OpenStack Glance
E184331
OpenStack Glance is the image service component of the OpenStack cloud platform, responsible for discovering, registering, and delivering virtual machine images.
All labels observed (10)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| OpenStack Glance canonical | 21 |
| OpenStack Image (Glance) | 2 |
| Glance (OpenStack Image service) | 1 |
| Glance API | 1 |
| Glance for database instance images | 1 |
| OpenStack Image API v1 | 1 |
| OpenStack Image Service (Glance) | 1 |
| OpenStack Image service (Glance) | 1 |
| glance-api | 1 |
| glance-registry | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1636354 — 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: OpenStack Glance Context triple: [Red Hat OpenStack Platform, includesComponent, OpenStack Glance]
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A.
Red Hat OpenStack Platform
Red Hat OpenStack Platform is Red Hat’s enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure solution built on the OpenStack project, used to deploy and manage scalable private and hybrid clouds.
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B.
LXD
LXD is a system container and virtual machine manager that provides a user-friendly, image-based way to run and manage Linux environments.
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C.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is Oracle Corporation’s suite of cloud computing services that provides scalable compute, storage, networking, and platform capabilities for enterprise workloads.
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D.
Keystone Service
Keystone Service is an Amtrak-operated passenger rail service in Pennsylvania that provides frequent regional connections, primarily between Harrisburg and New York City via Philadelphia.
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E.
Red Hat Satellite
Red Hat Satellite is a systems management platform that helps organizations deploy, configure, and maintain Red Hat Enterprise Linux environments at scale.
- 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: OpenStack Glance Target entity description: OpenStack Glance is the image service component of the OpenStack cloud platform, responsible for discovering, registering, and delivering virtual machine images.
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A.
Red Hat OpenStack Platform
Red Hat OpenStack Platform is Red Hat’s enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure solution built on the OpenStack project, used to deploy and manage scalable private and hybrid clouds.
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B.
LXD
LXD is a system container and virtual machine manager that provides a user-friendly, image-based way to run and manage Linux environments.
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C.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is Oracle Corporation’s suite of cloud computing services that provides scalable compute, storage, networking, and platform capabilities for enterprise workloads.
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D.
Keystone Service
Keystone Service is an Amtrak-operated passenger rail service in Pennsylvania that provides frequent regional connections, primarily between Harrisburg and New York City via Philadelphia.
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E.
Red Hat Satellite
Red Hat Satellite is a systems management platform that helps organizations deploy, configure, and maintain Red Hat Enterprise Linux environments at scale.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
OpenStack component
ⓘ
image service ⓘ |
| configuredBy |
glance-api.conf
ⓘ
glance-registry.conf ⓘ |
| exposes | REST API ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
delivering virtual machine images
ⓘ
discovering virtual machine images ⓘ registering virtual machine images ⓘ retrieving virtual machine images ⓘ storing virtual machine images ⓘ |
| hasRole | image management service ⓘ |
| hostedOn | opendev.org ⓘ |
| implements |
OpenStack Image API v2
ⓘ
linked to:
OpenStack APIs
|
| integratesWith |
OpenStack Cinder
ⓘ
OpenStack Keystone ⓘ OpenStack Neutron ⓘ OpenStack Placement ⓘ |
| licensedUnder | Apache License 2.0 ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
OpenStack community
ⓘ
linked to:
OpenStack
|
| partOf | OpenStack ⓘ |
| previouslyImplemented |
OpenStack Image API v1
ⓘ
linked to:
OpenStack Glance
|
| provides |
image catalog
ⓘ
image metadata management ⓘ |
| repository | https://opendev.org/openstack/glance ⓘ |
| supports |
disk images
ⓘ
server images ⓘ |
| supportsAuthenticationVia | Keystone ⓘ |
| supportsBackend |
Ceph RADOS
ⓘ
linked to:
Red Hat Ceph Storage
Cinder backend ⓘ HTTP storage ⓘ OpenStack Swift ⓘ file system storage ⓘ |
| supportsFeature |
image encryption
ⓘ
image property protections ⓘ image replication ⓘ image sharing ⓘ image signing ⓘ image versioning ⓘ multi-tenant image access control ⓘ |
| supportsFormat |
AMI
ⓘ
ISO ⓘ QCOW2 ⓘ
linked to:
QCOW (via conversion)
RAW ⓘ VHD ⓘ VHDX ⓘ VMDK ⓘ |
| usedBy |
OpenStack Heat
ⓘ
OpenStack Horizon ⓘ OpenStack Nova ⓘ |
| writtenIn | Python ⓘ |
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: OpenStack Glance Description of subject: OpenStack Glance is the image service component of the OpenStack cloud platform, responsible for discovering, registering, and delivering virtual machine images.
Referenced by (31)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: OpenStack Glance
linked to: OpenStack Glance
subject linked to:
Nova
linked to: OpenStack Glance
linked to: OpenStack Glance
linked to: OpenStack Glance
linked to: OpenStack Glance
linked to: OpenStack Glance