MAAS
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MAAS (Metal as a Service) is Canonical Ltd.'s open-source tool for provisioning, managing, and automating bare-metal servers at scale, often used in cloud and data center environments.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| MAAS canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8285385 — 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: MAAS Context triple: [Canonical Ltd., knownFor, MAAS]
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A.
Ma$e
Ma$e is an American rapper and songwriter known for his late-1990s success with Bad Boy Records and his smooth, laid-back delivery on hits like "Feel So Good."
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B.
MAST
MAST is a NASA-operated astronomical data archive that stores and provides access to observations from space-based telescopes such as Hubble, Kepler, and TESS.
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C.
Masinissa
Masinissa was the first king of a unified Numidia, a powerful North African ally of Rome whose cavalry played a decisive role in defeating Carthage during the Second Punic War.
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D.
Masa
Masa is a Central Chadic language spoken primarily in parts of Cameroon and Chad.
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E.
MAD
MAD is the three-letter IATA airport code for Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport, the main international airport serving Madrid, Spain.
- 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: MAAS Target entity description: MAAS (Metal as a Service) is Canonical Ltd.'s open-source tool for provisioning, managing, and automating bare-metal servers at scale, often used in cloud and data center environments.
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A.
Ma$e
Ma$e is an American rapper and songwriter known for his late-1990s success with Bad Boy Records and his smooth, laid-back delivery on hits like "Feel So Good."
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B.
MAST
MAST is a NASA-operated astronomical data archive that stores and provides access to observations from space-based telescopes such as Hubble, Kepler, and TESS.
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C.
Masinissa
Masinissa was the first king of a unified Numidia, a powerful North African ally of Rome whose cavalry played a decisive role in defeating Carthage during the Second Punic War.
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D.
Masa
Masa is a Central Chadic language spoken primarily in parts of Cameroon and Chad.
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E.
MAD
MAD is the three-letter IATA airport code for Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport, the main international airport serving Madrid, Spain.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bare-metal provisioning software
ⓘ
infrastructure automation tool ⓘ open-source software ⓘ |
| deploymentModel |
on-premises
ⓘ
private cloud ⓘ |
| developer | Canonical Ltd. ⓘ |
| feature |
API-driven provisioning
ⓘ
BMC integration ⓘ CLI tools ⓘ DHCP management ⓘ DNS management ⓘ IP address management ⓘ Juju integration ⓘ KVM host management ⓘ REST API ⓘ commissioning and testing of hardware ⓘ hardware discovery ⓘ hardware inventory management ⓘ high-availability configuration ⓘ image-based OS deployment ⓘ network boot management ⓘ power management integration ⓘ rack and chassis awareness ⓘ resource pooling ⓘ support for multiple fabrics and VLANs ⓘ tag-based machine selection ⓘ web-based user interface ⓘ |
| integratesWith |
Juju
ⓘ
KVM ⓘ OpenStack ⓘ |
| license | GNU General Public License ⓘ |
| primaryProgrammingLanguage | Python ⓘ |
| softwareType | Metal as a Service platform ⓘ |
| supportsArchitecture |
ARM
ⓘ
POWER ⓘ x86_64 ⓘ |
| supportsOperatingSystem |
CentOS
ⓘ
RHEL ⓘ
linked to:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Ubuntu ⓘ Windows Server ⓘ |
| targetEnvironment |
cloud infrastructure
ⓘ
data centers ⓘ edge computing environments ⓘ |
| targetUser |
DevOps engineers
ⓘ
data center operators ⓘ system administrators ⓘ |
| useCase |
bare-metal server provisioning
ⓘ
data center automation ⓘ high-performance computing clusters ⓘ lab and test environments ⓘ private cloud infrastructure ⓘ |
| website | https://maas.io/ ⓘ |
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: MAAS Description of subject: MAAS (Metal as a Service) is Canonical Ltd.'s open-source tool for provisioning, managing, and automating bare-metal servers at scale, often used in cloud and data center environments.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.