Mailman
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Mailman is a widely used open-source mailing list management software that automates the administration and distribution of email discussion lists.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mailman canonical | 2 |
| built-in archiver Pipermail | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10983664 — 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: Mailman Context triple: [Barry Warsaw, knownFor, Mailman]
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A.
Mailman family
The Mailman family is a philanthropic American family known for its substantial charitable contributions, including major support for public health and higher education institutions.
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B.
Mailer
Mailer is Symfony’s email-sending component that provides a flexible, secure, and extensible way to create and deliver emails in PHP applications.
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C.
Mailer
Mailer is a surname most notably associated with American novelist, journalist, and essayist Norman Mailer.
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D.
Netscape Mail
Netscape Mail was an early email client developed by Netscape Communications Corporation, widely used in the 1990s as part of the Netscape Communicator internet suite.
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E.
MessageLabs
MessageLabs was a pioneering cloud-based email and web security services provider known for its anti-spam and anti-virus solutions for businesses.
- 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: Mailman Target entity description: Mailman is a widely used open-source mailing list management software that automates the administration and distribution of email discussion lists.
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A.
Mailman family
The Mailman family is a philanthropic American family known for its substantial charitable contributions, including major support for public health and higher education institutions.
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B.
Mailer
Mailer is Symfony’s email-sending component that provides a flexible, secure, and extensible way to create and deliver emails in PHP applications.
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C.
Mailer
Mailer is a surname most notably associated with American novelist, journalist, and essayist Norman Mailer.
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D.
Netscape Mail
Netscape Mail was an early email client developed by Netscape Communications Corporation, widely used in the 1990s as part of the Netscape Communicator internet suite.
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E.
MessageLabs
MessageLabs was a pioneering cloud-based email and web security services provider known for its anti-spam and anti-virus solutions for businesses.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
free and open-source software
ⓘ
mailing list management software ⓘ |
| category |
Free email software
ⓘ
Mailing list software ⓘ |
| developer |
Free Software Foundation
ⓘ
GNU Project ⓘ |
| feature |
archiving of list messages
ⓘ
bounce processing ⓘ digest delivery mode ⓘ email-based administration commands ⓘ internationalization support ⓘ moderation controls ⓘ spam filtering integration ⓘ subscription management ⓘ web-based administration interface ⓘ |
| function |
automates email list administration
ⓘ
distributes email to list subscribers ⓘ manages electronic mailing lists ⓘ |
| hasVersion |
Mailman 2
ⓘ
linked to:
GNU Mailman
Mailman 3 ⓘ
linked to:
GNU Mailman
|
| license |
GNU General Public License
ⓘ
GPL ⓘ
linked to:
GNU General Public License
|
| Mailman3Architecture |
HyperKitty
ⓘ
Postorius ⓘ core ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
Linux
ⓘ
Unix-like systems ⓘ Windows ⓘ macOS ⓘ |
| partOf | GNU Project ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage | Python ⓘ |
| softwareName | GNU Mailman ⓘ |
| supportsArchiver |
HyperKitty
ⓘ
Pipermail ⓘ |
| supportsAuthentication |
password-based authentication
ⓘ
web server authentication ⓘ |
| supportsIntegrationWith |
Exim
ⓘ
Postfix ⓘ Sendmail ⓘ qmail ⓘ |
| supportsProtocol |
HTTP
ⓘ
SMTP ⓘ |
| typicalUse |
announcement mailing lists
ⓘ
email discussion lists ⓘ newsletter distribution ⓘ |
| usedBy |
companies
ⓘ
non-profit organizations ⓘ open-source projects ⓘ universities ⓘ |
| website | https://www.list.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: Mailman Description of subject: Mailman is a widely used open-source mailing list management software that automates the administration and distribution of email discussion lists.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
GNU Mailman
linked to: Mailman