FC
E53631
FC is the standard abbreviation for Fibre Channel, a high-speed network technology primarily used to connect computer data storage in storage area networks.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T425314 — 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: FC Context triple: [Fibre Channel, abbreviation, FC]
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A.
FA
FA is a Chilean left-wing political coalition known for uniting various progressive parties and movements to challenge the country’s traditional political blocs.
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B.
F
F is the New York Stock Exchange ticker symbol for Ford Motor Company, the American multinational automaker known for mass-producing automobiles and pioneering assembly line manufacturing.
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C.
CAF
CAF is the commonly used acronym for the Canadian Armed Forces, the unified military organization responsible for defending Canada and supporting international peace and security operations.
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D.
CAF
CAF is the Confederation of African Football, the governing body for association football in Africa and one of FIFA’s six continental confederations.
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E.
SF
SF is the standard two-letter postal abbreviation used to represent the city of San Francisco, California.
- 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: FC Target entity description: FC is the standard abbreviation for Fibre Channel, a high-speed network technology primarily used to connect computer data storage in storage area networks.
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A.
FA
FA is a Chilean left-wing political coalition known for uniting various progressive parties and movements to challenge the country’s traditional political blocs.
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B.
F
F is the New York Stock Exchange ticker symbol for Ford Motor Company, the American multinational automaker known for mass-producing automobiles and pioneering assembly line manufacturing.
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C.
CAF
CAF is the commonly used acronym for the Canadian Armed Forces, the unified military organization responsible for defending Canada and supporting international peace and security operations.
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D.
CAF
CAF is the Confederation of African Football, the governing body for association football in Africa and one of FIFA’s six continental confederations.
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E.
SF
SF is the standard two-letter postal abbreviation used to represent the city of San Francisco, California.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
network technology
ⓘ
storage networking protocol ⓘ |
| abbreviation | FC self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| addressingScheme | World Wide Name ⓘ |
| competesWith |
FCoE
ⓘ
surface form:
Fibre Channel over Ethernet
iSCSI ⓘ |
| dataRate |
1 Gbit/s
ⓘ
16 Gbit/s ⓘ 2 Gbit/s ⓘ 32 Gbit/s ⓘ 4 Gbit/s ⓘ 64 Gbit/s ⓘ 8 Gbit/s ⓘ |
| encodingScheme |
64b/66b (newer generations)
ⓘ
8b/10b (older generations) ⓘ |
| feature |
credit-based flow control
ⓘ
high reliability ⓘ lossless delivery ⓘ low latency ⓘ |
| frameSize | 2148 bytes maximum ⓘ |
| layer |
data link layer
ⓘ
physical layer ⓘ |
| managementProtocol |
Fabric Configuration Server
ⓘ
Name Server ⓘ |
| medium |
copper cable
ⓘ
optical fiber ⓘ |
| OSIModelPosition | between physical and transport layers ⓘ |
| primaryUse |
connecting computer data storage
ⓘ
storage area networks ⓘ |
| standardFamily |
FC-DA
ⓘ
FC-FS ⓘ FC-GS ⓘ FC-LS ⓘ FC-PI ⓘ FC self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
FC-SW
|
| standardizedBy | INCITS ⓘ |
| standsFor | Fibre Channel ⓘ |
| supportsDistance | up to tens of kilometers over single-mode fiber ⓘ |
| supportsProtocol |
FICON
ⓘ
IP ⓘ SCSI ⓘ |
| supportsTopology |
arbitrated loop
ⓘ
point-to-point ⓘ switched fabric ⓘ |
| switchVendor |
Juniper Networks
ⓘ
surface form:
Brocade
Cisco Systems ⓘ QLogic ⓘ |
| transportMechanism | serial ⓘ |
| typicalDeployment | storage area network ⓘ |
| usedIn |
enterprise data centers
ⓘ
mission-critical storage systems ⓘ |
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: FC Description of subject: FC is the standard abbreviation for Fibre Channel, a high-speed network technology primarily used to connect computer data storage in storage area networks.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Fibre Channel
subject surface form:
Fibre Channel
this entity surface form:
FC-SW