WS-Discovery
E702105
WS-Discovery is a Web Services protocol that enables automatic discovery of services on a local network using multicast messaging.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| WS-Discovery canonical | 2 |
| DNS-based Service Discovery | 1 |
| Web Services Dynamic Discovery | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7980906 — 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: WS-Discovery Context triple: [WS-* specifications, includes, WS-Discovery]
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A.
UDDI
UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration) is a platform-independent, XML-based registry standard for publishing and discovering web services on the internet.
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B.
WSDL
WSDL (Web Services Description Language) is an XML-based language used to formally describe the interfaces, operations, and message formats of web services so they can be discovered and invoked by clients.
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C.
W3C Web Services Architecture
W3C Web Services Architecture is a W3C-defined conceptual framework that outlines the principles, components, and interactions underlying interoperable web services on the World Wide Web.
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D.
Link Layer Topology Discovery
Link Layer Topology Discovery (LLDP) is a vendor-neutral network protocol used by devices to advertise their identity and capabilities to neighbors, enabling automatic discovery and mapping of network topology at the data link layer.
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E.
WS-* specifications
WS-* specifications are a family of interoperable web service standards that define protocols for security, reliability, transactions, and messaging in service-oriented architectures.
- 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: WS-Discovery Target entity description: WS-Discovery is a Web Services protocol that enables automatic discovery of services on a local network using multicast messaging.
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A.
UDDI
UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration) is a platform-independent, XML-based registry standard for publishing and discovering web services on the internet.
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B.
WSDL
WSDL (Web Services Description Language) is an XML-based language used to formally describe the interfaces, operations, and message formats of web services so they can be discovered and invoked by clients.
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C.
W3C Web Services Architecture
W3C Web Services Architecture is a W3C-defined conceptual framework that outlines the principles, components, and interactions underlying interoperable web services on the World Wide Web.
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D.
Link Layer Topology Discovery
Link Layer Topology Discovery (LLDP) is a vendor-neutral network protocol used by devices to advertise their identity and capabilities to neighbors, enabling automatic discovery and mapping of network topology at the data link layer.
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E.
WS-* specifications
WS-* specifications are a family of interoperable web service standards that define protocols for security, reliability, transactions, and messaging in service-oriented architectures.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
OASIS standard
ⓘ
Web services discovery protocol ⓘ |
| abbreviation | WS-Discovery ⓘ |
| category |
Service discovery protocol
ⓘ
Web services protocol ⓘ |
| communicationModel | request-response over SOAP ⓘ |
| definedBy | OASIS ⓘ |
| designGoal |
interoperable discovery for web services
ⓘ
zero-configuration service discovery ⓘ |
| discoveryScope | multicast group ⓘ |
| feature |
SOAP-based messaging
ⓘ
dynamic discovery of services without prior configuration ⓘ multicast-based discovery ⓘ support for discovery proxies ⓘ |
| fullName |
Web Services Dynamic Discovery
ⓘ
linked to:
WS-Discovery
|
| hasVersion | 1.1 ⓘ |
| messageType |
Bye
ⓘ
Hello ⓘ Probe ⓘ ProbeMatches ⓘ Resolve ⓘ ResolveMatches ⓘ |
| primaryUse | automatic discovery of web services on a local network ⓘ |
| relatedStandard |
WS-Addressing
ⓘ
WS-MetadataExchange ⓘ |
| relatedTechnology |
DNS-SD
ⓘ
linked to:
DNS Service Discovery
UPnP ⓘ |
| scope | local network ⓘ |
| standardizedBy | OASIS ⓘ |
| status | widely implemented in Microsoft ecosystems ⓘ |
| supportsCommunicationPattern |
multicast
ⓘ
unicast ⓘ |
| supportsDiscoveryMode |
ad-hoc
ⓘ
managed ⓘ |
| supportsOperation |
service announcement
ⓘ
service discovery ⓘ service resolution ⓘ |
| supportsProxyRole | discovery proxy ⓘ |
| typicalEnvironment |
SOA-based networks
ⓘ
enterprise networks ⓘ home or small office networks ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Microsoft Windows
ⓘ
linked to:
Windows
|
| usedFor |
discovering other networked devices and services
ⓘ
discovering printers on a local network ⓘ |
| usesAddressing | WS-Addressing endpoint references ⓘ |
| usesProtocol |
SOAP
ⓘ
linked to:
W3C SOAP specification
|
| usesTransport |
HTTP
ⓘ
UDP ⓘ |
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: WS-Discovery Description of subject: WS-Discovery is a Web Services protocol that enables automatic discovery of services on a local network using multicast messaging.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: WS-Discovery
linked to: WS-Discovery