Claimant

nounid 1821·updated May 12, 2026

candidate

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An entity which is or represents a principal for the purposes of authentication, together with the functions involved in an authentication exchange on behalf of that entity. A claimant acting on behalf of a principal must include the functions necessary for engaging in an authentication exchange. (e.g., a smartcard [claimant] can act on behalf of a human user [principal])

polysemous

Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

Identity0%rule-basedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1

Sensitivity

Regulated85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Information Class

Pii80%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Variants

3 surface forms

plural: Claimants
possessive: Claimant's
pluralpossessive: Claimants'

Framework definitions

7 senses across 5 frameworks

NISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 23 sensesview framework →

§1: A party whose identity is to be verified using an authentication protocol.
§2 · sense_2_pending_review: An entity which is or represents a principal for the purposes of authentication, together with the functions involved in an authentication exchange on behalf of that entity. A claimant acting on behalf of a principal must include the functions necessary for engaging in an authentication exchange. (e.g., a smartcard [claimant] can act on behalf of a human user [principal])
§3 · sense_3_pending_review: An entity (user, device or process) whose assertion is to be verified using an authentication protocol.

CNSSI-4009 (Glossary of Information Assurance Terms)1 senseview framework →

§1: An entity (user, device or process) whose assertion is to be verified using an authentication protocol.

NIST SP 800-631 senseview framework →

§1: A party whose identity is to be verified using an authentication protocol.

FIPS PUB 2011 senseview framework →

§1: A party whose identity is to be verified using an authentication protocol.

FIPS PUB 1961 senseview framework →

§1: An entity which is or represents a principal for the purposes of authentication, together with the functions involved in an authentication exchange on behalf of that entity. A claimant acting on behalf of a principal must include the functions necessary for engaging in an authentication exchange. (e.g., a smartcard [claimant] can act on behalf of a human user [principal])

Outgoing relationships

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No outgoing triples

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Incoming relationships

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