Mailman project
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The Mailman project is an open-source mailing list management software system widely used to manage electronic mail discussion and e-newsletter lists.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mailman developers team | 1 |
| Mailman development community | 1 |
| Mailman project canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10983687 — 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 project Context triple: [Barry Warsaw, contributedTo, Mailman project]
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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.
Mozilla mailing lists
Mozilla mailing lists are email-based discussion forums used by the Mozilla community and teams to coordinate development, share updates, and collaborate on projects.
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C.
YAM (Yet Another Mailer)
YAM (Yet Another Mailer) is a graphical email client originally developed for Amiga-like operating systems, offering POP3/IMAP support and a classic, configurable interface.
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D.
Mailer
Mailer is a surname most notably associated with American novelist, journalist, and essayist Norman Mailer.
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E.
Mailer
Mailer is Symfony’s email-sending component that provides a flexible, secure, and extensible way to create and deliver emails in PHP applications.
- 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 project Target entity description: The Mailman project is an open-source mailing list management software system widely used to manage electronic mail discussion and e-newsletter 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.
Mozilla mailing lists
Mozilla mailing lists are email-based discussion forums used by the Mozilla community and teams to coordinate development, share updates, and collaborate on projects.
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C.
YAM (Yet Another Mailer)
YAM (Yet Another Mailer) is a graphical email client originally developed for Amiga-like operating systems, offering POP3/IMAP support and a classic, configurable interface.
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D.
Mailer
Mailer is a surname most notably associated with American novelist, journalist, and essayist Norman Mailer.
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E.
Mailer
Mailer is Symfony’s email-sending component that provides a flexible, secure, and extensible way to create and deliver emails in PHP applications.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
free software project
ⓘ
open-source mailing list manager ⓘ |
| compatibleWith |
Exim
ⓘ
Postfix ⓘ Sendmail ⓘ |
| component |
HyperKitty
ⓘ
Mailman Core ⓘ
linked to:
GNU Mailman
Postorius ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| developer |
Free Software Foundation
ⓘ
Mailman development community ⓘ
linked to:
Mailman project
|
| distributionFormat |
packages in GNU/Linux distributions
ⓘ
source code ⓘ |
| hasVersion |
Mailman 2
ⓘ
linked to:
GNU Mailman
Mailman 3 ⓘ
linked to:
GNU Mailman
|
| license | GNU General Public License ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
Mailman developers team
ⓘ
linked to:
Mailman project
|
| operatingSystem |
BSD
ⓘ
GNU/Linux ⓘ Microsoft Windows (via ports or compatibility layers) ⓘ
linked to:
Windows (via ports such as MinGW and Cygwin)
Unix-like systems ⓘ macOS ⓘ |
| partOf | GNU Project ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage | Python ⓘ |
| softwareGenre |
listserv software
ⓘ
mailing list management software ⓘ |
| softwareName | GNU Mailman ⓘ |
| sourceCodeRepository | https://gitlab.com/mailman ⓘ |
| supportsFeature |
archiving of mailing list messages
ⓘ
bounce processing ⓘ digest delivery mode ⓘ e-newsletter list management ⓘ electronic mail discussion list management ⓘ integration with external mail transfer agents ⓘ moderation of posts ⓘ per-user delivery options ⓘ web-based administration interface ⓘ web-based subscription management ⓘ |
| supportsProtocol |
HTTP
ⓘ
SMTP ⓘ |
| useCase |
managing announcement and newsletter lists
ⓘ
managing electronic mail discussion lists ⓘ |
| usedBy |
companies
ⓘ
free software projects ⓘ non-profit organizations ⓘ 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 project Description of subject: The Mailman project is an open-source mailing list management software system widely used to manage electronic mail discussion and e-newsletter lists.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Mailman project
linked to: Mailman project