Multipass
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Multipass is a lightweight virtual machine manager developed by Canonical that lets users quickly launch and manage Ubuntu instances for development and testing.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Multipass canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8285390 — 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: Multipass Context triple: [Canonical Ltd., knownFor, Multipass]
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A.
The Ride
The Ride is a 2017 studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Nelly Furtado that marked her return after a long hiatus with a more experimental, indie-pop sound.
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B.
Polychrome Pass
Polychrome Pass is a scenic mountain pass in Denali National Park, Alaska, renowned for its colorful, layered rock formations and expansive views of the surrounding wilderness.
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C.
Grandpass
Grandpass is a densely populated urban neighborhood in Colombo, Sri Lanka, known for its bustling commercial activity and diverse communities.
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D.
Tristero
Tristero is a mysterious underground postal system and secret organization central to the conspiracy and ambiguity in Thomas Pynchon's novel "The Crying of Lot 49."
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E.
Overdrive
Overdrive is an action-packed heist film centered on high-end car thieves, starring Scott Eastwood.
- 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: Multipass Target entity description: Multipass is a lightweight virtual machine manager developed by Canonical that lets users quickly launch and manage Ubuntu instances for development and testing.
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A.
The Ride
The Ride is a 2017 studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Nelly Furtado that marked her return after a long hiatus with a more experimental, indie-pop sound.
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B.
Polychrome Pass
Polychrome Pass is a scenic mountain pass in Denali National Park, Alaska, renowned for its colorful, layered rock formations and expansive views of the surrounding wilderness.
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C.
Grandpass
Grandpass is a densely populated urban neighborhood in Colombo, Sri Lanka, known for its bustling commercial activity and diverse communities.
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D.
Tristero
Tristero is a mysterious underground postal system and secret organization central to the conspiracy and ambiguity in Thomas Pynchon's novel "The Crying of Lot 49."
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E.
Overdrive
Overdrive is an action-packed heist film centered on high-end car thieves, starring Scott Eastwood.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
software
ⓘ
virtual machine manager ⓘ |
| command |
multipass delete
ⓘ
multipass launch ⓘ multipass list ⓘ multipass purge ⓘ multipass shell ⓘ multipass stop ⓘ |
| developer |
Canonical
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Canonical Ltd. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distribution |
Snap package
ⓘ
Windows installer ⓘ macOS installer ⓘ |
| feature |
cloud-init support
ⓘ
command-line interface ⓘ graphical user interface ⓘ mounting host directories into instances ⓘ multi-instance management ⓘ networking integration with host ⓘ pre-built Ubuntu images ⓘ snapshot management ⓘ virtual machine lifecycle management ⓘ |
| integration |
Hyper-V (as a backend on Windows)
ⓘ
HyperKit (as a backend on macOS, historically) NERFINISHED ⓘ QEMU (as a backend on Linux) ⓘ VirtualBox (as a backend on some platforms) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| license |
GPL-compatible license
ⓘ
open-source ⓘ |
| maintainer | Canonical engineering team ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
Linux
ⓘ
Windows ⓘ macOS ⓘ |
| primaryUse |
development environments
ⓘ
launching Ubuntu virtual machines ⓘ testing environments ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage |
C++
ⓘ
Qt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| supportsImage |
Ubuntu LTS releases
ⓘ
Ubuntu interim releases ⓘ |
| supportsPlatform | Ubuntu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| targetUser |
DevOps engineers
ⓘ
developers ⓘ testers ⓘ |
| useCase |
continuous integration environments
ⓘ
experimentation with Ubuntu ⓘ local cloud-like Ubuntu instances ⓘ |
| website | https://multipass.run/ ⓘ |
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: Multipass Description of subject: Multipass is a lightweight virtual machine manager developed by Canonical that lets users quickly launch and manage Ubuntu instances for development and testing.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.