MacWarehouse
E390429
MacWarehouse was a mail-order and online retailer specializing in Apple Macintosh computers and related products, co-founded by entrepreneur Marc Randolph before he went on to start Netflix.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| MacWarehouse canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3809431 — 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: MacWarehouse Context triple: [Marc Randolph, founded, MacWarehouse]
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A.
Apple Store
Apple Store is Apple Inc.’s official retail and online chain that sells its hardware devices, software, and services while providing product support and technical assistance.
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B.
Genius Bar
The Genius Bar is Apple’s in-store technical support and service desk where customers receive hardware repairs, software help, and product advice from trained specialists.
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C.
Best Buy
Best Buy is a major American consumer electronics retail chain known for selling computers, appliances, and entertainment products through large-format stores and online.
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D.
Apple Store Regent Street
Apple Store Regent Street is a flagship Apple retail store in central London known for its grand historic façade and extensive range of Apple products and services.
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E.
Apple
Apple is a widely cultivated fruit known for its crisp texture, sweet-tart flavor, and central role in cuisines and agricultural traditions around the world.
- 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: MacWarehouse Target entity description: MacWarehouse was a mail-order and online retailer specializing in Apple Macintosh computers and related products, co-founded by entrepreneur Marc Randolph before he went on to start Netflix.
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A.
Apple Store
Apple Store is Apple Inc.’s official retail and online chain that sells its hardware devices, software, and services while providing product support and technical assistance.
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B.
Genius Bar
The Genius Bar is Apple’s in-store technical support and service desk where customers receive hardware repairs, software help, and product advice from trained specialists.
-
C.
Best Buy
Best Buy is a major American consumer electronics retail chain known for selling computers, appliances, and entertainment products through large-format stores and online.
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D.
Apple Store Regent Street
Apple Store Regent Street is a flagship Apple retail store in central London known for its grand historic façade and extensive range of Apple products and services.
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E.
Apple
Apple is a widely cultivated fruit known for its crisp texture, sweet-tart flavor, and central role in cuisines and agricultural traditions around the world.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
entrepreneur
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mail-order company ⓘ online retailer ⓘ retail company ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Apple Macintosh ecosystem ⓘ |
| businessModel |
e-commerce
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mail-order retail ⓘ |
| coFounded | MacWarehouse self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| coFoundedBy | Marc Randolph ⓘ |
| countryOfOperation |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| focusesOnBrand |
Apple Inc.
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surface form:
Apple
|
| industry | computer retail ⓘ |
| laterFounded | Netflix ⓘ |
| operatedAs | catalog retailer ⓘ |
| productCategory |
computer peripherals
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computers ⓘ software ⓘ |
| salesChannel |
online orders
ⓘ
telephone orders ⓘ |
| servedCustomerType |
individual consumers
ⓘ
small businesses ⓘ |
| soldProductType |
Macintosh accessories
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Macintosh hardware ⓘ Macintosh software ⓘ monitors ⓘ printers ⓘ storage devices ⓘ |
| specializesIn |
Apple Macintosh computers
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Macintosh-related products ⓘ |
| targetPlatform |
Apple Macintosh computers
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surface form:
Apple Macintosh
|
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: MacWarehouse Description of subject: MacWarehouse was a mail-order and online retailer specializing in Apple Macintosh computers and related products, co-founded by entrepreneur Marc Randolph before he went on to start Netflix.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Marc Randolph