AFP
E193824
AFP (Apple Filing Protocol) is a network protocol developed by Apple for file services and sharing primarily on macOS and classic Mac OS systems.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1719216 — 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 Context triple: [SMB, relatedProtocol, AFP]
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A.
AF
AF is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to Afghanistan for international standardization and referencing.
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B.
AF
AF is the two-letter IATA airline designator assigned to Air France, the flag carrier of France.
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C.
Ap
Ap is the commonly used abbreviation for the Norwegian Labour Party, a major social-democratic political party in Norway.
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D.
ACP
ACP is a major U.S.-based professional organization of internal medicine physicians dedicated to education, advocacy, and the advancement of clinical practice.
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E.
APS
APS (American Physical Society) is a leading professional organization dedicated to advancing and disseminating knowledge of physics through research publications, conferences, education, and advocacy.
- 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 Target entity description: AFP (Apple Filing Protocol) is a network protocol developed by Apple for file services and sharing primarily on macOS and classic Mac OS systems.
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A.
AF
AF is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to Afghanistan for international standardization and referencing.
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B.
AF
AF is the two-letter IATA airline designator assigned to Air France, the flag carrier of France.
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C.
Ap
Ap is the commonly used abbreviation for the Norwegian Labour Party, a major social-democratic political party in Norway.
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D.
ACP
ACP is a major U.S.-based professional organization of internal medicine physicians dedicated to education, advocacy, and the advancement of clinical practice.
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E.
APS
APS (American Physical Society) is a leading professional organization dedicated to advancing and disseminating knowledge of physics through research publications, conferences, education, and advocacy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
file services protocol
ⓘ
network protocol ⓘ |
| abbreviationOf | Apple Filing Protocol ⓘ |
| category |
file transfer protocols
ⓘ
network file system protocols ⓘ |
| compatibility | primarily for Apple platforms ⓘ |
| defaultPort | 548 ⓘ |
| designedFor |
HFS Plus file system
ⓘ
HFS file system ⓘ Macintosh file systems ⓘ |
| developer | Apple Inc. ⓘ |
| feature |
AFP volumes
ⓘ
Kerberos authentication ⓘ password-based authentication ⓘ support for Mac-specific metadata ⓘ support for resource and data forks ⓘ user and group access control ⓘ |
| fullName | Apple Filing Protocol ⓘ |
| introducedBy |
AppleShare
ⓘ
surface form:
AppleShare file server products
|
| networkLayer | application layer ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
Classic Mac OS
ⓘ
surface form:
classic Mac OS
macOS ⓘ |
| portType | TCP ⓘ |
| previousTransport | AppleTalk ⓘ |
| primaryUse |
file services
ⓘ
file sharing ⓘ |
| protocolFamily | Apple networking protocols ⓘ |
| role |
enables network file sharing between Macs
ⓘ
provides remote file system access ⓘ |
| runsOn | TCP/IP ⓘ |
| securityFeature |
access control lists
ⓘ
user authentication mechanisms ⓘ |
| status | legacy protocol ⓘ |
| supersededBy |
SMB
ⓘ
SMB ⓘ
surface form:
Server Message Block
|
| supports |
AFP over TCP
ⓘ
Finder metadata ⓘ Unicode file names ⓘ file access over a network ⓘ file locking ⓘ long file names ⓘ permissions management ⓘ resource forks ⓘ user authentication ⓘ |
| usedIn |
AppleShare
ⓘ
macOS file sharing services ⓘ |
| usedWith |
Time Machine backups
ⓘ
macOS ⓘ
surface form:
macOS Server
network-attached storage devices ⓘ |
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 Description of subject: AFP (Apple Filing Protocol) is a network protocol developed by Apple for file services and sharing primarily on macOS and classic Mac OS systems.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
AFP 2.0