Request for Comments 8259
E754584
Request for Comments 8259 is an IETF standard that defines the JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) data interchange format, specifying its syntax and semantics for use in web and network applications.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Request for Comments 8259 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8755949 — 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: Request for Comments 8259 Context triple: [RFC 8259, acronymExpansion, Request for Comments 8259]
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A.
RFC 8552
RFC 8552 is an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standards document that specifies technical protocols and procedures used in Internet communications.
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B.
RFC 8551
RFC 8551 is the Internet standards document that specifies the current version of S/MIME, a protocol for secure, encrypted, and signed email communication.
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C.
RFC 9205
RFC 9205 is an IETF specification that provides guidance and best practices for the use and deployment of HTTP, complementing the core protocol definitions in related HTTP RFCs.
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D.
RFC 9293
RFC 9293 is the modern Internet standards document that consolidates and updates the core specification of the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), replacing the original TCP specification defined in RFC 793.
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E.
RFC 8728
RFC 8728 is an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) document that specifies updates and procedures related to the RFC Editor’s role in the publication process of RFCs.
- 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: Request for Comments 8259 Target entity description: Request for Comments 8259 is an IETF standard that defines the JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) data interchange format, specifying its syntax and semantics for use in web and network applications.
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A.
RFC 8552
RFC 8552 is an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standards document that specifies technical protocols and procedures used in Internet communications.
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B.
RFC 8551
RFC 8551 is the Internet standards document that specifies the current version of S/MIME, a protocol for secure, encrypted, and signed email communication.
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C.
RFC 9205
RFC 9205 is an IETF specification that provides guidance and best practices for the use and deployment of HTTP, complementing the core protocol definitions in related HTTP RFCs.
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D.
RFC 9293
RFC 9293 is the modern Internet standards document that consolidates and updates the core specification of the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), replacing the original TCP specification defined in RFC 793.
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E.
RFC 8728
RFC 8728 is an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) document that specifies updates and procedures related to the RFC Editor’s role in the publication process of RFCs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
IETF standard
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RFC ⓘ technical specification ⓘ |
| addresses |
interoperability constraints of JSON
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parsing and generation of JSON ⓘ security considerations for JSON ⓘ |
| area | Applications and Real-Time ⓘ |
| category | Standards Track ⓘ |
| defines |
JSON data interchange format
NERFINISHED
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JavaScript Object Notation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| definesDataModelElement |
JSON array
NERFINISHED
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JSON boolean ⓘ JSON null ⓘ JSON number ⓘ JSON object ⓘ JSON string ⓘ |
| definesMediaType | application/json ⓘ |
| definesSyntaxRule |
JSON text is encoded in Unicode
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array is an ordered sequence of values ⓘ default character encoding is UTF-8 ⓘ names within a JSON object SHOULD be unique ⓘ number is similar to IEEE 754 double precision format ⓘ object is an unordered collection of name/value pairs ⓘ string is a sequence of Unicode code points ⓘ |
| documentType | Internet Standard RFC ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
interoperability of JSON implementations
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robustness of JSON parsing ⓘ |
| intendedUse |
Internet protocols
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network applications ⓘ web applications ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| obsoletes | RFC 7159 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publishedBy |
Internet Engineering Task Force
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surface form:
IETF
Internet Engineering Task Force ⓘ |
| relatedTo | ECMA-404 The JSON Data Interchange Standard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| shortName | RFC 8259 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| specifies |
encoding of structured data
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semantics of JSON ⓘ syntax of JSON ⓘ text-based data interchange format ⓘ |
| standardizes | JSON for Internet use NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| status | Internet Standard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stream |
Internet Engineering Task Force
ⓘ
surface form:
IETF
|
| title | The JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) Data Interchange Format NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| updates | ECMA-404 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Request for Comments 8259 Description of subject: Request for Comments 8259 is an IETF standard that defines the JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) data interchange format, specifying its syntax and semantics for use in web and network applications.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.