Hide My Email
E112754
Hide My Email is an Apple privacy feature that lets users generate unique, random email addresses that forward to their personal inbox to keep their real address private.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hide My Email canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T956120 — 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: Hide My Email Context triple: [iCloud, supportsFeature, Hide My Email]
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A.
Epic Privacy Browser
Epic Privacy Browser is a Chromium-based web browser focused on protecting user privacy through built-in ad and tracker blocking, encrypted proxy, and minimal data collection.
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B.
InMail
InMail is LinkedIn’s premium messaging tool that lets users directly contact other members they’re not connected with on the platform.
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C.
Mailer
Mailer is a surname most notably associated with American novelist, journalist, and essayist Norman Mailer.
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D.
Cyber-Shades
Cyber-Shades are a variant of the Cybermen in Doctor Who, characterized by their bestial, hound-like form used for tracking and capturing victims.
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E.
Mail
Mail is Apple’s built-in email client application for macOS, used to send, receive, and manage email accounts.
- 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: Hide My Email Target entity description: Hide My Email is an Apple privacy feature that lets users generate unique, random email addresses that forward to their personal inbox to keep their real address private.
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A.
Epic Privacy Browser
Epic Privacy Browser is a Chromium-based web browser focused on protecting user privacy through built-in ad and tracker blocking, encrypted proxy, and minimal data collection.
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B.
InMail
InMail is LinkedIn’s premium messaging tool that lets users directly contact other members they’re not connected with on the platform.
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C.
Mailer
Mailer is a surname most notably associated with American novelist, journalist, and essayist Norman Mailer.
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D.
Cyber-Shades
Cyber-Shades are a variant of the Cybermen in Doctor Who, characterized by their bestial, hound-like form used for tracking and capturing victims.
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E.
Mail
Mail is Apple’s built-in email client application for macOS, used to send, receive, and manage email accounts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Apple privacy feature
ⓘ
email relay service ⓘ |
| alsoAvailableWith | Sign in with Apple ⓘ |
| availableIn |
Mail app on Apple platforms
ⓘ
Safari ⓘ
surface form:
Safari on Apple platforms
Settings app on iOS ⓘ System Settings on macOS ⓘ iCloud ⓘ
surface form:
iCloud.com web interface
|
| brandingOwner | Apple Inc. ⓘ |
| category |
Apple iCloud features
ⓘ
email privacy tools ⓘ |
| coreFunction |
allow users to delete relay addresses
ⓘ
allow users to disable forwarding ⓘ allow users to label generated addresses ⓘ allow users to specify forwarding address ⓘ forward messages to user’s real inbox ⓘ generate unique random email addresses ⓘ |
| dataHidden |
user’s Apple ID email
ⓘ
user’s real email address ⓘ |
| developer | Apple Inc. ⓘ |
| emailDomainType | Apple-controlled relay domains ⓘ |
| introducedWith |
iOS 15
ⓘ
iPadOS ⓘ
surface form:
iPadOS 15
macOS Monterey ⓘ |
| managementLocation |
Apple ID
ⓘ
surface form:
Apple ID settings
iCloud settings ⓘ |
| platform |
iCloud
ⓘ
surface form:
iCloud.com
iOS ⓘ iPadOS ⓘ macOS ⓘ watchOS ⓘ |
| privacyProperty |
helps prevent cross-site tracking via email address
ⓘ
prevents websites from seeing real email address ⓘ |
| purpose |
limit sharing of real email address
ⓘ
protect user email privacy ⓘ reduce email tracking ⓘ |
| relatedFeature |
Sign in with Apple
ⓘ
iCloud Private Relay ⓘ
surface form:
iCloud+ Private Relay
|
| releaseYear | 2021 ⓘ |
| requires | supported Apple device or web browser ⓘ |
| requiresAccount | Apple ID ⓘ |
| requiresService |
iCloud
ⓘ
surface form:
iCloud+
|
| securityProperty |
designed to limit spam to primary inbox
ⓘ
designed to reduce phishing exposure via primary email ⓘ |
| userControl |
user can associate notes with each address
ⓘ
user can create multiple relay addresses ⓘ user can stop using a generated address at any time ⓘ |
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: Hide My Email Description of subject: Hide My Email is an Apple privacy feature that lets users generate unique, random email addresses that forward to their personal inbox to keep their real address private.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.