Designate
E699726
Designate is OpenStack’s DNS-as-a-Service component that provides scalable, API-driven management of DNS zones and records in cloud environments.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Designate canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7937935 — 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: Designate Context triple: [OpenStack, component, Designate]
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A.
Regardie
Regardie is the surname of Israel Regardie, a prominent 20th-century occultist and author associated with the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.
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B.
Taznatit
Taznatit is a Berber language whose features have influenced the development and structure of the Korandje language.
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C.
Steward
Steward is a surname of English origin historically associated with the occupational title for someone who managed a household or estate.
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D.
Statilii
The Statilii were an ancient Roman noble family (gens Statilia) that produced several prominent politicians and aristocrats during the Roman Empire.
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E.
Fillion
Fillion is the surname of Canadian-American actor Nathan Fillion, best known for his leading roles in the television series "Firefly" and "Castle."
- 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: Designate Target entity description: Designate is OpenStack’s DNS-as-a-Service component that provides scalable, API-driven management of DNS zones and records in cloud environments.
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A.
Regardie
Regardie is the surname of Israel Regardie, a prominent 20th-century occultist and author associated with the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.
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B.
Taznatit
Taznatit is a Berber language whose features have influenced the development and structure of the Korandje language.
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C.
Steward
Steward is a surname of English origin historically associated with the occupational title for someone who managed a household or estate.
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D.
Statilii
The Statilii were an ancient Roman noble family (gens Statilia) that produced several prominent politicians and aristocrats during the Roman Empire.
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E.
Fillion
Fillion is the surname of Canadian-American actor Nathan Fillion, best known for his leading roles in the television series "Firefly" and "Castle."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
DNS-as-a-Service system
ⓘ
OpenStack component ⓘ free and open-source software ⓘ |
| canUse |
BIND9 as DNS backend
ⓘ
linked to:
BIND 9 (early design and leadership)
Infoblox as DNS backend ⓘ Knot DNS as DNS backend ⓘ NSD as DNS backend ⓘ PowerDNS as DNS backend ⓘ |
| designedFor | cloud environments ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
Designate API service
ⓘ
Designate Central service ⓘ Designate MDNS service ⓘ Designate Producer service ⓘ Designate Sink service ⓘ Designate Worker service ⓘ |
| hasDocumentationAt | https://docs.openstack.org/designate/latest/ ⓘ |
| hasFunction | DNS-as-a-Service ⓘ |
| hostedOn | OpenDev infrastructure ⓘ |
| implements | REST API ⓘ |
| integratesWith |
OpenStack Horizon
ⓘ
OpenStack Keystone ⓘ OpenStack Neutron ⓘ OpenStack Nova ⓘ |
| licensedUnder | Apache License 2.0 ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | OpenStack community ⓘ |
| partOf | OpenStack ⓘ |
| provides |
API-driven DNS management
ⓘ
management of DNS records ⓘ management of DNS zones ⓘ |
| supports |
DNS recordset management
ⓘ
DNS zone management ⓘ OpenStack clouds ⓘ
linked to:
OpenStack
asynchronous operations ⓘ floating IP PTR record management ⓘ forward DNS zones ⓘ high availability deployments ⓘ horizontal scalability ⓘ multi-tenant DNS management ⓘ pluggable backends ⓘ private clouds ⓘ public clouds ⓘ quota management ⓘ reverse DNS zones ⓘ role-based access control ⓘ |
| uses |
OpenStack Keystone for authentication
ⓘ
linked to:
OpenStack Keystone
OpenStack Oslo libraries ⓘ message queue for internal communication ⓘ relational database for state storage ⓘ |
| writtenIn | Python ⓘ |
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: Designate Description of subject: Designate is OpenStack’s DNS-as-a-Service component that provides scalable, API-driven management of DNS zones and records in cloud environments.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.