Nessus
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Nessus is a widely used vulnerability scanning tool that identifies security weaknesses in networks, systems, and applications.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nessus canonical | 1 |
| Nessus Attack Scripting Language | 1 |
| Nessus Enterprise | 1 |
| Nessus Expert | 1 |
| Nessus Professional | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8248213 — 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: Nessus Context triple: [Metasploit Framework, integratesWith, Nessus]
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A.
Nessus
Nessus is a centaur in Greek mythology best known for his role in the death of Heracles after deceitfully causing the poisoned garment incident.
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B.
OpenVAS
OpenVAS is an open-source vulnerability scanning and management framework used to assess and improve the security of computer networks and systems.
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C.
Tenable
Tenable is a British daytime television quiz show, hosted by Warwick Davis, in which teams of contestants attempt to complete top-ten lists on a variety of topics.
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D.
Nmap
Nmap is a widely used open-source network scanning and security auditing tool that discovers hosts and services on computer networks.
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E.
OWASP ZAP
OWASP ZAP (Zed Attack Proxy) is an open-source web application security testing tool used to find vulnerabilities in web applications.
- 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: Nessus Target entity description: Nessus is a widely used vulnerability scanning tool that identifies security weaknesses in networks, systems, and applications.
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A.
Nessus
Nessus is a centaur in Greek mythology best known for his role in the death of Heracles after deceitfully causing the poisoned garment incident.
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B.
OpenVAS
OpenVAS is an open-source vulnerability scanning and management framework used to assess and improve the security of computer networks and systems.
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C.
Tenable
Tenable is a British daytime television quiz show, hosted by Warwick Davis, in which teams of contestants attempt to complete top-ten lists on a variety of topics.
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D.
Nmap
Nmap is a widely used open-source network scanning and security auditing tool that discovers hosts and services on computer networks.
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E.
OWASP ZAP
OWASP ZAP (Zed Attack Proxy) is an open-source web application security testing tool used to find vulnerabilities in web applications.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
security software
ⓘ
vulnerability scanner ⓘ |
| abbreviation | NASL ⓘ |
| capability |
detecting known vulnerabilities
ⓘ
detecting misconfigurations ⓘ identifying missing patches ⓘ mapping network assets ⓘ |
| commercialEdition |
Nessus Enterprise
ⓘ
linked to:
Nessus
Nessus Expert ⓘ
linked to:
Nessus
Nessus Professional ⓘ
linked to:
Nessus
|
| developer | Tenable Inc. ⓘ |
| feature |
continuous updates of vulnerability plugins
ⓘ
credentialed scanning ⓘ plugin-based architecture ⓘ policy-based scanning ⓘ remediation recommendations ⓘ report generation ⓘ scheduled scans ⓘ unauthenticated scanning ⓘ |
| genre |
network security software
ⓘ
vulnerability assessment tool ⓘ |
| integratesWith |
Tenable.io
ⓘ
Tenable.sc ⓘ
linked to:
Tenable
|
| license | proprietary ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
Linux
ⓘ
Windows ⓘ macOS ⓘ |
| originalDeveloper | Renaud Deraison ⓘ |
| previousLicense |
GPL
ⓘ
linked to:
GNU General Public License
|
| programmingLanguage |
C
ⓘ
C++ ⓘ NASL ⓘ |
| supportsProtocol |
HTTP
ⓘ
HTTPS ⓘ ICMP ⓘ SNMP ⓘ SSH ⓘ TCP ⓘ
linked to:
Transmission Control Protocol
UDP ⓘ |
| targetUser |
penetration testers
ⓘ
security professionals ⓘ system administrators ⓘ |
| useCase |
application vulnerability scanning
ⓘ
compliance checking ⓘ configuration auditing ⓘ network vulnerability scanning ⓘ system vulnerability scanning ⓘ |
| uses |
Nessus Attack Scripting Language
ⓘ
linked to:
Nessus
|
| website | https://www.tenable.com/products/nessus ⓘ |
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: Nessus Description of subject: Nessus is a widely used vulnerability scanning tool that identifies security weaknesses in networks, systems, and applications.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Nessus
linked to: Nessus
linked to: Nessus