Apple Books
E122389
Apple Books is Apple’s e-book and audiobook platform and reading app, available across its devices for purchasing, organizing, and enjoying digital books and audio content.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Apple Books canonical | 4 |
| Apple Books self-publishing | 1 |
| iBooks | 1 |
| iBooks for iPhone | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1008963 — 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: Apple Books Context triple: [iPadOS, supportsService, Apple Books]
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A.
Google Play Books
Google Play Books is a digital distribution service and e-book/audiobook reader platform from Google that lets users purchase, download, and read or listen to books across devices.
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B.
App Store
The App Store is Apple’s official digital marketplace for discovering, purchasing, and downloading apps and games on iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS devices.
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C.
Apple Store
Apple Store is Apple Inc.’s official retail and online chain that sells its hardware devices, software, and services while providing product support and technical assistance.
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D.
Apple News app
The Apple News app is a news aggregation application by Apple that curates articles and stories from various publishers into a personalized, magazine-style reading experience on Apple devices.
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E.
Apple News+
Apple News+ is a subscription-based digital news and magazine service from Apple that offers access to hundreds of newspapers, magazines, and premium articles within the Apple News app.
- 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 Books Target entity description: Apple Books is Apple’s e-book and audiobook platform and reading app, available across its devices for purchasing, organizing, and enjoying digital books and audio content.
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A.
Google Play Books
Google Play Books is a digital distribution service and e-book/audiobook reader platform from Google that lets users purchase, download, and read or listen to books across devices.
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B.
App Store
The App Store is Apple’s official digital marketplace for discovering, purchasing, and downloading apps and games on iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS devices.
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C.
Apple Store
Apple Store is Apple Inc.’s official retail and online chain that sells its hardware devices, software, and services while providing product support and technical assistance.
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D.
Apple News app
The Apple News app is a news aggregation application by Apple that curates articles and stories from various publishers into a personalized, magazine-style reading experience on Apple devices.
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E.
Apple News+
Apple News+ is a subscription-based digital news and magazine service from Apple that offers access to hundreds of newspapers, magazines, and premium articles within the Apple News app.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
audiobook platform
ⓘ
e-book platform ⓘ mobile application ⓘ reading app ⓘ |
| availableOn |
Mac
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iPad ⓘ iPhone ⓘ |
| businessModel | content sales ⓘ |
| category |
Apple software
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audiobook software ⓘ e-book reading software ⓘ |
| contentType |
audiobooks
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books ⓘ children's books ⓘ comics ⓘ fiction ⓘ graphic novels ⓘ non-fiction ⓘ textbooks ⓘ |
| developer | Apple Inc. ⓘ |
| distributionRegion | multiple countries ⓘ |
| ecosystem | Apple ecosystem ⓘ |
| feature |
adjustable fonts
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audiobook playback ⓘ bookmarks ⓘ bookstore integration ⓘ highlights ⓘ library organization ⓘ night mode ⓘ notes ⓘ page themes ⓘ read-aloud support for audiobooks ⓘ reading progress sync ⓘ search within books ⓘ |
| formerName |
Apple Books
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
iBooks
|
| integratesWith |
Apple CarPlay
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Apple ID ⓘ Siri ⓘ iCloud ⓘ |
| monetization | revenue share with publishers ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
iOS
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iPadOS ⓘ macOS ⓘ |
| owner | Apple Inc. ⓘ |
| platformType | digital distribution platform ⓘ |
| requires | Apple ID for purchases ⓘ |
| serviceModel |
digital download
ⓘ
digital purchase ⓘ |
| supports | family sharing for eligible purchases ⓘ |
| supportsFormat |
EPUB
ⓘ
PDF ⓘ audiobook ⓘ e-book ⓘ |
| syncsVia | iCloud ⓘ |
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 Books Description of subject: Apple Books is Apple’s e-book and audiobook platform and reading app, available across its devices for purchasing, organizing, and enjoying digital books and audio content.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
iBooks
this entity surface form:
iBooks for iPhone
this entity surface form:
Apple Books self-publishing