Cisco Nexus switches
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Cisco Nexus switches are a family of high-performance, data center–class network switches designed by Cisco Systems for scalable, low-latency, and highly virtualized environments.
All labels observed (25)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T261160 — 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: Cisco Nexus switches Context triple: [Cisco Systems, notableProduct, Cisco Nexus switches]
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A.
Cisco Systems
Cisco Systems is a multinational technology conglomerate best known for designing and selling networking hardware, software, and telecommunications equipment used worldwide.
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B.
Cisco IOS
Cisco IOS is Cisco Systems’ proprietary network operating system that powers many of its routers and switches, providing core routing, switching, and network services.
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C.
Arista Nashville
Arista Nashville is a country music record label based in Nashville, Tennessee, known for signing and promoting prominent country artists.
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D.
Cisco Meraki
Cisco Meraki is a cloud-managed IT platform that provides centralized management for wireless, switching, security, and other network devices.
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E.
InfiniBand
InfiniBand is a high-speed, low-latency communications standard commonly used as the interconnect fabric in supercomputers and large-scale data centers.
- 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: Cisco Nexus switches Target entity description: Cisco Nexus switches are a family of high-performance, data center–class network switches designed by Cisco Systems for scalable, low-latency, and highly virtualized environments.
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A.
Cisco Systems
Cisco Systems is a multinational technology conglomerate best known for designing and selling networking hardware, software, and telecommunications equipment used worldwide.
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B.
Cisco IOS
Cisco IOS is Cisco Systems’ proprietary network operating system that powers many of its routers and switches, providing core routing, switching, and network services.
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C.
Arista Nashville
Arista Nashville is a country music record label based in Nashville, Tennessee, known for signing and promoting prominent country artists.
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D.
Cisco Meraki
Cisco Meraki is a cloud-managed IT platform that provides centralized management for wireless, switching, security, and other network devices.
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E.
InfiniBand
InfiniBand is a high-speed, low-latency communications standard commonly used as the interconnect fabric in supercomputers and large-scale data centers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (55)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
data center switch
ⓘ
network switch family ⓘ |
| designedFor |
data center networks
ⓘ
highly virtualized environments ⓘ high‑performance environments ⓘ low‑latency networking ⓘ |
| includesSeries |
Cisco Nexus switches
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Cisco Nexus 2000 Series
Cisco Nexus switches self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Cisco Nexus 3000 Series
Cisco Nexus switches self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Cisco Nexus 5000 Series
Cisco Nexus switches self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Cisco Nexus 6000 Series
Cisco Nexus switches self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Cisco Nexus 7000 Series
Cisco Nexus switches self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Cisco Nexus 9000 Series
|
| manufacturer | Cisco Systems ⓘ |
| operatingSystem | Cisco NX‑OS ⓘ |
| supportsDeploymentModel |
End‑of‑Row
ⓘ
Spine‑Leaf ⓘ Top‑of‑Rack ⓘ |
| supportsFeature |
QoS
ⓘ
automation APIs ⓘ flow monitoring ⓘ hardware redundancy ⓘ high availability ⓘ in‑service software upgrade ⓘ multitenancy ⓘ network segmentation ⓘ non‑disruptive software upgrades ⓘ programmability ⓘ telemetry ⓘ virtualization ⓘ |
| supportsFormFactor |
fixed configuration switch
ⓘ
modular chassis switch ⓘ |
| supportsIntegrationWith |
Cisco ACI
ⓘ
surface form:
Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure
Cisco UCS ⓘ software‑defined networking solutions ⓘ |
| supportsManagement |
Cisco Data Center Network Manager
ⓘ
NETCONF ⓘ REST API ⓘ SNMP ⓘ command‑line interface ⓘ |
| supportsProtocol |
BGP
ⓘ
IS‑IS ⓘ OSPF ⓘ EVPN ⓘ
surface form:
VXLAN BGP EVPN
|
| supportsTechnology |
Cisco ACI
ⓘ
Cisco FabricPath ⓘ Cisco Nexus switches self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Cisco NX‑OS
Data Center Bridging ⓘ EVPN ⓘ Ethernet ⓘ Fibre Channel over Ethernet ⓘ VXLAN ⓘ Virtual PortChannel ⓘ |
| usedIn |
cloud data centers
ⓘ
enterprise data centers ⓘ service provider networks ⓘ |
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: Cisco Nexus switches Description of subject: Cisco Nexus switches are a family of high-performance, data center–class network switches designed by Cisco Systems for scalable, low-latency, and highly virtualized environments.
Referenced by (38)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Cisco switches
this entity surface form:
Cisco NX‑OS
this entity surface form:
Cisco Nexus 2000 Series
this entity surface form:
Cisco Nexus 3000 Series
this entity surface form:
Cisco Nexus 5000 Series
this entity surface form:
Cisco Nexus 6000 Series
this entity surface form:
Cisco Nexus 7000 Series
this entity surface form:
Cisco Nexus 9000 Series
this entity surface form:
Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnects
this entity surface form:
Cisco Nexus 7000 Series NX-OS Interfaces Configuration Guide
this entity surface form:
Cisco Nexus 7000 Series
this entity surface form:
Cisco Nexus 5000 Series
this entity surface form:
Cisco Nexus 7000 Series switches
this entity surface form:
Cisco Nexus 7700 Series switches
this entity surface form:
Cisco Nexus 5500 Series switches
this entity surface form:
Cisco Nexus 5600 Series switches
this entity surface form:
Cisco Nexus 6000 Series switches
this entity surface form:
Cisco Nexus 9000 Series switches (selected models)
this entity surface form:
Cisco Nexus 9000 Series switches
this entity surface form:
Cisco Nexus 9000 Series switches
this entity surface form:
Cisco Nexus 2000 Series
this entity surface form:
Cisco Nexus 5000 Series
this entity surface form:
Cisco Nexus 7000 Series
this entity surface form:
Cisco Nexus 9000 Series
subject surface form:
Cisco NX-OS
subject surface form:
Cisco NX-OS
this entity surface form:
Cisco Nexus routers
subject surface form:
Cisco NX-OS
this entity surface form:
Cisco Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extenders
subject surface form:
Cisco NX-OS
this entity surface form:
Cisco Nexus 3000 Series Switches
subject surface form:
Cisco NX-OS
this entity surface form:
Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches
subject surface form:
Cisco NX-OS
this entity surface form:
Cisco Nexus 6000 Series Switches
subject surface form:
Cisco NX-OS
this entity surface form:
Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches
subject surface form:
Cisco NX-OS
this entity surface form:
Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches