Culpeper, Virginia key management facility
E192673
The Culpeper, Virginia key management facility is a highly secure U.S. data center used to store and manage cryptographic keys for critical internet infrastructure, including the DNSSEC root.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Culpeper, Virginia key management facility canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1712091 — 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: Culpeper, Virginia key management facility Context triple: [DNSSEC root key signing ceremony, location, Culpeper, Virginia key management facility]
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A.
Quantico, Virginia
Quantico, Virginia is a small town in northern Virginia best known for its major U.S. Marine Corps base and associated military and federal training facilities.
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B.
Stafford, Virginia
Stafford, Virginia is an unincorporated community that serves as the administrative and population center of Stafford County in northern Virginia, near the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.
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C.
Guinea Station, Virginia
Guinea Station, Virginia is a small historic community best known as the place where Confederate General Stonewall Jackson died during the American Civil War.
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D.
Front Royal, Virginia
Front Royal, Virginia is a small town in the Shenandoah Valley known as a gateway to Shenandoah National Park and home to the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute.
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E.
Pinecrest, Virginia
Pinecrest, Virginia is a residential community in Fairfax County’s Mason District, located in the suburban area just outside Washington, D.C.
- 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: Culpeper, Virginia key management facility Target entity description: The Culpeper, Virginia key management facility is a highly secure U.S. data center used to store and manage cryptographic keys for critical internet infrastructure, including the DNSSEC root.
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A.
Quantico, Virginia
Quantico, Virginia is a small town in northern Virginia best known for its major U.S. Marine Corps base and associated military and federal training facilities.
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B.
Stafford, Virginia
Stafford, Virginia is an unincorporated community that serves as the administrative and population center of Stafford County in northern Virginia, near the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.
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C.
Guinea Station, Virginia
Guinea Station, Virginia is a small historic community best known as the place where Confederate General Stonewall Jackson died during the American Civil War.
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D.
Front Royal, Virginia
Front Royal, Virginia is a small town in the Shenandoah Valley known as a gateway to Shenandoah National Park and home to the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute.
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E.
Pinecrest, Virginia
Pinecrest, Virginia is a residential community in Fairfax County’s Mason District, located in the suburban area just outside Washington, D.C.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
data center
ⓘ
key management facility ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
DNSSEC root key signing ceremony
ⓘ
surface form:
DNSSEC root zone key ceremonies
|
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| dataTypeHandled |
DNSSEC key material
ⓘ
cryptographic keys ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
access control systems
ⓘ
environmental controls ⓘ redundant network connectivity ⓘ redundant power systems ⓘ strong logical security controls ⓘ strong physical security controls ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Town of Culpeper
ⓘ
surface form:
Culpeper, Virginia
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
Virginia ⓘ |
| manages | DNSSEC root key material ⓘ |
| partOf | critical internet infrastructure ⓘ |
| purpose |
ensure availability of DNSSEC key material
ⓘ
ensure integrity of DNS root zone signing keys ⓘ protect cryptographic keys from unauthorized access ⓘ |
| securityLevel | highly secure ⓘ |
| usedFor |
management of cryptographic keys
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storage of cryptographic keys ⓘ support of DNSSEC operations ⓘ support of critical internet infrastructure ⓘ |
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: Culpeper, Virginia key management facility Description of subject: The Culpeper, Virginia key management facility is a highly secure U.S. data center used to store and manage cryptographic keys for critical internet infrastructure, including the DNSSEC root.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.