FastTrack protocol
E937660
The FastTrack protocol is a peer-to-peer file-sharing protocol best known for powering early 2000s services like Kazaa, Grokster, and iMesh.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| FastTrack protocol canonical | 2 |
| FastTrack peer-to-peer protocol | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11656793 — 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: FastTrack protocol Context triple: [Kazaa, basedOn, FastTrack protocol]
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A.
Fast-Track
Fast-Track is a lesser-known Radiohead song released as the B-side to their single "Pyramid Song."
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B.
Fastiv
Fastiv is a historic city in northern Ukraine known as a regional railway hub and industrial center southwest of Kyiv.
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C.
FAST
FAST is a U.S. federal law that authorizes long-term funding and policy for the nation’s surface transportation infrastructure, including highways, transit, and rail.
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D.
FAST
FAST is the public bus transit system serving the Fairfield and Suisun City area in Solano County, California.
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E.
FAST
FAST is the world’s largest single-dish radio telescope, located in Guizhou, China, and used for cutting-edge astronomical observations such as pulsar detection and studies of interstellar matter.
- 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: FastTrack protocol Target entity description: The FastTrack protocol is a peer-to-peer file-sharing protocol best known for powering early 2000s services like Kazaa, Grokster, and iMesh.
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A.
Fast-Track
Fast-Track is a lesser-known Radiohead song released as the B-side to their single "Pyramid Song."
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B.
Fastiv
Fastiv is a historic city in northern Ukraine known as a regional railway hub and industrial center southwest of Kyiv.
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C.
FAST
FAST is a U.S. federal law that authorizes long-term funding and policy for the nation’s surface transportation infrastructure, including highways, transit, and rail.
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D.
FAST
FAST is the public bus transit system serving the Fairfield and Suisun City area in Solano County, California.
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E.
FAST
FAST is the world’s largest single-dish radio telescope, located in Guizhou, China, and used for cutting-edge astronomical observations such as pulsar detection and studies of interstellar matter.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
application-layer protocol
ⓘ
peer-to-peer file-sharing protocol ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
file-sharing lawsuits in the 2000s
ⓘ
peer-to-peer networks ⓘ |
| comparedWith |
BitTorrent protocol
ⓘ
linked to:
BitTorrent
Gnutella protocol ⓘ
linked to:
Gnutella
eDonkey2000 network protocols ⓘ |
| designedFor |
consumer file-sharing applications
ⓘ
large-scale file sharing ⓘ |
| feature |
decentralized search
ⓘ
distributed indexing ⓘ encryption of some control traffic ⓘ file-sharing ⓘ hash-based file identification ⓘ metadata-based search ⓘ obfuscated protocol details ⓘ parallel downloads from multiple peers ⓘ partial file sharing ⓘ peer discovery ⓘ resumeable downloads ⓘ swarming downloads ⓘ |
| influenced | later peer-to-peer file-sharing protocols ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Gnutella
ⓘ
Napster ⓘ |
| layer | application layer of the Internet protocol suite ⓘ |
| networkArchitecture |
hybrid peer-to-peer architecture
ⓘ
supernode-based architecture ⓘ |
| notableFor |
legal controversies around copyright infringement via clients using the protocol
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popularity in early 2000s ⓘ use in popular P2P clients like Kazaa ⓘ |
| securityCharacteristic |
lack of strong authentication
ⓘ
vulnerability to malware distribution via shared files ⓘ |
| status | largely obsolete ⓘ |
| supports |
search by file type
ⓘ
search by filename ⓘ search by metadata ⓘ sharing of audio files ⓘ sharing of documents ⓘ sharing of software ⓘ sharing of video files ⓘ |
| timePeriod | early 2000s ⓘ |
| transportLayer |
TCP
ⓘ
linked to:
Transmission Control Protocol
UDP ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Grokster
ⓘ
Kazaa ⓘ Kazaa Lite ⓘ
linked to:
Kazaa
Morpheus file-sharing client ⓘ iMesh ⓘ |
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: FastTrack protocol Description of subject: The FastTrack protocol is a peer-to-peer file-sharing protocol best known for powering early 2000s services like Kazaa, Grokster, and iMesh.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: FastTrack protocol