Macintosh Performa 578
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The Macintosh Performa 578 is an all-in-one mid-1990s Apple personal computer aimed at home and education users, featuring integrated display, audio, and CD-ROM capabilities.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Macintosh Performa 578 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12510267 — 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: Macintosh Performa 578 Context triple: [Macintosh Performa 575, successorModel, Macintosh Performa 578]
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A.
Macintosh Performa 577
The Macintosh Performa 577 is an all-in-one mid-1990s Apple Macintosh home computer featuring a built-in color display and 68LC040 processor, positioned as a higher-end model in the Performa line.
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B.
Macintosh Performa 575
The Macintosh Performa 575 is a mid-1990s all-in-one Macintosh computer from Apple, notable for its built-in color display and use in both home and education markets.
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C.
Macintosh Performa 580
The Macintosh Performa 580 is a mid-1990s all-in-one personal computer from Apple’s consumer-oriented Performa line, featuring an integrated CRT display and aimed at home and education users.
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D.
Macintosh Performa 550
The Macintosh Performa 550 is a mid-1990s all-in-one personal computer from Apple’s consumer-oriented Performa line, featuring a built-in color display and aimed at home and education users.
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E.
Macintosh Performa 520
The Macintosh Performa 520 is an early-1990s all-in-one personal computer from Apple’s consumer-oriented Performa line, featuring an integrated CRT display and aimed at home and education users.
- 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: Macintosh Performa 578 Target entity description: The Macintosh Performa 578 is an all-in-one mid-1990s Apple personal computer aimed at home and education users, featuring integrated display, audio, and CD-ROM capabilities.
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A.
Macintosh Performa 577
The Macintosh Performa 577 is an all-in-one mid-1990s Apple Macintosh home computer featuring a built-in color display and 68LC040 processor, positioned as a higher-end model in the Performa line.
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B.
Macintosh Performa 575
The Macintosh Performa 575 is a mid-1990s all-in-one Macintosh computer from Apple, notable for its built-in color display and use in both home and education markets.
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C.
Macintosh Performa 580
The Macintosh Performa 580 is a mid-1990s all-in-one personal computer from Apple’s consumer-oriented Performa line, featuring an integrated CRT display and aimed at home and education users.
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D.
Macintosh Performa 550
The Macintosh Performa 550 is a mid-1990s all-in-one personal computer from Apple’s consumer-oriented Performa line, featuring a built-in color display and aimed at home and education users.
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E.
Macintosh Performa 520
The Macintosh Performa 520 is an early-1990s all-in-one personal computer from Apple’s consumer-oriented Performa line, featuring an integrated CRT display and aimed at home and education users.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Macintosh computer
ⓘ
all-in-one computer ⓘ personal computer ⓘ |
| audioInOutPorts | 3.5 mm jacks ⓘ |
| caseDesign | beige all-in-one ⓘ |
| category |
1990s home computer
ⓘ
68k Macintosh ⓘ |
| colorDisplay | yes ⓘ |
| cpu | Motorola 68LC040 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cpuArchitecture | Motorola 68040 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cpuClockSpeedMHz | 33 ⓘ |
| displaySizeInches | 14 ⓘ |
| displayType | CRT ⓘ |
| expansionSlots | LC PDS slot ⓘ |
| floppyDriveType | 1.44 MB 3.5-inch ⓘ |
| formFactor | all-in-one desktop ⓘ |
| fpu | none on-chip (LC variant) ⓘ |
| hardDiskInterface | SCSI NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasADBPort | yes ⓘ |
| hasCDROMDrive | yes ⓘ |
| hasFloppyDrive | yes ⓘ |
| hasGeoPort | yes ⓘ |
| hasHardDiskDrive | yes ⓘ |
| hasIntegratedSpeakers | yes ⓘ |
| hasIntegratedVideo | yes ⓘ |
| hasMicrophone | yes ⓘ |
| hasSCSIPort | yes ⓘ |
| hasSerialPorts | yes ⓘ |
| integratedDisplay | yes ⓘ |
| intendedMarket |
education users
ⓘ
home users ⓘ |
| manufacturer |
Apple Inc.
ⓘ
surface form:
Apple Computer, Inc.
|
| marketingChannel |
consumer retail
ⓘ
education sales ⓘ |
| operatingSystem | System 7 ⓘ |
| opticalDriveType | 2x CD-ROM ⓘ |
| productLine | Macintosh Performa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ramConfiguration | onboard RAM plus SIMM slot ⓘ |
| ramType | 72-pin SIMM ⓘ |
| relatedModel | Macintosh LC 575 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1994 ⓘ |
| successorModel | Macintosh Performa 580 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| supportsAppleDesktopBusPeripherals | yes GENERATED ⓘ |
| supportsEthernetVia | LC PDS Ethernet card GENERATED ⓘ |
| supportsOperatingSystem |
Mac OS 8 (limited)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
System 7.1 ⓘ System 7.5 ⓘ |
| targetRegion | primarily North America ⓘ |
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: Macintosh Performa 578 Description of subject: The Macintosh Performa 578 is an all-in-one mid-1990s Apple personal computer aimed at home and education users, featuring integrated display, audio, and CD-ROM capabilities.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.