IPMI
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IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface) is a standardized interface used for out-of-band management and monitoring of computer systems, enabling remote control and hardware-level administration independent of the operating system.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| IPMI canonical | 5 |
| Intelligent Platform Management Interface | 2 |
| IPMI 1.0 | 1 |
| IPMI 1.5 | 1 |
| IPMI 2.0 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7938455 — 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: IPMI Context triple: [OpenStack Ironic, supports, IPMI]
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A.
HPE Integrated Lights-Out
HPE Integrated Lights-Out is a proprietary embedded server management technology that provides remote monitoring, administration, and troubleshooting capabilities for HPE ProLiant servers.
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B.
BIOS
BIOS is the working title for a science fiction film project initially developed under that name before being released as "Finch," starring Tom Hanks as a lone survivor in a post-apocalyptic world who builds a robot to care for his dog.
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C.
UEFI
UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) is a modern, programmable firmware standard that initializes hardware and boots operating systems, replacing the legacy BIOS on most contemporary computers.
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D.
KVM
KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a Linux kernel module that turns the kernel into a hypervisor, enabling hardware-assisted virtualization of multiple virtual machines.
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E.
SMIv2
SMIv2 is a standardized data definition language used to describe and structure management information for network devices in SNMP-based network management systems.
- 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: IPMI Target entity description: IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface) is a standardized interface used for out-of-band management and monitoring of computer systems, enabling remote control and hardware-level administration independent of the operating system.
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A.
HPE Integrated Lights-Out
HPE Integrated Lights-Out is a proprietary embedded server management technology that provides remote monitoring, administration, and troubleshooting capabilities for HPE ProLiant servers.
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B.
BIOS
BIOS is the working title for a science fiction film project initially developed under that name before being released as "Finch," starring Tom Hanks as a lone survivor in a post-apocalyptic world who builds a robot to care for his dog.
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C.
UEFI
UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) is a modern, programmable firmware standard that initializes hardware and boots operating systems, replacing the legacy BIOS on most contemporary computers.
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D.
KVM
KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a Linux kernel module that turns the kernel into a hypervisor, enabling hardware-assisted virtualization of multiple virtual machines.
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E.
SMIv2
SMIv2 is a standardized data definition language used to describe and structure management information for network devices in SNMP-based network management systems.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
computer hardware interface standard
ⓘ
out-of-band management protocol ⓘ |
| abbreviationFor |
Intelligent Platform Management Interface
ⓘ
linked to:
IPMI
|
| allows |
event logging
ⓘ
hardware sensor monitoring ⓘ power control ⓘ remote console redirection ⓘ serial-over-LAN access ⓘ system power cycling ⓘ system reset ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Baseboard Management Controller ⓘ |
| canOperateWhen |
main CPU is powered off
ⓘ
operating system is unresponsive ⓘ |
| category | system management firmware interface ⓘ |
| communicationChannel |
dedicated management network interface
ⓘ
serial connection ⓘ shared LAN interface ⓘ |
| domain |
computer system management
ⓘ
server management ⓘ |
| fullName |
Intelligent Platform Management Interface
ⓘ
linked to:
IPMI
|
| independentOf |
operating system
ⓘ
system power state ⓘ |
| introducedFeature |
LAN-based management
ⓘ
authentication and encryption (IPMI 2.0) ⓘ |
| relatedStandard |
Redfish
ⓘ
SMASH ⓘ |
| scope |
data center management
ⓘ
platform management ⓘ server hardware monitoring ⓘ |
| standardizedBy |
Dell
ⓘ
Hewlett-Packard ⓘ Intel ⓘ
linked to:
Intel Corporation
NEC ⓘ |
| supports |
hardware-level administration
ⓘ
out-of-band management ⓘ remote control ⓘ remote monitoring ⓘ role-based access control ⓘ sensor data records ⓘ system event logs ⓘ user authentication ⓘ |
| usedFor |
remote provisioning
ⓘ
remote troubleshooting ⓘ unattended system recovery ⓘ |
| usedIn |
blade servers
ⓘ
enterprise servers ⓘ network appliances ⓘ |
| uses | Baseboard Management Controller ⓘ |
| version |
IPMI 1.0
ⓘ
linked to:
IPMI
IPMI 1.5 ⓘ
linked to:
IPMI
IPMI 2.0 ⓘ
linked to:
IPMI
|
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: IPMI Description of subject: IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface) is a standardized interface used for out-of-band management and monitoring of computer systems, enabling remote control and hardware-level administration independent of the operating system.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: IPMI