Serial ATA
E39460
Serial ATA (SATA) is a computer bus interface standard used primarily to connect storage devices like hard drives and solid-state drives to a motherboard using high-speed serial communication.
All labels observed (10)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| SATA | 14 |
| Serial ATA canonical | 11 |
| eSATA | 2 |
| SATA 1.0 | 1 |
| SATA 3.1 | 1 |
| SATA 3.3 | 1 |
| SATA Tunneling Protocol (STP) | 1 |
| Serial ATA International Organization | 1 |
| Serial Advanced Technology Attachment | 1 |
| mSATA | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T299763 — 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: Serial ATA Context triple: [Serial Attached SCSI, usesPhysicalLayerSimilarTo, Serial ATA]
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A.
Serial Attached SCSI
Serial Attached SCSI is a high-speed, point-to-point serial interface standard used primarily in enterprise storage systems to connect servers with hard drives and solid-state drives, offering improved performance, scalability, and reliability over parallel SCSI.
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B.
SCSI
SCSI (Small Computer System Interface) is a set of standards for connecting and transferring data between computers and peripheral devices, widely used for high-performance storage solutions.
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C.
IEEE 1394
IEEE 1394 is a high-speed serial bus interface standard, commonly known as FireWire, used for real-time data transfer between digital devices such as computers, cameras, and audio/video equipment.
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D.
Fibre Channel
Fibre Channel is a high-speed network technology primarily used to connect computer data storage in storage area networks (SANs), offering low-latency, high-throughput communication for enterprise environments.
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E.
USB
USB (Universal Serial Bus) is a widely adopted industry standard for cables, connectors, and communication protocols used to connect, power, and transfer data between computers and electronic devices.
- 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: Serial ATA Target entity description: Serial ATA (SATA) is a computer bus interface standard used primarily to connect storage devices like hard drives and solid-state drives to a motherboard using high-speed serial communication.
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A.
Serial Attached SCSI
Serial Attached SCSI is a high-speed, point-to-point serial interface standard used primarily in enterprise storage systems to connect servers with hard drives and solid-state drives, offering improved performance, scalability, and reliability over parallel SCSI.
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B.
SCSI
SCSI (Small Computer System Interface) is a set of standards for connecting and transferring data between computers and peripheral devices, widely used for high-performance storage solutions.
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C.
IEEE 1394
IEEE 1394 is a high-speed serial bus interface standard, commonly known as FireWire, used for real-time data transfer between digital devices such as computers, cameras, and audio/video equipment.
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D.
Fibre Channel
Fibre Channel is a high-speed network technology primarily used to connect computer data storage in storage area networks (SANs), offering low-latency, high-throughput communication for enterprise environments.
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E.
USB
USB (Universal Serial Bus) is a widely adopted industry standard for cables, connectors, and communication protocols used to connect, power, and transfer data between computers and electronic devices.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
computer bus interface standard
ⓘ
serial communication interface ⓘ storage interface ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
Serial ATA
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
SATA
|
| alsoKnownAs | Serial ATA I ⓘ |
| backwardCompatibleWith | older SATA revisions ⓘ |
| cableLengthLimit | 1 meter ⓘ |
| cableType | narrow serial cable ⓘ |
| communicationType | high-speed serial ⓘ |
| dataEncoding | 8b/10b encoding ⓘ |
| developedBy |
SATA-IO
ⓘ
Serial ATA self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Serial ATA International Organization
|
| doesNotSupport | master-slave device configuration ⓘ |
| firstStandardPublished | 2003 ⓘ |
| fullName |
Serial ATA
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment
|
| maximumDataRate |
1.5 Gbit/s
ⓘ
3.0 Gbit/s ⓘ 6.0 Gbit/s ⓘ |
| physicalConnector |
15-pin power connector
ⓘ
7-pin data connector ⓘ |
| powerConnector |
12 V supply line
ⓘ
3.3 V supply line ⓘ 5 V supply line ⓘ |
| relatedStandard |
PCI Express
ⓘ
surface form:
SATA Express
U.2 ⓘ Serial ATA self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
eSATA
Serial ATA self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
mSATA
|
| replacedBy | NVMe in many high-performance applications ⓘ |
| replaces | Parallel ATA ⓘ |
| standardizedBy |
ANSI
ⓘ
INCITS ⓘ |
| supports |
AHCI
ⓘ
hot swapping ⓘ native command queuing ⓘ |
| supportsTopology | point-to-point ⓘ |
| transportLayerProtocol | FIS-based protocol ⓘ |
| usedFor |
connecting hard disk drives
ⓘ
connecting optical drives ⓘ connecting solid-state drives ⓘ connecting storage devices to a computer motherboard ⓘ |
| usedIn |
consumer storage devices
ⓘ
desktop computers ⓘ laptop computers ⓘ servers ⓘ |
| version |
Serial ATA
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
SATA 1.0
SATA 2.0 ⓘ SATA 3.0 ⓘ Serial ATA self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
SATA 3.1
SATA 3.2 ⓘ Serial ATA self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
SATA 3.3
SATA 3.4 ⓘ |
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: Serial ATA Description of subject: Serial ATA (SATA) is a computer bus interface standard used primarily to connect storage devices like hard drives and solid-state drives to a motherboard using high-speed serial communication.
Referenced by (34)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
SATA
this entity surface form:
SATA
this entity surface form:
SATA Tunneling Protocol (STP)
this entity surface form:
SATA
this entity surface form:
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment
this entity surface form:
Serial ATA International Organization
this entity surface form:
SATA 1.0
this entity surface form:
SATA 3.1
this entity surface form:
SATA 3.3
this entity surface form:
eSATA
this entity surface form:
mSATA
this entity surface form:
SATA
this entity surface form:
eSATA
subject surface form:
HP ProLiant
this entity surface form:
SATA
this entity surface form:
SATA
subject surface form:
Solaris
this entity surface form:
SATA
this entity surface form:
SATA
this entity surface form:
SATA
this entity surface form:
SATA
this entity surface form:
SATA
this entity surface form:
SATA