UseModWiki
E473159
UseModWiki is an early Perl-based wiki engine that powered the first versions of Wikipedia before being superseded by MediaWiki.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| UseModWiki canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4832098 — 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: UseModWiki Context triple: [MediaWiki, replaces, UseModWiki]
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A.
Meta-Wiki
Meta-Wiki is a central coordination and documentation wiki for Wikimedia projects, used for planning, discussion, and global community collaboration.
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B.
MediaWiki.org
MediaWiki.org is the official website and documentation hub for the MediaWiki software, providing technical resources, manuals, and community collaboration for users and developers.
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C.
MediaWiki
MediaWiki is a free, open-source wiki software platform designed for collaborative editing of web pages, best known for powering Wikipedia and many other wikis.
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D.
Wikimedia Incubator
Wikimedia Incubator is a Wikimedia Foundation platform where new language editions of Wikimedia projects are developed and tested before becoming independent sites.
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E.
Wikimedia unified login
Wikimedia unified login is a single sign-on system that lets users access and manage their accounts across all Wikimedia projects with one set of credentials.
- 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: UseModWiki Target entity description: UseModWiki is an early Perl-based wiki engine that powered the first versions of Wikipedia before being superseded by MediaWiki.
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A.
Meta-Wiki
Meta-Wiki is a central coordination and documentation wiki for Wikimedia projects, used for planning, discussion, and global community collaboration.
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B.
MediaWiki.org
MediaWiki.org is the official website and documentation hub for the MediaWiki software, providing technical resources, manuals, and community collaboration for users and developers.
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C.
MediaWiki
MediaWiki is a free, open-source wiki software platform designed for collaborative editing of web pages, best known for powering Wikipedia and many other wikis.
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D.
Wikimedia Incubator
Wikimedia Incubator is a Wikimedia Foundation platform where new language editions of Wikimedia projects are developed and tested before becoming independent sites.
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E.
Wikimedia unified login
Wikimedia unified login is a single sign-on system that lets users access and manage their accounts across all Wikimedia projects with one set of credentials.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
software
ⓘ
wiki engine ⓘ |
| author | Clifford Adams ⓘ |
| category |
Free wiki software
ⓘ
Software written in Perl ⓘ |
| dataStorage | plain text files ⓘ |
| designGoal |
ease of installation
ⓘ
simplicity ⓘ |
| developer | Clifford Adams ⓘ |
| distributionForm | single Perl script plus data directory ⓘ |
| feature |
RSS or changes feed
ⓘ
RecentChanges page ⓘ diff-based page history ⓘ interwiki links ⓘ page locking ⓘ search function ⓘ text-based page storage ⓘ user preferences ⓘ wiki syntax ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | one of the earliest widely used wiki engines ⓘ |
| implementationLanguage | Perl ⓘ |
| influenced | MediaWiki ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | Cunningham's original WikiWikiWeb ⓘ |
| license |
GNU General Public License
ⓘ
GPL ⓘ
linked to:
GNU General Public License
|
| nameOrigin | UseMod (UseMod.com) website ⓘ |
| notableUse |
English Wikipedia
ⓘ
early Wikimedia projects ⓘ |
| operatingSystem | cross-platform ⓘ |
| powered | early versions of Wikipedia ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage | Perl ⓘ |
| programmingParadigm | CGI script ⓘ |
| releasedInDecade | 1990s ⓘ |
| replacedBy | MediaWiki ⓘ |
| status | discontinued ⓘ |
| storageMethod | flat-file ⓘ |
| supports |
CamelCase links
ⓘ
basic access control ⓘ free links ⓘ page categories via conventions ⓘ page revisions ⓘ user signatures ⓘ |
| supportsMarkup | UseMod wiki markup ⓘ |
| usedBy | Wikipedia ⓘ |
| website | http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl ⓘ |
| writtenInYear | 1999 ⓘ |
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: UseModWiki Description of subject: UseModWiki is an early Perl-based wiki engine that powered the first versions of Wikipedia before being superseded by MediaWiki.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.