ATA
E6172
ATA (Advanced Technology Attachment), commonly known as IDE, is a standard interface used to connect storage devices like hard drives and optical drives to a computer's motherboard.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| ATA canonical | 8 |
| ATAPI | 3 |
| AT Attachment | 2 |
| Advanced Technology Attachment | 2 |
| AT Attachment-7 | 1 |
| ATA/ATAPI-4 | 1 |
| SATA | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T72808 — 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: ATA Context triple: [SCSI, competesWith, ATA]
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A.
ATE
ATE is a U.S. National Science Foundation program that supports the education and training of technicians for advanced technology fields through partnerships between two-year colleges, industry, and other educational institutions.
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B.
ARC
ARC is the commonly used acronym for the Augmentation Research Center, a pioneering research group known for its early work on interactive computing and human–computer interaction.
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C.
AMTK
AMTK is the reporting mark used by Amtrak, the United States’ national passenger railroad service, to identify its locomotives and rolling stock.
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D.
NAS
NAS is a private, nonprofit society of distinguished scholars in the United States that advises the nation on matters related to science and technology.
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E.
ABC
ABC is a major American broadcast television network known for airing a wide range of national programming, including sports championships, news, and entertainment shows.
- 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: ATA Target entity description: ATA (Advanced Technology Attachment), commonly known as IDE, is a standard interface used to connect storage devices like hard drives and optical drives to a computer's motherboard.
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A.
ATE
ATE is a U.S. National Science Foundation program that supports the education and training of technicians for advanced technology fields through partnerships between two-year colleges, industry, and other educational institutions.
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B.
ARC
ARC is the commonly used acronym for the Augmentation Research Center, a pioneering research group known for its early work on interactive computing and human–computer interaction.
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C.
AMTK
AMTK is the reporting mark used by Amtrak, the United States’ national passenger railroad service, to identify its locomotives and rolling stock.
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D.
AAA
AAA was a New Deal-era U.S. government agency created to regulate agricultural production and stabilize farm prices during the Great Depression.
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E.
NAS
NAS is a private, nonprofit society of distinguished scholars in the United States that advises the nation on matters related to science and technology.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | computer hardware interface standard ⓘ |
| abbreviationOf |
ATA
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Advanced Technology Attachment
|
| alsoKnownAs |
IDE
ⓘ
Parallel ATA ⓘ |
| cableType |
40-conductor ribbon cable
ⓘ
80-conductor ribbon cable ⓘ |
| category |
computer bus
ⓘ
storage interface ⓘ |
| commandProtocol | task file register interface ⓘ |
| connectsDeviceType |
ATAPI device
ⓘ
CD-ROM drive ⓘ DVD drive ⓘ hard disk drive ⓘ optical disc drive ⓘ |
| dataBusWidth | 16-bit ⓘ |
| extensionOf | AT bus ⓘ |
| fullName |
ATA
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Advanced Technology Attachment
|
| initialUse | PC-compatible systems ⓘ |
| interfaceType | parallel interface ⓘ |
| introducedYear | 1986 ⓘ |
| maximumCableLength | 18 inches ⓘ |
| parallelOrSerial | parallel ⓘ |
| relatedStandard |
ATA
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
ATAPI
EIDE ⓘ |
| replacedBy |
Serial ATA
ⓘ
surface form:
SATA
|
| standardFamily | INCITS standards ⓘ |
| standardizedBy | ANSI ⓘ |
| status | largely superseded by SATA ⓘ |
| successor | Serial ATA ⓘ |
| supportsDeviceCountPerChannel | 2 ⓘ |
| supportsDeviceRole |
master
ⓘ
slave ⓘ |
| supportsHotSwap | false ⓘ |
| supportsMode |
DMA
ⓘ
PIO ⓘ Ultra DMA ⓘ |
| transportLayerFor |
ATA
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
ATAPI
|
| usedFor | connecting storage devices to a computer motherboard ⓘ |
| usedIn |
desktop computers
ⓘ
laptop computers ⓘ servers ⓘ |
| version |
ATA-1
ⓘ
ATA-2 ⓘ ATA-3 ⓘ ATA self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
ATA/ATAPI-4
Parallel ATA ⓘ
surface form:
ATA/ATAPI-5
ATA/ATAPI-6 ⓘ Parallel ATA ⓘ
surface form:
ATA/ATAPI-7
Parallel ATA ⓘ
surface form:
ATA/ATAPI-8
|
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: ATA Description of subject: ATA (Advanced Technology Attachment), commonly known as IDE, is a standard interface used to connect storage devices like hard drives and optical drives to a computer's motherboard.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
SATA
this entity surface form:
Advanced Technology Attachment
this entity surface form:
Advanced Technology Attachment
this entity surface form:
ATAPI
this entity surface form:
ATAPI
this entity surface form:
ATAPI
this entity surface form:
AT Attachment-7