Chubby
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Chubby is a distributed lock service and coarse-grained coordination system developed by Google to provide reliable synchronization and metadata storage for large-scale distributed applications.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Chubby canonical | 1 |
| Chubby master | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7932417 — 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: Chubby Context triple: [Bigtable, storesMetadataIn, Chubby]
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A.
Chubby
Chubby is a rotund, comedic child character from the classic "Our Gang" (also known as "The Little Rascals") film series.
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B.
Tubby
Tubby is the nickname of American college basketball coach Tubby Smith, known for leading the University of Kentucky to the 1998 NCAA championship.
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C.
Fatso
Fatso is one of the mischievous Ghostly Trio uncles in the 1995 live-action film "Casper," known for his gluttonous, crude, and comedic personality.
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D.
Fatlip
Fatlip is an American rapper best known as a former member of the influential alternative hip hop group The Pharcyde.
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E.
The Fat One
The Fat One is the English translation of the Italian nickname "La Grassa," often used to refer to the city of Bologna for its rich culinary tradition.
- 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: Chubby Target entity description: Chubby is a distributed lock service and coarse-grained coordination system developed by Google to provide reliable synchronization and metadata storage for large-scale distributed applications.
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A.
Chubby
Chubby is a rotund, comedic child character from the classic "Our Gang" (also known as "The Little Rascals") film series.
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B.
Tubby
Tubby is the nickname of American college basketball coach Tubby Smith, known for leading the University of Kentucky to the 1998 NCAA championship.
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C.
Fatso
Fatso is one of the mischievous Ghostly Trio uncles in the 1995 live-action film "Casper," known for his gluttonous, crude, and comedic personality.
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D.
Fatlip
Fatlip is an American rapper best known as a former member of the influential alternative hip hop group The Pharcyde.
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E.
The Fat One
The Fat One is the English translation of the Italian nickname "La Grassa," often used to refer to the city of Bologna for its rich culinary tradition.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
coordination service
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distributed lock service ⓘ software system ⓘ |
| architecture | replicated service ⓘ |
| basedOn | Paxos consensus algorithm ⓘ |
| category |
distributed coordination service
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distributed systems infrastructure ⓘ |
| cellComposition | small set of replicas ⓘ |
| consistencyModel | strong consistency ⓘ |
| coordinationGranularity | coarse-grained ⓘ |
| designGoal |
fault tolerance
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high availability ⓘ reliability ⓘ simplicity of client API ⓘ |
| developer | Google ⓘ |
| failureHandling |
automatic master election via Paxos
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session invalidation on lease expiry ⓘ |
| feature |
client caching
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failover between replicas ⓘ keep-alive mechanism for sessions ⓘ lock acquisition and release operations ⓘ master replica and backup replicas ⓘ |
| influenced | Apache ZooKeeper ⓘ |
| introducedBy | Google research paper ⓘ |
| lockScope | file path in namespace ⓘ |
| lockType | advisory locks ⓘ |
| namespaceOrganization | directories and files ⓘ |
| operationalModel | clients communicate with a Chubby cell ⓘ |
| paperAuthors | Mike Burrows ⓘ |
| paperTitle | The Chubby lock service for loosely-coupled distributed systems ⓘ |
| provides |
configuration storage
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distributed locks ⓘ leader election support ⓘ naming service ⓘ |
| purpose |
provide coarse-grained coordination
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provide distributed locking ⓘ provide metadata storage ⓘ provide reliable synchronization ⓘ |
| stores | small files as metadata ⓘ |
| supports |
advisory locks on files
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file-like namespace ⓘ sessions with leases ⓘ watches or notifications on changes ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Bigtable
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Google File System ⓘ Google internal distributed systems ⓘ |
| usedFor | large-scale distributed applications ⓘ |
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: Chubby Description of subject: Chubby is a distributed lock service and coarse-grained coordination system developed by Google to provide reliable synchronization and metadata storage for large-scale distributed applications.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Chubby