AFP 3.5
E743097
AFP 3.5 is a version of Apple’s network file-sharing protocol that supports advanced features for file access, authentication, and resource management on macOS and compatible systems.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| AFP 3.5 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8470988 — 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: AFP 3.5 Context triple: [Apple Filing Protocol, hasVersion, AFP 3.5]
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A.
AFP 3.1
AFP 3.1 is a version of Apple’s network file-sharing protocol used for accessing and managing files over a network on macOS and related systems.
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B.
AFP 2.2
AFP 2.2 is a specific version of the Apple Filing Protocol used for file sharing and network services on Apple systems.
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C.
APF
APF is the commonly used acronym for the Parliamentary Assembly of La Francophonie, an international organization that brings together parliamentarians from French-speaking countries to promote the French language, democracy, and human rights.
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D.
AFU
AFU is the commonly used abbreviation for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the military organization responsible for defending Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.
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E.
AFS
AFS is the National Rail station code for Ashford (Surrey) railway station in England.
- 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: AFP 3.5 Target entity description: AFP 3.5 is a version of Apple’s network file-sharing protocol that supports advanced features for file access, authentication, and resource management on macOS and compatible systems.
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A.
AFP 3.1
AFP 3.1 is a version of Apple’s network file-sharing protocol used for accessing and managing files over a network on macOS and related systems.
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B.
AFP 2.2
AFP 2.2 is a specific version of the Apple Filing Protocol used for file sharing and network services on Apple systems.
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C.
APF
APF is the commonly used acronym for the Parliamentary Assembly of La Francophonie, an international organization that brings together parliamentarians from French-speaking countries to promote the French language, democracy, and human rights.
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D.
AFU
AFU is the commonly used abbreviation for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the military organization responsible for defending Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.
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E.
AFS
AFS is the National Rail station code for Ashford (Surrey) railway station in England.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Apple Filing Protocol version
ⓘ
network file system protocol version ⓘ |
| compatibleWith |
Time Machine over AFP
ⓘ
linked to:
Time Machine (Mac OS X feature)
macOS file services ⓘ |
| developer | Apple Inc. ⓘ |
| domain |
computer networking
ⓘ
file server protocols ⓘ |
| networkProtocol | TCP/IP ⓘ |
| partOf | Apple Filing Protocol ⓘ |
| protocolFamily | AppleTalk and TCP/IP file sharing protocols ⓘ |
| successorTo | AFP 3.4 ⓘ |
| supportsFeature |
AFP over TCP/IP
ⓘ
Finder information preservation ⓘ Unicode file names ⓘ access control lists ⓘ authentication via user accounts ⓘ byte-range locking ⓘ directory services integration ⓘ extended attributes ⓘ file access control ⓘ file locking ⓘ long file names ⓘ metadata handling ⓘ permissions enforcement ⓘ resource forks ⓘ resource management ⓘ session management ⓘ share-level access control ⓘ user authentication ⓘ volume management ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Apple file servers
ⓘ
macOS clients ⓘ |
| usedFor |
network file sharing
ⓘ
remote file access ⓘ |
| usedOnPlatform |
Apple network servers
ⓘ
OS X ⓘ
linked to:
macOS
macOS ⓘ |
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: AFP 3.5 Description of subject: AFP 3.5 is a version of Apple’s network file-sharing protocol that supports advanced features for file access, authentication, and resource management on macOS and compatible systems.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.