Wayland
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Wayland is a modern display server protocol for Linux and other Unix-like systems designed to replace the X Window System with a simpler, more efficient architecture.
All labels observed (12)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T477761 — 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: Wayland Context triple: [GNU Emacs, supportsDisplayProtocol, Wayland]
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A.
Desktop Window Manager
Desktop Window Manager is the compositing window manager in modern Microsoft Windows that handles visual effects, window rendering, and desktop composition using hardware acceleration.
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B.
Cinnamon desktop environment
Cinnamon desktop environment is a modern, user-friendly graphical interface for Linux systems, known for its traditional desktop layout, customizability, and development by the Linux Mint project.
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C.
MATE desktop environment
MATE desktop environment is a lightweight, traditional-style graphical user interface for Unix-like operating systems, continuing the classic GNOME 2 experience with ongoing updates and support.
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D.
LXQt desktop environment
LXQt desktop environment is a lightweight, modular, and Qt-based graphical desktop environment designed to be fast and resource-efficient, particularly suitable for older or low-spec hardware.
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E.
GNOME desktop environment
The GNOME desktop environment is a popular, user-friendly and modern graphical desktop interface for Unix-like operating systems, emphasizing simplicity, accessibility, and integration.
- 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: Wayland Target entity description: Wayland is a modern display server protocol for Linux and other Unix-like systems designed to replace the X Window System with a simpler, more efficient architecture.
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A.
Desktop Window Manager
Desktop Window Manager is the compositing window manager in modern Microsoft Windows that handles visual effects, window rendering, and desktop composition using hardware acceleration.
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B.
Cinnamon desktop environment
Cinnamon desktop environment is a modern, user-friendly graphical interface for Linux systems, known for its traditional desktop layout, customizability, and development by the Linux Mint project.
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C.
MATE desktop environment
MATE desktop environment is a lightweight, traditional-style graphical user interface for Unix-like operating systems, continuing the classic GNOME 2 experience with ongoing updates and support.
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D.
LXQt desktop environment
LXQt desktop environment is a lightweight, modular, and Qt-based graphical desktop environment designed to be fast and resource-efficient, particularly suitable for older or low-spec hardware.
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E.
GNOME desktop environment
The GNOME desktop environment is a popular, user-friendly and modern graphical desktop interface for Unix-like operating systems, emphasizing simplicity, accessibility, and integration.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
display server protocol
ⓘ
free and open-source software project ⓘ windowing system protocol ⓘ |
| backwardCompatibility | XWayland for running X11 applications ⓘ |
| category |
Linux windowing system
ⓘ
display technology for Unix-like systems ⓘ |
| component |
Wayland protocol specification
ⓘ
libwayland client library ⓘ libwayland server library ⓘ wayland-scanner code generator ⓘ |
| compositing | mandatory compositing ⓘ |
| designGoal |
better security isolation between clients
ⓘ
more efficient rendering ⓘ reduced latency ⓘ simpler architecture than the X Window System ⓘ |
| developer |
Kris Maglione (initial concept contributor)
ⓘ
Kristian Høgsberg ⓘ Wayland community ⓘ |
| firstReleaseYear | 2010 ⓘ |
| goal | replace the X Window System ⓘ |
| hostPlatform | Linux kernel ⓘ |
| influenced |
KWin
ⓘ
surface form:
KWin Wayland
Mutter Wayland ⓘ Sway ⓘ Weston ⓘ wlroots ⓘ |
| license |
MIT License
ⓘ
surface form:
MIT license
|
| networkTransparency | not built-in; relies on external solutions ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
Linux
ⓘ
Unix-like systems ⓘ |
| protocolType | display protocol ⓘ |
| renderingModel | clients render directly to buffers ⓘ |
| replaces |
X11
ⓘ
surface form:
X Window System
X11 ⓘ
surface form:
X11 protocol
|
| securityFeature |
no global coordinate space exposed to clients
ⓘ
no implicit global keyboard or pointer grabs ⓘ |
| standardization | hosted on freedesktop.org ⓘ |
| supportedBy |
Chromium (Wayland backend)
ⓘ
Mozilla Firefox ⓘ
surface form:
Firefox (Wayland backend)
GNOME desktop environment ⓘ
surface form:
GNOME
KDE Plasma desktop environment ⓘ
surface form:
KDE Plasma
Mesa 3D ⓘ Wayland self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Sway compositor
Weston reference compositor ⓘ systemd-logind (for session management) ⓘ |
| supports | compositing window managers ⓘ |
| uses | client–server model ⓘ |
| usesIPC | Unix domain sockets ⓘ |
| website | https://wayland.freedesktop.org/ ⓘ |
| writtenIn | C ⓘ |
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: Wayland Description of subject: Wayland is a modern display server protocol for Linux and other Unix-like systems designed to replace the X Window System with a simpler, more efficient architecture.
Referenced by (46)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
GNOME
subject surface form:
KDE Plasma
this entity surface form:
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subject surface form:
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subject surface form:
Discover
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this entity surface form:
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GTK (via Wayland)
this entity surface form:
Wayland server
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Mutter
this entity surface form:
Wayland compositor protocol
subject surface form:
Kris Maglione
this entity surface form:
Wayland display server protocol
this entity surface form:
Wayland display server protocol
this entity surface form:
Wayland display server protocol
this entity surface form:
Wayland display server protocol
this entity surface form:
Wayland compositor
this entity surface form:
Wayland project
this entity surface form:
Wayland session
subject surface form:
Wayland
this entity surface form:
Wayland project
subject surface form:
Wayland
this entity surface form:
Wayland project
subject surface form:
Wayland
this entity surface form:
Wayland compositors
this entity surface form:
Wayland display server protocol