Ws2_32
E193835
Ws2_32 is the Windows Sockets 2 (Winsock) library that provides networking and socket communication functionality for Windows applications.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ws2_32 canonical | 1 |
| Ws2_32.lib | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1719464 — 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: Ws2_32 Context triple: [Win32 API, component, Ws2_32]
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A.
W3
W3 is a common shorthand for the World Wide Web, the global system of interlinked hypertext documents and resources accessed via the internet.
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B.
WSH
WSH is the standard sports abbreviation for the Washington Commanders, the National Football League team based in the Washington, D.C. area.
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C.
WSH
WSH is the stock ticker symbol for Willis Group Holdings, a global insurance brokerage and risk management firm.
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D.
WSM
WSM is the three-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code assigned to Samoa.
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E.
WSF
WSF is the vehicle registration code used on license plates for the Burgenlandkreis district in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt.
- 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: Ws2_32 Target entity description: Ws2_32 is the Windows Sockets 2 (Winsock) library that provides networking and socket communication functionality for Windows applications.
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A.
W3
W3 is a common shorthand for the World Wide Web, the global system of interlinked hypertext documents and resources accessed via the internet.
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B.
WSH
WSH is the standard sports abbreviation for the Washington Commanders, the National Football League team based in the Washington, D.C. area.
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C.
WSH
WSH is the stock ticker symbol for Willis Group Holdings, a global insurance brokerage and risk management firm.
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D.
WSM
WSM is the three-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code assigned to Samoa.
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E.
WSF
WSF is the vehicle registration code used on license plates for the Burgenlandkreis district in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (65)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Windows library
ⓘ
dynamic-link library ⓘ networking library ⓘ |
| backwardCompatibleWith | Winsock 1.1 API ⓘ |
| callingConvention | stdcall ⓘ |
| cleanupFunction | WSACleanup ⓘ |
| distributedWith | Microsoft Windows operating system ⓘ |
| exportsFunction |
WSAAsyncSelect
ⓘ
WSACleanup ⓘ WSAEnumProtocols ⓘ WSAEventSelect ⓘ WSAGetLastError ⓘ WSAIoctl ⓘ WSARecv ⓘ WSARecvFrom ⓘ WSASend ⓘ WSASendTo ⓘ WSASocket ⓘ WSAStartup ⓘ WSAWaitForMultipleEvents ⓘ accept ⓘ bind ⓘ closesocket ⓘ connect ⓘ freeaddrinfo ⓘ getaddrinfo ⓘ gethostbyname ⓘ gethostname ⓘ inet_addr ⓘ inet_ntoa ⓘ ioctlsocket ⓘ listen ⓘ recv ⓘ select ⓘ send ⓘ socket ⓘ |
| fileName | Ws2_32.dll ⓘ |
| fullName | Windows Sockets 2 library ⓘ |
| implements |
Windows Sockets 2 API
ⓘ
linked to:
Windows Sockets 2 library
|
| languageBinding |
C API
ⓘ
linked to:
Win32 API
|
| operatingSystem |
Microsoft Windows
ⓘ
linked to:
Windows
|
| partOf | Windows networking stack ⓘ |
| providesFunctionality |
IP address manipulation
ⓘ
TCP/IP networking ⓘ UDP networking ⓘ asynchronous socket operations ⓘ name resolution ⓘ networking ⓘ socket communication ⓘ |
| replaces | Wsock32.dll ⓘ |
| requiresInitializationFunction | WSAStartup ⓘ |
| shortName |
Winsock 2
ⓘ
linked to:
Windows Sockets 2 library
|
| supportsFeature |
IPv6 networking
ⓘ
event-based socket notification ⓘ overlapped I/O ⓘ service provider interface (SPI) ⓘ |
| supportsProtocolFamily |
AF_INET
ⓘ
AF_INET6 ⓘ AF_UNIX (limited, newer Windows versions) ⓘ |
| supportsSocketType |
SOCK_DGRAM
ⓘ
SOCK_RAW ⓘ SOCK_STREAM ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Windows desktop applications
ⓘ
Windows server applications ⓘ console applications ⓘ |
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: Ws2_32 Description of subject: Ws2_32 is the Windows Sockets 2 (Winsock) library that provides networking and socket communication functionality for Windows applications.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Windows Sockets 2 library
linked to: Ws2_32