Zcash
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Zcash is a privacy-focused cryptocurrency that uses zero-knowledge proofs to enable shielded, confidential transactions on a public blockchain.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1937686 — 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: Zcash Context triple: [REN, supportsAsset, Zcash]
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A.
Ripple
"Ripple" is a beloved folk-influenced ballad by the Grateful Dead, known for its gentle melody, spiritual lyrics, and enduring sing-along chorus.
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B.
Algorand blockchain protocol
Algorand blockchain protocol is a scalable, secure, and energy-efficient public blockchain platform designed by cryptographer Silvio Micali that uses a pure proof-of-stake consensus mechanism.
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C.
Bitcoin
Bitcoin is a decentralized digital cryptocurrency that operates without a central bank, enabling peer-to-peer transactions secured by blockchain technology.
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D.
BitC
BitC is a systems programming language designed for safety, low-level control, and formal verification, drawing on ideas from Modula-3 and capability-based security.
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E.
Segregated Witness
Segregated Witness is a Bitcoin protocol upgrade that separates signature data from transaction data to increase block capacity, improve scalability, and fix transaction malleability.
- 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: Zcash Target entity description: Zcash is a privacy-focused cryptocurrency that uses zero-knowledge proofs to enable shielded, confidential transactions on a public blockchain.
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A.
Ripple
"Ripple" is a beloved folk-influenced ballad by the Grateful Dead, known for its gentle melody, spiritual lyrics, and enduring sing-along chorus.
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B.
Algorand blockchain protocol
Algorand blockchain protocol is a scalable, secure, and energy-efficient public blockchain platform designed by cryptographer Silvio Micali that uses a pure proof-of-stake consensus mechanism.
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C.
Bitcoin
Bitcoin is a decentralized digital cryptocurrency that operates without a central bank, enabling peer-to-peer transactions secured by blockchain technology.
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D.
BitC
BitC is a systems programming language designed for safety, low-level control, and formal verification, drawing on ideas from Modula-3 and capability-based security.
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E.
Segregated Witness
Segregated Witness is a Bitcoin protocol upgrade that separates signature data from transaction data to increase block capacity, improve scalability, and fix transaction malleability.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Zcash Description of subject: Zcash is a privacy-focused cryptocurrency that uses zero-knowledge proofs to enable shielded, confidential transactions on a public blockchain.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
RenVM