RIPE Atlas
E192697
RIPE Atlas is a global, open, distributed network of Internet measurement probes and anchors used to monitor connectivity, performance, and reachability across the Internet.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| RIPE Atlas canonical | 1 |
| RIPE Atlas anchor | 1 |
| RIPE Atlas probe | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1712704 — 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: RIPE Atlas Context triple: [RIPE NCC, operates, RIPE Atlas]
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A.
ThousandEyes
ThousandEyes is a network intelligence and digital experience monitoring company, best known for its internet and cloud visibility platform that helps organizations troubleshoot and optimize application performance across complex, distributed environments.
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B.
RIPE NCC
RIPE NCC is the Regional Internet Registry for Europe, the Middle East, and parts of Central Asia, responsible for allocating and registering IP address space and related Internet number resources.
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C.
Wireshark
Wireshark is a widely used open-source network protocol analyzer that captures and interactively inspects traffic on computer networks for troubleshooting, analysis, and security auditing.
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D.
Teredo
Teredo is a tunneling protocol that enables IPv6 connectivity for devices on IPv4 networks, particularly those behind NAT.
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E.
NetFlow
NetFlow is a network protocol developed by Cisco for collecting and analyzing IP traffic flow data to support monitoring, accounting, and security.
- 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: RIPE Atlas Target entity description: RIPE Atlas is a global, open, distributed network of Internet measurement probes and anchors used to monitor connectivity, performance, and reachability across the Internet.
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A.
ThousandEyes
ThousandEyes is a network intelligence and digital experience monitoring company, best known for its internet and cloud visibility platform that helps organizations troubleshoot and optimize application performance across complex, distributed environments.
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B.
RIPE NCC
RIPE NCC is the Regional Internet Registry for Europe, the Middle East, and parts of Central Asia, responsible for allocating and registering IP address space and related Internet number resources.
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C.
Wireshark
Wireshark is a widely used open-source network protocol analyzer that captures and interactively inspects traffic on computer networks for troubleshooting, analysis, and security auditing.
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D.
Teredo
Teredo is a tunneling protocol that enables IPv6 connectivity for devices on IPv4 networks, particularly those behind NAT.
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E.
NetFlow
NetFlow is a network protocol developed by Cisco for collecting and analyzing IP traffic flow data to support monitoring, accounting, and security.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Internet measurement platform
ⓘ
distributed measurement network ⓘ |
| countryOfHeadquarters | Netherlands ⓘ |
| dataAccess |
open data
ⓘ
public API ⓘ |
| dataFormat |
CSV
ⓘ
JSON ⓘ |
| dataRetentionPolicy | long-term archival of measurements ⓘ |
| developer | RIPE NCC ⓘ |
| fundingModel |
community-supported
ⓘ
sponsored by RIPE NCC members ⓘ |
| hasAPI |
REST API
ⓘ
streaming API ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
RIPE Atlas
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
RIPE Atlas anchor
RIPE Atlas self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
RIPE Atlas probe
|
| headquartersLocation | Amsterdam ⓘ |
| inception | 2010 ⓘ |
| launchYear | 2010 ⓘ |
| licenseType | open data usage policy ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | RIPE NCC ⓘ |
| measurementType |
DNS query
ⓘ
HTTP measurement ⓘ NTP measurement ⓘ SSL/TLS certificate check ⓘ ping ⓘ traceroute ⓘ |
| networkType | global measurement network ⓘ |
| operator | RIPE NCC ⓘ |
| purpose |
Internet connectivity monitoring
ⓘ
Internet performance measurement ⓘ Internet reachability measurement ⓘ network troubleshooting ⓘ research on Internet infrastructure ⓘ |
| regionServed | worldwide ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
RIPE Database
ⓘ
RIPEstat ⓘ |
| scope | global ⓘ |
| supportsBuiltInMeasurements | true ⓘ |
| supportsProtocol |
DNS
ⓘ
HTTP ⓘ IPv4 ⓘ IPv6 ⓘ Network Time Protocol ⓘ
surface form:
NTP
TLS ⓘ |
| supportsUserDefinedMeasurements | true ⓘ |
| targetUser |
Internet service providers
ⓘ
content providers ⓘ network operators ⓘ researchers ⓘ |
| usesUnit | credits system for user-defined measurements ⓘ |
| website | https://atlas.ripe.net ⓘ |
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: RIPE Atlas Description of subject: RIPE Atlas is a global, open, distributed network of Internet measurement probes and anchors used to monitor connectivity, performance, and reachability across the Internet.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
RIPE Atlas probe
this entity surface form:
RIPE Atlas anchor