ARIN
E38041
ARIN (American Registry for Internet Numbers) is a Regional Internet Registry responsible for managing and distributing IP address space and related resources in North America and parts of the Caribbean.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| ARIN canonical | 11 |
| American Registry for Internet Numbers | 4 |
| ARIN community | 2 |
| ARIN Advisory Council | 1 |
| ARIN Board of Trustees | 1 |
| ARIN Public Policy Meetings | 1 |
| ARIN Whois | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T287507 — 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: ARIN Context triple: [Address Supporting Organization, coordinatesWith, ARIN]
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A.
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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B.
APNIC
APNIC is the Regional Internet Registry responsible for allocating and managing IP address resources in the Asia-Pacific region.
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C.
Regional Internet Registries
Regional Internet Registries are organizations responsible for allocating and managing IP address space and related Internet number resources within specific geographic regions.
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D.
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) is a key organization responsible for coordinating global IP addressing, DNS root zone management, and other critical Internet protocol resources.
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E.
ISOC
ISOC is a global nonprofit organization dedicated to ensuring the open development, evolution, and use of the Internet for the benefit of all people.
- 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: ARIN Target entity description: ARIN (American Registry for Internet Numbers) is a Regional Internet Registry responsible for managing and distributing IP address space and related resources in North America and parts of the Caribbean.
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A.
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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B.
APNIC
APNIC is the Regional Internet Registry responsible for allocating and managing IP address resources in the Asia-Pacific region.
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C.
Regional Internet Registries
Regional Internet Registries are organizations responsible for allocating and managing IP address space and related Internet number resources within specific geographic regions.
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D.
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) is a key organization responsible for coordinating global IP addressing, DNS root zone management, and other critical Internet protocol resources.
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E.
ISOC
ISOC is a global nonprofit organization dedicated to ensuring the open development, evolution, and use of the Internet for the benefit of all people.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Non-profit organization
ⓘ
Regional Internet Registry ⓘ |
| abbreviation | ARIN self-link ⓘ |
| countryServed |
Canada
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| focus | Internet number resource management ⓘ |
| founded | 1997 ⓘ |
| fullName |
ARIN
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
American Registry for Internet Numbers
|
| governance |
Advisory Council
ⓘ
Board of Trustees ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Chantilly, Virginia
ⓘ
surface form:
Chantilly, Virginia, United States
|
| language | English ⓘ |
| legalStatus |
Non-profit
ⓘ
Non-stock corporation ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Number Resource Organization
ⓘ
Regional Internet Registries ⓘ
surface form:
Regional Internet Registry system
|
| membershipType | Open to organizations holding ARIN resources ⓘ |
| nonProfitType | 501(c)(6) organization ⓘ |
| offersService |
Internet Routing Registry (IRR)
ⓘ
RDAP ⓘ Resource allocation and assignment ⓘ Resource certification (RPKI) ⓘ Resource transfers ⓘ Reverse DNS management ⓘ WHOIS ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | Number Resource Organization ⓘ |
| peer |
AFRINIC
ⓘ
APNIC ⓘ LACNIC ⓘ RIPE NCC ⓘ |
| policyDevelopmentModel | Bottom-up, community-driven ⓘ |
| previousHeadquartersLocation |
Reston
ⓘ
surface form:
Reston, Virginia, United States
|
| regionServed |
North America
ⓘ
Parts of sub-Saharan Africa (historically, before AFRINIC) ⓘ Lesser Antilles and Lucayan Archipelago ⓘ
surface form:
Parts of the Caribbean
|
| role |
Internet number resource registry services
ⓘ
Management of Autonomous System Numbers ⓘ Management of IPv4 address space ⓘ Management of IPv6 address space ⓘ Management of reverse DNS delegations ⓘ Policy development facilitation for number resources ⓘ Routing security services (RPKI) ⓘ WHOIS and RDAP directory services ⓘ |
| supportsStandard |
Autonomous System Numbers
ⓘ
IPv4 ⓘ IPv6 ⓘ |
| website | https://www.arin.net/ ⓘ |
| worksWith |
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
ⓘ
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ⓘ |
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: ARIN Description of subject: ARIN (American Registry for Internet Numbers) is a Regional Internet Registry responsible for managing and distributing IP address space and related resources in North America and parts of the Caribbean.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
American Registry for Internet Numbers
subject surface form:
Board of Trustees (ARIN)
this entity surface form:
American Registry for Internet Numbers
subject surface form:
Board of Trustees (ARIN)
subject surface form:
Board of Trustees (ARIN)
this entity surface form:
ARIN Advisory Council
this entity surface form:
American Registry for Internet Numbers
this entity surface form:
American Registry for Internet Numbers
this entity surface form:
ARIN Board of Trustees
this entity surface form:
ARIN community
this entity surface form:
ARIN community
this entity surface form:
ARIN Public Policy Meetings
this entity surface form:
ARIN Whois