Winsock 1.1 API
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Winsock 1.1 API is an early Windows networking interface that provides standardized socket-based communication capabilities for TCP/IP and other network protocols.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Winsock 1.1 API canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8288429 — 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: Winsock 1.1 API Context triple: [Ws2_32, backwardCompatibleWith, Winsock 1.1 API]
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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.
Win16 API
Win16 API is the 16-bit Windows application programming interface used by early versions of Microsoft Windows (such as Windows 3.x) for software development before the transition to 32-bit systems.
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C.
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.
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D.
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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E.
WinPcap
WinPcap is a Windows packet capture and network monitoring library that provides low-level network access for tools like Wireshark.
- 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: Winsock 1.1 API Target entity description: Winsock 1.1 API is an early Windows networking interface that provides standardized socket-based communication capabilities for TCP/IP and other network protocols.
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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.
Win16 API
Win16 API is the 16-bit Windows application programming interface used by early versions of Microsoft Windows (such as Windows 3.x) for software development before the transition to 32-bit systems.
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C.
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.
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D.
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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E.
WinPcap
WinPcap is a Windows packet capture and network monitoring library that provides low-level network access for tools like Wireshark.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Windows networking interface
ⓘ
networking API ⓘ socket API ⓘ |
| basedOn | Berkeley sockets API NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conformsTo | Windows Sockets 1.1 specification NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dll | wsock32.dll ⓘ |
| era | early 1990s ⓘ |
| follows | Winsock 1.0 API NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headerFile | winsock.h ⓘ |
| library | wsock32.lib ⓘ |
| limitedFeatureComparedTo | Winsock 2.0 API NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
Windows
ⓘ
surface form:
Microsoft Windows
|
| partOf | Windows Sockets specification NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precedes | Winsock 2.0 API NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| providesErrorReporting | WSAGetLastError NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| providesFunction |
WSACleanup
ⓘ
WSAGetLastError ⓘ WSAStartup NERFINISHED ⓘ accept ⓘ bind ⓘ closesocket ⓘ connect ⓘ gethostbyaddr ⓘ gethostbyname ⓘ getprotobyname ⓘ getservbyname ⓘ listen ⓘ recv ⓘ select ⓘ send ⓘ socket ⓘ |
| requiresCleanupCall | WSACleanup ⓘ |
| requiresInitializationCall | WSAStartup NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| standardizes | socket-based communication on Windows ⓘ |
| supportsAddressFamily | AF_INET ⓘ |
| supportsProgrammingLanguage |
C
ⓘ
C++ NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| supportsProtocol |
IPPROTO_TCP
ⓘ
IPPROTO_UDP ⓘ |
| supportsProtocolFamily |
IP
ⓘ
TCP/IP NERFINISHED ⓘ UDP ⓘ |
| supportsSocketType |
SOCK_DGRAM
ⓘ
SOCK_STREAM ⓘ |
| usedFor |
network client applications on Windows
ⓘ
network server applications 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: Winsock 1.1 API Description of subject: Winsock 1.1 API is an early Windows networking interface that provides standardized socket-based communication capabilities for TCP/IP and other network protocols.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.