CARP
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CARP (Common Address Redundancy Protocol) is a network protocol that provides failover and redundancy for IP addresses by allowing multiple hosts to share a virtual IP, ensuring high availability of services.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| CARP canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4279117 — 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: CARP Context triple: [FreeBSD, supportsFeature, CARP]
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A.
CPC
CPC is the abbreviation for the Permanent Consultation Committee of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries, a key body that supports coordination and decision-making among its member states.
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B.
CPC
CPC is the abbreviated name for the Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference, a major annual gathering of parliamentarians from Commonwealth countries to discuss governance and legislative issues.
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C.
CPC
CPC is the commonly used English abbreviation for the Chinese Communist Party, the founding and ruling political party of the People's Republic of China.
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D.
CPC
CPC is the commonly used abbreviation for the Communist Party of Canada, a Marxist–Leninist political party in Canada.
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E.
CPC
CPC is the commonly used acronym for the Conservative Party of Canada, a major federal political party that advocates center-right to right-wing policies.
- 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: CARP Target entity description: CARP (Common Address Redundancy Protocol) is a network protocol that provides failover and redundancy for IP addresses by allowing multiple hosts to share a virtual IP, ensuring high availability of services.
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A.
CPC
CPC is the abbreviated name for the Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference, a major annual gathering of parliamentarians from Commonwealth countries to discuss governance and legislative issues.
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B.
CPC
CPC is the commonly used English abbreviation for the Chinese Communist Party, the founding and ruling political party of the People's Republic of China.
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C.
CPC
CPC is the abbreviation for the Permanent Consultation Committee of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries, a key body that supports coordination and decision-making among its member states.
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D.
CPC
CPC is the commonly used acronym for the Conservative Party of Canada, a major federal political party that advocates center-right to right-wing policies.
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E.
CPC
CPC is the commonly used abbreviation for the Communist Party of Canada, a Marxist–Leninist political party in Canada.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
network protocol
ⓘ
redundancy protocol ⓘ |
| abbreviation | CARP ⓘ |
| allows | multiple hosts to share a virtual IP ⓘ |
| category |
high-availability protocol
ⓘ
redundant IP addressing protocol ⓘ |
| designedBy |
OpenBSD project
ⓘ
linked to:
OpenBSD
|
| feature |
authentication of advertisements
ⓘ
automatic failover to backup host ⓘ load distribution via multiple virtual IPs ⓘ preemption based on priority ⓘ |
| fullName | Common Address Redundancy Protocol ⓘ |
| goal | provide a free alternative to proprietary redundancy protocols ⓘ |
| hasConcept |
advertisement interval
ⓘ
backup host ⓘ master host ⓘ priority ⓘ virtual host ID ⓘ |
| implementedIn |
FreeBSD
ⓘ
NetBSD ⓘ OPNsense ⓘ OpenBSD ⓘ pfSense ⓘ |
| license | open source ⓘ |
| mechanism |
failover on missed advertisements
ⓘ
periodic advertisements from master host ⓘ priority-based master election ⓘ |
| operatesAtLayer | network layer ⓘ |
| origin | OpenBSD ⓘ |
| provides |
IP address failover
ⓘ
IP address redundancy ⓘ high availability ⓘ |
| purpose |
eliminate single point of failure for IP addresses
ⓘ
ensure high availability of network services ⓘ |
| requires | shared virtual IP configuration on participating hosts ⓘ |
| similarTo |
HSRP
ⓘ
VRRP ⓘ |
| supports |
IPv4
ⓘ
IPv6 ⓘ |
| usedFor |
gateway redundancy
ⓘ
maintenance without service interruption ⓘ service continuity during hardware failure ⓘ |
| usedIn |
firewall clusters
ⓘ
high-availability server clusters ⓘ load-balanced web services ⓘ router redundancy setups ⓘ |
| uses | virtual IP address ⓘ |
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: CARP Description of subject: CARP (Common Address Redundancy Protocol) is a network protocol that provides failover and redundancy for IP addresses by allowing multiple hosts to share a virtual IP, ensuring high availability of services.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.