VM
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VM is IBM's family of mainframe virtual machine operating systems designed to run multiple operating environments concurrently on System/370 and successor hardware.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| VM canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10155647 — 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: VM Context triple: [IBM 3090, runsOperatingSystem, VM]
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A.
VM
VM is the abbreviation for the Volksmarine, the navy of the former German Democratic Republic (East Germany).
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B.
VMX
VMX is a vector processing extension to the PowerPC architecture designed to accelerate multimedia, signal processing, and other parallelizable computations.
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C.
VMC
VMC is the Venus Monitoring Camera, a wide-angle imaging instrument on the European Space Agency’s Venus Express spacecraft used to study Venus’s atmosphere and cloud dynamics.
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D.
Virtual Machine Manager
Virtual Machine Manager is a Microsoft System Center component used to centrally manage, configure, and deploy virtualized datacenter resources across Hyper-V and other virtualization platforms.
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E.
VPS
VPS is the IATA airport code for Destin–Fort Walton Beach Airport serving the Eglin Air Force Base area in Florida, United States.
- 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: VM Target entity description: VM is IBM's family of mainframe virtual machine operating systems designed to run multiple operating environments concurrently on System/370 and successor hardware.
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A.
VM
VM is the abbreviation for the Volksmarine, the navy of the former German Democratic Republic (East Germany).
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B.
VMX
VMX is a vector processing extension to the PowerPC architecture designed to accelerate multimedia, signal processing, and other parallelizable computations.
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C.
VMC
VMC is the Venus Monitoring Camera, a wide-angle imaging instrument on the European Space Agency’s Venus Express spacecraft used to study Venus’s atmosphere and cloud dynamics.
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D.
Virtual Machine Manager
Virtual Machine Manager is a Microsoft System Center component used to centrally manage, configure, and deploy virtualized datacenter resources across Hyper-V and other virtualization platforms.
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E.
VPS
VPS is the IATA airport code for Destin–Fort Walton Beach Airport serving the Eglin Air Force Base area in Florida, United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | operating system family ⓘ |
| abbreviationOf | Virtual Machine ⓘ |
| architecture |
IBM ESA/390 architecture
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
IBM System/370 architecture NERFINISHED ⓘ IBM z/Architecture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | CP-67 design concepts ⓘ |
| category |
IBM mainframe software
ⓘ
time-sharing operating systems ⓘ virtualization software ⓘ |
| designedFor |
IBM mainframe computers
ⓘ
System/370 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| developer | IBM ⓘ |
| familyMember |
VM/370
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
VM/ESA NERFINISHED ⓘ VM/SP NERFINISHED ⓘ VM/XA ⓘ z/VM NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| includesComponent |
Control Program
ⓘ
Conversational Monitor System NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| intendedUsers |
enterprise data centers
ⓘ
mainframe system programmers ⓘ time-sharing service providers ⓘ |
| introducedBy | IBM NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
full virtualization of privileged instructions
ⓘ
virtual disks (minidisks) ⓘ virtual networking ⓘ |
| operatingSystemType | virtual machine operating system ⓘ |
| predecessor | CP-67 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryFunction |
run multiple operating environments concurrently
ⓘ
virtualization of mainframe hardware ⓘ |
| supports |
multiple concurrent operating systems
ⓘ
time-sharing ⓘ virtual machines ⓘ |
| supportsGuestOS |
Linux on IBM Z
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
MVS NERFINISHED ⓘ OS/390 NERFINISHED ⓘ VSE NERFINISHED ⓘ z/OS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| supportsHardware |
IBM Z
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
System/370 NERFINISHED ⓘ System/390 NERFINISHED ⓘ zSeries NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| useCase |
consolidation of workloads
ⓘ
development and test environments ⓘ testing multiple operating systems on one mainframe ⓘ |
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: VM Description of subject: VM is IBM's family of mainframe virtual machine operating systems designed to run multiple operating environments concurrently on System/370 and successor hardware.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.