Kismet
E111860
intrusion detection system
network security tool
open-source software
packet sniffer
wireless network detector
Kismet is an open-source wireless network detector, sniffer, and intrusion detection system widely used for Wi-Fi security auditing and monitoring.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kismet canonical | 2 |
| Kismet Wireless | 1 |
| Kismet web UI | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T957586 — 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: Kismet Context triple: [Aircrack-ng, relatedProject, Kismet]
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A.
Cozmo
Cozmo is the playful, costumed alien mascot of Major League Soccer club LA Galaxy, known for entertaining fans at matches and team events.
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B.
Calliope
Calliope is the Muse of epic poetry in Greek mythology, often depicted as the chief of the nine Muses and associated with eloquence and heroic verse.
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C.
Tikkana
Tikkana was a prominent 13th-century Telugu poet and scholar best known for translating a major portion of the Mahabharata into Telugu and helping shape classical Telugu literature.
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D.
The Machine
The Machine is the nickname of Albert Pujols, a Dominican-American former Major League Baseball first baseman renowned for his remarkably consistent and powerful hitting.
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E.
Thrun
Thrun is the surname of Sebastian Thrun, a prominent computer scientist and robotics expert known for his work in self-driving cars and artificial intelligence.
- 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: Kismet Target entity description: Kismet is an open-source wireless network detector, sniffer, and intrusion detection system widely used for Wi-Fi security auditing and monitoring.
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A.
Cozmo
Cozmo is the playful, costumed alien mascot of Major League Soccer club LA Galaxy, known for entertaining fans at matches and team events.
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B.
Calliope
Calliope is the Muse of epic poetry in Greek mythology, often depicted as the chief of the nine Muses and associated with eloquence and heroic verse.
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C.
Tikkana
Tikkana was a prominent 13th-century Telugu poet and scholar best known for translating a major portion of the Mahabharata into Telugu and helping shape classical Telugu literature.
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D.
The Machine
The Machine is the nickname of Albert Pujols, a Dominican-American former Major League Baseball first baseman renowned for his remarkably consistent and powerful hitting.
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E.
Thrun
Thrun is the surname of Sebastian Thrun, a prominent computer scientist and robotics expert known for his work in self-driving cars and artificial intelligence.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (57)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
intrusion detection system
ⓘ
network security tool ⓘ open-source software ⓘ packet sniffer ⓘ wireless network detector ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Kismet
ⓘ
surface form:
Kismet Wireless
|
| canDecryptTraffic | no, unless keys are provided externally ⓘ |
| developmentLanguage |
C
ⓘ
C++ ⓘ |
| feature |
GPS mapping of access points
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PCAP export ⓘ REST API ⓘ alerting on suspicious wireless activity ⓘ channel hopping ⓘ logging of captured packets ⓘ packet capture ⓘ passive wireless network detection ⓘ plugin architecture ⓘ remote capture support ⓘ web-based user interface ⓘ wireless intrusion detection ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
Kismet client
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Kismet server ⓘ Kismet self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Kismet web UI
|
| isFreeSoftware | true ⓘ |
| license | GNU General Public License ⓘ |
| networkDetectionMode | passive ⓘ |
| originalAuthor | Mike Kershaw ⓘ |
| softwareType |
Wi-Fi security auditing tool
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wireless network monitoring tool ⓘ |
| supportsHardware |
GPS receivers
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RTL-SDR dongles ⓘ Wi-Fi network interface cards in monitor mode ⓘ software-defined radios ⓘ |
| supportsOperatingSystem |
Android
ⓘ
FreeBSD ⓘ Linux ⓘ OpenBSD ⓘ OpenWrt ⓘ macOS ⓘ other Unix-like systems ⓘ |
| supportsProtocol |
ADS-B
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Bluetooth ⓘ Bluetooth ⓘ
surface form:
Bluetooth Low Energy
IEEE 802.11 ⓘ RTL433 ⓘ Wi‑Fi ⓘ
surface form:
Wi-Fi
Zigbee ⓘ wireless sensor networks ⓘ |
| useCase |
Wi-Fi security auditing
ⓘ
spectrum analysis ⓘ wardriving ⓘ wireless intrusion detection ⓘ wireless network monitoring ⓘ wireless research ⓘ wireless site surveys ⓘ |
| website | https://www.kismetwireless.net/ ⓘ |
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: Kismet Description of subject: Kismet is an open-source wireless network detector, sniffer, and intrusion detection system widely used for Wi-Fi security auditing and monitoring.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Aircrack-ng
this entity surface form:
Kismet web UI
this entity surface form:
Kismet Wireless