Yellowdog Updater (YUP)
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Yellowdog Updater (YUP) is an early package management tool for RPM-based Linux systems that served as a conceptual predecessor to the more widely used YUM.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yellowdog Updater (YUP) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7937524 — 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: Yellowdog Updater (YUP) Context triple: [YUM, inspiredBy, Yellowdog Updater (YUP)]
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A.
YUL
YUL is the three-letter IATA airport code for Montréal–Trudeau International Airport, the primary international air gateway serving Montreal, Canada.
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B.
UPY
UPY is a reporting mark used by Union Pacific Railroad, primarily identifying its yard and switching locomotives.
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C.
Kanmu
Kanmu was a powerful Japanese emperor of the late 8th and early 9th centuries best known for relocating the capital to Heian-kyō, laying the foundations of the Heian period.
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D.
YUC
YUC is the official vehicle registration code used on license plates for the Mexican state of Yucatán.
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E.
YBUD
YBUD is the ICAO airport code assigned to Bundaberg Airport in Queensland, Australia.
- 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: Yellowdog Updater (YUP) Target entity description: Yellowdog Updater (YUP) is an early package management tool for RPM-based Linux systems that served as a conceptual predecessor to the more widely used YUM.
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A.
YUL
YUL is the three-letter IATA airport code for Montréal–Trudeau International Airport, the primary international air gateway serving Montreal, Canada.
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B.
UPY
UPY is a reporting mark used by Union Pacific Railroad, primarily identifying its yard and switching locomotives.
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C.
Kanmu
Kanmu was a powerful Japanese emperor of the late 8th and early 9th centuries best known for relocating the capital to Heian-kyō, laying the foundations of the Heian period.
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D.
YUC
YUC is the official vehicle registration code used on license plates for the Mexican state of Yucatán.
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E.
YBUD
YBUD is the ICAO airport code assigned to Bundaberg Airport in Queensland, Australia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
RPM-based package management tool
ⓘ
free software ⓘ software package manager ⓘ |
| basedOn | RPM package manager ⓘ |
| conceptualPredecessorOf |
YUM
NERFINISHED
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Yellowdog Updater, Modified NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributionType | open source ⓘ |
| ecosystem | Linux software management ⓘ |
| hasAcronym | YUP NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSuccessor |
DNF
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
YUM NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced | design of YUM ⓘ |
| languageDomain | system administration ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being an early RPM-based package manager
ⓘ
influencing later tools like YUM ⓘ |
| operatingSystemFamily | Linux NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| packageFormatSupported | RPM NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sharesConceptsWith | YUM NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| softwareGenre | package management system ⓘ |
| softwareModel | command-line tool ⓘ |
| status | historical ⓘ |
| supportsOperation | dependency resolution ⓘ |
| targetPlatform | RPM-based Linux distributions ⓘ |
| usedFor |
installing software packages
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removing software packages ⓘ updating software packages ⓘ |
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: Yellowdog Updater (YUP) Description of subject: Yellowdog Updater (YUP) is an early package management tool for RPM-based Linux systems that served as a conceptual predecessor to the more widely used YUM.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.