Home Location Register
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The Home Location Register (HLR) is a central database in mobile networks that stores and manages subscriber information, authentication data, and routing details needed to deliver services like voice calls and SMS.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Home Location Register canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5479614 — 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: Home Location Register Context triple: [SMS, usesArchitectureComponent, Home Location Register]
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A.
Warley
Warley is a locality within the Brentwood Borough of Essex, England, known primarily as a residential suburb with historical military and institutional connections.
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B.
Parkwood
Parkwood is a residential neighborhood in the Far Northeast section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, known for its suburban-style housing and proximity to major roadways.
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C.
Brooklin
Brooklin is a suburban community within the town of Whitby, Ontario, known for its rapidly growing residential areas and small-town village core.
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D.
Laurel
Laurel is a small city in Maryland known for its suburban character and location between Washington, D.C. and Baltimore.
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E.
Laurel
Laurel is a feminine given name of English origin, derived from the laurel tree traditionally associated with honor and victory.
- 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: Home Location Register Target entity description: The Home Location Register (HLR) is a central database in mobile networks that stores and manages subscriber information, authentication data, and routing details needed to deliver services like voice calls and SMS.
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A.
Warley
Warley is a locality within the Brentwood Borough of Essex, England, known primarily as a residential suburb with historical military and institutional connections.
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B.
Parkwood
Parkwood is a residential neighborhood in the Far Northeast section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, known for its suburban-style housing and proximity to major roadways.
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C.
Brooklin
Brooklin is a suburban community within the town of Whitby, Ontario, known for its rapidly growing residential areas and small-town village core.
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D.
Laurel
Laurel is a small city in Maryland known for its suburban character and location between Washington, D.C. and Baltimore.
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E.
Laurel
Laurel is a feminine given name of English origin, derived from the laurel tree traditionally associated with honor and victory.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
core network element
ⓘ
mobile network database ⓘ subscriber data management system ⓘ |
| abbreviation | HLR ⓘ |
| communicatesWith |
AuC
ⓘ
Authentication Center ⓘ
linked to:
Key Distribution Center
MSC ⓘ Mobile Switching Centre ⓘ SMSC ⓘ Short Message Service Centre ⓘ VLR ⓘ Visitor Location Register ⓘ |
| definedIn | 3GPP standards ⓘ |
| fullName | Home Location Register ⓘ |
| manages |
service authorization
ⓘ
subscriber authentication ⓘ subscriber mobility ⓘ |
| partOf |
mobile core network
ⓘ
public land mobile network ⓘ |
| primaryFunction |
authentication data repository
ⓘ
central subscriber database ⓘ routing information source ⓘ |
| protocol |
MAP
ⓘ
SS7 ⓘ |
| relatedTo | Home Subscriber Server ⓘ |
| replacedBy | Home Subscriber Server in IMS networks ⓘ |
| standardizedBy | 3rd Generation Partnership Project ⓘ |
| stores |
IMSI
ⓘ
International Mobile Subscriber Identity ⓘ MSISDN ⓘ Mobile Station ISDN Number ⓘ authentication data ⓘ barring settings ⓘ call forwarding settings ⓘ current VLR address ⓘ encryption keys ⓘ location information ⓘ roaming restrictions ⓘ service subscription information ⓘ subscriber profiles ⓘ supplementary service data ⓘ |
| supportsService |
SMS
ⓘ
circuit-switched data ⓘ supplementary services ⓘ voice calls ⓘ |
| usedFor |
SMS routing
ⓘ
call routing ⓘ location management ⓘ subscriber registration ⓘ |
| usedIn |
2G mobile networks
ⓘ
3G mobile networks ⓘ GSM networks ⓘ UMTS networks ⓘ circuit-switched mobile networks ⓘ |
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: Home Location Register Description of subject: The Home Location Register (HLR) is a central database in mobile networks that stores and manages subscriber information, authentication data, and routing details needed to deliver services like voice calls and SMS.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.