DO-178C
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DO-178C is an international safety-critical software standard that defines objectives and guidance for developing and certifying airborne systems and equipment in the aviation industry.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| DO-178C canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8413988 — 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: DO-178C Context triple: [Integrity, supportsStandard, DO-178C]
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A.
DO-178B
DO-178B is a widely used aviation industry standard that defines objectives and processes for developing and certifying safety-critical airborne software.
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B.
ISO 26262
ISO 26262 is an international functional safety standard for electrical and electronic systems in production automobiles, defining requirements to ensure the safety of road vehicles throughout their lifecycle.
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C.
IEEE 12207
IEEE 12207 is an international standard that defines processes, activities, and tasks for the life cycle management of software systems.
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D.
ARINC 664
ARINC 664 is an aviation data network standard that defines Ethernet-based communication for aircraft systems, enabling reliable, deterministic, and interoperable avionics networking.
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E.
ISO/IEC/IEEE 29148
ISO/IEC/IEEE 29148 is an international standard that defines best practices and processes for engineering and managing system and software requirements.
- 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: DO-178C Target entity description: DO-178C is an international safety-critical software standard that defines objectives and guidance for developing and certifying airborne systems and equipment in the aviation industry.
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A.
DO-178B
DO-178B is a widely used aviation industry standard that defines objectives and processes for developing and certifying safety-critical airborne software.
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B.
ISO 26262
ISO 26262 is an international functional safety standard for electrical and electronic systems in production automobiles, defining requirements to ensure the safety of road vehicles throughout their lifecycle.
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C.
IEEE 12207
IEEE 12207 is an international standard that defines processes, activities, and tasks for the life cycle management of software systems.
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D.
ARINC 664
ARINC 664 is an aviation data network standard that defines Ethernet-based communication for aircraft systems, enabling reliable, deterministic, and interoperable avionics networking.
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E.
ISO/IEC/IEEE 29148
ISO/IEC/IEEE 29148 is an international standard that defines best practices and processes for engineering and managing system and software requirements.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
EUROCAE document
ⓘ
RTCA document ⓘ aviation software standard ⓘ safety-critical software standard ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
airborne equipment
ⓘ
airborne systems ⓘ |
| defines |
objectives for certification of airborne software
ⓘ
objectives for software configuration management ⓘ objectives for software development ⓘ objectives for software quality assurance ⓘ objectives for software verification ⓘ |
| domain | aviation industry ⓘ |
| focusesOn | safety-critical software ⓘ |
| fullName | DO-178C: Software Considerations in Airborne Systems and Equipment Certification NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSupplement |
DO-330
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
DO-331 NERFINISHED ⓘ DO-332 NERFINISHED ⓘ DO-333 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| includesConcept |
independence of verification
ⓘ
problem reporting and corrective action ⓘ requirements-based testing ⓘ software configuration control ⓘ software levels based on failure conditions ⓘ software life cycle processes ⓘ software quality assurance activities ⓘ structural coverage analysis ⓘ traceability from requirements to code and tests ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| not | product standard ⓘ |
| objective |
ensure software does not contribute to unacceptable aircraft risk
ⓘ
provide evidence for certification authorities ⓘ |
| predecessor | DO-178B NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| provides |
guidance for certifying airborne software
ⓘ
guidance for developing airborne software ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 2011 ⓘ |
| publishedBy |
EUROCAE
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
RTCA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | international ⓘ |
| relatedTo | ED-12C NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| replaces | DO-178B NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| scope | software aspects of airborne systems and equipment ⓘ |
| successor | none (as of 2024, DO-178C is current revision) ⓘ |
| typeOfRequirement | process-oriented standard ⓘ |
| usedBy |
aircraft manufacturers
ⓘ
aviation authorities ⓘ avionics suppliers ⓘ |
| usedFor | airworthiness certification of software ⓘ |
| usedIn |
business aviation
ⓘ
commercial aviation ⓘ some military aviation programs ⓘ |
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: DO-178C Description of subject: DO-178C is an international safety-critical software standard that defines objectives and guidance for developing and certifying airborne systems and equipment in the aviation industry.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.