DOCSIS
E72568
DOCSIS is an international telecommunications standard that enables high-speed data transmission over existing cable television systems, commonly used for broadband internet services.
All labels observed (9)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| DOCSIS canonical | 2 |
| DOCSIS 3.1 | 2 |
| Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification | 2 |
| DOCSIS 1.0 | 1 |
| DOCSIS 1.1 | 1 |
| DOCSIS 2.0 | 1 |
| DOCSIS 3.0 | 1 |
| DOCSIS 4.0 | 1 |
| DOCSIS specification | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T579186 — 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: DOCSIS Context triple: [Virgin Media (UK), usesTechnology, DOCSIS]
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A.
Fios
Fios is Verizon's fiber-optic communications service offering high-speed internet, television, and phone to residential and business customers.
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B.
IEEE 802.16
IEEE 802.16 is a family of broadband wireless access standards, commonly associated with WiMAX, that defines high-speed wireless metropolitan area networks.
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C.
GPON
GPON (Gigabit Passive Optical Network) is a high-speed fiber-optic access technology that delivers broadband internet, voice, and video services over a shared passive optical infrastructure.
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D.
IEEE 802.18
IEEE 802.18 is the Radio Regulatory Technical Advisory Group within the IEEE 802 standards community that focuses on spectrum and regulatory issues affecting wireless LAN and MAN technologies.
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E.
Comcast
Comcast is a major American telecommunications and media conglomerate best known as a leading cable, internet, and entertainment provider.
- 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: DOCSIS Target entity description: DOCSIS is an international telecommunications standard that enables high-speed data transmission over existing cable television systems, commonly used for broadband internet services.
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A.
Fios
Fios is Verizon's fiber-optic communications service offering high-speed internet, television, and phone to residential and business customers.
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B.
IEEE 802.16
IEEE 802.16 is a family of broadband wireless access standards, commonly associated with WiMAX, that defines high-speed wireless metropolitan area networks.
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C.
GPON
GPON (Gigabit Passive Optical Network) is a high-speed fiber-optic access technology that delivers broadband internet, voice, and video services over a shared passive optical infrastructure.
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D.
IEEE 802.18
IEEE 802.18 is the Radio Regulatory Technical Advisory Group within the IEEE 802 standards community that focuses on spectrum and regulatory issues affecting wireless LAN and MAN technologies.
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E.
Comcast
Comcast is a major American telecommunications and media conglomerate best known as a leading cable, internet, and entertainment provider.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
DOCSIS version
ⓘ
DOCSIS version ⓘ DOCSIS version ⓘ DOCSIS version ⓘ DOCSIS version ⓘ DOCSIS version ⓘ data transmission standard ⓘ telecommunications standard ⓘ |
| abbreviationFor |
Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification
ⓘ
linked to:
DOCSIS
|
| backwardsCompatible | earlier DOCSIS versions ⓘ |
| competesWith |
DSL
ⓘ
fiber-to-the-home technologies ⓘ |
| defines |
MAC layer specifications
ⓘ
physical layer specifications ⓘ quality of service mechanisms ⓘ security mechanisms ⓘ |
| developedBy | CableLabs ⓘ |
| domain | cable telecommunications ⓘ |
| enables | data, voice, and video convergence over cable ⓘ |
| fullName |
Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification
ⓘ
linked to:
DOCSIS
|
| hasVersion |
DOCSIS 1.0
ⓘ
linked to:
DOCSIS
DOCSIS 1.1 ⓘ
linked to:
DOCSIS
DOCSIS 2.0 ⓘ
linked to:
DOCSIS
DOCSIS 3.0 ⓘ
linked to:
DOCSIS
DOCSIS 3.1 ⓘ
linked to:
DOCSIS
DOCSIS 4.0 ⓘ
linked to:
DOCSIS
|
| introducedFeature |
channel bonding
ⓘ
full duplex DOCSIS capability ⓘ higher spectral efficiency ⓘ orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing ⓘ |
| operatesOn |
cable television systems
ⓘ
hybrid fiber-coaxial networks ⓘ |
| region |
Asia
ⓘ
Europe ⓘ North America ⓘ |
| standardizedBy |
CableLabs
ⓘ
European Telecommunications Standards Institute ⓘ
linked to:
ETSI
International Telecommunication Union ⓘ |
| standardizes | interface between cable modems and cable modem termination systems ⓘ |
| supports |
IPv4
ⓘ
IPv6 ⓘ best-effort data services ⓘ quality-of-service-based data services ⓘ video over IP services ⓘ voice over IP services ⓘ |
| usedBy | cable Internet service providers ⓘ |
| usedFor |
IP-based services over cable TV networks
ⓘ
broadband Internet access ⓘ high-speed data transmission ⓘ |
| usedIn | broadband access networks ⓘ |
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: DOCSIS Description of subject: DOCSIS is an international telecommunications standard that enables high-speed data transmission over existing cable television systems, commonly used for broadband internet services.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: DOCSIS
linked to: DOCSIS
linked to: DOCSIS
linked to: DOCSIS
linked to: DOCSIS
linked to: DOCSIS
linked to: DOCSIS
linked to: DOCSIS