Blazar
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Blazar is the OpenStack reservation service that enables users to book cloud resources such as compute, storage, and networking in advance for guaranteed availability.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Blazar canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7937941 — 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: Blazar Context triple: [OpenStack, component, Blazar]
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A.
Sciama
Sciama is a surname most notably associated with British physicist Dennis Sciama, a key mentor to several leading cosmologists.
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B.
Nebulastar
Nebulastar is a film production company known for its involvement in the making of the 2019 science fiction thriller "Serenity."
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C.
Supernova
"Supernova" is a 2009 electro-pop single by British singer-songwriter Mr Hudson, featuring Kanye West, known for its futuristic production and melodic hook.
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D.
The Coma
The Coma is a surreal psychological novella by Alex Garland that explores memory, identity, and consciousness through the experiences of a man trapped in a coma-like state.
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E.
Baade’s Window
Baade’s Window is a relatively dust-free region of the Milky Way’s central bulge that provides a clear observational “window” for studying the galaxy’s core and its stellar populations.
- 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: Blazar Target entity description: Blazar is the OpenStack reservation service that enables users to book cloud resources such as compute, storage, and networking in advance for guaranteed availability.
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A.
Sciama
Sciama is a surname most notably associated with British physicist Dennis Sciama, a key mentor to several leading cosmologists.
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B.
Nebulastar
Nebulastar is a film production company known for its involvement in the making of the 2019 science fiction thriller "Serenity."
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C.
Supernova
"Supernova" is a 2009 electro-pop single by British singer-songwriter Mr Hudson, featuring Kanye West, known for its futuristic production and melodic hook.
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D.
The Coma
The Coma is a surreal psychological novella by Alex Garland that explores memory, identity, and consciousness through the experiences of a man trapped in a coma-like state.
-
E.
Baade’s Window
Baade’s Window is a relatively dust-free region of the Milky Way’s central bulge that provides a clear observational “window” for studying the galaxy’s core and its stellar populations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
OpenStack service
ⓘ
reservation service ⓘ |
| alternativeName | OpenStack Blazar ⓘ |
| configuration |
runs as separate API service
ⓘ
uses database backend for state ⓘ |
| coreConcept |
lease
ⓘ
reservation ⓘ resource plugin ⓘ |
| developedFor |
OpenStack clouds
ⓘ
linked to:
OpenStack
|
| documentation | available on official OpenStack documentation site ⓘ |
| enables | booking of cloud resources in advance ⓘ |
| ensures | guaranteed availability of reserved resources ⓘ |
| feature |
REST API
ⓘ
command-line interface support ⓘ conflict detection for reservations ⓘ exclusive access to reserved resources ⓘ lease start and end actions ⓘ policy-based access control ⓘ resource availability checks ⓘ resource plugin extensibility ⓘ time-based resource allocation ⓘ |
| goal |
improve predictability of resource availability
ⓘ
optimize utilization of cloud resources ⓘ support advance booking scenarios ⓘ |
| governedBy | OpenStack community ⓘ |
| implements | lease-based reservation model ⓘ |
| integratesWith |
OpenStack Cinder
ⓘ
OpenStack Neutron ⓘ OpenStack Nova ⓘ |
| license | open source ⓘ |
| partOf | OpenStack ecosystem ⓘ |
| primaryUseCase |
capacity planning
ⓘ
long-running experiments ⓘ maintenance windows ⓘ resource scheduling ⓘ |
| provides | advance reservation of cloud resources ⓘ |
| supports |
project-level reservations
ⓘ
time-bounded leases ⓘ |
| supportsResourceType |
compute
ⓘ
networking ⓘ storage ⓘ |
| supportsUseCase |
classroom or training environments
ⓘ
resource reservation for events ⓘ scheduled CI jobs ⓘ |
| supportsVersion | multiple OpenStack releases ⓘ |
| usedFor |
HPC-like scheduled workloads
ⓘ
scheduled maintenance of infrastructure ⓘ testbed provisioning ⓘ |
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: Blazar Description of subject: Blazar is the OpenStack reservation service that enables users to book cloud resources such as compute, storage, and networking in advance for guaranteed availability.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.