Active Server Pages (ASP)
E182238
Active Server Pages (ASP) is Microsoft's original server-side scripting technology for dynamically generating web pages, primarily using VBScript and running on Internet Information Services (IIS).
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| ASP | 3 |
| Classic ASP | 2 |
| ASP 1.0 | 1 |
| Active Server Pages | 1 |
| Active Server Pages (ASP) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1610564 — 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: Active Server Pages (ASP) Context triple: [ASP.NET, predecessor, Active Server Pages (ASP)]
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A.
ASP
ASP is the commonly used abbreviation for the Assembly of States Parties, the management oversight and legislative body of the International Criminal Court composed of representatives from member countries.
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B.
ASP.NET
ASP.NET is a Microsoft web application framework for building dynamic, data-driven websites, services, and applications on the .NET platform.
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C.
IIS
IIS is the Institute of Industrial Science, a leading research institute of the University of Tokyo focused on advanced science and engineering.
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D.
JSP
JSP is the commonly used abbreviation for the Japan Socialist Party, a former major left-wing political party in Japan.
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E.
JScript .NET
JScript .NET is a Microsoft-developed scripting language that extends JScript with .NET Framework features, enabling object-oriented programming and integration with the .NET runtime.
- 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: Active Server Pages (ASP) Target entity description: Active Server Pages (ASP) is Microsoft's original server-side scripting technology for dynamically generating web pages, primarily using VBScript and running on Internet Information Services (IIS).
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A.
ASP
ASP is the commonly used abbreviation for the Assembly of States Parties, the management oversight and legislative body of the International Criminal Court composed of representatives from member countries.
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B.
ASP.NET
ASP.NET is a Microsoft web application framework for building dynamic, data-driven websites, services, and applications on the .NET platform.
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C.
IIS
IIS is the Institute of Industrial Science, a leading research institute of the University of Tokyo focused on advanced science and engineering.
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D.
JSP
JSP is the commonly used abbreviation for the Japan Socialist Party, a former major left-wing political party in Japan.
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E.
JScript .NET
JScript .NET is a Microsoft-developed scripting language that extends JScript with .NET Framework features, enabling object-oriented programming and integration with the .NET runtime.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Microsoft technology
ⓘ
server-side scripting technology ⓘ web application framework ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
Active Server Pages (ASP)
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
ASP
|
| architecture | request–response model ⓘ |
| category |
Microsoft server technology
ⓘ
web server extension ⓘ |
| configurationFile |
IIS
ⓘ
surface form:
IIS metabase
|
| developer | Microsoft ⓘ |
| distributionModel | bundled with Windows Server ⓘ |
| executionModel | interpreted ⓘ |
| executionSide | server-side ⓘ |
| fileExtension | .asp ⓘ |
| firstReleaseVersion |
Active Server Pages (ASP)
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
ASP 1.0
|
| includedIn |
IIS
ⓘ
surface form:
Internet Information Server 3.0
Internet Information Services ⓘ
surface form:
Internet Information Services 4.0
Internet Information Services ⓘ
surface form:
Internet Information Services 5.0
|
| introduced | 1996 ⓘ |
| license | proprietary ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
built-in Application object
ⓘ
built-in Request object ⓘ built-in Response object ⓘ built-in Session object ⓘ inline script blocks within HTML ⓘ server-side includes support ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
Windows
ⓘ
surface form:
Microsoft Windows
|
| paradigm | script-based web programming ⓘ |
| platform | .NET not required ⓘ |
| primaryScriptingLanguage | VBScript ⓘ |
| runsOn |
IIS
ⓘ
Internet Information Services ⓘ |
| securityModel | IIS application protection ⓘ |
| status | legacy technology ⓘ |
| succeededBy | ASP.NET ⓘ |
| supportedScriptingLanguage |
JScript
ⓘ
Perl ⓘ
surface form:
PerlScript
IronPython ⓘ
surface form:
Python (via third-party engines)
|
| supports |
ADO for database access
ⓘ
COM components ⓘ cookies ⓘ form processing ⓘ session management ⓘ |
| supportsOutputFormat |
HTML
ⓘ
XML ⓘ text ⓘ |
| targetAudience | web developers ⓘ |
| typicalWebServerPort | 80 ⓘ |
| useCase |
dynamic web page generation
ⓘ
web application development ⓘ |
| uses | ISAPI extension asp.dll ⓘ |
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: Active Server Pages (ASP) Description of subject: Active Server Pages (ASP) is Microsoft's original server-side scripting technology for dynamically generating web pages, primarily using VBScript and running on Internet Information Services (IIS).
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
ASP
this entity surface form:
ASP
this entity surface form:
Classic ASP
subject surface form:
Active Server Pages
this entity surface form:
ASP
Active Server Pages (ASP)
→
firstReleaseVersion
→
Active Server Pages (ASP)
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
subject surface form:
Active Server Pages
this entity surface form:
ASP 1.0
this entity surface form:
Classic ASP