Snowflake
E555946
Snowflake is a censorship-circumvention system that helps users access the Tor network by routing their traffic through volunteer-run proxy nodes embedded in ordinary web browsers.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Snowflake canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5921712 — 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: Snowflake Context triple: [The Tor Project, develops, Snowflake]
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A.
Snowflake
Snowflake is a cloud-based data warehousing platform known for its scalable, high-performance analytics and separation of storage and compute.
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B.
Snowbird
Snowbird is a major ski and snowboard resort in Utah known for its steep terrain, deep powder, and long winter season.
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C.
Snowfall
Snowfall is an American crime drama television series that explores the early days of the crack cocaine epidemic in 1980s Los Angeles.
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D.
Snowlets
Snowlets are the four snowy owl mascots created to represent the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.
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E.
Carbon Glacier
Carbon Glacier is a major valley glacier on the north slope of Mount Rainier in Washington, notable for its great thickness and low terminus elevation.
- 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: Snowflake Target entity description: Snowflake is a censorship-circumvention system that helps users access the Tor network by routing their traffic through volunteer-run proxy nodes embedded in ordinary web browsers.
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A.
Snowflake
Snowflake is a cloud-based data warehousing platform known for its scalable, high-performance analytics and separation of storage and compute.
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B.
Snowbird
Snowbird is a major ski and snowboard resort in Utah known for its steep terrain, deep powder, and long winter season.
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C.
Snowfall
Snowfall is an American crime drama television series that explores the early days of the crack cocaine epidemic in 1980s Los Angeles.
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D.
Snowlets
Snowlets are the four snowy owl mascots created to represent the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.
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E.
Carbon Glacier
Carbon Glacier is a major valley glacier on the north slope of Mount Rainier in Washington, notable for its great thickness and low terminus elevation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Tor pluggable transport
ⓘ
censorship-circumvention system ⓘ |
| aimsTo | make blocking by censors more difficult ⓘ |
| brokerRunsOn | Tor infrastructure NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| category |
internet censorship circumvention tool
ⓘ
privacy-enhancing technology ⓘ |
| clientRunsOn | censored user’s device ⓘ |
| codeRepository | https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake ⓘ |
| connectionType |
one-off short-lived proxy connections
ⓘ
temporary ephemeral proxies ⓘ |
| connectsTo | Tor bridges ⓘ |
| designedFor | users in heavily censored countries ⓘ |
| designedToBe |
easy for volunteers to run
ⓘ
hard for censors to enumerate ⓘ |
| developedFor | Tor network NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| documentationURL | https://community.torproject.org/relay/setup/snowflake/ ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
Snowflake broker
ⓘ
Snowflake client NERFINISHED ⓘ Snowflake proxy ⓘ |
| hasPurpose |
censorship circumvention
ⓘ
help users access Tor from censored networks ⓘ |
| license | free and open-source software license ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Tor Project NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| networkModel | client-broker-proxy-bridge architecture ⓘ |
| obfuscates | network paths between user and Tor network ⓘ |
| partOf | Tor pluggable transports ecosystem NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| proxyImplementedAs |
embedded JavaScript in web pages
ⓘ
web browser extension ⓘ |
| proxyRunsOn | volunteer’s web browser ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Tor Browser
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
meek ⓘ obfs4 ⓘ |
| requires | volunteer participation ⓘ |
| routesTrafficThrough | volunteer-run proxy nodes embedded in web browsers ⓘ |
| securityProperty |
end-to-end encryption via Tor
ⓘ
resistance to IP-based blocking ⓘ resistance to simple DNS-based blocking ⓘ |
| supports |
Onion Browser (via Tor pluggable transports)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Orbot NERFINISHED ⓘ Tor Browser NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| trafficType | encrypted Tor traffic ⓘ |
| usedBy |
users in China
ⓘ
users in Iran ⓘ users in Russia ⓘ users in other censored regions ⓘ |
| uses |
domain fronting (historically, depending on deployment)
ⓘ
volunteer-run proxy nodes ⓘ webRTC ⓘ |
| usesDiscoveryMethod | broker-based proxy discovery ⓘ |
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: Snowflake Description of subject: Snowflake is a censorship-circumvention system that helps users access the Tor network by routing their traffic through volunteer-run proxy nodes embedded in ordinary web browsers.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.