Open vSwitch
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Open vSwitch is an open-source, production-quality virtual switch designed to enable network automation and support standard management interfaces and protocols in virtualized environments.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Open vSwitch canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7938082 — 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: Open vSwitch Context triple: [OpenStack Neutron, integratesWith, Open vSwitch]
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A.
OVS
OVS is the New York State agency that provides financial assistance, advocacy, and support services to victims of crime.
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B.
OpenStack Neutron
OpenStack Neutron is the networking service within the OpenStack cloud computing platform that provides scalable, programmable virtual networking for cloud resources.
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C.
IEEE 802.1Qfv
IEEE 802.1Qfv is an amendment to the IEEE 802.1Q standard that defines enhancements for flexible queuing and forwarding behaviors in bridged and virtualized Ethernet networks.
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D.
oVirt
oVirt is an open-source virtualization management platform that provides enterprise-grade management of virtual machines, hosts, storage, and networks.
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E.
OFPP
OFPP is a U.S. federal office within the Office of Management and Budget that provides overall direction for government-wide procurement policies and practices.
- 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: Open vSwitch Target entity description: Open vSwitch is an open-source, production-quality virtual switch designed to enable network automation and support standard management interfaces and protocols in virtualized environments.
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A.
OVS
OVS is the New York State agency that provides financial assistance, advocacy, and support services to victims of crime.
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B.
Juniper Contrail
Juniper Contrail is a software-defined networking (SDN) and network virtualization platform from Juniper Networks that provides automated, programmable networking and security for cloud and data center environments.
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C.
OpenStack Neutron
OpenStack Neutron is the networking service within the OpenStack cloud computing platform that provides scalable, programmable virtual networking for cloud resources.
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D.
IEEE 802.1Qfv
IEEE 802.1Qfv is an amendment to the IEEE 802.1Q standard that defines enhancements for flexible queuing and forwarding behaviors in bridged and virtualized Ethernet networks.
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E.
oVirt
oVirt is an open-source virtualization management platform that provides enterprise-grade management of virtual machines, hosts, storage, and networks.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (68)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
network virtualization software
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open-source software ⓘ software project ⓘ virtual switch ⓘ |
| designedFor |
cloud computing environments
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data center networks ⓘ virtualized environments ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
kernel datapath module
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ovs-ofctl NERFINISHED ⓘ ovs-vsctl ⓘ ovs-vswitchd ⓘ ovsdb-server NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| implementsStandard |
IEEE 802.1Q
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
LACP ⓘ OVSDB management protocol ⓘ OpenFlow specification NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| initialReleaseDate | 2009 ⓘ |
| laterMaintainedBy |
Open vSwitch community
NERFINISHED
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VMware NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
ESXi (via integration)
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FreeBSD NERFINISHED ⓘ Linux ⓘ NetBSD NERFINISHED ⓘ Windows ⓘ |
| originallyDevelopedBy | Nicira NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage |
C
ⓘ
Python ⓘ |
| repository | https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs ⓘ |
| softwareLicense | Apache License 2.0 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| supportsController |
Floodlight
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
NOX NERFINISHED ⓘ ONOS NERFINISHED ⓘ OpenDaylight NERFINISHED ⓘ Ryu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| supportsFeature |
ACLs
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Open vSwitch Database (OVSDB) management protocol ⓘ QoS ⓘ SDN NERFINISHED ⓘ VLAN tagging ⓘ bonding ⓘ distributed switching ⓘ flow-based switching ⓘ high availability ⓘ network automation ⓘ port mirroring ⓘ tunneling ⓘ |
| supportsManagementInterface |
OVSDB remote management
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command-line interface ⓘ standard SDN controllers ⓘ |
| supportsProtocol |
802.1Q VLAN
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GRE tunneling ⓘ Geneve tunneling ⓘ IPFIX NERFINISHED ⓘ LACP NERFINISHED ⓘ NetFlow NERFINISHED ⓘ OpenFlow NERFINISHED ⓘ VXLAN tunneling NERFINISHED ⓘ sFlow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| supportsUseCase |
multi-tenant isolation
ⓘ
network function virtualization ⓘ overlay networking ⓘ programmable data plane experimentation ⓘ virtual network switching ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Docker and container networking setups
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KVM-based virtualization ⓘ OpenStack networking (Neutron) NERFINISHED ⓘ Xen-based virtualization ⓘ |
| website | https://www.openvswitch.org/ ⓘ |
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: Open vSwitch Description of subject: Open vSwitch is an open-source, production-quality virtual switch designed to enable network automation and support standard management interfaces and protocols in virtualized environments.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.