NSCoder
E236687
NSCoder is an abstract class in Apple’s Foundation framework that provides an interface for encoding and decoding objects and values for archiving and serialization.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| - decodeValueOfObjCType:at: | 1 |
| - encodeValueOfObjCType:at: | 1 |
| NSArchiver | 1 |
| NSCoder canonical | 1 |
| NSCoder.h | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2142765 — 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: NSCoder Context triple: [NeXTSTEP Foundation Kit, defines, NSCoder]
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A.
ccNSO
ccNSO is the ICANN supporting organization responsible for developing and recommending global policies relating to country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs).
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B.
NRPC
NRPC (National Railroad Passenger Corporation) is the U.S. government-owned corporation that operates intercity passenger rail service under the brand name Amtrak.
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C.
NRPC
NRPC (Notes Remote Procedure Call) is the proprietary network protocol used by IBM/Lotus Notes and Domino servers to enable client-server communication and data replication.
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D.
NCP
NCP (Network Control Protocol) was an early host-to-host communication protocol suite that enabled data exchange between computers on the ARPANET before the adoption of TCP/IP.
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E.
CNCS
CNCS is the abbreviation for the Corporation for National and Community Service, the U.S. federal agency that supports national service programs like AmeriCorps and Senior Corps.
- 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: NSCoder Target entity description: NSCoder is an abstract class in Apple’s Foundation framework that provides an interface for encoding and decoding objects and values for archiving and serialization.
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A.
ccNSO
ccNSO is the ICANN supporting organization responsible for developing and recommending global policies relating to country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs).
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B.
NRPC
NRPC (National Railroad Passenger Corporation) is the U.S. government-owned corporation that operates intercity passenger rail service under the brand name Amtrak.
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C.
NRPC
NRPC (Notes Remote Procedure Call) is the proprietary network protocol used by IBM/Lotus Notes and Domino servers to enable client-server communication and data replication.
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D.
NCP
NCP (Network Control Protocol) was an early host-to-host communication protocol suite that enabled data exchange between computers on the ARPANET before the adoption of TCP/IP.
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E.
CNCS
CNCS is the abbreviation for the Corporation for National and Community Service, the U.S. federal agency that supports national service programs like AmeriCorps and Senior Corps.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Foundation framework class
ⓘ
abstract class ⓘ |
| availableIn |
Objective-C
ⓘ
Swift ⓘ |
| conformsTo | NSSecureCoding (via subclasses) ⓘ |
| declaredInHeader |
NSCoder
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
NSCoder.h
|
| definedInFramework | Foundation ⓘ |
| hasMethod |
- allowsKeyedCoding
ⓘ
- containsValueForKey: ⓘ - decodeBoolForKey: ⓘ - decodeBytesForKey:returnedLength: ⓘ - decodeDoubleForKey: ⓘ - decodeIntForKey: ⓘ - decodeIntegerForKey: ⓘ - decodeObjectForKey: ⓘ NSCoder self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
- decodeValueOfObjCType:at:
- encodeBool:forKey: ⓘ - encodeBytes:length:forKey: ⓘ - encodeConditionalObject:forKey: ⓘ - encodeDouble:forKey: ⓘ - encodeInt:forKey: ⓘ - encodeInteger:forKey: ⓘ - encodeObject:forKey: ⓘ NSCoder self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
- encodeValueOfObjCType:at:
|
| introducedFor | Objective-C ⓘ |
| languageBinding |
Objective-C runtime
ⓘ
Swift bridging APIs ⓘ |
| partOf |
Cocoa
ⓘ
Cocoa Touch ⓘ |
| platform |
Apple Inc.
ⓘ
surface form:
Apple
|
| relatedTo |
NSCoding
ⓘ
NSKeyedArchiver ⓘ NSKeyedUnarchiver ⓘ NSSecureCoding ⓘ |
| scope | object graphs ⓘ |
| superclassOf |
NSCoder
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
NSArchiver
NSKeyedArchiver ⓘ NSKeyedUnarchiver ⓘ NSUnarchiver ⓘ NSValueTransformer-based coders (various) ⓘ |
| supports |
conditional object encoding
ⓘ
keyed coding ⓘ property list–style coding (via keyed coders) ⓘ unkeyed coding ⓘ |
| usedBy |
NSCoding protocol implementations
ⓘ
NSSecureCoding protocol implementations ⓘ |
| usedFor |
archiving
ⓘ
decoding objects ⓘ encoding objects ⓘ serialization ⓘ |
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: NSCoder Description of subject: NSCoder is an abstract class in Apple’s Foundation framework that provides an interface for encoding and decoding objects and values for archiving and serialization.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
NSArchiver
this entity surface form:
NSCoder.h
this entity surface form:
- encodeValueOfObjCType:at: