Sun RPC
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Sun RPC (Sun Remote Procedure Call) is a network protocol and programming model developed by Sun Microsystems that allows a program to execute procedures on a remote system as if they were local function calls.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sun RPC canonical | 1 |
| Sun Remote Procedure Call | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9963170 — 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: Sun RPC Context triple: [RFC 1094, relatedTo, Sun RPC]
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A.
Solar Fire
Solar Fire is a 1973 progressive rock album by Manfred Mann's Earth Band, noted for its space-themed concept and reinterpretation of Gustav Holst's "The Planets."
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B.
SunView
SunView was an early graphical user interface and windowing system developed by Sun Microsystems for its Unix workstations.
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C.
Silver Peak
Silver Peak is a small historic mining town in Nevada known for its lithium production and remote desert setting.
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D.
Sun Link
Sun Link is a modern streetcar system serving downtown Tucson, Arizona, and nearby districts as part of the city’s public transit network.
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E.
SUN
SUN is the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) ticker symbol for Suncorp Group, a major Australian finance, insurance, and banking corporation.
- 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: Sun RPC Target entity description: Sun RPC (Sun Remote Procedure Call) is a network protocol and programming model developed by Sun Microsystems that allows a program to execute procedures on a remote system as if they were local function calls.
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A.
Solar Fire
Solar Fire is a 1973 progressive rock album by Manfred Mann's Earth Band, noted for its space-themed concept and reinterpretation of Gustav Holst's "The Planets."
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B.
SunView
SunView was an early graphical user interface and windowing system developed by Sun Microsystems for its Unix workstations.
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C.
Silver Peak
Silver Peak is a small historic mining town in Nevada known for its lithium production and remote desert setting.
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D.
Sun Link
Sun Link is a modern streetcar system serving downtown Tucson, Arizona, and nearby districts as part of the city’s public transit network.
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E.
SUN
SUN is the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) ticker symbol for Suncorp Group, a major Australian finance, insurance, and banking corporation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
network protocol
ⓘ
programming model ⓘ remote procedure call protocol ⓘ |
| abstractionLevel | application layer ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
ONC RPC
ⓘ
Open Network Computing Remote Procedure Call ⓘ
linked to:
ONC RPC
Sun Remote Procedure Call ⓘ
linked to:
Sun RPC
|
| authenticationMechanism |
AUTH_DES
ⓘ
linked to:
DES
AUTH_NONE ⓘ AUTH_SYS ⓘ |
| communicationModel | request–reply ⓘ |
| component | portmapper service ⓘ |
| dataEncoding | big-endian network byte order ⓘ |
| designedFor | remote procedure calls over a network ⓘ |
| developer | Sun Microsystems ⓘ |
| era | 1980s ⓘ |
| feature |
interface definition language via rpcgen
ⓘ
machine-independent data representation via XDR ⓘ |
| influenced |
DCE/RPC
ⓘ
linked to:
Microsoft RPC
ONC+ services ⓘ |
| license |
later made open specification
ⓘ
originally proprietary ⓘ |
| notableUseCase |
distributed file systems
ⓘ
network management services ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
Solaris
ⓘ
linked to:
Solaris operating system
SunOS ⓘ various Unix-like systems ⓘ |
| portmapperPurpose | map RPC program numbers to network ports ⓘ |
| purpose | allow a program to execute procedures on a remote system as if they were local calls ⓘ |
| rpcgenPurpose | generate client and server stubs from interface definitions ⓘ |
| standardizedAs |
RFC 1050
ⓘ
RFC 1831 ⓘ RFC 5531 ⓘ |
| supports |
asynchronous remote procedure calls
ⓘ
authentication mechanisms ⓘ synchronous remote procedure calls ⓘ |
| tool |
rpcgen
ⓘ
linked to:
RPC
|
| transportProtocol |
TCP
ⓘ
UDP ⓘ |
| typicalLanguageBindings |
C
ⓘ
C++ ⓘ Perl ⓘ |
| usedBy |
NFS
ⓘ
Network File System version 2 ⓘ Network File System version 3 ⓘ |
| uses |
XDR
ⓘ
client–server model ⓘ |
| xdrExpansion | External Data Representation ⓘ |
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: Sun RPC Description of subject: Sun RPC (Sun Remote Procedure Call) is a network protocol and programming model developed by Sun Microsystems that allows a program to execute procedures on a remote system as if they were local function calls.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.