Internet Fibre Channel Protocol
E771029
Internet Fibre Channel Protocol is a networking standard that enables Fibre Channel storage traffic to be transported over TCP/IP networks, allowing remote SAN connectivity over existing IP infrastructure.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Internet Fibre Channel Protocol canonical | 4 |
| Fibre Channel over TCP/IP | 1 |
| iFCP - A Protocol for Internet Fibre Channel Storage Networking | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9002594 — 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: Internet Fibre Channel Protocol Context triple: [iFCP, fullName, Internet Fibre Channel Protocol]
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A.
Fibre Channel
Fibre Channel is a high-speed network technology primarily used to connect computer data storage in storage area networks (SANs), offering low-latency, high-throughput communication for enterprise environments.
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B.
FCoE
FCoE is a U.S. Army training and doctrine center focused on developing and integrating artillery and fire support capabilities.
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C.
FCoE
FCoE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet) is a network protocol that encapsulates Fibre Channel frames over Ethernet networks to enable converged storage and data traffic on a single infrastructure.
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D.
IP over InfiniBand
IP over InfiniBand is a networking technology that enables standard Internet Protocol (IP) traffic to run over high-speed InfiniBand fabrics, allowing IP-based applications to leverage InfiniBand’s low latency and high bandwidth.
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E.
InfiniBand
InfiniBand is a high-speed, low-latency communications standard commonly used as the interconnect fabric in supercomputers and large-scale data centers.
- 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: Internet Fibre Channel Protocol Target entity description: Internet Fibre Channel Protocol is a networking standard that enables Fibre Channel storage traffic to be transported over TCP/IP networks, allowing remote SAN connectivity over existing IP infrastructure.
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A.
Fibre Channel
Fibre Channel is a high-speed network technology primarily used to connect computer data storage in storage area networks (SANs), offering low-latency, high-throughput communication for enterprise environments.
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B.
FCoE
FCoE is a U.S. Army training and doctrine center focused on developing and integrating artillery and fire support capabilities.
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C.
FCoE
FCoE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet) is a network protocol that encapsulates Fibre Channel frames over Ethernet networks to enable converged storage and data traffic on a single infrastructure.
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D.
IP over InfiniBand
IP over InfiniBand is a networking technology that enables standard Internet Protocol (IP) traffic to run over high-speed InfiniBand fabrics, allowing IP-based applications to leverage InfiniBand’s low latency and high bandwidth.
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E.
InfiniBand
InfiniBand is a high-speed, low-latency communications standard commonly used as the interconnect fabric in supercomputers and large-scale data centers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
IETF standard
ⓘ
networking protocol ⓘ |
| abbreviation | iFCP ⓘ |
| category |
Fibre Channel over IP technology
ⓘ
linked to:
Fibre Channel over IP
|
| competesWith |
Fibre Channel over IP
ⓘ
iSCSI ⓘ |
| definedIn | RFC 4172 ⓘ |
| designedFor | use over existing IP infrastructure ⓘ |
| enables |
SAN extension over IP
ⓘ
remote SAN connectivity ⓘ |
| encapsulates | Fibre Channel protocol data units ⓘ |
| handles | Fibre Channel addressing over IP ⓘ |
| operatesAt |
network layer
ⓘ
transport layer ⓘ |
| provides | tunneling of Fibre Channel over IP ⓘ |
| purpose | transport Fibre Channel storage traffic over IP networks ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Fibre Channel
ⓘ
IP storage networking ⓘ storage area networks ⓘ |
| requires | TCP connections between gateways ⓘ |
| runsOver |
IP
ⓘ
TCP/IP networks ⓘ |
| standardizedBy |
IETF
ⓘ
linked to:
Internet Engineering Task Force
|
| supports |
Fibre Channel fabric services over IP
ⓘ
interconnection of Fibre Channel fabrics over IP ⓘ long-distance SAN connectivity ⓘ |
| transports | Fibre Channel frames ⓘ |
| uses | gateway devices ⓘ |
| usesTransportProtocol |
TCP
ⓘ
linked to:
Transmission Control Protocol
|
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: Internet Fibre Channel Protocol Description of subject: Internet Fibre Channel Protocol is a networking standard that enables Fibre Channel storage traffic to be transported over TCP/IP networks, allowing remote SAN connectivity over existing IP infrastructure.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Internet Fibre Channel Protocol