DES
E171105
DES (Data Encryption Standard) is a now-obsolete symmetric-key block cipher that was once a widely used U.S. government encryption standard but fell out of favor due to its relatively short key length and vulnerability to brute-force attacks.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| DES canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1500512 — 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: DES Context triple: [Advanced Encryption Standard, predecessor, DES]
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DESE
DESE is the state agency responsible for overseeing public elementary and secondary education in Massachusetts, including standards, accountability, and school support.
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SDES
SDES (Session Description Protocol Security Descriptions) is a key management mechanism used to negotiate and convey cryptographic parameters for securing media streams in real-time communication protocols.
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DS
DS is the standardized Diploma Supplement used across the European Higher Education Area to provide transparent, comparable information about higher education qualifications.
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DS
DS is the Directorate of Support, a key administrative and logistical branch responsible for providing essential support services within an intelligence or governmental organization.
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DED
DED is the commonly used abbreviation for the ASME Design Engineering Division, a professional group within ASME focused on advancing the field of mechanical design engineering.
- 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: DES Target entity description: DES (Data Encryption Standard) is a now-obsolete symmetric-key block cipher that was once a widely used U.S. government encryption standard but fell out of favor due to its relatively short key length and vulnerability to brute-force attacks.
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A.
DESE
DESE is the state agency responsible for overseeing public elementary and secondary education in Massachusetts, including standards, accountability, and school support.
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B.
SDES
SDES (Session Description Protocol Security Descriptions) is a key management mechanism used to negotiate and convey cryptographic parameters for securing media streams in real-time communication protocols.
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C.
DS
DS is the standardized Diploma Supplement used across the European Higher Education Area to provide transparent, comparable information about higher education qualifications.
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D.
DS
DS is the Directorate of Support, a key administrative and logistical branch responsible for providing essential support services within an intelligence or governmental organization.
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E.
DED
DED is the commonly used abbreviation for the ASME Design Engineering Division, a professional group within ASME focused on advancing the field of mechanical design engineering.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: DES Description of subject: DES (Data Encryption Standard) is a now-obsolete symmetric-key block cipher that was once a widely used U.S. government encryption standard but fell out of favor due to its relatively short key length and vulnerability to brute-force attacks.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.