DocBook
E48511
DocBook is a semantic markup language, originally based on SGML and now commonly used in XML form, designed for authoring and publishing technical documentation and books in a platform-independent way.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| DocBook canonical | 2 |
| DocBook 4.x | 1 |
| DocBook Technical Committee | 1 |
| GNU documentation | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T380476 — 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: DocBook Context triple: [SGML, influenced, DocBook]
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A.
SGML
SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language) is a standardized metalanguage for defining markup languages used to structure and describe the content of electronic documents.
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B.
XML
XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a flexible, text-based markup language designed for structuring, storing, and transporting data in a platform-independent way.
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C.
Schematron
Schematron is a rule-based XML schema language that uses XPath expressions to define and validate complex structural and business constraints in XML documents.
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D.
Portable Document Format
Portable Document Format (PDF) is a widely used file format designed for reliably presenting and exchanging documents independent of software, hardware, or operating systems.
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E.
XHTML
XHTML is a reformulation of HTML as an XML-based markup language designed to create structured, standards-compliant web pages.
- 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: DocBook Target entity description: DocBook is a semantic markup language, originally based on SGML and now commonly used in XML form, designed for authoring and publishing technical documentation and books in a platform-independent way.
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A.
SGML
SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language) is a standardized metalanguage for defining markup languages used to structure and describe the content of electronic documents.
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B.
XML
XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a flexible, text-based markup language designed for structuring, storing, and transporting data in a platform-independent way.
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C.
Schematron
Schematron is a rule-based XML schema language that uses XPath expressions to define and validate complex structural and business constraints in XML documents.
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D.
Portable Document Format
Portable Document Format (PDF) is a widely used file format designed for reliably presenting and exchanging documents independent of software, hardware, or operating systems.
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E.
XHTML
XHTML is a reformulation of HTML as an XML-based markup language designed to create structured, standards-compliant web pages.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (61)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
XML vocabulary
ⓘ
documentation format ⓘ semantic markup language ⓘ |
| basedOn | SGML ⓘ |
| commonlyUsedAs | XML ⓘ |
| designedFor |
authoring books
ⓘ
authoring technical documentation ⓘ publishing books ⓘ publishing technical documentation ⓘ |
| earlierVersionSyntax | DTD-based ⓘ |
| governedBy |
DocBook
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
DocBook Technical Committee
|
| hasDesignGoal |
device independence
ⓘ
platform independence ⓘ separation of content and presentation ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
modular document structure
ⓘ
reuse of content via entities or inclusions ⓘ rich set of elements for technical documentation ⓘ support for articles ⓘ support for bibliographies ⓘ support for books ⓘ support for code listings ⓘ support for cross references ⓘ support for equations ⓘ support for figures ⓘ support for glossaries ⓘ support for indexes ⓘ support for procedures ⓘ support for reference pages ⓘ support for tables ⓘ |
| hasLicense | open standard ⓘ |
| hasSchemaLanguage |
DTD
ⓘ
RELAX NG ⓘ XML Schema ⓘ
surface form:
W3C XML Schema
|
| hasTooling |
XSLT stylesheets for formatting
ⓘ
command-line processing tools ⓘ editor plugins and IDE support ⓘ |
| hasVersion |
DocBook
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
DocBook 4.x
DocBook 5.x ⓘ |
| laterVersionSyntax | RELAX NG-based ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
DITA
ⓘ
HTML ⓘ LaTeX ⓘ TEI ⓘ |
| standardizedBy | OASIS ⓘ |
| supports |
multi-format output
ⓘ
single-source publishing ⓘ |
| supportsOutputFormat |
EPUB
ⓘ
FO ⓘ HTML ⓘ HTML Help ⓘ PDF ⓘ PostScript ⓘ Rich Text Format ⓘ
surface form:
RTF
XHTML ⓘ man pages ⓘ |
| usedIn |
enterprise documentation workflows
ⓘ
open source documentation projects ⓘ software documentation ⓘ technical publishing ⓘ |
| uses |
XML elements to represent document structure
ⓘ
semantic tags instead of presentational tags ⓘ |
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: DocBook Description of subject: DocBook is a semantic markup language, originally based on SGML and now commonly used in XML form, designed for authoring and publishing technical documentation and books in a platform-independent way.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
GNU documentation
this entity surface form:
DocBook Technical Committee
this entity surface form:
DocBook 4.x