Network Information Center
E233773
The Network Information Center (NIC) was an early administrative and coordination body for the ARPANET and the emerging Internet, responsible for managing hostnames, addresses, and key technical documentation.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Network Information Center canonical | 3 |
| SRI International Network Information Center | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2105667 — 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: Network Information Center Context triple: [RFC 883, publishedBy, Network Information Center]
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A.
NSFNET
NSFNET was a high-speed, federally funded backbone network that expanded and commercialized the early internet across U.S. research and educational institutions.
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B.
NIC
NIC is the three-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code assigned to Nicaragua.
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C.
NIC
NIC is an abbreviation commonly used to refer to North Infirmary Command, a medical or correctional facility unit.
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D.
National Telecommunications and Information Administration
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration is a U.S. government agency responsible for advising the President on telecommunications and information policy and managing federal use of spectrum.
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E.
Center for Information Technology
The Center for Information Technology is the National Institutes of Health’s central organization responsible for providing advanced computing, networking, and information technology services to support biomedical research and administration.
- 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: Network Information Center Target entity description: The Network Information Center (NIC) was an early administrative and coordination body for the ARPANET and the emerging Internet, responsible for managing hostnames, addresses, and key technical documentation.
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A.
NSFNET
NSFNET was a high-speed, federally funded backbone network that expanded and commercialized the early internet across U.S. research and educational institutions.
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B.
NIC
NIC is the three-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code assigned to Nicaragua.
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C.
NIC
NIC is an abbreviation commonly used to refer to North Infirmary Command, a medical or correctional facility unit.
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D.
National Telecommunications and Information Administration
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration is a U.S. government agency responsible for advising the President on telecommunications and information policy and managing federal use of spectrum.
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E.
Center for Information Technology
The Center for Information Technology is the National Institutes of Health’s central organization responsible for providing advanced computing, networking, and information technology services to support biomedical research and administration.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ARPANET administrative body
ⓘ
internet governance organization ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | NIC ⓘ |
| basedOn | funding from ARPA ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| dissolvedInto | distributed Internet governance structures ⓘ |
| employer | Elizabeth J. Feinler ⓘ |
| endDate | early 1990s ⓘ |
| field |
computer networking
ⓘ
internet administration ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Douglas Engelbart ⓘ |
| hasRole |
central information clearinghouse for ARPANET
ⓘ
central registry for ARPANET ⓘ coordination point for network standards documentation ⓘ |
| headedBy | Elizabeth J. Feinler ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | early Internet era ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Menlo Park, California ⓘ |
| notableWork |
ARPANET hostnames registry
ⓘ
linked to:
ARPANET
RFC index and distribution ⓘ early domain name registry ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
SRI International
ⓘ
linked to:
Stanford Research Institute
Stanford Research Institute ⓘ |
| partOf |
ARPANET
ⓘ
early Internet infrastructure ⓘ |
| predecessorOf |
ICANN
ⓘ
InterNIC ⓘ
linked to:
VeriSign
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority ⓘ |
| providedServiceTo |
ARPANET users
ⓘ
U.S. government agencies ⓘ early Internet service operators ⓘ research institutions ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
IP address allocation for ARPANET hosts
ⓘ
RFC distribution ⓘ address management ⓘ assignment of other Internet parameters ⓘ assignment of port numbers ⓘ assignment of protocol numbers ⓘ coordination of network information services ⓘ distribution of host tables ⓘ host table maintenance ⓘ hostname management ⓘ maintenance of Internet protocol documentation ⓘ maintenance of RFC archive ⓘ management of top-level domains in early Internet ⓘ network documentation services ⓘ user support for ARPANET ⓘ |
| sponsor | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ⓘ |
| startDate | 1970 ⓘ |
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: Network Information Center Description of subject: The Network Information Center (NIC) was an early administrative and coordination body for the ARPANET and the emerging Internet, responsible for managing hostnames, addresses, and key technical documentation.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.