SET
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SET is an open-source penetration testing framework focused on social engineering attacks, commonly used by security professionals to simulate and assess human-targeted vulnerabilities.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| SET canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8248853 — 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: SET Context triple: [Social-Engineer Toolkit, hasAbbreviation, SET]
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A.
Set
Set is an ancient Egyptian god associated primarily with chaos, storms, and disorder, often depicted as the adversary of his brother Osiris and the rival of Horus.
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B.
SETS
SETS is the London Stock Exchange’s central electronic order book system used for automated trading of the most liquid UK securities.
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C.
SETSqx
SETSqx is a hybrid electronic trading service on the London Stock Exchange that combines periodic auctions with continuous quote-driven market making for less liquid securities.
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D.
NSSet
NSSet is an Objective-C collection class that represents an unordered, unique set of objects, commonly used in Cocoa and Cocoa Touch frameworks.
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E.
Mutable Set (track)
"Mutable Set (track)" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Blake Mills from his critically acclaimed 2020 album "Mutable Set."
- 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: SET Target entity description: SET is an open-source penetration testing framework focused on social engineering attacks, commonly used by security professionals to simulate and assess human-targeted vulnerabilities.
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A.
Set
Set is an ancient Egyptian god associated primarily with chaos, storms, and disorder, often depicted as the adversary of his brother Osiris and the rival of Horus.
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B.
SETS
SETS is the London Stock Exchange’s central electronic order book system used for automated trading of the most liquid UK securities.
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C.
SETSqx
SETSqx is a hybrid electronic trading service on the London Stock Exchange that combines periodic auctions with continuous quote-driven market making for less liquid securities.
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D.
NSSet
NSSet is an Objective-C collection class that represents an unordered, unique set of objects, commonly used in Cocoa and Cocoa Touch frameworks.
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E.
Mutable Set (track)
"Mutable Set (track)" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Blake Mills from his critically acclaimed 2020 album "Mutable Set."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
open-source software
ⓘ
penetration testing framework ⓘ |
| aimsTo | identify human-related security weaknesses ⓘ |
| category |
offensive security tool
ⓘ
social engineering framework ⓘ |
| designedFor | simulating real-world social engineering campaigns ⓘ |
| developedBy |
David Kennedy
ⓘ
TrustedSec ⓘ |
| distribution |
Kali Linux
ⓘ
Parrot Security OS ⓘ
linked to:
Kali Linux
|
| feature |
Java applet attacks
ⓘ
PowerShell-based attacks ⓘ USB and media-based attacks ⓘ credential harvesting ⓘ malicious payload generation ⓘ mass mailer attacks ⓘ phishing attack simulations ⓘ spear-phishing campaigns ⓘ web attack vectors ⓘ |
| focusesOn | social engineering attacks ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation | SET ⓘ |
| integratesWith | Metasploit Framework ⓘ |
| license | GNU General Public License ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage | Python ⓘ |
| repository | https://github.com/trustedsec/social-engineer-toolkit ⓘ |
| requires | Python interpreter ⓘ |
| securityDomain |
offensive security
ⓘ
linked to:
Offensive Security
social engineering ⓘ |
| supports |
phishing assessments
ⓘ
red team operations ⓘ security awareness training ⓘ |
| supportsAttackVector |
SMS-based social engineering (via integrations)
ⓘ
credential harvesting pages ⓘ email phishing ⓘ infectious media creation ⓘ website cloning ⓘ |
| supportsPlatform |
Linux
ⓘ
Windows ⓘ macOS ⓘ |
| target |
human vulnerabilities
ⓘ
organizational security posture ⓘ |
| usedBy |
penetration testers
ⓘ
security professionals ⓘ |
| usedFor |
assessing human-targeted vulnerabilities
ⓘ
penetration testing ⓘ simulating social engineering attacks ⓘ |
| website | https://www.trustedsec.com ⓘ |
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: SET Description of subject: SET is an open-source penetration testing framework focused on social engineering attacks, commonly used by security professionals to simulate and assess human-targeted vulnerabilities.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
SET