IRIX operating system
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IRIX is a discontinued UNIX-based operating system developed by Silicon Graphics (SGI) for its high-performance workstations and servers, particularly used in graphics, visualization, and scientific computing.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| IRIX | 12 |
| IRIX Interactive Desktop | 2 |
| IRIX operating system canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T986371 — 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: IRIX operating system Context triple: [SGI, knownFor, IRIX operating system]
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A.
HP-UX
HP-UX is Hewlett-Packard's proprietary Unix operating system designed for enterprise servers and mission-critical computing environments.
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B.
Solaris operating system
Solaris operating system is a Unix-based enterprise operating system known for its scalability, robustness, and advanced features such as ZFS, DTrace, and strong support for SPARC and x86 architectures.
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C.
AIX
AIX is IBM’s proprietary Unix operating system designed for enterprise servers and high-reliability, scalable computing environments.
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D.
GNU Hurd
GNU Hurd is the GNU Project’s microkernel-based operating system server collection intended as a free Unix-like replacement, built to run on top of the Mach microkernel.
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E.
SGI
SGI (Silicon Graphics, Inc.) was a pioneering American company known for its high-performance computing and advanced 3D graphics workstations and servers widely used in scientific visualization and visual effects.
- 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: IRIX operating system Target entity description: IRIX is a discontinued UNIX-based operating system developed by Silicon Graphics (SGI) for its high-performance workstations and servers, particularly used in graphics, visualization, and scientific computing.
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A.
HP-UX
HP-UX is Hewlett-Packard's proprietary Unix operating system designed for enterprise servers and mission-critical computing environments.
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B.
Solaris operating system
Solaris operating system is a Unix-based enterprise operating system known for its scalability, robustness, and advanced features such as ZFS, DTrace, and strong support for SPARC and x86 architectures.
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C.
AIX
AIX is IBM’s proprietary Unix operating system designed for enterprise servers and high-reliability, scalable computing environments.
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D.
GNU Hurd
GNU Hurd is the GNU Project’s microkernel-based operating system server collection intended as a free Unix-like replacement, built to run on top of the Mach microkernel.
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E.
SGI
SGI (Silicon Graphics, Inc.) was a pioneering American company known for its high-performance computing and advanced 3D graphics workstations and servers widely used in scientific visualization and visual effects.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Unix operating system
ⓘ
discontinued operating system ⓘ proprietary operating system ⓘ |
| basedOn |
UNIX System V
ⓘ
UNIX System V ⓘ
surface form:
UNIX System V Release 4
|
| designedFor |
servers
ⓘ
workstations ⓘ |
| developer |
SGI
ⓘ
SGI ⓘ
surface form:
Silicon Graphics
|
| discontinuedBy |
SGI
ⓘ
surface form:
Silicon Graphics
|
| family |
Unix
ⓘ
surface form:
UNIX
|
| feature |
preemptive multitasking
ⓘ
real-time extensions ⓘ symmetric multiprocessing support ⓘ virtual memory ⓘ |
| fileSystem | XFS ⓘ |
| includes |
IRIX operating system
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
IRIX Interactive Desktop
Motif-based GUI ⓘ SGI-specific graphics libraries ⓘ |
| kernelType | monolithic kernel ⓘ |
| license | proprietary software license ⓘ |
| networking |
NFS support
ⓘ
TCP/IP support ⓘ |
| notableComponent |
IRIX operating system
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
IRIX Interactive Desktop
OpenGL implementation ⓘ XFS ⓘ
surface form:
XFS file system
|
| notableFeature |
OpenGL integration
ⓘ
XFS ⓘ
surface form:
XFS file system
advanced 3D graphics support ⓘ |
| primaryUse |
graphics
ⓘ
high-performance computing ⓘ scientific computing ⓘ visualization ⓘ |
| status | discontinued ⓘ |
| supports |
MIPS
ⓘ
surface form:
MIPS architecture
OpenGL ⓘ POSIX ⓘ X11 ⓘ
surface form:
X Window System
|
| targetHardware |
SGI
ⓘ
surface form:
SGI Indigo
SGI ⓘ
surface form:
SGI Indigo2
SGI Indy ⓘ SGI ⓘ
surface form:
SGI O2
SGI ⓘ
surface form:
SGI Octane
Silicon Graphics workstations ⓘ
surface form:
SGI Onyx
SGI Origin servers ⓘ |
| usedIn |
3D animation studios
ⓘ
engineering simulation ⓘ film visual effects production ⓘ scientific visualization labs ⓘ |
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: IRIX operating system Description of subject: IRIX is a discontinued UNIX-based operating system developed by Silicon Graphics (SGI) for its high-performance workstations and servers, particularly used in graphics, visualization, and scientific computing.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
IRIX
this entity surface form:
IRIX
this entity surface form:
IRIX
subject surface form:
IRIX
this entity surface form:
IRIX Interactive Desktop
subject surface form:
IRIX
this entity surface form:
IRIX Interactive Desktop
this entity surface form:
IRIX
this entity surface form:
IRIX
this entity surface form:
IRIX
subject surface form:
Octane workstation
this entity surface form:
IRIX
subject surface form:
Indy workstation
this entity surface form:
IRIX
this entity surface form:
IRIX
this entity surface form:
IRIX
this entity surface form:
IRIX