Nigeria Internet Registration Association
E59890
The Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NiRA) is the non-profit organization responsible for managing and administering Nigeria’s country code top-level domain, .ng.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nigeria Internet Registration Association canonical | 4 |
| Nigeria country code top-level domain | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T480295 — 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: Nigeria Internet Registration Association Context triple: [.ng, sponsoredBy, Nigeria Internet Registration Association]
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A.
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is a nonprofit organization that coordinates the global domain name system and IP address allocation to ensure the stable and secure operation of the internet.
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B.
RIPE NCC
RIPE NCC is the Regional Internet Registry for Europe, the Middle East, and parts of Central Asia, responsible for allocating and registering IP address space and related Internet number resources.
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C.
Regional Internet Registries
Regional Internet Registries are organizations responsible for allocating and managing IP address space and related Internet number resources within specific geographic regions.
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D.
ARIN
ARIN (American Registry for Internet Numbers) is a Regional Internet Registry responsible for managing and distributing IP address space and related resources in North America and parts of the Caribbean.
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E.
AFRINIC
AFRINIC is the Regional Internet Registry responsible for allocating and managing IP address resources across the African region.
- 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: Nigeria Internet Registration Association Target entity description: The Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NiRA) is the non-profit organization responsible for managing and administering Nigeria’s country code top-level domain, .ng.
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A.
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is a nonprofit organization that coordinates the global domain name system and IP address allocation to ensure the stable and secure operation of the internet.
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B.
RIPE NCC
RIPE NCC is the Regional Internet Registry for Europe, the Middle East, and parts of Central Asia, responsible for allocating and registering IP address space and related Internet number resources.
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C.
Regional Internet Registries
Regional Internet Registries are organizations responsible for allocating and managing IP address space and related Internet number resources within specific geographic regions.
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D.
ARIN
ARIN (American Registry for Internet Numbers) is a Regional Internet Registry responsible for managing and distributing IP address space and related resources in North America and parts of the Caribbean.
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E.
AFRINIC
AFRINIC is the Regional Internet Registry responsible for allocating and managing IP address resources across the African region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
domain name registry
ⓘ
non-profit organization ⓘ |
| abbreviation | NiRA ⓘ |
| associatedCountryCode |
.ng
ⓘ
surface form:
NG
|
| basedIn |
Lagos
ⓘ
surface form:
Lagos, Nigeria
|
| ccTLD | .ng ⓘ |
| country | Nigeria ⓘ |
| focus |
management of Nigeria’s internet country code
ⓘ
promotion of .ng domain adoption ⓘ |
| governs | .ng domain name policies ⓘ |
| governsNamespace | .ng domain space ⓘ |
| handles | technical operations of .ng DNS ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| legalForm | non-profit ⓘ |
| manages |
.ng
ⓘ
Nigeria country code top-level domain ⓘ |
| nonProfitStatus | not-for-profit ⓘ |
| operatesIn | Nigeria ⓘ |
| oversees |
accreditation of .ng registrars
ⓘ
registration of .ng domain names ⓘ |
| regionServed | Nigeria ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
administration of .ng domain
ⓘ
policy formulation for .ng domain ⓘ |
| sector |
domain name system
ⓘ
internet governance ⓘ |
| shortName | NiRA ⓘ |
| topLevelDomainType | ccTLD ⓘ |
| type | country code top-level domain registry ⓘ |
| website | https://www.nira.org.ng/ ⓘ |
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: Nigeria Internet Registration Association Description of subject: The Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NiRA) is the non-profit organization responsible for managing and administering Nigeria’s country code top-level domain, .ng.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.