Gradle
E72061
Gradle is a powerful, flexible build automation tool and dependency management system widely used in Java and other JVM-based projects.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gradle canonical | 20 |
| Gradle Inc. | 1 |
| Gradle Tooling API | 1 |
| Gradle build system | 1 |
| Gradle build tool | 1 |
| Gradle user manual | 1 |
| https://gradle.org/ | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T575108 — 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: Gradle Context triple: [Java, buildTools, Gradle]
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A.
F Reactor
F Reactor was one of the early plutonium production reactors at the Hanford Site in Washington, built during the Manhattan Project to support the U.S. nuclear weapons program.
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B.
Kotlin
Kotlin is a modern, statically typed programming language developed by JetBrains that runs on the JVM and is widely used for building Android applications.
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C.
Xamarin
Xamarin is a cross-platform mobile app development framework that allows developers to build native iOS, Android, and Windows applications using C# and .NET.
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D.
Dart
Dart is a client-optimized, object-oriented programming language developed by Google, primarily used for building web and cross-platform mobile applications (notably with the Flutter framework).
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E.
Java
Java is a large, densely populated island in Indonesia that has long served as the country’s political and economic center.
- 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: Gradle Target entity description: Gradle is a powerful, flexible build automation tool and dependency management system widely used in Java and other JVM-based projects.
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A.
F Reactor
F Reactor was one of the early plutonium production reactors at the Hanford Site in Washington, built during the Manhattan Project to support the U.S. nuclear weapons program.
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B.
Kotlin
Kotlin is a modern, statically typed programming language developed by JetBrains that runs on the JVM and is widely used for building Android applications.
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C.
Xamarin
Xamarin is a cross-platform mobile app development framework that allows developers to build native iOS, Android, and Windows applications using C# and .NET.
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D.
Dart
Dart is a client-optimized, object-oriented programming language developed by Google, primarily used for building web and cross-platform mobile applications (notably with the Flutter framework).
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E.
Java
Java is a large, densely populated island in Indonesia that has long served as the country’s political and economic center.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
build automation tool
ⓘ
dependency management system ⓘ open-source software ⓘ software build system ⓘ |
| buildScriptLanguage |
Groovy DSL
ⓘ
Kotlin DSL ⓘ |
| developer |
Gradle
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Gradle Inc.
|
| feature |
build scans
ⓘ
composite builds ⓘ dependency management ⓘ incremental builds ⓘ multi-project builds ⓘ parallel execution ⓘ plugin system ⓘ task caching ⓘ wrapper script ⓘ |
| integratesWith |
Android Studio
ⓘ
CircleCI ⓘ Eclipse ⓘ GitHub Actions ⓘ IntelliJ IDEA ⓘ Ivy repositories ⓘ Jenkins ⓘ Maven repositories ⓘ TeamCity ⓘ |
| license | Apache License 2.0 ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage |
Groovy
ⓘ
Java ⓘ Kotlin ⓘ |
| repository | https://github.com/gradle/gradle ⓘ |
| supportsConcept |
build variants
ⓘ
configurations ⓘ convention over configuration ⓘ custom tasks ⓘ plugins ⓘ source sets ⓘ |
| supportsLanguage |
Android SDK
ⓘ
surface form:
Android
C ⓘ C++ ⓘ Groovy ⓘ Java ⓘ Kotlin ⓘ Scala ⓘ |
| supportsPlatform |
Android
ⓘ
Java Platform, Standard Edition ⓘ
surface form:
Java Virtual Machine
native code ⓘ |
| usedFor |
building Android applications
ⓘ
building Java projects ⓘ managing project dependencies ⓘ packaging and publishing artifacts ⓘ running automated tests ⓘ |
| usesModel | directed acyclic graph of tasks ⓘ |
| website |
Gradle
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
https://gradle.org/
|
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: Gradle Description of subject: Gradle is a powerful, flexible build automation tool and dependency management system widely used in Java and other JVM-based projects.
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Apache Maven
this entity surface form:
Gradle build tool
this entity surface form:
Gradle build system
this entity surface form:
Gradle user manual
this entity surface form:
Gradle Tooling API