DANE
E192671
DANE (DNS-based Authentication of Named Entities) is an Internet security protocol that uses DNSSEC to bind X.509 certificates to domain names, enabling more secure and flexible authentication for TLS and other services.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| DANE canonical | 10 |
| DANE-TA | 1 |
| DANE-TA(2) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1712057 — 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: DANE Context triple: [DNSSEC, relatedStandard, DANE]
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A.
DAN
DAN is a neutron-detecting scientific instrument on NASA's Curiosity rover used to measure subsurface hydrogen and infer the presence of water on Mars.
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B.
Dan
Dan is a biblical figure recognized as one of the twelve sons of Jacob and the traditional ancestor of the Tribe of Dan in the Hebrew Bible.
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C.
Dan
Dan is the protagonist of Cory Doctorow's science fiction novel "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom," a post-scarcity future resident of a reputation-based society centered around a Disney theme park.
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D.
Dan
Dan is a male given name commonly used in English-speaking countries, often as a short form of Daniel.
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E.
Daly
Daly is a surname most notably associated with Herman Daly, an influential American ecological economist known for his work on steady-state economics and sustainability.
- 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: DANE Target entity description: DANE (DNS-based Authentication of Named Entities) is an Internet security protocol that uses DNSSEC to bind X.509 certificates to domain names, enabling more secure and flexible authentication for TLS and other services.
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A.
DAN
DAN is a neutron-detecting scientific instrument on NASA's Curiosity rover used to measure subsurface hydrogen and infer the presence of water on Mars.
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B.
Dan
Dan is a biblical figure recognized as one of the twelve sons of Jacob and the traditional ancestor of the Tribe of Dan in the Hebrew Bible.
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C.
Dan
Dan is the protagonist of Cory Doctorow's science fiction novel "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom," a post-scarcity future resident of a reputation-based society centered around a Disney theme park.
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D.
Dan
Dan is a male given name commonly used in English-speaking countries, often as a short form of Daniel.
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E.
Daly
Daly is a surname most notably associated with Herman Daly, an influential American ecological economist known for his work on steady-state economics and sustainability.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Internet security protocol
ⓘ
authentication protocol ⓘ |
| allows |
domain owners to constrain trust anchors
ⓘ
domain owners to specify acceptable certificates ⓘ domain owners to specify acceptable public keys ⓘ |
| binds |
X.509 certificates
ⓘ
public keys ⓘ |
| bindsTo | domain names ⓘ |
| certificateUsageValue |
0
ⓘ
1 ⓘ 2 ⓘ 3 ⓘ |
| definedIn |
RFC 6698
ⓘ
RFC 7218 ⓘ RFC 7671 ⓘ RFC 7672 ⓘ RFC 7673 ⓘ
linked to:
RFC 7672
RFC 7674 ⓘ |
| field |
certificate association data
ⓘ
certificate usage ⓘ matching type ⓘ selector ⓘ |
| fullName | DNS-based Authentication of Named Entities ⓘ |
| goal |
improve security of TLS authentication
ⓘ
provide more flexible certificate validation policies ⓘ reduce dependence on traditional public CA infrastructure ⓘ |
| introducedYear | 2012 ⓘ |
| mechanism | publishes TLSA records in DNS ⓘ |
| recordType | TLSA ⓘ |
| relatedStandard |
DNSSEC
ⓘ
TLS ⓘ |
| requires | DNSSEC validation ⓘ |
| securityProperty |
allows pinning of certificates or public keys
ⓘ
binds certificate information to DNS names via DNSSEC ⓘ enables authentication without relying solely on public CAs ⓘ protects against some certificate authority compromises ⓘ |
| standardizedBy |
IETF
ⓘ
linked to:
Internet Engineering Task Force
|
| standardTrackStatus | Proposed Standard ⓘ |
| supportsProtocol |
SIP
ⓘ
SMTP ⓘ TLS ⓘ XMPP ⓘ |
| supportsService |
HTTPS
ⓘ
client authentication ⓘ email transport security ⓘ server authentication ⓘ |
| uses |
DNS resource records
ⓘ
DNSSEC ⓘ TLSA resource records ⓘ |
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: DANE Description of subject: DANE (DNS-based Authentication of Named Entities) is an Internet security protocol that uses DNSSEC to bind X.509 certificates to domain names, enabling more secure and flexible authentication for TLS and other services.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: DANE
linked to: DANE