Barbican API
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Barbican API is OpenStack’s key management service interface used to securely store, manage, and retrieve secrets such as encryption keys, passwords, and certificates in cloud environments.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Barbican API canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7938023 — 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: Barbican API Context triple: [OpenStack APIs, includes, Barbican API]
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A.
Barbican
The Barbican is Plymouth’s historic harbourside district, known for its cobbled streets, preserved Elizabethan architecture, and vibrant waterfront pubs and galleries.
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B.
Barbican
The Barbican in Kraków is a well-preserved medieval fortified outpost and gateway that once formed part of the city’s defensive walls.
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C.
Barbican
The Barbican in Banská Bystrica is a historic fortification structure that once formed part of the town’s medieval defensive system.
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D.
Barbican
Barbican is a historic area in the City of London known for its medieval fortifications and the modern Barbican Estate and arts centre complex.
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E.
Blocket
Blocket is a major Swedish online classifieds marketplace for buying and selling goods and services, owned by the media group Schibsted.
- 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: Barbican API Target entity description: Barbican API is OpenStack’s key management service interface used to securely store, manage, and retrieve secrets such as encryption keys, passwords, and certificates in cloud environments.
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A.
Barbican
The Barbican is Plymouth’s historic harbourside district, known for its cobbled streets, preserved Elizabethan architecture, and vibrant waterfront pubs and galleries.
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B.
Barbican
The Barbican in Kraków is a well-preserved medieval fortified outpost and gateway that once formed part of the city’s defensive walls.
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C.
Barbican
The Barbican in Banská Bystrica is a historic fortification structure that once formed part of the town’s medieval defensive system.
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D.
Barbican
Barbican is a historic area in the City of London known for its medieval fortifications and the modern Barbican Estate and arts centre complex.
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E.
Blocket
Blocket is a major Swedish online classifieds marketplace for buying and selling goods and services, owned by the media group Schibsted.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
OpenStack component
ⓘ
key management service API ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | OpenStack Barbican API NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| authenticatesWith | Keystone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| canUse |
HSM backends
ⓘ
KMIP-compatible key managers ⓘ software crypto backends ⓘ |
| deploymentModel | service in an OpenStack control plane ⓘ |
| designedFor | OpenStack-based clouds ⓘ |
| documentation | https://docs.openstack.org/barbican/latest/ ⓘ |
| governedBy | OpenStack community ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
Barbican API service
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Barbican database ⓘ Barbican keystone listener ⓘ Barbican worker ⓘ |
| implements | OpenStack key management service interface ⓘ |
| integratesWith |
OpenStack Cinder
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
OpenStack Glance NERFINISHED ⓘ OpenStack Keystone NERFINISHED ⓘ OpenStack Neutron VPNaaS NERFINISHED ⓘ OpenStack Nova NERFINISHED ⓘ OpenStack Octavia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| license | Apache License 2.0 ⓘ |
| manages |
certificates
ⓘ
encryption keys ⓘ opaque secrets ⓘ passwords ⓘ |
| partOf | OpenStack NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage | Python ⓘ |
| provides |
ACLs for secrets
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certificate management ⓘ container-based grouping of secrets ⓘ key management ⓘ project-scoped secret storage ⓘ secret management ⓘ |
| purpose |
management of secrets
ⓘ
retrieval of secrets ⓘ secure storage of secrets ⓘ |
| repository | https://opendev.org/openstack/barbican ⓘ |
| securityFeature |
controlled access to secrets
ⓘ
multi-tenant isolation of secrets ⓘ secure secret storage at rest ⓘ |
| supports |
JSON payloads
ⓘ
RESTful HTTP interface ⓘ X.509 certificates ⓘ asymmetric keys ⓘ certificate signing requests ⓘ pagination of API results ⓘ plugin-based secret store backends ⓘ role-based access control via Keystone ⓘ secret metadata ⓘ symmetric keys ⓘ |
| usedIn | cloud environments ⓘ |
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: Barbican API Description of subject: Barbican API is OpenStack’s key management service interface used to securely store, manage, and retrieve secrets such as encryption keys, passwords, and certificates in cloud environments.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.