NTFS
E190925
NTFS (New Technology File System) is a Microsoft-developed file system known for its support of large volumes, file permissions, encryption, and advanced reliability features used in modern Windows operating systems.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| NTFS canonical | 19 |
| Microsoft NTFS | 1 |
| NTFS (on Windows internal drives) | 1 |
| NTFS (read-only by default) | 1 |
| NTFS (read-only in base, extended via packages) | 1 |
| New Technology File System | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1690453 — 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: NTFS Context triple: [Windows XP, defaultFileSystem, NTFS]
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A.
FAT32
FAT32 is a widely used 32-bit file system format developed by Microsoft, commonly employed on older Windows systems and removable storage devices for broad compatibility.
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B.
exFAT
exFAT is a Microsoft-developed file system optimized for flash drives and SD cards, designed to handle large files and volumes with broad cross-platform compatibility.
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C.
NTFS (via driver)
NTFS (via driver) refers to support in Linux for reading and writing Microsoft’s NTFS file system through a dedicated kernel or userspace driver.
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D.
XFS
XFS is a high-performance 64-bit journaling file system originally developed by SGI, widely used on Linux for handling large files and parallel I/O workloads.
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E.
FAT16
FAT16 is an older 16-bit File Allocation Table file system widely used on early DOS and Windows systems, known for its simplicity and limitations in maximum partition and file sizes.
- 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: NTFS Target entity description: NTFS (New Technology File System) is a Microsoft-developed file system known for its support of large volumes, file permissions, encryption, and advanced reliability features used in modern Windows operating systems.
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A.
FAT32
FAT32 is a widely used 32-bit file system format developed by Microsoft, commonly employed on older Windows systems and removable storage devices for broad compatibility.
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B.
exFAT
exFAT is a Microsoft-developed file system optimized for flash drives and SD cards, designed to handle large files and volumes with broad cross-platform compatibility.
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C.
NTFS (via driver)
NTFS (via driver) refers to support in Linux for reading and writing Microsoft’s NTFS file system through a dedicated kernel or userspace driver.
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D.
XFS
XFS is a high-performance 64-bit journaling file system originally developed by SGI, widely used on Linux for handling large files and parallel I/O workloads.
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E.
FAT16
FAT16 is an older 16-bit File Allocation Table file system widely used on early DOS and Windows systems, known for its simplicity and limitations in maximum partition and file sizes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Microsoft technology
ⓘ
file system ⓘ |
| abbreviation | NTFS self-link ⓘ |
| clusterSizeRange | 512 bytes to 64 KB ⓘ |
| defaultOn |
modern Windows desktop editions
ⓘ
modern Windows server editions ⓘ |
| designedFor | Windows operating systems ⓘ |
| developer | Microsoft ⓘ |
| fileNameLengthLimit | 255 characters ⓘ |
| fullName |
NTFS
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
New Technology File System
|
| hasOnDiskStructure | Master File Table ⓘ |
| introducedIn |
Windows NT
ⓘ
surface form:
Windows NT 3.1
|
| maxFileSize | 16 TB minus 64 KB with 4 KB clusters ⓘ |
| maxVolumeSize | theoretically 16 EB ⓘ |
| operatingSystemFamily | Windows NT ⓘ |
| pathLengthLimit | 32767 characters with extended-length paths ⓘ |
| replaces |
FAT
ⓘ
HPFS ⓘ |
| supportsCaseSensitivity | case-preserving but case-insensitive by default ⓘ |
| supportsFeature |
Encrypting File System
ⓘ
USN journal ⓘ access control lists ⓘ alternate data streams ⓘ bad cluster remapping ⓘ change journal ⓘ disk quotas ⓘ file compression ⓘ file encryption ⓘ file permissions ⓘ file system-level encryption ⓘ file-level security ⓘ hard links ⓘ journaling ⓘ large file sizes ⓘ large volume sizes ⓘ log-based recovery ⓘ object IDs ⓘ reparse points ⓘ security descriptors ⓘ self-healing mechanisms ⓘ sparse files ⓘ symbolic links ⓘ transactional NTFS ⓘ volume mount points ⓘ |
| supportsMetadata | yes ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Windows 10
ⓘ
Windows 11 ⓘ Windows 2000 ⓘ Windows 7 ⓘ Windows 8 ⓘ Windows Vista ⓘ Windows XP ⓘ |
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: NTFS Description of subject: NTFS (New Technology File System) is a Microsoft-developed file system known for its support of large volumes, file permissions, encryption, and advanced reliability features used in modern Windows operating systems.
Referenced by (24)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Microsoft NTFS
this entity surface form:
NTFS (read-only by default)
this entity surface form:
NTFS (read-only in base, extended via packages)
this entity surface form:
NTFS (on Windows internal drives)
this entity surface form:
New Technology File System
subject surface form:
Sleuth Kit