Weave Net CNI plugin
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Weave Net CNI plugin is a Kubernetes networking solution that provides an overlay network for containerized applications, offering features like automatic IP address management, network isolation, and multi-host connectivity.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Weave Net CNI plugin canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7939226 — 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: Weave Net CNI plugin Context triple: [Container Network Interface, typicalImplementation, Weave Net CNI plugin]
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A.
Container Network Interface
Container Network Interface (CNI) is a standardized plugin framework that defines how container runtimes configure networking for containers in environments like Kubernetes.
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B.
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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C.
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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D.
Canvas Network
Canvas Network is an online learning platform that hosts and delivers massive open online courses (MOOCs) from universities and institutions worldwide.
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E.
Istio
Istio is an open-source service mesh that provides traffic management, security, and observability for microservices running on platforms like Kubernetes.
- 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: Weave Net CNI plugin Target entity description: Weave Net CNI plugin is a Kubernetes networking solution that provides an overlay network for containerized applications, offering features like automatic IP address management, network isolation, and multi-host connectivity.
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A.
Container Network Interface
Container Network Interface (CNI) is a standardized plugin framework that defines how container runtimes configure networking for containers in environments like Kubernetes.
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B.
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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C.
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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D.
Cisco Tetration (Secure Workload)
Cisco Tetration (Secure Workload) is a data center and cloud workload protection platform that provides deep visibility, segmentation, and security policy enforcement for applications across hybrid environments.
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E.
Juniper Contrail
Juniper Contrail is a software-defined networking (SDN) and network virtualization platform from Juniper Networks that provides automated, programmable networking and security for cloud and data center environments.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Kubernetes CNI plugin
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container networking solution ⓘ overlay network technology ⓘ |
| availableAs | open source software ⓘ |
| category | cloud native networking ⓘ |
| compatibleWith |
Kubernetes NetworkPolicy API
ⓘ
linked to:
Kubernetes NetworkPolicy
|
| configuredBy | Kubernetes CNI configuration files ⓘ |
| designedFor | Kubernetes ⓘ |
| developedBy | Weaveworks ⓘ |
| hostedOn | GitHub ⓘ |
| implements | Container Network Interface specification ⓘ |
| license | Apache License 2.0 ⓘ |
| provides |
automatic IP address management
ⓘ
flat network topology for pods ⓘ multi-host connectivity ⓘ network isolation ⓘ overlay network for containers ⓘ |
| runsAs | Kubernetes DaemonSet ⓘ |
| supports |
IP address allocation
ⓘ
IP address management ⓘ IP address reuse across clusters ⓘ IP allocation using IPAM ⓘ IP masquerading ⓘ MTU configuration ⓘ NetworkPolicy enforcement ⓘ automatic topology discovery ⓘ cluster IP allocation across nodes ⓘ dynamic addition of nodes ⓘ dynamic removal of nodes ⓘ encryption of network traffic ⓘ encryption using password-based keys ⓘ encryption using pre-shared keys ⓘ hairpin NAT ⓘ integration with Kubernetes kube-proxy ⓘ integration with Kubernetes services ⓘ multi-node Kubernetes clusters ⓘ name-based service discovery via DNS ⓘ network segmentation via policies ⓘ pod IP persistence across restarts ⓘ pod-to-pod networking ⓘ pod-to-service networking ⓘ |
| usedFor |
connecting containerized applications across hosts
ⓘ
isolating tenant or application networks in Kubernetes ⓘ managing pod IP addresses automatically ⓘ |
| uses |
VXLAN encapsulation
ⓘ
weave-kube component ⓘ weave-npc component ⓘ |
| writtenIn | Go ⓘ |
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: Weave Net CNI plugin Description of subject: Weave Net CNI plugin is a Kubernetes networking solution that provides an overlay network for containerized applications, offering features like automatic IP address management, network isolation, and multi-host connectivity.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.