Alice
E461743
Alice is the conventional placeholder name used to represent a generic sender or participant in cryptographic protocols and security examples.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alice canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4661353 — 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: Alice Context triple: [Merkle puzzles, involvesParty, Alice]
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A.
Alice
Alice is one of the given names of Anne, Princess Royal, the only daughter of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip.
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B.
Alice
Alice is an American sitcom that aired from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s, following a widowed waitress working at a roadside diner and the quirky people in her life.
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C.
Alice
Alice is the curious young girl who serves as the main protagonist of Disney’s animated film "Alice in Wonderland."
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D.
Alice
Alice is a feminine given name of Old French and Germanic origin, commonly used in English-speaking countries and popularized by literary works such as "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland."
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E.
Alice
Alice, Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, was a British royal who became a prominent member of the House of Windsor through her marriage to Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester.
- 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: Alice Target entity description: Alice is the conventional placeholder name used to represent a generic sender or participant in cryptographic protocols and security examples.
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A.
Alice
Alice is a feminine given name of Old French and Germanic origin, commonly used in English-speaking countries and popularized by literary works such as "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland."
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B.
Alice
Alice is one of the given names of Anne, Princess Royal, the only daughter of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip.
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C.
Alice
Alice is an ultraviolet imaging spectrograph aboard NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, used to study the composition and structure of planetary atmospheres and surfaces.
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D.
Alice
Alice is the curious young girl who serves as the main protagonist of Disney’s animated film "Alice in Wonderland."
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E.
Alice
Alice is an American sitcom that aired from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s, following a widowed waitress working at a roadside diner and the quirky people in her life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional person
ⓘ
placeholder name ⓘ |
| appearsInNotation | A ⓘ |
| associatedWithConcept |
protocol notation
ⓘ
public-key cryptography ⓘ secure communication ⓘ symmetric-key cryptography ⓘ |
| commonlyAppearsIn |
authentication protocol examples
ⓘ
digital signature examples ⓘ encryption scheme descriptions ⓘ key exchange examples ⓘ |
| communicatesWith | Bob NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contrastedWith | adversarial parties such as Eve and Mallory ⓘ |
| domain |
applied cryptography
ⓘ
information security education ⓘ |
| hasConventionalPartnerRole | Bob as receiver ⓘ |
| hasCounterpartType | honest party ⓘ |
| hasGenderConvention | female ⓘ |
| hasProperty | no fixed identity beyond role in example ⓘ |
| helpsIllustrate |
protocol steps
ⓘ
security goals ⓘ threat models ⓘ |
| introducedInField | cryptographic literature ⓘ |
| isAbstractionOf |
network endpoint
ⓘ
real-world user ⓘ |
| isOpposedBy | Eve NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isTargetOf |
eavesdropping
ⓘ
impersonation attacks ⓘ man-in-the-middle attacks ⓘ |
| originOfName | common English given name ⓘ |
| pairedWith |
Bob
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Carol NERFINISHED ⓘ Dave NERFINISHED ⓘ Eve NERFINISHED ⓘ Mallory NERFINISHED ⓘ Trent NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| receivesMessagesFrom | Bob NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleInCryptography |
generic participant
ⓘ
generic sender ⓘ |
| sendsMessagesTo | Bob NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| standardizedBy | informal cryptographic community practice ⓘ |
| usedAsExampleIn |
academic textbooks
ⓘ
educational tutorials ⓘ research papers ⓘ |
| usedIn |
computer security
ⓘ
cryptography ⓘ security protocol examples ⓘ |
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: Alice Description of subject: Alice is the conventional placeholder name used to represent a generic sender or participant in cryptographic protocols and security examples.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.