Digital Crown
E112731
The Digital Crown is a rotating and clickable control on Apple Watch that lets users scroll, zoom, and navigate the interface without obstructing the display.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Digital Crown canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T955792 — 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: Digital Crown Context triple: [Apple Watch, hasFeature, Digital Crown]
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A.
Surface Dial
Surface Dial is a Microsoft-designed radial input device that offers precise, context-aware control for creative and productivity tasks, especially when used with Surface computers and displays.
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B.
Digital Nas
Digital Nas is a hip-hop producer and songwriter known for his work with prominent artists in the contemporary rap scene, including contributions to Kanye West’s music.
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C.
Digital Bullet
Digital Bullet is a hip-hop album by RZA (under his Bobby Digital persona) that blends gritty beats with futuristic, comic book–inspired storytelling.
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D.
Crown
Crown is a major American publishing imprint of Penguin Random House known for releasing high-profile nonfiction and bestselling works by prominent public figures.
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E.
Crown
The Crown is the institution representing the British monarchy and the executive authority of the state, distinct from Parliament and the judiciary.
- 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: Digital Crown Target entity description: The Digital Crown is a rotating and clickable control on Apple Watch that lets users scroll, zoom, and navigate the interface without obstructing the display.
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A.
Surface Dial
Surface Dial is a Microsoft-designed radial input device that offers precise, context-aware control for creative and productivity tasks, especially when used with Surface computers and displays.
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B.
Digital Nas
Digital Nas is a hip-hop producer and songwriter known for his work with prominent artists in the contemporary rap scene, including contributions to Kanye West’s music.
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C.
Digital Bullet
Digital Bullet is a hip-hop album by RZA (under his Bobby Digital persona) that blends gritty beats with futuristic, comic book–inspired storytelling.
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D.
Crown
The Crown is the institution representing the British monarchy and the executive authority of the state, distinct from Parliament and the judiciary.
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E.
Crown
Crown is a major American publishing imprint of Penguin Random House known for releasing high-profile nonfiction and bestselling works by prominent public figures.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Apple Watch component
ⓘ
hardware control ⓘ input device ⓘ |
| compatibleWith |
Apple Watch
ⓘ
surface form:
Apple Watch SE (1st generation)
Apple Watch ⓘ
surface form:
Apple Watch SE (2nd generation)
Apple Watch ⓘ
surface form:
Apple Watch Series 0
Apple Watch ⓘ
surface form:
Apple Watch Series 1
Apple Watch ⓘ
surface form:
Apple Watch Series 2
Apple Watch ⓘ
surface form:
Apple Watch Series 3
Apple Watch ⓘ
surface form:
Apple Watch Series 4
Apple Watch ⓘ
surface form:
Apple Watch Series 5
Apple Watch ⓘ
surface form:
Apple Watch Series 6
Apple Watch ⓘ
surface form:
Apple Watch Series 7
Apple Watch ⓘ
surface form:
Apple Watch Series 8
Apple Watch ⓘ
surface form:
Apple Watch Series 9
Apple Watch ⓘ
surface form:
Apple Watch Ultra
Apple Watch ⓘ
surface form:
Apple Watch Ultra 2
|
| designedFor |
Apple Watch
ⓘ
watchOS ⓘ |
| firstReleaseYear | 2015 ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
electrical heart sensor contact (on some models)
ⓘ
haptic feedback (on supported models) ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
accessibility control
ⓘ
navigation ⓘ scrolling ⓘ selection ⓘ zooming ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | traditional watch crown ⓘ |
| introducedWithProduct |
Apple Watch
ⓘ
surface form:
Apple Watch (1st generation)
|
| locatedOn | side of Apple Watch case ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Apple Inc. ⓘ |
| marketedAs | Digital Crown self-link ⓘ |
| partOf | Apple Watch user interface ⓘ |
| platform | watchOS ⓘ |
| primaryPurpose | enable interaction without obstructing the display ⓘ |
| supportsAction |
double-press
ⓘ
press ⓘ press-and-hold ⓘ rotate ⓘ |
| usedFor |
accessing app switcher
ⓘ
adjusting on-screen elements ⓘ adjusting volume ⓘ controlling VoiceOver ⓘ invoking Siri ⓘ returning to Home screen ⓘ scrolling complications and notifications ⓘ scrolling lists ⓘ zooming into maps ⓘ zooming into photos ⓘ |
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: Digital Crown Description of subject: The Digital Crown is a rotating and clickable control on Apple Watch that lets users scroll, zoom, and navigate the interface without obstructing the display.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.