NFS
E37337
NFS (Network File System) is a distributed file system protocol that allows users to access files over a network as if they were on local storage.
All labels observed (26)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T286881 — 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: NFS Context triple: [Linux, supportsFileSystem, NFS]
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A.
NAS
NAS is a private, nonprofit society of distinguished scholars in the United States that advises the nation on matters related to science and technology.
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B.
NCP
NCP (Network Control Protocol) was an early host-to-host communication protocol suite that enabled data exchange between computers on the ARPANET before the adoption of TCP/IP.
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C.
NV
NV is the official two-letter United States Postal Service abbreviation for the state of Nevada.
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D.
NRPC
NRPC (National Railroad Passenger Corporation) is the U.S. government-owned corporation that operates intercity passenger rail service under the brand name Amtrak.
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E.
NRPC
NRPC (Notes Remote Procedure Call) is the proprietary network protocol used by IBM/Lotus Notes and Domino servers to enable client-server communication and data replication.
- 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: NFS Target entity description: NFS (Network File System) is a distributed file system protocol that allows users to access files over a network as if they were on local storage.
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A.
NAS
NAS is a private, nonprofit society of distinguished scholars in the United States that advises the nation on matters related to science and technology.
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B.
NCP
NCP (Network Control Protocol) was an early host-to-host communication protocol suite that enabled data exchange between computers on the ARPANET before the adoption of TCP/IP.
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C.
NV
NV is the official two-letter United States Postal Service abbreviation for the state of Nevada.
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D.
NRPC
NRPC (National Railroad Passenger Corporation) is the U.S. government-owned corporation that operates intercity passenger rail service under the brand name Amtrak.
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E.
NRPC
NRPC (Notes Remote Procedure Call) is the proprietary network protocol used by IBM/Lotus Notes and Domino servers to enable client-server communication and data replication.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
distributed file system protocol
ⓘ
network file system protocol ⓘ |
| abbreviationFor |
Network File System
ⓘ
linked to:
NFS
|
| allows | access to files over a network as if they were on local storage ⓘ |
| authenticationMechanism |
AUTH_SYS
ⓘ
Kerberos ⓘ |
| definedIn |
RFC 1094
ⓘ
RFC 1813 ⓘ RFC 3530 ⓘ RFC 5661 ⓘ |
| designedFor | remote file access over a network ⓘ |
| developedBy | Sun Microsystems ⓘ |
| firstReleasedIn | 1980s ⓘ |
| fullName |
Network File System
ⓘ
linked to:
NFS
|
| laterStatus | became an open standard ⓘ |
| license | originally proprietary from Sun Microsystems ⓘ |
| operatesAtLayer | application layer ⓘ |
| originallyDesignedFor |
UNIX systems
ⓘ
linked to:
Unix
|
| relatedProtocol |
CIFS
ⓘ
SMB ⓘ |
| securityExtension | RPCSEC_GSS ⓘ |
| standardizedBy |
IETF
ⓘ
linked to:
Internet Engineering Task Force
|
| supportedOn |
BSD
ⓘ
Linux ⓘ Microsoft Windows ⓘ
linked to:
Windows
macOS ⓘ |
| supports | client-server architecture ⓘ |
| supportsFeature |
Kerberos-based authentication
ⓘ
access control lists ⓘ compound operations ⓘ delegations ⓘ file attribute caching ⓘ file locking ⓘ stateful protocol in NFSv4 ⓘ stateless protocol in NFSv2 and NFSv3 ⓘ |
| transportProtocol |
TCP
ⓘ
linked to:
Transmission Control Protocol
UDP ⓘ |
| usedFor |
centralized storage in UNIX and Linux environments
ⓘ
sharing application data ⓘ sharing home directories ⓘ |
| uses |
RPC over TCP
ⓘ
RPC over UDP ⓘ Remote Procedure Call ⓘ |
| version |
NFSv2
ⓘ
linked to:
NFS
NFSv3 ⓘ
linked to:
NFS
NFSv4 ⓘ
linked to:
NFS
NFSv4.1 ⓘ NFSv4.2 ⓘ
linked to:
NFS
|
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: NFS Description of subject: NFS (Network File System) is a distributed file system protocol that allows users to access files over a network as if they were on local storage.
Referenced by (87)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Need for Speed (video game series)
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NeXT and Sun Microsystems
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