PSCP
E42562
PSCP is a command-line secure file transfer client that comes with the PuTTY suite, enabling SCP-based file copying between Windows machines and remote servers.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| PSCP canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T338530 — 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: PSCP Context triple: [PuTTY, hasComponent, PSCP]
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A.
SPS
SPS is a high-energy circular particle accelerator at CERN that serves as a key injector for the Large Hadron Collider and supports a wide range of physics experiments.
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B.
SP
SP is the official aircraft registration prefix used to identify airplanes registered in Poland.
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C.
NCP
NCP (Network Control Protocol) was an early host-to-host communication protocol suite that enabled data exchange between computers on the ARPANET before the adoption of TCP/IP.
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D.
Kapor
Kapor is the surname of Mitchell Kapor, an American entrepreneur best known for founding the software company Lotus Development Corporation.
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E.
SPC
The Storm Prediction Center (SPC) is a U.S. National Weather Service facility responsible for forecasting severe convective weather such as tornadoes, hail, and damaging winds across the United States.
- 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: PSCP Target entity description: PSCP is a command-line secure file transfer client that comes with the PuTTY suite, enabling SCP-based file copying between Windows machines and remote servers.
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A.
SPS
SPS is a high-energy circular particle accelerator at CERN that serves as a key injector for the Large Hadron Collider and supports a wide range of physics experiments.
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B.
SP
SP is the official aircraft registration prefix used to identify airplanes registered in Poland.
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C.
NCP
NCP (Network Control Protocol) was an early host-to-host communication protocol suite that enabled data exchange between computers on the ARPANET before the adoption of TCP/IP.
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D.
Kapor
Kapor is the surname of Mitchell Kapor, an American entrepreneur best known for founding the software company Lotus Development Corporation.
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E.
SPC
The Storm Prediction Center (SPC) is a U.S. National Weather Service facility responsible for forecasting severe convective weather such as tornadoes, hail, and damaging winds across the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
SCP client
ⓘ
command-line program ⓘ secure file transfer client ⓘ |
| canTransfer |
directories
ⓘ
files ⓘ |
| category | Windows network-related command-line utilities ⓘ |
| commandName |
PuTTY
ⓘ
surface form:
pscp.exe
|
| configuration | command-line options only ⓘ |
| developer | Simon Tatham ⓘ |
| distributionModel | freeware ⓘ |
| includedWith |
PuTTY
ⓘ
surface form:
PuTTY installer
|
| invokedFrom |
PowerShell
ⓘ
Windows Command Prompt ⓘ |
| license |
MIT License
ⓘ
surface form:
MIT-style license
|
| operatingSystem |
Windows
ⓘ
surface form:
Microsoft Windows
|
| partOf |
PuTTY
ⓘ
surface form:
PuTTY suite
|
| platform |
32-bit Windows
ⓘ
64-bit Windows ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage | C ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
PuTTY
ⓘ
surface form:
PSFTP
Plink ⓘ PuTTY ⓘ |
| requires | Windows command line environment ⓘ |
| securityModel | encrypted file transfer over SSH ⓘ |
| softwareGenre | file transfer software ⓘ |
| supportsFeature |
IPv4
ⓘ
IPv6 ⓘ batch scripting usage ⓘ password authentication ⓘ port specification ⓘ preserve file timestamps ⓘ public key authentication ⓘ quiet mode ⓘ recursive directory copy ⓘ specifying SSH private key file ⓘ |
| supportsProtocol |
SCP
ⓘ
SFTP ⓘ |
| typicalUse |
copy files from Windows to remote Unix-like servers
ⓘ
copy files from remote servers to Windows ⓘ |
| userInterface | text-based interface ⓘ |
| usesProtocol | SSH ⓘ |
| website | https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ ⓘ |
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: PSCP Description of subject: PSCP is a command-line secure file transfer client that comes with the PuTTY suite, enabling SCP-based file copying between Windows machines and remote servers.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.