CIM
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CIM (Common Information Model) is an open, object-oriented standard for describing and managing computing and network resources in a platform- and vendor-neutral way.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| CIM canonical | 7 |
| Common Information Model | 3 |
| CIM (Common Information Model) | 1 |
| CIM Infrastructure | 1 |
| CIM Operations | 1 |
| CIM Schema | 1 |
| DMTF CIM | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8287538 — 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: CIM Context triple: [WMI, implementsStandard, CIM]
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A.
CIM
CIM is an acronym commonly referring to the China Inland Mission, a pioneering Protestant Christian missionary society founded in the 19th century to evangelize the inland regions of China.
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B.
CIM
CIM is a state prison facility for male inmates located in Chino, California, operated by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
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C.
CIM
CIM is the Spanish acronym for the Inter-American Commission of Women, a specialized organization within the Organization of American States dedicated to promoting and protecting women’s rights and gender equality in the Americas.
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D.
CMI
CMI is the three-letter IATA airport code for University of Illinois Willard Airport, serving the Champaign–Urbana area in Illinois, USA.
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E.
CZM
CZM is the Massachusetts state agency responsible for protecting, managing, and enhancing the Commonwealth’s coastal resources and communities.
- 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: CIM Target entity description: CIM (Common Information Model) is an open, object-oriented standard for describing and managing computing and network resources in a platform- and vendor-neutral way.
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A.
CIM
CIM is the Spanish acronym for the Inter-American Commission of Women, a specialized organization within the Organization of American States dedicated to promoting and protecting women’s rights and gender equality in the Americas.
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B.
CIM
CIM is an acronym commonly referring to the China Inland Mission, a pioneering Protestant Christian missionary society founded in the 19th century to evangelize the inland regions of China.
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C.
CIM
CIM is a state prison facility for male inmates located in Chino, California, operated by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
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D.
CMI
CMI is the three-letter IATA airport code for University of Illinois Willard Airport, serving the Champaign–Urbana area in Illinois, USA.
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E.
CZM
CZM is the Massachusetts state agency responsible for protecting, managing, and enhancing the Commonwealth’s coastal resources and communities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
data model
ⓘ
information technology standard ⓘ object-oriented model ⓘ |
| abbreviation | CIM ⓘ |
| abbreviationOfRelatedStandard |
WBEM
ⓘ
linked to:
WS-Management
|
| abbreviationOfRepresentation | MOF ⓘ |
| abbreviationOfStandardizingBody |
DMTF
ⓘ
linked to:
Distributed Management Task Force
|
| basedOn | object-oriented principles ⓘ |
| canBeMappedTo |
SNMP MIBs
ⓘ
directory schemas such as LDAP ⓘ |
| category |
IT management standard
ⓘ
data modeling language ⓘ |
| defines |
associations between managed elements
ⓘ
managed elements as classes with properties and methods ⓘ |
| designGoal |
separate conceptual model from implementation details
ⓘ
support multiple management protocols ⓘ |
| domain |
IT infrastructure management
ⓘ
network management ⓘ systems management ⓘ |
| enables |
common semantics for management data
ⓘ
mapping between different management data models ⓘ |
| fullName | Common Information Model ⓘ |
| goal | provide a common definition of management information for systems, networks, applications, and services ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
CIM Infrastructure
ⓘ
linked to:
CIM
CIM Operations ⓘ
linked to:
CIM
CIM Schema ⓘ
linked to:
CIM
|
| hasVersioning | schema versions maintained by DMTF ⓘ |
| influenced | design of various enterprise management frameworks ⓘ |
| property |
implementation-independent
ⓘ
platform-neutral ⓘ vendor-neutral ⓘ |
| relatedStandard | Web-Based Enterprise Management ⓘ |
| representedIn | Managed Object Format ⓘ |
| scope |
applications
ⓘ
hardware components ⓘ networks ⓘ operating systems ⓘ services ⓘ |
| standardizedBy | Distributed Management Task Force ⓘ |
| supports |
extensibility through custom classes
ⓘ
modeling of computing resources ⓘ modeling of network resources ⓘ modeling of services ⓘ modeling of software components ⓘ modeling of storage resources ⓘ |
| usedFor |
describing management information in a standardized way
ⓘ
enabling interoperability between management systems ⓘ integrating heterogeneous management tools ⓘ |
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: CIM Description of subject: CIM (Common Information Model) is an open, object-oriented standard for describing and managing computing and network resources in a platform- and vendor-neutral way.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
WMI and CIM
linked to: CIM
subject linked to:
Windows management infrastructure
linked to: CIM
subject linked to:
Windows management infrastructure
linked to: CIM
linked to: CIM
subject linked to:
CIM
subject linked to:
CIM
linked to: CIM
linked to: CIM