CPAN Testers
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CPAN Testers is a volunteer-driven testing infrastructure that automatically tests Perl modules uploaded to CPAN across diverse platforms and configurations, helping ensure their quality and reliability.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| CPAN Testers canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10826699 — 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: CPAN Testers Context triple: [Perl community, maintains, CPAN Testers]
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A.
CPAN
CPAN is the comprehensive archive and distribution network for Perl modules and libraries, serving as the primary ecosystem for sharing and installing Perl software.
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B.
Perl Mongers
Perl Mongers is a worldwide network of user groups dedicated to supporting and promoting the Perl programming language and its community.
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C.
Hackage
Hackage is the central online package repository and distribution platform for the Haskell programming language’s libraries and tools.
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D.
Perl
Perl is a high-level, general-purpose programming language known for its powerful text-processing capabilities and use in system administration, web development, and scripting.
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E.
R-Forge
R-Forge is an online development and collaboration platform for R projects, providing tools for version control, bug tracking, and package building.
- 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: CPAN Testers Target entity description: CPAN Testers is a volunteer-driven testing infrastructure that automatically tests Perl modules uploaded to CPAN across diverse platforms and configurations, helping ensure their quality and reliability.
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A.
CPAN
CPAN is the comprehensive archive and distribution network for Perl modules and libraries, serving as the primary ecosystem for sharing and installing Perl software.
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B.
Perl Mongers
Perl Mongers is a worldwide network of user groups dedicated to supporting and promoting the Perl programming language and its community.
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C.
Hackage
Hackage is the central online package repository and distribution platform for the Haskell programming language’s libraries and tools.
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D.
Perl
Perl is a high-level, general-purpose programming language known for its powerful text-processing capabilities and use in system administration, web development, and scripting.
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E.
R-Forge
R-Forge is an online development and collaboration platform for R projects, providing tools for version control, bug tracking, and package building.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Perl community project
ⓘ
software testing infrastructure ⓘ volunteer project ⓘ |
| abbreviationOf | Comprehensive Perl Archive Network Testers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collects |
CPAN distribution metadata
ⓘ
Perl version information ⓘ platform information ⓘ test reports ⓘ test result status ⓘ |
| community | Perl community ⓘ |
| dataAccessibleAt |
http://metabase.cpantesters.org/
ⓘ
http://www.cpantesters.org/ ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
CPAN distributions
ⓘ
Perl modules ⓘ |
| goal |
encourage best practices in CPAN releases
ⓘ
increase reliability of Perl ecosystem ⓘ provide early feedback on distribution issues ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
CPAN Testers Metabase
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
CPAN Testers Reports website NERFINISHED ⓘ CPAN Testers smoker clients ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
author-specific summary pages
ⓘ
automatic test execution after CPAN upload ⓘ distribution-specific summary pages ⓘ historical test result archives ⓘ platform-specific statistics ⓘ searchable test reports ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Perl community volunteers ⓘ |
| operatesOn | Comprehensive Perl Archive Network NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryLanguage | Perl NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| provides |
APIs for accessing test data
ⓘ
email notifications to authors ⓘ public test report database ⓘ web interface for browsing reports ⓘ |
| purpose |
automated testing of CPAN uploads
ⓘ
help CPAN authors detect issues early ⓘ improve quality of CPAN modules ⓘ provide cross-platform test reports ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
CPAN
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
CPAN::Reporter NERFINISHED ⓘ CPAN::Testers::WWW::Reports NERFINISHED ⓘ CPANPLUS::YACSmoke NERFINISHED ⓘ Metabase NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| supportedBy |
CPAN authors
ⓘ
Perl toolchain maintainers ⓘ volunteer testers ⓘ |
| tests |
CPAN distributions on multiple Perl versions
ⓘ
CPAN distributions on multiple operating systems ⓘ CPAN distributions with different configurations ⓘ |
| usesConcept | smoke testing ⓘ |
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: CPAN Testers Description of subject: CPAN Testers is a volunteer-driven testing infrastructure that automatically tests Perl modules uploaded to CPAN across diverse platforms and configurations, helping ensure their quality and reliability.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.