Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2008
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Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2008 was Apple's annual developer conference where the company unveiled major software updates and new products, including early iPhone and Mac OS X advancements, to its global developer community.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2008 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12862714 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2008 Context triple: [Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2007, followedBy, Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2008]
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Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2007
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2007 was Apple's annual developer conference where the company showcased major software and hardware updates, including early previews of Mac OS X Leopard and iPhone development technologies.
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B.
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2006
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2006 was Apple's annual developer conference held in 2006, notable for major Mac hardware and software announcements including the debut of the Mac Pro.
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C.
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2009
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2009 was Apple's annual developer conference held in 2009, where the company showcased new software technologies and tools for macOS and iOS developers.
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D.
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2010
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2010 was Apple's annual developer conference where it introduced major software and hardware updates, including the debut of the iPhone 4 and new developer technologies.
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E.
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2005
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2005 was Apple's annual developer conference held in 2005, where the company showcased new software technologies and tools for Mac and emerging platforms to its developer community.
- 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: Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2008 Target entity description: Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2008 was Apple's annual developer conference where the company unveiled major software updates and new products, including early iPhone and Mac OS X advancements, to its global developer community.
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A.
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2007
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2007 was Apple's annual developer conference where the company showcased major software and hardware updates, including early previews of Mac OS X Leopard and iPhone development technologies.
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B.
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2006
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2006 was Apple's annual developer conference held in 2006, notable for major Mac hardware and software announcements including the debut of the Mac Pro.
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C.
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2009
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2009 was Apple's annual developer conference held in 2009, where the company showcased new software technologies and tools for macOS and iOS developers.
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D.
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2010
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2010 was Apple's annual developer conference where it introduced major software and hardware updates, including the debut of the iPhone 4 and new developer technologies.
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E.
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2005
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2005 was Apple's annual developer conference held in 2005, where the company showcased new software technologies and tools for Mac and emerging platforms to its developer community.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Apple event
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developer conference ⓘ technology conference ⓘ |
| announcedAPIs | third‑party native apps for iPhone ⓘ |
| announcedAvailability | global rollout of iPhone 3G ⓘ |
| announcedPlatform | iPhone SDK NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| announcedPrice | 199 USD starting price for iPhone 3G ⓘ |
| announcedProduct | iPhone 3G NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| announcedService | App Store NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| announcedSoftware |
Mac OS X Snow Leopard
NERFINISHED
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iPhone OS 2.0 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| city | San Francisco ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| editionOf | Apple Worldwide Developers Conference NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| endDate | 2008-06-13 ⓘ |
| focus |
Mac OS X
NERFINISHED
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iPhone OS NERFINISHED ⓘ software development ⓘ |
| hasKeynote | WWDC 2008 keynote address ⓘ |
| hasType | annual event ⓘ |
| introducedFeature | MobileMe integration with iPhone ⓘ |
| introducedService | MobileMe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| nextEvent | Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2009 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAnnouncement |
enterprise features for iPhone
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launch date for App Store ⓘ push notification framework for iPhone OS ⓘ |
| notableSpeaker |
Bertrand Serlet
NERFINISHED
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Phil Schiller NERFINISHED ⓘ Scott Forstall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| officialName | Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2008 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| openingKeynoteBy | Steve Jobs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| organizer | Apple Inc. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Apple developer relations program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| previousEvent | Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2007 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryPlatform |
Mac OS X Leopard
NERFINISHED
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iPhone OS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sequenceInSeries | 2008 edition ⓘ |
| shortName | WWDC 2008 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startDate | 2008-06-09 ⓘ |
| subjectOf | WWDC 2008 keynote video ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
Mac developers
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iPhone developers ⓘ software developers ⓘ |
| theme | advances in iPhone and Mac OS X software ⓘ |
| timePeriod | late 2000s ⓘ |
| venue | Moscone West NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2008 Description of subject: Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2008 was Apple's annual developer conference where the company unveiled major software updates and new products, including early iPhone and Mac OS X advancements, to its global developer community.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2007
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followedBy
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Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2008
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