VHD
E193841
VHD is a virtual hard disk file format used to store the contents of a virtual machine’s hard drive, commonly supported by Microsoft virtualization platforms.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| VHD canonical | 2 |
| Microsoft VHD Image Format Specification | 1 |
| Virtual Hard Disk | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1719619 — 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: VHD Context triple: [Hyper-V, supportsStorageFormat, VHD]
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A.
Hyper-V
Hyper-V is Microsoft's native hypervisor platform that enables the creation and management of virtual machines on Windows systems.
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B.
VirtualBox
VirtualBox is a popular open-source virtualization platform that allows users to run multiple operating systems simultaneously on a single physical machine.
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C.
VGN
VGN (Verkehrsverbund Großraum Nürnberg) is the public transport association that coordinates and manages integrated ticketing and services across the greater Nuremberg metropolitan area in Germany.
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D.
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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E.
VIDP
VIDP is the ICAO airport code for Indira Gandhi International Airport, the primary international aviation hub serving New Delhi, India.
- 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: VHD Target entity description: VHD is a virtual hard disk file format used to store the contents of a virtual machine’s hard drive, commonly supported by Microsoft virtualization platforms.
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A.
Hyper-V
Hyper-V is Microsoft's native hypervisor platform that enables the creation and management of virtual machines on Windows systems.
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B.
VirtualBox
VirtualBox is a popular open-source virtualization platform that allows users to run multiple operating systems simultaneously on a single physical machine.
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C.
VGN
VGN (Verkehrsverbund Großraum Nürnberg) is the public transport association that coordinates and manages integrated ticketing and services across the greater Nuremberg metropolitan area in Germany.
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D.
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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E.
VIDP
VIDP is the ICAO airport code for Indira Gandhi International Airport, the primary international aviation hub serving New Delhi, India.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
disk image format
ⓘ
virtual hard disk file format ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | Microsoft ⓘ |
| canBeUsedFor | booting Windows from a VHD file (native boot) ⓘ |
| developedBy | Connectix ⓘ |
| doesNotSupportFeature |
4 KB logical sector native optimization (compared to VHDX)
ⓘ
built-in resiliency metadata (compared to VHDX) ⓘ |
| fileExtension | .vhd ⓘ |
| fullName |
VHD
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Virtual Hard Disk
|
| introducedInProduct |
Microsoft Virtual PC
ⓘ
surface form:
Microsoft Virtual PC 2004
|
| maximumSize | 2040 GB (approximate 2 TB limit) ⓘ |
| mountableBy |
Disk Management (Windows)
ⓘ
Hyper-V ⓘ
surface form:
Hyper-V Manager
PowerShell ⓘ
surface form:
PowerShell storage cmdlets
diskpart ⓘ |
| standardizedBy |
VHD
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Microsoft VHD Image Format Specification
|
| succeededBy | VHDX ⓘ |
| supportedBy |
Windows 10
ⓘ
Windows 11 ⓘ Windows 7 ⓘ Windows 8 ⓘ Windows 8.1 ⓘ Windows Server 2008 ⓘ
surface form:
Windows Server 2008 R2
Windows Server ⓘ
surface form:
Windows Server 2012
Windows Server ⓘ
surface form:
Windows Server 2012 R2
Windows Server ⓘ
surface form:
Windows Server 2016
Windows Server ⓘ
surface form:
Windows Server 2019
Windows Server ⓘ
surface form:
Windows Server 2022
|
| supportsDiskType |
differencing disk
ⓘ
dynamically expanding disk ⓘ fixed-size disk ⓘ |
| supportsFeature |
sector-level virtualization
ⓘ
snapshot differencing disks ⓘ |
| supportsFileSystem |
FAT32
ⓘ
NTFS ⓘ ReFS (when host supports it) ⓘ exFAT ⓘ |
| supportsPartitionStyle |
GPT (with limitations vs VHDX)
ⓘ
MBR ⓘ |
| supportsUseCase |
backup and restore
ⓘ
disk cloning ⓘ multi-boot environments ⓘ native boot in Windows ⓘ system image storage ⓘ virtual machine hard disk storage ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Azure (legacy support)
ⓘ
Hyper-V ⓘ Microsoft Virtual PC ⓘ Microsoft Virtual Server ⓘ Microsoft Virtual PC ⓘ
surface form:
Windows Virtual PC
|
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: VHD Description of subject: VHD is a virtual hard disk file format used to store the contents of a virtual machine’s hard drive, commonly supported by Microsoft virtualization platforms.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Microsoft VHD Image Format Specification