Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2021
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Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2021 was Apple's annual developer conference, held online due to the COVID-19 pandemic, where the company unveiled major updates to its software platforms and tools for developers.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| WWDC 2021 | 3 |
| Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2021 canonical | 1 |
| WWDC 2021 keynote | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1937196 — 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 Worldwide Developers Conference 2021 Context triple: [Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2020, followedBy, Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2021]
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A.
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2020
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2020 was Apple's first fully virtual WWDC event, notable for major software updates and the landmark transition announcement from Intel processors to custom Apple silicon for Macs.
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B.
Apple WWDC 2022
Apple WWDC 2022 was Apple’s annual developer conference where the company unveiled major software updates across its platforms and introduced new hardware including the M2 chip.
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C.
WWDC 2023
WWDC 2023 was Apple’s annual developer conference where it unveiled major software updates and new platforms, including the introduction of its mixed-reality ecosystem.
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D.
WWDC 2019
WWDC 2019 was Apple’s annual developer conference in 2019, notable for major software announcements across its platforms and the unveiling of new developer technologies.
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E.
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2015
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2015 was Apple’s annual developer conference held in 2015, notable for major software announcements including the debut of its streaming service Apple Music.
- 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 Worldwide Developers Conference 2021 Target entity description: Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2021 was Apple's annual developer conference, held online due to the COVID-19 pandemic, where the company unveiled major updates to its software platforms and tools for developers.
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A.
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2020
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2020 was Apple's first fully virtual WWDC event, notable for major software updates and the landmark transition announcement from Intel processors to custom Apple silicon for Macs.
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B.
Apple WWDC 2022
Apple WWDC 2022 was Apple’s annual developer conference where the company unveiled major software updates across its platforms and introduced new hardware including the M2 chip.
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C.
WWDC 2023
WWDC 2023 was Apple’s annual developer conference where it unveiled major software updates and new platforms, including the introduction of its mixed-reality ecosystem.
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D.
WWDC 2019
WWDC 2019 was Apple’s annual developer conference in 2019, notable for major software announcements across its platforms and the unveiling of new developer technologies.
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E.
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2015
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2015 was Apple’s annual developer conference held in 2015, notable for major software announcements including the debut of its streaming service Apple Music.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference
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developer conference ⓘ online event ⓘ |
| access | free online event ⓘ |
| announced | on 2021-03-30 ⓘ |
| broadcastOn |
Apple Developer app
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Apple TV (macOS app) ⓘ
surface form:
Apple TV app
Apple.com ⓘ YouTube ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| editionOf | Apple Worldwide Developers Conference ⓘ |
| endDate | 2021-06-11 ⓘ |
| followedBy |
Apple WWDC 2022
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surface form:
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2022
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| hasPart |
Apple Design Awards 2021
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Platforms State of the Union 2021 ⓘ Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2021 self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
WWDC 2021 keynote
developer sessions ⓘ labs ⓘ |
| keynotePresenter |
Craig Federighi
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Tim Cook ⓘ other Apple executives ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| location | online ⓘ |
| organizer | Apple Inc. ⓘ |
| precededBy | Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2020 ⓘ |
| reasonForOnlineFormat | COVID-19 pandemic ⓘ |
| sequenceInSeries | 32 ⓘ |
| startDate | 2021-06-07 ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
Apple platform developers
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software developers ⓘ |
| unveiled |
FaceTime enhancements
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Focus mode in iOS 15 ⓘ Live Text ⓘ Mail Privacy Protection ⓘ Object Capture API ⓘ SharePlay ⓘ Swift Playgrounds for iPad ⓘ
surface form:
Swift Playgrounds 4
Swift concurrency features ⓘ TestFlight ⓘ
surface form:
TestFlight for Mac
Universal Control ⓘ Xcode Cloud ⓘ iCloud Private Relay ⓘ
surface form:
iCloud+ with Private Relay
iOS 15 ⓘ iPadOS ⓘ
surface form:
iPadOS 15
macOS Monterey ⓘ new accessibility features across Apple platforms ⓘ tvOS ⓘ
surface form:
tvOS 15
watchOS ⓘ
surface form:
watchOS 8
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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 Worldwide Developers Conference 2021 Description of subject: Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2021 was Apple's annual developer conference, held online due to the COVID-19 pandemic, where the company unveiled major updates to its software platforms and tools for developers.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2020
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followedBy
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Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2021
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this entity surface form:
WWDC 2021
this entity surface form:
WWDC 2021
this entity surface form:
WWDC 2021
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2021
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hasPart
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Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2021
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
WWDC 2021 keynote