FIDO Alliance
E724312
FIDO Alliance is an industry consortium that develops open, passwordless authentication standards to enhance online security and interoperability across devices and services.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| FIDO Alliance canonical | 10 |
| FIDO | 1 |
| FIDO Alliance Board | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8288853 — 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: FIDO Alliance Context triple: [FIDO2, developedBy, FIDO Alliance]
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A.
GlobalPlatform
GlobalPlatform is an international standards organization that defines specifications for secure chip technology and trusted digital services, including smart cards and secure elements.
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B.
FIDO2
FIDO2 is an open authentication standard that enables secure, passwordless logins using public-key cryptography across web and native applications.
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C.
Gemalto
Gemalto is a digital security company known for providing smart cards, SIM cards, and secure software solutions for telecommunications, banking, and government identification.
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D.
NFC Forum
The NFC Forum is an industry consortium that develops and promotes standards and certification programs for Near Field Communication (NFC) technology to ensure interoperability and widespread adoption.
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E.
OpenID Foundation
The OpenID Foundation is a non-profit organization that develops and promotes open identity standards and protocols to enable secure, interoperable online authentication.
- 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: FIDO Alliance Target entity description: FIDO Alliance is an industry consortium that develops open, passwordless authentication standards to enhance online security and interoperability across devices and services.
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A.
GlobalPlatform
GlobalPlatform is an international standards organization that defines specifications for secure chip technology and trusted digital services, including smart cards and secure elements.
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B.
FIDO2
FIDO2 is an open authentication standard that enables secure, passwordless logins using public-key cryptography across web and native applications.
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C.
Gemalto
Gemalto is a digital security company known for providing smart cards, SIM cards, and secure software solutions for telecommunications, banking, and government identification.
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D.
NFC Forum
The NFC Forum is an industry consortium that develops and promotes standards and certification programs for Near Field Communication (NFC) technology to ensure interoperability and widespread adoption.
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E.
OpenID Foundation
The OpenID Foundation is a non-profit organization that develops and promotes open identity standards and protocols to enable secure, interoperable online authentication.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
industry consortium
ⓘ
standards organization ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
FIDO
ⓘ
linked to:
FIDO Alliance
|
| collaboratesWith | World Wide Web Consortium ⓘ |
| definesConcept |
assertion
ⓘ
attestation ⓘ authenticator ⓘ relying party ⓘ user verification ⓘ |
| developsStandard |
CTAP
ⓘ
linked to:
FIDO UAF
FIDO U2F ⓘ FIDO UAF ⓘ FIDO2 ⓘ WebAuthn ⓘ
linked to:
Web Authentication API
|
| focus |
authentication standards
ⓘ
passwordless authentication ⓘ phishing-resistant authentication ⓘ strong authentication ⓘ |
| founded | 2012 ⓘ |
| foundedIn |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| fullName | Fast IDentity Online Alliance ⓘ |
| goal |
to enable passwordless sign-in
ⓘ
to mitigate phishing attacks ⓘ to standardize authentication across platforms and browsers ⓘ |
| hasProgram |
FIDO Certified program
ⓘ
FIDO Ready program ⓘ |
| hasWorkingGroup |
Certification Working Group
ⓘ
Identity Verification and Binding Working Group ⓘ IoT Technical Working Group ⓘ Security Working Group ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Mountain View, California
ⓘ
linked to:
Mountain View, California, United States
|
| industry |
cybersecurity
ⓘ
information technology ⓘ |
| memberType |
associate members
ⓘ
board members ⓘ government members ⓘ sponsor members ⓘ |
| promotesUseOf |
biometric authentication
ⓘ
hardware security keys ⓘ platform authenticators ⓘ |
| purpose |
to enhance interoperability across devices and services
ⓘ
to improve online security ⓘ to reduce reliance on passwords ⓘ |
| regionServed | global ⓘ |
| standardCategory |
authentication protocol
ⓘ
open standard ⓘ |
| usesTechnology |
asymmetric cryptography
ⓘ
public key cryptography ⓘ |
| website | https://fidoalliance.org ⓘ |
| worksOn | interoperability testing for FIDO implementations ⓘ |
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: FIDO Alliance Description of subject: FIDO Alliance is an industry consortium that develops open, passwordless authentication standards to enhance online security and interoperability across devices and services.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: FIDO Alliance
linked to: FIDO Alliance