Portland Pattern Repository
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Portland Pattern Repository is an early and influential online collection of software design patterns and related discussions, created by Ward Cunningham as part of the first wiki.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Portland Pattern Repository canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6231361 — 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: Portland Pattern Repository Context triple: [WikiWikiWeb, hasPart, Portland Pattern Repository]
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A.
"Apprenticeship Patterns"
"Apprenticeship Patterns" is a software craftsmanship book that offers practical guidance and patterns for developers to grow their skills through apprenticeship-style learning and deliberate practice.
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B.
Yesod
Yesod is the ninth sefirah in Kabbalistic mysticism, associated with foundation, connection, and the channeling of spiritual energy into the material world.
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C.
Clean Architecture
Clean Architecture is a software design philosophy and set of principles, popularized by Robert C. Martin, that emphasizes separation of concerns, testability, and independence from frameworks, databases, and user interfaces.
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D.
Flux architecture
Flux architecture is a unidirectional data flow pattern for building client-side web applications, originally introduced by Facebook as an alternative to traditional MVC.
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E.
Phoenix Framework
Phoenix Framework is an Elixir-based web development framework known for its high performance, real-time capabilities, and productive developer experience inspired by Ruby on Rails.
- 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: Portland Pattern Repository Target entity description: Portland Pattern Repository is an early and influential online collection of software design patterns and related discussions, created by Ward Cunningham as part of the first wiki.
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A.
"Apprenticeship Patterns"
"Apprenticeship Patterns" is a software craftsmanship book that offers practical guidance and patterns for developers to grow their skills through apprenticeship-style learning and deliberate practice.
-
B.
Yesod
Yesod is the ninth sefirah in Kabbalistic mysticism, associated with foundation, connection, and the channeling of spiritual energy into the material world.
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C.
Clean Architecture
Clean Architecture is a software design philosophy and set of principles, popularized by Robert C. Martin, that emphasizes separation of concerns, testability, and independence from frameworks, databases, and user interfaces.
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D.
Flux architecture
Flux architecture is a unidirectional data flow pattern for building client-side web applications, originally introduced by Facebook as an alternative to traditional MVC.
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E.
Phoenix Framework
Phoenix Framework is an Elixir-based web development framework known for its high performance, real-time capabilities, and productive developer experience inspired by Ruby on Rails.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
online knowledge base
ⓘ
software pattern repository ⓘ wiki ⓘ |
| accessMode | online ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| creator | Ward Cunningham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| describedAs | first wiki ⓘ |
| genre |
collaborative documentation
ⓘ
technical documentation ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation | PPR NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
C2 Wiki
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
WikiWikiWeb NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasContributor |
patterns community
ⓘ
software developers ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
discussion-oriented pages
ⓘ
editable pages ⓘ hyperlinked content ⓘ versionless simple wiki engine ⓘ |
| hasPart | WikiWikiWeb NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTopic |
Agile software development
ⓘ
Extreme Programming NERFINISHED ⓘ Gang of Four design patterns NERFINISHED ⓘ programming best practices ⓘ refactoring ⓘ software architecture ⓘ |
| hasURL |
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki
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http://wiki.c2.com ⓘ |
| hostedOn | c2.com NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inception | 1995 ⓘ |
| influenced |
collaborative knowledge bases
ⓘ
software development methodologies ⓘ wiki concept ⓘ |
| influencedBy | software design patterns movement ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity | Portland, Oregon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
programming patterns
ⓘ
software design patterns ⓘ software engineering ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Ward Cunningham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the first wiki-based website
ⓘ
early online collaboration on design patterns ⓘ influencing the software patterns community ⓘ |
| operatingSystem | web-based ⓘ |
| softwareUsed | original WikiWikiWeb engine ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
history of wikis
ⓘ
software patterns literature ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Portland Pattern Repository Description of subject: Portland Pattern Repository is an early and influential online collection of software design patterns and related discussions, created by Ward Cunningham as part of the first wiki.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.