vCalendar
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vCalendar is an early electronic calendaring and scheduling format that served as a predecessor to the more widely adopted iCalendar standard.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| vCalendar canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3420822 — 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: vCalendar Context triple: [iCalendar, obsoletes, vCalendar]
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A.
iCalendar
iCalendar is a widely used open standard file format for exchanging calendar and scheduling information across different applications and services.
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B.
CalDAV
CalDAV is an open standard protocol that allows clients to access, manage, and synchronize calendar data on a remote server over WebDAV.
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C.
Google Calendar
Google Calendar is a time-management and scheduling service by Google that lets users create, share, and manage events and reminders across devices.
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D.
Apple Calendar
Apple Calendar is a built-in calendar and scheduling app for Apple devices that helps users manage events, reminders, and appointments across their ecosystem.
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E.
Google Calendar sidebar widget
Google Calendar sidebar widget is an integrated panel within Google Calendar that lets users view, create, and manage their Google Tasks alongside their calendar events.
- 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: vCalendar Target entity description: vCalendar is an early electronic calendaring and scheduling format that served as a predecessor to the more widely adopted iCalendar standard.
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A.
iCalendar
iCalendar is a widely used open standard file format for exchanging calendar and scheduling information across different applications and services.
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B.
CalDAV
CalDAV is an open standard protocol that allows clients to access, manage, and synchronize calendar data on a remote server over WebDAV.
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C.
CardDAV
CardDAV is an open standard protocol that enables remote access, synchronization, and management of contact data over the Web using HTTP and WebDAV.
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D.
Nextcloud Calendar
Nextcloud Calendar is an open-source, self-hosted calendar application that lets users manage and share events across devices while keeping full control over their data.
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E.
Google Calendar
Google Calendar is a time-management and scheduling service by Google that lets users create, share, and manage events and reminders across devices.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
data interchange format
ⓘ
electronic calendaring format ⓘ open standard ⓘ |
| backwardCompatibility | partially compatible with iCalendar ⓘ |
| category | calendar data exchange format ⓘ |
| componentType |
VEVENT
ⓘ
VTODO ⓘ |
| dataModel | text-based key-value pairs ⓘ |
| dataStructure | components with properties ⓘ |
| designGoal | simple text-based format ⓘ |
| developedBy | Internet Mail Consortium ⓘ |
| domain | personal information management ⓘ |
| fileExtension | .vcs ⓘ |
| influenced | iCalendar ⓘ |
| interoperabilityGoal | cross-platform calendar data exchange ⓘ |
| introducedIn | 1990s ⓘ |
| mediaType | text/x-vcalendar ⓘ |
| oftenUsedWith | vCard ⓘ |
| paradigm | MIME-like text format ⓘ |
| predecessorOf | iCalendar ⓘ |
| propertyType |
DESCRIPTION
ⓘ
DTEND ⓘ DTSTART ⓘ LOCATION ⓘ RRULE ⓘ SUMMARY ⓘ |
| relatedStandard | vCard ⓘ |
| representation | ASCII text ⓘ |
| scope | personal and group scheduling ⓘ |
| serialization | line-oriented text format ⓘ |
| standardizationBody | Internet Mail Consortium ⓘ |
| standardizedBy | Internet Mail Consortium ⓘ |
| status | superseded ⓘ |
| successor | iCalendar ⓘ |
| supports |
alarms
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events ⓘ recurrence rules ⓘ reminders ⓘ time zone information ⓘ to-do items ⓘ |
| syntaxStyle | similar to iCalendar ⓘ |
| textEncoding | plain text ⓘ |
| typicalUseCase |
importing events into calendar applications
ⓘ
sharing appointment details ⓘ sharing meeting requests ⓘ |
| usedFor |
electronic calendaring
ⓘ
exchange of event information ⓘ exchange of scheduling information ⓘ scheduling ⓘ |
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: vCalendar Description of subject: vCalendar is an early electronic calendaring and scheduling format that served as a predecessor to the more widely adopted iCalendar standard.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.