Azure Blob Storage

E182242

Microsoft Azure service cloud object storage service

Azure Blob Storage is a cloud-based object storage service for storing and managing large amounts of unstructured data such as text and binary files.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Azure Blob Storage canonical	3
ABFS (Azure Blob File System)	1
Azure Blobs (via backup policies and snapshots integration)	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1610629 — 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: Azure Blob Storage
Context triple: [Microsoft Azure, hasService, Azure Blob Storage]

A. Amazon S3
Amazon S3 is a scalable, highly durable cloud object storage service from Amazon Web Services used for storing and retrieving large amounts of data over the internet.
B. Azure
Azure is Microsoft's cloud computing platform offering a wide range of services for building, deploying, and managing applications and infrastructure through Microsoft-managed data centers.
C. Azure SQL Database
Azure SQL Database is Microsoft’s fully managed, cloud-based relational database service built on SQL Server technology for scalable, secure data storage and processing.
D. CLOUD
CLOUD is a CERN experiment that studies how cosmic rays and atmospheric aerosols influence cloud formation and, consequently, Earth's climate.
E. Alibaba Cloud
Alibaba Cloud is a leading global cloud computing and infrastructure services provider originating from China, offering a wide range of scalable computing, storage, and data solutions.
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: Azure Blob Storage
Target entity description: Azure Blob Storage is a cloud-based object storage service for storing and managing large amounts of unstructured data such as text and binary files.

A. Amazon S3
Amazon S3 is a scalable, highly durable cloud object storage service from Amazon Web Services used for storing and retrieving large amounts of data over the internet.
B. Azure
Azure is Microsoft's cloud computing platform offering a wide range of services for building, deploying, and managing applications and infrastructure through Microsoft-managed data centers.
C. Azure SQL Database
Azure SQL Database is Microsoft’s fully managed, cloud-based relational database service built on SQL Server technology for scalable, secure data storage and processing.
D. CLOUD
CLOUD is a CERN experiment that studies how cosmic rays and atmospheric aerosols influence cloud formation and, consequently, Earth's climate.
E. Alibaba Cloud
Alibaba Cloud is a leading global cloud computing and infrastructure services provider originating from China, offering a wide range of scalable computing, storage, and data solutions.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (80)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Microsoft Azure service ⓘ cloud object storage service ⓘ
billedBy	data egress ⓘ operations count ⓘ stored data volume ⓘ
billingModel	pay-as-you-go ⓘ
developer	Microsoft ⓘ
documentationURL	https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/storage/blobs/storage-blobs-overview ⓘ
hasAccessTier	Archive tier ⓘ Cool tier ⓘ Hot tier ⓘ
hasBlobType	append blob ⓘ block blob ⓘ page blob ⓘ
hasComponent	blob ⓘ container ⓘ storage account ⓘ
integratesWith	Azure Backup ⓘ Azure CDN ⓘ Azure Data Factory ⓘ Azure Data Lake Storage ⓘ surface form: Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 Azure Event Grid ⓘ Azure Functions ⓘ Azure Kubernetes Service ⓘ Azure Synapse Analytics ⓘ
offersFeature	CORS support ⓘ change feed ⓘ customer-managed keys ⓘ encryption at rest ⓘ encryption in transit ⓘ event notifications ⓘ geo-redundant storage options ⓘ high availability ⓘ high durability ⓘ immutability policies ⓘ lifecycle management policies ⓘ managed identities integration ⓘ object replication ⓘ role-based access control ⓘ shared access signatures ⓘ soft delete for blobs ⓘ static website hosting ⓘ versioning ⓘ
partOf	Azure ⓘ surface form: Microsoft Azure
primaryUse	archival storage ⓘ backup and restore ⓘ big data analytics storage ⓘ content distribution ⓘ data lake storage ⓘ object storage ⓘ
regionAvailability	globally distributed ⓘ
securityStandardSupport	HTTPS-only access ⓘ TLS ⓘ
serviceModel	Platform as a Service ⓘ
supportsAuthentication	Azure Active Directory ⓘ surface form: Azure AD shared access signatures (SAS) ⓘ shared key authorization ⓘ
supportsDataType	binary files ⓘ text files ⓘ unstructured data ⓘ
supportsFeature	client-side encryption ⓘ server-side encryption ⓘ
supportsInterface	dotnet/sdk ⓘ surface form: .NET SDK Azure CLI ⓘ Azure portal ⓘ surface form: Azure Portal Azure PowerShell ⓘ Azure Storage Explorer ⓘ Go ⓘ surface form: Go SDK Java SDK ⓘ JavaScript SDK ⓘ Python SDK ⓘ REST API ⓘ
supportsProtocol	HTTP (configurable) ⓘ HTTPS ⓘ
supportsRedundancyOption	GRS ⓘ GZRS ⓘ LRS ⓘ RA-GRS ⓘ RA-GZRS ⓘ ZRS ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Azure → hasService → Azure Blob Storage ⓘ

subject surface form: Microsoft Azure

Azure Data Lake Storage → basedOn → Azure Blob Storage ⓘ

Azure Data Lake Storage → supportsProtocol → Azure Blob Storage ⓘ

this entity surface form: ABFS (Azure Blob File System)

Azure Machine Learning → integratesWith → Azure Blob Storage ⓘ

Azure Backup → supportsWorkload → Azure Blob Storage ⓘ

this entity surface form: Azure Blobs (via backup policies and snapshots integration)

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