Windows Sockets 2 library
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The Windows Sockets 2 library is a core Microsoft Windows API component that provides standardized network communication functions for TCP/IP and other protocols used by Windows applications.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Windows Sockets 2 API | 1 |
| Windows Sockets 2 library canonical | 1 |
| Winsock 2 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8288381 — 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: Windows Sockets 2 library Context triple: [Ws2_32, fullName, Windows Sockets 2 library]
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A.
Win32 API
Win32 API is Microsoft's core programming interface for developing native desktop applications that interact directly with the Windows operating system.
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B.
SCTP
SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol) is a transport-layer network protocol designed to provide reliable, message-oriented communication with features like multi-streaming and multi-homing, often used for signaling and real-time data transmission.
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C.
Windows SDK
Windows SDK is Microsoft's official collection of tools, headers, libraries, and documentation used by developers to build applications for the Windows operating system.
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D.
WinPcap
WinPcap is a Windows packet capture and network monitoring library that provides low-level network access for tools like Wireshark.
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E.
NetBIOS API
The NetBIOS API is a legacy network programming interface that allows applications to communicate over local area networks using NetBIOS services for name resolution and session management.
- 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: Windows Sockets 2 library Target entity description: The Windows Sockets 2 library is a core Microsoft Windows API component that provides standardized network communication functions for TCP/IP and other protocols used by Windows applications.
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A.
Win32 API
Win32 API is Microsoft's core programming interface for developing native desktop applications that interact directly with the Windows operating system.
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B.
SCTP
SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol) is a transport-layer network protocol designed to provide reliable, message-oriented communication with features like multi-streaming and multi-homing, often used for signaling and real-time data transmission.
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C.
Windows SDK
Windows SDK is Microsoft's official collection of tools, headers, libraries, and documentation used by developers to build applications for the Windows operating system.
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D.
WinPcap
WinPcap is a Windows packet capture and network monitoring library that provides low-level network access for tools like Wireshark.
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E.
NetBIOS API
The NetBIOS API is a legacy network programming interface that allows applications to communicate over local area networks using NetBIOS services for name resolution and session management.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (69)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Windows API component
ⓘ
networking API ⓘ programming interface ⓘ software library ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Winsock 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| backwardCompatibleWith | Windows Sockets 1.1 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cleanupFunction | WSACleanup ⓘ |
| compatibleWith |
Windows 10
NERFINISHED
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Windows 11 NERFINISHED ⓘ Windows 2000 NERFINISHED ⓘ Windows 7 NERFINISHED ⓘ Windows 8 NERFINISHED ⓘ Windows 95 NERFINISHED ⓘ Windows 98 NERFINISHED ⓘ Windows NT 4.0 NERFINISHED ⓘ Windows Vista NERFINISHED ⓘ Windows XP NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coreFunction |
WSAEventSelect
NERFINISHED
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WSAIoctl NERFINISHED ⓘ WSARecv ⓘ WSASend ⓘ accept ⓘ bind ⓘ closesocket ⓘ connect ⓘ listen ⓘ recv ⓘ select ⓘ send ⓘ socket ⓘ |
| developer | Microsoft ⓘ |
| documentedIn | Microsoft Win32 API documentation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| exposesHeader | winsock2.h NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| extends | Berkeley sockets API NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| follows | Windows Sockets 1.1 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| initializationFunction | WSAStartup NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
Windows
ⓘ
surface form:
Microsoft Windows
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| partOf | Windows networking stack NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| providesDLL | Ws2_32.dll ⓘ |
| providesFunctionality |
asynchronous I/O
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event-based network notification ⓘ multicast support ⓘ name resolution APIs ⓘ overlapped I/O ⓘ quality of service support ⓘ raw socket access ⓘ service provider interface ⓘ socket-based programming interface ⓘ standardized network communication ⓘ |
| replaces | Windows Sockets 1.1 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| requiresLibrary | Ws2_32.lib NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| standardizes | network programming interface for Windows applications ⓘ |
| supportsFeature |
QoS parameters on sockets
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event objects for network events ⓘ layered service providers ⓘ name space providers ⓘ overlapped sockets ⓘ service provider interface (SPI) ⓘ |
| supportsProtocolFamily |
ATM
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Bluetooth NERFINISHED ⓘ IPX/SPX NERFINISHED ⓘ IPv4 ⓘ IPv6 ⓘ Infrared ⓘ TCP/IP NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Windows desktop applications
NERFINISHED
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Windows server applications ⓘ games on Windows ⓘ network utilities on Windows ⓘ |
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: Windows Sockets 2 library Description of subject: The Windows Sockets 2 library is a core Microsoft Windows API component that provides standardized network communication functions for TCP/IP and other protocols used by Windows applications.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.