Terminal
E41447
Terminal is the built-in command-line interface application for macOS that allows users to interact with the operating system using text-based commands.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Terminal canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T321752 — 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: Terminal Context triple: [macOS, hasDefaultTerminalEmulator, Terminal]
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A.
Terminal C
Terminal C is one of the main passenger terminals at Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in Puerto Rico, serving commercial airline operations and traveler services.
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B.
Terminal B
Terminal B is one of the main passenger terminals at Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in Puerto Rico, serving commercial airline operations and traveler services.
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C.
Terminal 8
Terminal 8 is one of the passenger terminals at Los Angeles International Airport, serving as a boarding and arrivals facility for select domestic airline operations.
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D.
Terminal 8
Terminal 8 is a major passenger terminal at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport, serving as a primary hub for American Airlines and several international carriers.
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E.
Terminal D
Terminal D is one of the passenger terminals at Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in Puerto Rico, serving commercial air travelers with check-in, security, boarding gates, and related airport services.
- 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: Terminal Target entity description: Terminal is the built-in command-line interface application for macOS that allows users to interact with the operating system using text-based commands.
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A.
Terminal C
Terminal C is one of the main passenger terminals at Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in Puerto Rico, serving commercial airline operations and traveler services.
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B.
Terminal B
Terminal B is one of the main passenger terminals at Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in Puerto Rico, serving commercial airline operations and traveler services.
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C.
Terminal 8
Terminal 8 is a major passenger terminal at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport, serving as a primary hub for American Airlines and several international carriers.
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D.
Terminal 8
Terminal 8 is one of the passenger terminals at Los Angeles International Airport, serving as a boarding and arrivals facility for select domestic airline operations.
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E.
Terminal D
Terminal D is one of the passenger terminals at Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in Puerto Rico, serving commercial air travelers with check-in, security, boarding gates, and related airport services.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
command-line interface application
ⓘ
macOS application ⓘ terminal emulator ⓘ |
| allows | text-based interaction with the operating system ⓘ |
| bundleIdentifier | com.apple.Terminal ⓘ |
| canLaunch |
Unix command-line tools
ⓘ
command-line applications ⓘ shell scripts ⓘ |
| defaultShell | Zsh (on recent macOS versions) ⓘ |
| developer | Apple Inc. ⓘ |
| includedWith | macOS ⓘ |
| introducedBy |
macOS
ⓘ
surface form:
Mac OS X
|
| isBuiltIn | true ⓘ |
| locationInSystem | /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app ⓘ |
| operatingSystem | macOS ⓘ |
| partOf | macOS user interface utilities ⓘ |
| platform | macOS ⓘ |
| previousDefaultShell |
Unix shell
ⓘ
surface form:
Bash (on older macOS versions)
|
| primaryUse |
file system management
ⓘ
process management ⓘ remote server access via SSH ⓘ running command-line programs ⓘ shell scripting ⓘ software development ⓘ system administration ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
GNOME Terminal
ⓘ
iTerm2 ⓘ xterm ⓘ |
| replaced | older classic Mac OS command-line tools (as primary CLI interface) ⓘ |
| supports |
Unix shell
ⓘ
surface form:
Bash
Fish (when installed) ⓘ Tcsh ⓘ Unix shell commands ⓘ Unix shell ⓘ
surface form:
Zsh
command-line interfaces ⓘ |
| supportsFeature |
ANSI colors
ⓘ
AppleScript scripting ⓘ UTF-8 encoding ⓘ Unicode ⓘ copy and paste ⓘ custom color schemes ⓘ font customization ⓘ full-screen mode ⓘ keyboard shortcuts ⓘ multiple tabs ⓘ multiple windows ⓘ profiles ⓘ scrollback buffer ⓘ services integration ⓘ shell integration ⓘ window transparency ⓘ |
| supportsProtocol |
local shell
ⓘ
remote shell via SSH (through underlying tools) ⓘ |
| userInterface | graphical terminal window ⓘ |
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: Terminal Description of subject: Terminal is the built-in command-line interface application for macOS that allows users to interact with the operating system using text-based commands.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.