ADAM
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ADAM is the former name for Microsoft’s lightweight, standalone directory service now known as Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS), used for directory-enabled applications without requiring a full Active Directory domain.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| ADAM canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9978265 — 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: ADAM Context triple: [Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services, abbreviation, ADAM]
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A.
Aday
Aday is the surname of American rock singer and actor Meat Loaf, born Marvin Lee Aday.
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B.
Adoian
Adoian is the original Armenian surname of the influential abstract expressionist painter Arshile Gorky.
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C.
Annadamangal
Annadamangal is a Bengali devotional narrative poem belonging to the Mangalkavya tradition, celebrating the goddess Annapurna and the theme of divine grace through food and prosperity.
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D.
Alan
Alan is a masculine given name of Celtic origin that has been widely used in English-speaking countries.
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E.
Alan
The Alans were an ancient nomadic Iranian-speaking people of the Eurasian steppes, known for their skilled horsemanship and significant role in the migrations that shaped late antiquity Europe.
- 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: ADAM Target entity description: ADAM is the former name for Microsoft’s lightweight, standalone directory service now known as Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS), used for directory-enabled applications without requiring a full Active Directory domain.
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A.
Aday
Aday is the surname of American rock singer and actor Meat Loaf, born Marvin Lee Aday.
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B.
Adoian
Adoian is the original Armenian surname of the influential abstract expressionist painter Arshile Gorky.
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C.
Annadamangal
Annadamangal is a Bengali devotional narrative poem belonging to the Mangalkavya tradition, celebrating the goddess Annapurna and the theme of divine grace through food and prosperity.
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D.
Alan
Alan is a masculine given name of Celtic origin that has been widely used in English-speaking countries.
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E.
Alan
The Alans were an ancient nomadic Iranian-speaking people of the Eurasian steppes, known for their skilled horsemanship and significant role in the migrations that shaped late antiquity Europe.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
directory service
ⓘ
software product ⓘ |
| basedOn | Active Directory ⓘ |
| canBeDeployed |
alongside Active Directory
ⓘ
standalone ⓘ |
| category |
directory service software
ⓘ
identity and access management technology ⓘ |
| compatibleWith | Active Directory tools (with limitations) ⓘ |
| designedFor |
applications that require directory services without a full domain
ⓘ
directory-enabled applications ⓘ |
| developedBy | Microsoft ⓘ |
| documentationTitle | Active Directory Application Mode (ADAM) ⓘ |
| doesNotRequire |
Active Directory domain
ⓘ
domain controller in the forest ⓘ |
| formerNameOf | Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services ⓘ |
| hasAcronym | Active Directory Application Mode ⓘ |
| introducedIn | Windows Server 2003 R2 era ⓘ |
| language | English user interface (primary) ⓘ |
| partOf |
Microsoft Windows Server family
ⓘ
linked to:
Windows Server
|
| platform | Windows ⓘ |
| provides |
LDAP directory access
ⓘ
directory service for applications ⓘ schema-based data storage ⓘ |
| rebrandedAs | Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services ⓘ |
| replacedBy | AD LDS terminology in later Windows versions ⓘ |
| successor | Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services ⓘ |
| supportsFeature |
SSL/TLS for secure LDAP
ⓘ
access control lists ⓘ application-specific schemas ⓘ bind using ADAM-specific users ⓘ bind using Windows security principals ⓘ independent directory partitions ⓘ multiple instances on a single server ⓘ replication between ADAM instances ⓘ security integration with Windows accounts ⓘ |
| supportsPlatform |
Microsoft Windows Server
ⓘ
linked to:
Windows Server
Microsoft Windows client ⓘ
linked to:
Windows client editions
|
| useCase |
providing LDAP directory for extranet applications
ⓘ
storing application configuration data ⓘ storing user and group information for applications ⓘ |
| usesProtocol |
LDAP
ⓘ
Lightweight Directory Access 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: ADAM Description of subject: ADAM is the former name for Microsoft’s lightweight, standalone directory service now known as Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS), used for directory-enabled applications without requiring a full Active Directory domain.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.