NaCl
E792092
NaCl is a high-speed, high-security cryptographic library designed by Daniel J. Bernstein that provides easy-to-use, modern primitives for encryption, authentication, and public-key operations.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| NaCl canonical | 3 |
| NaCl validator | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9312321 — 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: NaCl Context triple: [libsodium, inspiredBy, NaCl]
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A.
Salt
Salt is an open-source configuration management and remote execution tool used to automate and manage large-scale IT infrastructure.
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B.
Salt
Salt is a 2010 action thriller film starring Angelina Jolie as a CIA officer accused of being a Russian spy.
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C.
Salt
Salt is the stage name of Cheryl James, an American rapper best known as one-third of the pioneering hip hop group Salt-N-Pepa.
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D.
Salt
"Salt" is a 1962 poetry collection by Nobel Prize–winning Polish poet Wisława Szymborska, known for its reflective, ironic, and philosophically rich explorations of everyday life and history.
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E.
Epsom salts
Epsom salts are a naturally occurring mineral compound of magnesium sulfate commonly used in bath soaks, gardening, and various household and therapeutic 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: NaCl Target entity description: NaCl is a high-speed, high-security cryptographic library designed by Daniel J. Bernstein that provides easy-to-use, modern primitives for encryption, authentication, and public-key operations.
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A.
Salt
Salt is an open-source configuration management and remote execution tool used to automate and manage large-scale IT infrastructure.
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B.
Salt
Salt is a 2010 action thriller film starring Angelina Jolie as a CIA officer accused of being a Russian spy.
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C.
Salt
Salt is the stage name of Cheryl James, an American rapper best known as one-third of the pioneering hip hop group Salt-N-Pepa.
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D.
Salt
"Salt" is a 1962 poetry collection by Nobel Prize–winning Polish poet Wisława Szymborska, known for its reflective, ironic, and philosophically rich explorations of everyday life and history.
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E.
Epsom salts
Epsom salts are a naturally occurring mineral compound of magnesium sulfate commonly used in bath soaks, gardening, and various household and therapeutic applications.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cryptographic library
ⓘ
software library ⓘ |
| abbreviationOf | Networking and Cryptography library ⓘ |
| applicationDomain |
application-level cryptography
ⓘ
secure network communication ⓘ |
| avoids |
legacy cryptographic primitives
ⓘ
low-level cryptographic interfaces ⓘ |
| createdBy | cryptography research group of Daniel J. Bernstein ⓘ |
| designedBy | Daniel J. Bernstein ⓘ |
| designGoal |
easy-to-use API
ⓘ
high performance ⓘ high security ⓘ misuse resistance ⓘ modern cryptographic primitives ⓘ |
| developedBy |
Daniel J. Bernstein
ⓘ
Peter Schwabe ⓘ Tanja Lange ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
high-security cryptography
ⓘ
high-speed cryptography ⓘ |
| hasDerivative | libsodium ⓘ |
| hasFullName | Networking and Cryptography library ⓘ |
| influenced | libsodium ⓘ |
| license | public-domain-like license ⓘ |
| notableFor | combining speed and security with simple APIs ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage | C ⓘ |
| provides |
authenticated encryption
ⓘ
digital signatures ⓘ hash functions ⓘ message authentication ⓘ public-key cryptography primitives ⓘ secret-key cryptography primitives ⓘ |
| providesInterface |
crypto_box
ⓘ
crypto_hash ⓘ crypto_onetimeauth ⓘ crypto_secretbox ⓘ crypto_sign ⓘ |
| securityModel | high-level, opinionated API ⓘ |
| supports |
hashing
ⓘ
one-time authentication ⓘ public-key authenticated encryption ⓘ public-key signatures ⓘ secret-key authenticated encryption ⓘ |
| targetPlatform | cross-platform ⓘ |
| usesPrimitive |
Curve25519
ⓘ
linked to:
Curve25519-based schemes
Ed25519 ⓘ HSalsa20 ⓘ Poly1305 ⓘ XSalsa20 ⓘ |
| website | http://nacl.cr.yp.to/ ⓘ |
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: NaCl Description of subject: NaCl is a high-speed, high-security cryptographic library designed by Daniel J. Bernstein that provides easy-to-use, modern primitives for encryption, authentication, and public-key operations.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.