Windows Error Reporting
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Windows Error Reporting is a Windows feature that automatically collects and sends diagnostic information about software and system crashes to help identify and resolve issues.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Windows Error Reporting canonical | 3 |
| Problem Reports and Solutions control panel | 1 |
| Windows Error Reporting (WER) protocol | 1 |
| Windows operating system diagnostics | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9667062 — 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: Windows Error Reporting Context triple: [Action Center, monitors, Windows Error Reporting]
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A.
Windows Event Log
Windows Event Log is a centralized logging system in Microsoft Windows that records system, security, and application events for monitoring, troubleshooting, and auditing purposes.
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B.
Windows Help
Windows Help was the built-in assistance and documentation system included in earlier versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system.
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C.
Windows Update
Windows Update is Microsoft's built-in service for automatically downloading and installing operating system and software updates on Windows devices.
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D.
Windows Resource Protection
Windows Resource Protection is a Windows feature that safeguards critical system files, folders, and registry keys from being modified or replaced, helping maintain system stability and integrity.
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E.
Windows Installer service
Windows Installer service is a Windows component that manages the installation, maintenance, and removal of software using a standardized, transactional package format (MSI).
- 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: Windows Error Reporting Target entity description: Windows Error Reporting is a Windows feature that automatically collects and sends diagnostic information about software and system crashes to help identify and resolve issues.
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A.
Windows Event Log
Windows Event Log is a centralized logging system in Microsoft Windows that records system, security, and application events for monitoring, troubleshooting, and auditing purposes.
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B.
Windows Help
Windows Help was the built-in assistance and documentation system included in earlier versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system.
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C.
Windows Update
Windows Update is Microsoft's built-in service for automatically downloading and installing operating system and software updates on Windows devices.
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D.
Windows Resource Protection
Windows Resource Protection is a Windows feature that safeguards critical system files, folders, and registry keys from being modified or replaced, helping maintain system stability and integrity.
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E.
Windows Installer service
Windows Installer service is a Windows component that manages the installation, maintenance, and removal of software using a standardized, transactional package format (MSI).
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (60)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Windows feature
ⓘ
crash reporting system ⓘ error reporting system ⓘ |
| abbreviation | WER ⓘ |
| availableIn |
Windows 10
ⓘ
Windows 11 ⓘ Windows 7 ⓘ Windows 8 ⓘ Windows 8.1 ⓘ Windows Vista ⓘ Windows XP ⓘ |
| benefit |
can provide users with patches or workarounds
ⓘ
helps Microsoft identify widespread issues ⓘ helps vendors improve software reliability ⓘ |
| canBeManagedBy |
Group Policy
ⓘ
Registry settings ⓘ |
| category |
software reliability
ⓘ
system administration ⓘ system diagnostics ⓘ |
| componentOf |
Windows operating system diagnostics
ⓘ
linked to:
Windows Error Reporting
|
| configurable | yes ⓘ |
| dataTypeCollected |
application crash data
ⓘ
application name and version ⓘ exception code ⓘ hardware configuration details ⓘ kernel crash dumps ⓘ memory dumps ⓘ module name and version ⓘ operating system version ⓘ process information ⓘ stack traces ⓘ system crash data ⓘ user-mode crash dumps ⓘ |
| developer | Microsoft ⓘ |
| function |
analyze crash dumps
ⓘ
detect application failures ⓘ detect system failures ⓘ offer available solutions to known problems ⓘ prompt users to send error reports ⓘ send error reports to Microsoft ⓘ store error reports locally ⓘ |
| integratesWith |
Problem Reports and Solutions control panel
ⓘ
linked to:
Windows Error Reporting
Windows Action Center ⓘ |
| introducedInVersion | Windows XP ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
Microsoft Windows
ⓘ
linked to:
Windows
|
| previousName | Dr. Watson ⓘ |
| privacyFeature |
can be configured to exclude certain data
ⓘ
prompts before sending additional data ⓘ |
| purpose |
collect diagnostic information about software crashes
ⓘ
collect diagnostic information about system crashes ⓘ help identify causes of application failures ⓘ help resolve software and hardware issues ⓘ |
| relatedProtocol |
Windows Error Reporting (WER) protocol
ⓘ
linked to:
Windows Error Reporting
|
| supports |
hardware error reporting
ⓘ
third-party application error reporting ⓘ |
| userControl |
users can choose whether to send reports
ⓘ
users can disable error reporting ⓘ users can view details of the error report ⓘ |
| uses |
Microsoft online crash analysis services
ⓘ
Windows Error Reporting back-end servers ⓘ |
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: Windows Error Reporting Description of subject: Windows Error Reporting is a Windows feature that automatically collects and sends diagnostic information about software and system crashes to help identify and resolve issues.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Windows Error Reporting
linked to: Windows Error Reporting
linked to: Windows Error Reporting