Live Tiles
E193794
Live Tiles are dynamic, updating app icons used in Microsoft’s Windows Phone interface to display real-time information directly on the home screen.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Live Tiles canonical | 1 |
| Windows 10 Start menu tiles | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1718701 — 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: Live Tiles Context triple: [Windows Phone, supports, Live Tiles]
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A.
Surface Hub
Surface Hub is Microsoft's large interactive whiteboard and collaboration device designed for meetings, presentations, and team productivity in business and educational environments.
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B.
TB12
TB12 is the widely used nickname and personal brand of legendary NFL quarterback Tom Brady, often associated with his jersey number and fitness/lifestyle company.
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C.
Pixel Launcher
Pixel Launcher is Google's custom Android home screen app designed for Pixel devices, offering a clean interface, tight integration with Google services, and exclusive features like contextual suggestions and personalized feeds.
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D.
Surface Dial
Surface Dial is a Microsoft-designed radial input device that offers precise, context-aware control for creative and productivity tasks, especially when used with Surface computers and displays.
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E.
Windows Sidebar
Windows Sidebar is a vertical panel introduced in Windows Vista that hosts mini-applications called gadgets for quick access to information and tools.
- 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: Live Tiles Target entity description: Live Tiles are dynamic, updating app icons used in Microsoft’s Windows Phone interface to display real-time information directly on the home screen.
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A.
Surface Hub
Surface Hub is Microsoft's large interactive whiteboard and collaboration device designed for meetings, presentations, and team productivity in business and educational environments.
-
B.
TB12
TB12 is the widely used nickname and personal brand of legendary NFL quarterback Tom Brady, often associated with his jersey number and fitness/lifestyle company.
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C.
Pixel Launcher
Pixel Launcher is Google's custom Android home screen app designed for Pixel devices, offering a clean interface, tight integration with Google services, and exclusive features like contextual suggestions and personalized feeds.
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D.
Surface Dial
Surface Dial is a Microsoft-designed radial input device that offers precise, context-aware control for creative and productivity tasks, especially when used with Surface computers and displays.
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E.
Windows Sidebar
Windows Sidebar is a vertical panel introduced in Windows Vista that hosts mini-applications called gadgets for quick access to information and tools.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
dynamic app icon
ⓘ
feature of Windows Phone ⓘ user interface element ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Metro design language
ⓘ
Modern UI ⓘ |
| canDisplay |
images
ⓘ
notifications ⓘ numbers ⓘ text ⓘ |
| category | mobile operating system feature ⓘ |
| developedBy | Microsoft ⓘ |
| displayOn |
Windows Phone
ⓘ
surface form:
Windows Phone Start screen
|
| documentedIn | Windows Phone developer documentation ⓘ |
| influenced |
Live Tiles
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Windows 10 Start menu tiles
Windows 8 Start screen tiles ⓘ |
| introducedIn |
Windows Phone
ⓘ
surface form:
Windows Phone 7
|
| introducedYear | 2010 ⓘ |
| operatingSystemFamily |
Windows Phone
ⓘ
surface form:
Windows Phone OS
|
| platform | Windows Phone ⓘ |
| purpose |
to provide glanceable updates
ⓘ
to show real-time information from apps ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Lock screen notifications
ⓘ
Toast notifications ⓘ |
| requires | app manifest tile definition ⓘ |
| runsOn |
Windows Phone
ⓘ
surface form:
Windows Phone 7
Windows Phone ⓘ
surface form:
Windows Phone 7.5
Windows Phone ⓘ
surface form:
Windows Phone 8
Windows Phone ⓘ
surface form:
Windows Phone 8.1
|
| shape |
rectangle
ⓘ
square ⓘ |
| supports |
cycle tile templates
ⓘ
flip tile templates ⓘ iconic tile templates ⓘ pinning apps to Start screen ⓘ primary tiles ⓘ secondary tiles ⓘ square tile size ⓘ wide tile size ⓘ |
| updatedVia |
local background tasks
ⓘ
periodic polling ⓘ push notifications ⓘ |
| updates | in real time or near real time ⓘ |
| usedFor |
calendar appointments
ⓘ
email previews ⓘ missed call counts ⓘ social network updates ⓘ unread message counts ⓘ weather updates ⓘ |
| visualStyle | flat design ⓘ |
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: Live Tiles Description of subject: Live Tiles are dynamic, updating app icons used in Microsoft’s Windows Phone interface to display real-time information directly on the home screen.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Windows 10 Start menu tiles