for working with WSGI-compatible web applications and servers.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| wsgiref canonical | 2 |
| WSGIServer class | 1 |
| wsgiref.headers | 1 |
| wsgiref.validate | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4325225 — 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: wsgiref Context triple: [Python standard library, includesModule, wsgiref]
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A.
WSGI
WSGI (Web Server Gateway Interface) is a Python standard that defines a common interface between web servers and Python web applications or frameworks.
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B.
mod_wsgi
mod_wsgi is an Apache HTTP Server module that hosts Python-based web applications using the WSGI interface, commonly used to deploy frameworks like Flask and Django in production.
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C.
web.py
web.py is a minimalist Python web framework created by Aaron Swartz, designed to make building web applications simple and lightweight.
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D.
uWSGI
uWSGI is a high-performance application server commonly used to run Python web applications in production, often sitting between web frameworks and web servers like Nginx.
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E.
asgiref
asgiref is a Python library that provides reference implementations and utilities for working with the ASGI (Asynchronous Server Gateway Interface) specification, commonly used in asynchronous web frameworks like Django and Starlette.
- 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: wsgiref Target entity description: wsgiref is a Python standard library package that provides reference implementations and utilities for working with WSGI-compatible web applications and servers.
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A.
WSGI
WSGI (Web Server Gateway Interface) is a Python standard that defines a common interface between web servers and Python web applications or frameworks.
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B.
mod_wsgi
mod_wsgi is an Apache HTTP Server module that hosts Python-based web applications using the WSGI interface, commonly used to deploy frameworks like Flask and Django in production.
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C.
web.py
web.py is a minimalist Python web framework created by Aaron Swartz, designed to make building web applications simple and lightweight.
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D.
uWSGI
uWSGI is a high-performance application server commonly used to run Python web applications in production, often sitting between web frameworks and web servers like Nginx.
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E.
asgiref
asgiref is a Python library that provides reference implementations and utilities for working with the ASGI (Asynchronous Server Gateway Interface) specification, commonly used in asynchronous web frameworks like Django and Starlette.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Python module
ⓘ
Python module ⓘ Python module ⓘ Python module ⓘ Python module ⓘ Python module ⓘ Python standard library package ⓘ WSGI reference implementation ⓘ |
| containsModule |
wsgiref.handlers
ⓘ
wsgiref.headers ⓘ
linked to:
wsgiref
wsgiref.simple_server ⓘ wsgiref.types ⓘ wsgiref.util ⓘ wsgiref.validate ⓘ
linked to:
wsgiref
|
| documentedAt | https://docs.python.org/3/library/wsgiref.html ⓘ |
| implements |
PEP 333
ⓘ
PEP 3333 ⓘ
linked to:
PEP 333
Web Server Gateway Interface ⓘ
linked to:
WSGI
|
| introducedIn | Python 2.5 ⓘ |
| license | Python Software Foundation License ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Python core developers ⓘ |
| partOf | Python standard library ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage | Python ⓘ |
| provides |
BaseHandler class
ⓘ
CGIHandler class ⓘ FileWrapper class ⓘ Headers class ⓘ SimpleHandler class ⓘ WSGI utility functions ⓘ WSGIRequestHandler class ⓘ WSGIServer class ⓘ
linked to:
wsgiref
application_uri function ⓘ make_server function ⓘ reference implementations for WSGI applications ⓘ reference implementations for WSGI servers ⓘ request_uri function ⓘ simple WSGI HTTP server ⓘ typing helpers for WSGI ⓘ utilities for WSGI-compatible web applications ⓘ utilities for WSGI-compatible web servers ⓘ validator for WSGI applications ⓘ validator for WSGI servers ⓘ |
| supports |
Python 2
ⓘ
linked to:
Python 2.7
Python 3 ⓘ
linked to:
Python 3.x
|
| usedFor |
checking WSGI compliance
ⓘ
demonstrating WSGI usage ⓘ development WSGI server ⓘ manipulating HTTP headers in WSGI ⓘ running WSGI applications in CGI-like environments ⓘ running simple development web servers ⓘ testing WSGI applications ⓘ |
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: wsgiref Description of subject: wsgiref is a Python standard library package that provides reference implementations and utilities for working with WSGI-compatible web applications and servers.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: wsgiref
linked to: wsgiref