The Growl Project
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The Growl Project is the development team behind the Growl notification system for macOS, responsible for creating and maintaining the software.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Growl Project canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9003640 — 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: The Growl Project Context triple: [Growl, developer, The Growl Project]
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A.
Bootle
Bootle is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton in Merseyside, England, situated just north of Liverpool and historically known for its docks and industrial heritage.
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B.
Gorgophone
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C.
Spirit of Java
Spirit of Java is a popular nickname for the Indonesian city of Solo (Surakarta), highlighting its reputation as a cultural heartland of Javanese tradition, arts, and heritage.
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D.
Pumlumon Project
The Pumlumon Project is a large-scale conservation and habitat restoration initiative in the Plynlimon uplands of mid-Wales, focused on enhancing biodiversity, improving water management, and supporting sustainable land use.
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E.
Eelworks
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- 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: The Growl Project Target entity description: The Growl Project is the development team behind the Growl notification system for macOS, responsible for creating and maintaining the software.
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A.
Bootle
Bootle is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton in Merseyside, England, situated just north of Liverpool and historically known for its docks and industrial heritage.
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B.
Gorgophone
Gorgophone is a figure in Greek mythology, traditionally known as a daughter of Perseus and Andromeda and noted as one of the first women to remarry after being widowed.
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C.
Spirit of Java
Spirit of Java is a popular nickname for the Indonesian city of Solo (Surakarta), highlighting its reputation as a cultural heartland of Javanese tradition, arts, and heritage.
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D.
Pumlumon Project
The Pumlumon Project is a large-scale conservation and habitat restoration initiative in the Plynlimon uplands of mid-Wales, focused on enhancing biodiversity, improving water management, and supporting sustainable land use.
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E.
Eelworks
Eelworks is a poem featured in the collection "Human Chain" by the Irish Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
developer community
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open source project ⓘ software development team ⓘ |
| aimsTo | provide a unified notification system for macOS ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Growl notification system ⓘ |
| collaboratesVia | open source development tools ⓘ |
| communityType | open source developer community ⓘ |
| develops |
Growl
ⓘ
linked to:
The Growl
|
| developsFor | desktop environment ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
desktop notifications
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user notification management ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
Growl framework
ⓘ
Growl helper applications ⓘ Growl preference pane ⓘ |
| hasUserCommunity |
Mac developers
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macOS users ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | http://growl.info/ ⓘ |
| isBasedIn | online distributed development community ⓘ |
| isKnownFor | popular third-party notification system for macOS ⓘ |
| licenseOfMainProject | open source license ⓘ |
| maintains | Growl ⓘ |
| operatingSystemTargeted |
Mac OS X
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linked to:
macOS
macOS ⓘ |
| primaryPlatform |
Mac OS X
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linked to:
macOS
macOS ⓘ |
| programmingLanguageUsed |
C
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Objective-C ⓘ |
| projectName | Growl ⓘ |
| provides |
APIs for application notifications
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documentation for Growl integration ⓘ downloads of Growl software ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
creating Growl notification system
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maintaining Growl notification system ⓘ |
| softwareCategory |
notification software
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system utilities ⓘ |
| softwareTypeDeveloped |
notification system
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system utility ⓘ |
| supports | Growl SDK ⓘ |
| supportsFeature |
application-specific notifications
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customizable notifications ⓘ network notifications ⓘ notification history ⓘ notification themes ⓘ plugin architecture ⓘ scriptable notifications ⓘ |
| supportsIntegrationWith | third-party macOS applications ⓘ |
| usesPlatform |
GitHub
ⓘ
version control systems ⓘ |
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: The Growl Project Description of subject: The Growl Project is the development team behind the Growl notification system for macOS, responsible for creating and maintaining the software.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Growl (third‑party notification system for many users)