Cardfile
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Cardfile is a simple card-based personal information manager included with early versions of Microsoft Windows for storing and organizing small text notes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cardfile canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1724576 — 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: Cardfile Context triple: [Windows 1.0, includesComponent, Cardfile]
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A.
Directory
The Directory was the five-member executive government that ruled France during the later stages of the French Revolution, between the fall of Robespierre and the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte.
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B.
CharlieCard
The CharlieCard is a reusable contactless smart card used to pay fares on Boston's MBTA public transit system.
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C.
Card
Card is a surname most notably borne by Andrew Card, a former White House Chief of Staff under U.S. President George W. Bush.
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D.
Filestore
Filestore is a managed network file storage service on Google Cloud that provides scalable, high-performance file systems for applications running in the cloud.
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E.
Fieldlink
Fieldlink was an early digital payments and security startup co-founded by Max Levchin that later evolved into the company behind PayPal.
- 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: Cardfile Target entity description: Cardfile is a simple card-based personal information manager included with early versions of Microsoft Windows for storing and organizing small text notes.
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A.
Directory
The Directory was the five-member executive government that ruled France during the later stages of the French Revolution, between the fall of Robespierre and the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte.
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B.
CharlieCard
The CharlieCard is a reusable contactless smart card used to pay fares on Boston's MBTA public transit system.
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C.
Card
Card is a surname most notably borne by Andrew Card, a former White House Chief of Staff under U.S. President George W. Bush.
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D.
Filestore
Filestore is a managed network file storage service on Google Cloud that provides scalable, high-performance file systems for applications running in the cloud.
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E.
Fieldlink
Fieldlink was an early digital payments and security startup co-founded by Max Levchin that later evolved into the company behind PayPal.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Windows accessory
ⓘ
card-based database program ⓘ personal information manager software ⓘ |
| architecture | 16-bit application ⓘ |
| category |
Windows 3.x software
ⓘ
productivity software ⓘ |
| dataModel | index card metaphor ⓘ |
| developer | Microsoft ⓘ |
| discontinued | true ⓘ |
| discontinuedIn | Windows 95 era ⓘ |
| distributionModel | bundled with Windows ⓘ |
| fileExtension | .crd ⓘ |
| fileType | Cardfile document ⓘ |
| hasLimitations |
limited field structure on cards
ⓘ
no relational database features ⓘ no rich text formatting ⓘ |
| includedWith |
Windows 1.0
ⓘ
Windows 2.0 ⓘ
surface form:
Windows 2.x
Windows 3.x ⓘ
surface form:
Windows 3.0
Windows 3.x ⓘ
surface form:
Windows 3.1
Windows for Workgroups ⓘ
surface form:
Windows for Workgroups 3.11
early versions of Microsoft Windows ⓘ |
| launchMethod | Windows Accessories program group ⓘ |
| license | proprietary software license ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
Windows
ⓘ
surface form:
Microsoft Windows
|
| platform |
x86
ⓘ
surface form:
Intel x86
|
| primaryFunction |
manage address and contact information
ⓘ
organize personal information ⓘ store small text notes ⓘ |
| replacedBy | Microsoft Cardfile for Windows 3.x versions ⓘ |
| runsOn |
Windows 1.0
ⓘ
surface form:
Windows 1.x
Windows 2.0 ⓘ
surface form:
Windows 2.x
Windows 3.x ⓘ |
| similarTo | Rolodex ⓘ |
| storageFormat | proprietary binary format ⓘ |
| supportsDataType | plain text ⓘ |
| supportsFeature |
multiple cards per file
ⓘ
printing of cards ⓘ search within cards ⓘ sorting of cards ⓘ |
| typicalUse |
personal note taking
ⓘ
simple contact management ⓘ |
| userInterface | graphical user interface ⓘ |
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: Cardfile Description of subject: Cardfile is a simple card-based personal information manager included with early versions of Microsoft Windows for storing and organizing small text notes.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.