CNI
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CNI (Container Network Interface) is a specification and set of libraries for configuring networking in Linux containers, widely used in cloud-native and Kubernetes environments.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| CNI canonical | 2 |
| CNI libraries | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7938796 — 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: CNI Context triple: [Cloud Native Computing Foundation, hostsProject, CNI]
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A.
CNI
CNI is the stock ticker symbol for Canadian National Railway, a major North American freight railway company listed on the New York Stock Exchange and Toronto Stock Exchange.
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B.
CNI
The CNI (Central Nacional de Informaciones) was Chile’s notorious intelligence and secret police agency under Augusto Pinochet, responsible for widespread political repression, surveillance, and human rights abuses.
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C.
CCN
CCN is the acronym for the Capstone College of Nursing, a nursing education institution associated with the University of Alabama.
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D.
CNP
CNP is the abbreviation for the U.S. Navy’s Chief of Naval Personnel, the senior officer responsible for managing the service’s manpower, personnel policies, and career development.
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E.
CNCS
CNCS is a French national museum dedicated to preserving and showcasing theatrical, opera, and ballet costumes and stage sets.
- 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: CNI Target entity description: CNI (Container Network Interface) is a specification and set of libraries for configuring networking in Linux containers, widely used in cloud-native and Kubernetes environments.
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A.
CNI
CNI is the stock ticker symbol for Canadian National Railway, a major North American freight railway company listed on the New York Stock Exchange and Toronto Stock Exchange.
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B.
CNI
The CNI (Central Nacional de Informaciones) was Chile’s notorious intelligence and secret police agency under Augusto Pinochet, responsible for widespread political repression, surveillance, and human rights abuses.
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C.
CCN
CCN is the acronym for the Capstone College of Nursing, a nursing education institution associated with the University of Alabama.
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D.
CNP
CNP is the abbreviation for the U.S. Navy’s Chief of Naval Personnel, the senior officer responsible for managing the service’s manpower, personnel policies, and career development.
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E.
CNCS
CNCS is a French national museum dedicated to preserving and showcasing theatrical, opera, and ballet costumes and stage sets.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cloud native networking project
ⓘ
container networking specification ⓘ |
| abbreviationFor | Container Network Interface ⓘ |
| category |
cloud native infrastructure
ⓘ
networking middleware ⓘ |
| configurationFormat | JSON ⓘ |
| defines |
container network configuration format
ⓘ
plugin execution model ⓘ plugin interface ⓘ |
| designedFor | Linux containers ⓘ |
| designGoal |
extensibility via plugins
ⓘ
runtime-agnostic networking ⓘ simple plugin interface ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
decoupling networking from container runtimes
ⓘ
network connectivity between containers ⓘ |
| fullName | Container Network Interface ⓘ |
| governedBy | CNCF Technical Oversight Committee ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
CNI libraries
ⓘ
linked to:
CNI
CNI plugins ⓘ
linked to:
Container Network Interface
CNI specification ⓘ |
| implementedBy |
Amazon VPC CNI
ⓘ
linked to:
VPC CNI plugin
Azure CNI ⓘ
linked to:
Azure CNI networking
Calico ⓘ Cilium ⓘ
linked to:
Cilium CNI plugin
Flannel ⓘ Google Kubernetes Engine CNI plugins ⓘ Weave Net ⓘ |
| language | Go ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Cloud Native Computing Foundation ⓘ |
| operatingSystem | Linux ⓘ |
| primaryDomain | container networking ⓘ |
| repository | https://github.com/containernetworking/cni ⓘ |
| standardizedBy | Cloud Native Computing Foundation ⓘ |
| supports |
ADD command
ⓘ
CHECK command ⓘ DEL command ⓘ IP address management ⓘ VERSION command ⓘ chaining of network plugins ⓘ container network connectivity ⓘ network isolation ⓘ network namespace configuration ⓘ |
| usedBy |
CRI-O
ⓘ
Kubelet ⓘ
linked to:
kubelet
container runtimes ⓘ containerd ⓘ rkt ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Kubernetes
ⓘ
cloud native environments ⓘ container orchestration systems ⓘ |
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: CNI Description of subject: CNI (Container Network Interface) is a specification and set of libraries for configuring networking in Linux containers, widely used in cloud-native and Kubernetes environments.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: CNI