ConfirmEdit
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ConfirmEdit is a MediaWiki extension that provides various CAPTCHA mechanisms to help prevent automated spam and abusive edits on wiki sites.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| ConfirmEdit canonical | 1 |
| ConfirmEdit extension | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4832084 — 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: ConfirmEdit Context triple: [MediaWiki, supportsExtensions, ConfirmEdit]
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A.
Confirmation
"Confirmation" is a celebrated bebop jazz standard composed by saxophonist Charlie Parker, renowned for its intricate melody and sophisticated harmonic structure.
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B.
Confirmation
Confirmation is a Christian sacrament, especially in Roman Catholicism, in which a baptized person is strengthened by the Holy Spirit and affirmed as a full member of the Church.
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C.
Close (to the Edit)
"Close (to the Edit)" is an experimental 1984 synth-pop single by the British avant-garde group Art of Noise, known for its innovative use of sampling and production techniques.
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D.
EDIT
EDIT is a simple text editor included with the FreeDOS operating system, modeled after the classic MS-DOS Editor for creating and modifying plain text files.
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E.
Changes
"Changes" is a track featured on the hip hop album *Universal Mind Control* by Common.
- 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: ConfirmEdit Target entity description: ConfirmEdit is a MediaWiki extension that provides various CAPTCHA mechanisms to help prevent automated spam and abusive edits on wiki sites.
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A.
Confirmation
"Confirmation" is a celebrated bebop jazz standard composed by saxophonist Charlie Parker, renowned for its intricate melody and sophisticated harmonic structure.
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B.
Confirmation
Confirmation is a Christian sacrament, especially in Roman Catholicism, in which a baptized person is strengthened by the Holy Spirit and affirmed as a full member of the Church.
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C.
Close (to the Edit)
"Close (to the Edit)" is an experimental 1984 synth-pop single by the British avant-garde group Art of Noise, known for its innovative use of sampling and production techniques.
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D.
EDIT
EDIT is a simple text editor included with the FreeDOS operating system, modeled after the classic MS-DOS Editor for creating and modifying plain text files.
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E.
Changes
"Changes" is a track featured on the hip hop album *Universal Mind Control* by Common.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
CAPTCHA extension
ⓘ
MediaWiki extension ⓘ |
| appliesToAction |
account creation
ⓘ
email sending ⓘ link addition ⓘ page edit ⓘ password reset ⓘ |
| codeRepository | https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/ConfirmEdit ⓘ |
| configurableBy | MediaWiki configuration variables ⓘ |
| developedBy | Wikimedia Foundation contributors ⓘ |
| developedFor |
abuse prevention
ⓘ
spam prevention ⓘ |
| documentation | https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit ⓘ |
| hasConfigurationOption |
$wgCaptchaClass
ⓘ
$wgCaptchaQuestions ⓘ $wgCaptchaTriggers ⓘ $wgReCaptchaSecretKey ⓘ $wgReCaptchaSiteKey ⓘ $wghCaptchaSecretKey ⓘ $wghCaptchaSiteKey ⓘ |
| implements | CAPTCHA ⓘ |
| license | GNU General Public License ⓘ |
| maintainer |
MediaWiki developers
ⓘ
Wikimedia developers ⓘ
linked to:
Wikimedia Foundation Technology department
|
| name | ConfirmEdit ⓘ |
| partOf | MediaWiki ecosystem ⓘ |
| platform | MediaWiki ⓘ |
| providesFeature |
FancyCaptcha
ⓘ
linked to:
CAPTCHA
QuestyCaptcha ⓘ
linked to:
CAPTCHA
ReCaptchaNoCaptcha ⓘ
linked to:
CAPTCHA
SimpleCaptcha ⓘ
linked to:
CAPTCHA
hCaptcha integration ⓘ |
| purpose |
to prevent abusive edits on wiki sites
ⓘ
to prevent automated spam on wiki sites ⓘ to provide CAPTCHA mechanisms for MediaWiki ⓘ |
| repository | https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/ConfirmEdit ⓘ |
| securityRole | rate limiting support for CAPTCHAs ⓘ |
| softwareGenre |
anti-spam software
ⓘ
security software ⓘ |
| supportsFeature |
external CAPTCHA services
ⓘ
image-based CAPTCHA ⓘ question-and-answer CAPTCHA ⓘ |
| supportsIntegrationWith |
Google reCAPTCHA
ⓘ
linked to:
CAPTCHA
hCaptcha ⓘ
linked to:
CAPTCHA
|
| supportsVersionOf |
MediaWiki 1.35 and later
ⓘ
linked to:
MediaWiki
|
| usedBy |
Wikimedia wikis
ⓘ
linked to:
Wikimedia ecosystem
Wikipedia ⓘ third-party MediaWiki installations ⓘ |
| writtenInLanguage | PHP ⓘ |
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: ConfirmEdit Description of subject: ConfirmEdit is a MediaWiki extension that provides various CAPTCHA mechanisms to help prevent automated spam and abusive edits on wiki sites.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: ConfirmEdit