Apple II
E123754
The Apple II was one of the first highly successful mass-produced personal computers, helping to popularize home computing in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
All labels observed (15)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Apple II canonical | 22 |
| Apple IIe | 6 |
| Apple II Plus | 4 |
| Apple II series | 4 |
| Apple IIc | 4 |
| Apple IIgs | 3 |
| Apple II computer | 2 |
| Apple IIGS | 2 |
| 16-bit Apple IIgs | 1 |
| 8-bit Apple II | 1 |
| Apple II computers | 1 |
| Apple II family | 1 |
| Apple II personal computer | 1 |
| Apple II platform | 1 |
| Apple Pascal | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1008884 — 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 II Context triple: [Steve Wozniak, designed, Apple II]
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A.
Macintosh 512K
Macintosh 512K is an early Apple personal computer released in 1985 that expanded the original Macintosh’s memory and storage capacity, making it more practical for business and productivity use.
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B.
original Macintosh 128K
The original Macintosh 128K was Apple’s first mass-market personal computer with a graphical user interface and mouse, introduced in 1984 and known for its compact all-in-one design.
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C.
Apple I
The Apple I was Apple Computer's first commercially sold personal computer, a pioneering single-board machine introduced in 1976 that helped launch the modern home computing era.
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D.
Apple Lisa
Apple Lisa was an early 1980s Apple personal computer notable for pioneering a graphical user interface and mouse-driven desktop environment.
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E.
Apple III
The Apple III was a business-oriented personal computer released by Apple in 1980 as the intended successor to the Apple II series, known for its advanced features but also for significant reliability issues.
- 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 II Target entity description: The Apple II was one of the first highly successful mass-produced personal computers, helping to popularize home computing in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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A.
Macintosh 512K
Macintosh 512K is an early Apple personal computer released in 1985 that expanded the original Macintosh’s memory and storage capacity, making it more practical for business and productivity use.
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B.
original Macintosh 128K
The original Macintosh 128K was Apple’s first mass-market personal computer with a graphical user interface and mouse, introduced in 1984 and known for its compact all-in-one design.
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C.
Apple I
The Apple I was Apple Computer's first commercially sold personal computer, a pioneering single-board machine introduced in 1976 that helped launch the modern home computing era.
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D.
Apple Lisa
Apple Lisa was an early 1980s Apple personal computer notable for pioneering a graphical user interface and mouse-driven desktop environment.
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E.
Apple III
The Apple III was a business-oriented personal computer released by Apple in 1980 as the intended successor to the Apple II series, known for its advanced features but also for significant reliability issues.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
home computer
ⓘ
personal computer ⓘ |
| architecture | 6502-based ⓘ |
| coFounderOfManufacturer | Steve Jobs ⓘ |
| colorCapability | color ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| cpu | MOS Technology 6502 ⓘ |
| cpuBitWidth | 8-bit ⓘ |
| cpuClockSpeed | 1 MHz ⓘ |
| designer | Steve Wozniak ⓘ |
| developer |
Apple Inc.
ⓘ
surface form:
Apple Computer, Inc.
|
| discontinued | early 1980s (original model) ⓘ |
| displayOutput | composite video ⓘ |
| era |
early 1980s
ⓘ
late 1970s ⓘ |
| expansionSlots | 8 internal expansion slots ⓘ |
| formFactor | desktop ⓘ |
| graphicsMode |
high-resolution color graphics
ⓘ
low-resolution color graphics ⓘ text mode 40×24 characters ⓘ |
| influenced |
IBM PC
ⓘ
subsequent Apple II models ⓘ |
| introducedAt | West Coast Computer Faire ⓘ |
| introductionYear | 1977 ⓘ |
| keyboard | built-in keyboard ⓘ |
| legacy | iconic early personal computer ⓘ |
| manufacturer |
Apple Inc.
ⓘ
surface form:
Apple Computer, Inc.
|
| market |
education
ⓘ
home users ⓘ small business ⓘ |
| massProduced | true ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of the first highly successful mass-produced microcomputers
ⓘ
helping to popularize home computing ⓘ |
| notableSoftware | VisiCalc ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
Apple DOS
ⓘ
ProDOS ⓘ |
| predecessor | Apple I ⓘ |
| primaryProgrammingLanguage |
Microsoft BASIC
ⓘ
surface form:
Applesoft BASIC
BASIC ⓘ
surface form:
Integer BASIC
|
| ramMaximum | 48 KB ⓘ |
| ramMinimum | 4 KB ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1977-06-10 ⓘ |
| series | Apple II series ⓘ |
| sound | built-in speaker ⓘ |
| storage |
5.25-inch floppy disk (Disk II)
ⓘ
cassette tape interface ⓘ |
| successor |
Apple II
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Apple II Plus
Apple II self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Apple IIGS
Apple II self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Apple IIc
Apple II self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Apple IIe
|
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 II Description of subject: The Apple II was one of the first highly successful mass-produced personal computers, helping to popularize home computing in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Referenced by (54)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Apple Pascal