COM
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COM (Component Object Model) is a Microsoft-developed software architecture that enables interprocess communication and reusable binary components across different programming languages and applications on Windows.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1612036 — 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: COM Context triple: [ActiveX, basedOn, COM]
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A.
CM
CM is the post-nominal letters used to denote a Member of the Order of Canada, one of the country’s highest civilian honors.
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B.
CM
CM is the standard abbreviation for "Concrete Mathematics," a well-known textbook by Graham, Knuth, and Patashnik that blends discrete mathematics with concrete problem-solving techniques.
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C.
CM
CM is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to Cameroon.
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D.
COMP
COMP is a scientific committee within the European Medicines Agency responsible for evaluating and advising on orphan medicinal products for rare diseases in the European Union.
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E.
ExCom
ExCom is the Executive Committee of the UNHCR High Commissioner’s Programme, the main intergovernmental body that advises on and approves the agency’s policies and budget for refugee protection and assistance.
- 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: COM Target entity description: COM (Component Object Model) is a Microsoft-developed software architecture that enables interprocess communication and reusable binary components across different programming languages and applications on Windows.
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A.
CM
CM is the standard abbreviation for "Concrete Mathematics," a well-known textbook by Graham, Knuth, and Patashnik that blends discrete mathematics with concrete problem-solving techniques.
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B.
CM
CM is the post-nominal letters used to denote a Member of the Order of Canada, one of the country’s highest civilian honors.
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C.
CM
CM is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to Cameroon.
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D.
COMP
COMP is a scientific committee within the European Medicines Agency responsible for evaluating and advising on orphan medicinal products for rare diseases in the European Union.
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E.
ExCom
ExCom is the Executive Committee of the UNHCR High Commissioner’s Programme, the main intergovernmental body that advises on and approves the agency’s policies and budget for refugee protection and assistance.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Microsoft technology
ⓘ
binary interface standard ⓘ software component technology ⓘ |
| basedOn | binary interfaces ⓘ |
| developer | Microsoft ⓘ |
| documentation |
Windows SDK
ⓘ
surface form:
Microsoft Platform SDK
|
| enables |
ActiveX
ⓘ
surface form:
ActiveX controls
COM+ ⓘ
surface form:
COM+ services
DCOM for distributed components ⓘ Windows Script Components ⓘ
surface form:
OLE Automation
automation via IDispatch ⓘ binary compatibility across versions ⓘ component reuse across applications ⓘ |
| fullName | Component Object Model ⓘ |
| hasConcept |
apartment threading model
ⓘ
marshaling between apartments ⓘ multi-threaded apartments ⓘ single-threaded apartments ⓘ |
| influenced | .NET interop design ⓘ |
| introducedBy | Microsoft in the early 1990s ⓘ |
| languageBinding |
C# via interop
ⓘ
C++ ⓘ Delphi (programming language) ⓘ
surface form:
Delphi
Visual Basic ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
Windows
ⓘ
surface form:
Microsoft Windows
|
| platform |
Win32 API
ⓘ
surface form:
Win32
|
| primaryUse |
building reusable software components
ⓘ
defining stable binary interfaces ⓘ enabling automation of applications ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
ActiveX
ⓘ
COM+ ⓘ
surface form:
COM+ (COM Plus)
DCOM ⓘ
surface form:
DCOM (Distributed Component Object Model)
OLE ⓘ
surface form:
OLE (Object Linking and Embedding)
|
| supports |
binary reuse
ⓘ
cross-language interoperability ⓘ in-process components ⓘ interprocess communication ⓘ language-independent components ⓘ out-of-process components ⓘ remote components ⓘ |
| uses |
AddRef method for reference counting
ⓘ
IUnknown base interface ⓘ QueryInterface method for interface discovery ⓘ Release method for reference counting ⓘ class identifiers (CLSIDs) ⓘ interface identifiers (IIDs) ⓘ interfaces identified by GUIDs ⓘ reference counting for lifetime management ⓘ registry-based component registration ⓘ |
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: COM Description of subject: COM (Component Object Model) is a Microsoft-developed software architecture that enables interprocess communication and reusable binary components across different programming languages and applications on Windows.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.