SAS
E38925
SAS is a high-speed, point-to-point serial interface standard commonly used to connect enterprise storage devices like hard drives and solid-state drives to servers.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| SAS canonical | 13 |
| American National Standards for SAS | 1 |
| SAS connector | 1 |
| SAS expanders | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T299717 — 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: SAS Context triple: [Serial Attached SCSI, abbreviation, SAS]
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A.
SAS
SAS is a widely used statistical software suite for advanced analytics, business intelligence, data management, and predictive modeling.
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B.
SAS
SAS is the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, encompassing the university’s core liberal arts and sciences departments and programs.
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C.
SSA
SSA is the U.S. federal agency responsible for administering Social Security programs, including retirement, disability, and survivors benefits.
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D.
SAN
SAN is the three-letter IATA airport code for San Diego International Airport, the primary commercial airport serving the San Diego, California area.
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E.
Sakai
Sakai is a major Japanese city in Osaka Prefecture known historically as a prosperous port and merchant center and today as an important industrial and cultural hub.
- 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: SAS Target entity description: SAS is a high-speed, point-to-point serial interface standard commonly used to connect enterprise storage devices like hard drives and solid-state drives to servers.
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A.
SAS
SAS is the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, encompassing the university’s core liberal arts and sciences departments and programs.
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B.
SAS
SAS is a widely used statistical software suite for advanced analytics, business intelligence, data management, and predictive modeling.
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C.
SSA
SSA is the U.S. federal agency responsible for administering Social Security programs, including retirement, disability, and survivors benefits.
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D.
SAN
SAN is the three-letter IATA airport code for San Diego International Airport, the primary commercial airport serving the San Diego, California area.
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E.
Sakai
Sakai is a major Japanese city in Osaka Prefecture known historically as a prosperous port and merchant center and today as an important industrial and cultural hub.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
computer bus standard
ⓘ
serial interface standard ⓘ |
| abbreviationFor | Serial Attached SCSI ⓘ |
| backwardCompatibleWith |
SATA
ⓘ
linked to:
Serial ATA
|
| basedOn | SCSI ⓘ |
| competesWith |
Fibre Channel
ⓘ
NVMe over PCIe ⓘ |
| connects | storage devices to servers ⓘ |
| designedFor | enterprise storage environments ⓘ |
| enables |
high availability storage configurations
ⓘ
redundant data paths ⓘ |
| fullName | Serial Attached SCSI ⓘ |
| governedBy | INCITS T10 committee ⓘ |
| hasVersion |
SAS-1
ⓘ
SAS-2 ⓘ SAS-3 ⓘ SAS-4 ⓘ |
| introducedApprox | 2004 ⓘ |
| maximumLinkRate |
12 Gbit/s for SAS-3
ⓘ
24 Gbit/s for SAS-4 ⓘ 3 Gbit/s for SAS-1 ⓘ 6 Gbit/s for SAS-2 ⓘ |
| physicalConnectorType |
SFF-8087
ⓘ
SFF-8482 ⓘ SFF-8643 ⓘ SFF-8644 ⓘ |
| standardizedBy |
ANSI
ⓘ
INCITS ⓘ |
| supports |
SATA device compatibility
ⓘ
SCSI command set ⓘ daisy-chained devices via expanders ⓘ dual-port drives ⓘ enterprise storage devices ⓘ error detection and correction mechanisms ⓘ full-duplex communication ⓘ hard disk drives ⓘ hot-swappable drives ⓘ multiple initiators ⓘ multiple targets ⓘ out-of-band management ⓘ solid-state drives ⓘ zoned addressing ⓘ |
| topology | point-to-point ⓘ |
| usedFor |
high-performance disk access
ⓘ
high-reliability storage ⓘ |
| usedIn |
RAID storage systems
ⓘ
data center storage arrays ⓘ enterprise servers ⓘ storage area networks ⓘ |
| uses |
SAS expanders
ⓘ
serial communication ⓘ |
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: SAS Description of subject: SAS is a high-speed, point-to-point serial interface standard commonly used to connect enterprise storage devices like hard drives and solid-state drives to servers.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: SAS
subject linked to:
HP ProLiant servers
subject linked to:
SCSI Enclosure Services (SES)