Meta-Object Facility
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Meta-Object Facility is a standard meta-modeling framework defined by the Object Management Group for specifying, constructing, and managing technology-neutral metadata and models.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Meta-Object Facility canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7936746 — 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: Meta-Object Facility Context triple: [Object Management Group, knownFor, Meta-Object Facility]
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A.
Objectory
Objectory is an object-oriented software development methodology created by Ivar Jacobson that introduced use cases and significantly shaped modern modeling approaches later incorporated into UML.
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B.
Modularity, Objects, and State
"Modularity, Objects, and State" is a chapter in the classic computer science textbook *Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs* that explores how to structure programs using modular design, data abstraction, and mutable state, including object-oriented techniques.
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C.
Object Modeling Technique
Object Modeling Technique (OMT) is an early object-oriented analysis and design methodology that introduced structured notations for modeling systems, helping lay the groundwork for what became the Unified Modeling Language (UML).
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D.
Analysis Patterns: Reusable Object Models
Analysis Patterns: Reusable Object Models is a software engineering book by Martin Fowler that presents recurring object-oriented design solutions for modeling complex business domains.
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E.
Oberon programming language
The Oberon programming language is a minimalist, modular, and strongly typed language designed by Niklaus Wirth as the successor to Modula-2, emphasizing simplicity and efficiency in both language and operating system design.
- 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: Meta-Object Facility Target entity description: Meta-Object Facility is a standard meta-modeling framework defined by the Object Management Group for specifying, constructing, and managing technology-neutral metadata and models.
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A.
Objectory
Objectory is an object-oriented software development methodology created by Ivar Jacobson that introduced use cases and significantly shaped modern modeling approaches later incorporated into UML.
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B.
Modularity, Objects, and State
"Modularity, Objects, and State" is a chapter in the classic computer science textbook *Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs* that explores how to structure programs using modular design, data abstraction, and mutable state, including object-oriented techniques.
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C.
Object Modeling Technique
Object Modeling Technique (OMT) is an early object-oriented analysis and design methodology that introduced structured notations for modeling systems, helping lay the groundwork for what became the Unified Modeling Language (UML).
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D.
Analysis Patterns: Reusable Object Models
Analysis Patterns: Reusable Object Models is a software engineering book by Martin Fowler that presents recurring object-oriented design solutions for modeling complex business domains.
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E.
Oberon programming language
The Oberon programming language is a minimalist, modular, and strongly typed language designed by Niklaus Wirth as the successor to Modula-2, emphasizing simplicity and efficiency in both language and operating system design.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
OMG specification
ⓘ
metadata framework ⓘ metamodeling standard ⓘ |
| abbreviation | MOF ⓘ |
| category |
modeling framework
ⓘ
software engineering standard ⓘ |
| conformsToParadigm | four-layer metamodeling architecture ⓘ |
| definedBy | Object Management Group ⓘ |
| definesLevel | meta-metamodel ⓘ |
| enables |
definition of domain-specific modeling languages
ⓘ
model interchange ⓘ tool interoperability ⓘ |
| fullName | Meta-Object Facility ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
language-neutral
ⓘ
platform-independent ⓘ |
| hasConcept |
association
ⓘ
attribute ⓘ class ⓘ operation ⓘ package ⓘ |
| hasDomain |
metadata management
ⓘ
model-driven engineering ⓘ software modeling ⓘ |
| hasLayer | M3 meta-metamodel layer ⓘ |
| hasProperty | technology-neutral ⓘ |
| hasPurpose |
constructing metadata
ⓘ
defining models ⓘ managing metadata ⓘ specifying metadata ⓘ |
| hasVersion |
MOF 1.x
ⓘ
linked to:
MOF
MOF 2.0 ⓘ
linked to:
MOF
MOF 2.x ⓘ
linked to:
MOF
|
| relatedTo |
Common Warehouse Metamodel
ⓘ
Model Driven Architecture ⓘ Unified Modeling Language ⓘ XML Metadata Interchange ⓘ |
| specifiedIn |
OMG MOF specification documents
ⓘ
linked to:
Meta Object Facility
|
| standardizedBy | Object Management Group ⓘ |
| supports |
definition of modeling languages
ⓘ
metamodeling ⓘ |
| usedIn |
metadata repositories
ⓘ
model-driven development tools ⓘ |
| usedToDefine |
CWM metamodel
ⓘ
UML metamodel ⓘ
linked to:
Unified Modeling Language
metamodels ⓘ |
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: Meta-Object Facility Description of subject: Meta-Object Facility is a standard meta-modeling framework defined by the Object Management Group for specifying, constructing, and managing technology-neutral metadata and models.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.