RAC
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RAC is Oracle's clustering technology that allows multiple servers to run a single database instance for high availability and scalability.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| RAC canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4278840 — 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: RAC Context triple: [Oracle Real Application Clusters, hasAbbreviation, RAC]
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A.
RAC
RAC is the abbreviation for the Royal African Company, a 17th- and 18th-century English trading company heavily involved in the transatlantic slave trade.
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B.
The RAC
The RAC is the longtime nickname for Rutgers University’s on-campus basketball arena in Piscataway, New Jersey.
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C.
RAS
RAS is the commonly used abbreviation for the Royal Astronomical Society, a leading learned society dedicated to the advancement of astronomy and geophysics.
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D.
RAPC
RAPC is the abbreviation for the Royal Army Pay Corps, a former British Army administrative corps responsible for managing soldiers’ pay and financial services.
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E.
RAA
RAA is the abbreviation for the Royal Australian Artillery, the artillery corps of the Australian Army responsible for providing fire support and air defense.
- 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: RAC Target entity description: RAC is Oracle's clustering technology that allows multiple servers to run a single database instance for high availability and scalability.
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A.
RAC
RAC is the abbreviation for the Royal African Company, a 17th- and 18th-century English trading company heavily involved in the transatlantic slave trade.
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B.
The RAC
The RAC is the longtime nickname for Rutgers University’s on-campus basketball arena in Piscataway, New Jersey.
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C.
RAS
RAS is the commonly used abbreviation for the Royal Astronomical Society, a leading learned society dedicated to the advancement of astronomy and geophysics.
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D.
RAPC
RAPC is the abbreviation for the Royal Army Pay Corps, a former British Army administrative corps responsible for managing soldiers’ pay and financial services.
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E.
RAA
RAA is the abbreviation for the Royal Australian Artillery, the artillery corps of the Australian Army responsible for providing fire support and air defense.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Oracle technology
ⓘ
database clustering technology ⓘ |
| abbreviation | RAC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| architecture | shared-everything database cluster ⓘ |
| component |
Global Cache Service
ⓘ
Global Enqueue Service NERFINISHED ⓘ Oracle ASM NERFINISHED ⓘ Oracle Clusterware NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deploymentModel |
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
on-premises ⓘ |
| developer | Oracle Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| enables |
clustering of database servers
ⓘ
multiple servers to access a single database ⓘ |
| feature |
cache fusion
ⓘ
load balancing ⓘ node failover ⓘ rolling upgrades ⓘ shared database storage ⓘ transparent application failover ⓘ |
| fullName | Oracle Real Application Clusters NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| improves |
database availability
ⓘ
database scalability ⓘ resource utilization ⓘ |
| integratesWith |
Oracle ASM
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Oracle Data Guard NERFINISHED ⓘ Oracle Enterprise Manager NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| introducedIn | Oracle9i Database NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessor | Oracle Parallel Server NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| provides |
automatic failover of database sessions
ⓘ
automatic workload distribution ⓘ cluster-wide transaction consistency ⓘ |
| purpose |
fault tolerance
ⓘ
high availability ⓘ scalability ⓘ |
| requires |
Oracle Clusterware
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
cluster interconnect ⓘ shared disk storage ⓘ |
| runsOn | clustered servers ⓘ |
| supports |
Oracle Database
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
active-active database configuration ⓘ online node addition ⓘ online node removal ⓘ |
| useCase |
consolidation of database workloads
ⓘ
data warehousing ⓘ mission-critical OLTP systems ⓘ |
| usedBy | large enterprises ⓘ |
| usedFor | database consolidation in clusters ⓘ |
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: RAC Description of subject: RAC is Oracle's clustering technology that allows multiple servers to run a single database instance for high availability and scalability.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Oracle Real Application Clusters