VMware Fusion
E510817
VMware Fusion is a virtualization software application for macOS that allows users to run Windows and other operating systems alongside Mac applications on the same machine.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| VMware Fusion canonical | 3 |
| Mac OS X (hosted) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5277946 — 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: VMware Fusion Context triple: [VMware, notableProduct, VMware Fusion]
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A.
VMware Workstation
VMware Workstation is a desktop virtualization software application that allows users to run multiple operating systems simultaneously on a single physical machine.
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B.
VMware
VMware is a leading American cloud computing and virtualization technology company known for its pioneering hypervisor and software-defined data center solutions.
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C.
VirtualBox
VirtualBox is a popular open-source virtualization platform that allows users to run multiple operating systems simultaneously on a single physical machine.
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D.
VMware ESXi
VMware ESXi is a bare-metal hypervisor from VMware that enables virtualization by running multiple virtual machines directly on server hardware without a traditional underlying operating system.
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E.
VMware Horizon
VMware Horizon is a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and application delivery platform that enables organizations to centrally manage and securely deliver Windows and Linux desktops and apps to end users on any device.
- 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: VMware Fusion Target entity description: VMware Fusion is a virtualization software application for macOS that allows users to run Windows and other operating systems alongside Mac applications on the same machine.
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A.
VMware Workstation
VMware Workstation is a desktop virtualization software application that allows users to run multiple operating systems simultaneously on a single physical machine.
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B.
VMware
VMware is a leading American cloud computing and virtualization technology company known for its pioneering hypervisor and software-defined data center solutions.
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C.
VirtualBox
VirtualBox is a popular open-source virtualization platform that allows users to run multiple operating systems simultaneously on a single physical machine.
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D.
VMware ESXi
VMware ESXi is a bare-metal hypervisor from VMware that enables virtualization by running multiple virtual machines directly on server hardware without a traditional underlying operating system.
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E.
VMware Horizon
VMware Horizon is a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and application delivery platform that enables organizations to centrally manage and securely deliver Windows and Linux desktops and apps to end users on any device.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
application software
ⓘ
hypervisor ⓘ virtualization software ⓘ |
| allows |
run Linux on macOS
ⓘ
run Windows on macOS ⓘ run other x86 operating systems on macOS ⓘ |
| category | software for macOS ⓘ |
| competesWith |
Parallels Desktop for Mac
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
VirtualBox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| developer | VMware NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| feature |
Boot Camp partition integration
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NAT networking ⓘ USB device passthrough ⓘ Unity view mode ⓘ bridged networking ⓘ copy and paste between host and guest ⓘ drag and drop between host and guest ⓘ encryption of virtual machines ⓘ full clones ⓘ hardware-accelerated 3D graphics ⓘ host-only networking ⓘ integration with VMware vSphere ⓘ linked clones ⓘ shared folders ⓘ snapshot management ⓘ support for DirectX in guest ⓘ support for OpenGL in guest ⓘ support for large virtual RAM sizes ⓘ support for multiple virtual CPUs ⓘ virtual machine creation ⓘ virtual networking ⓘ |
| hasEdition |
VMware Fusion Player
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
VMware Fusion Pro NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| licenseModel | commercial proprietary software ⓘ |
| operatingSystem | macOS ⓘ |
| platform |
Apple silicon Mac
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Intel-based Mac ⓘ |
| softwareType | desktop virtualization ⓘ |
| supportsArchitecture |
x86
ⓘ
x86-64 ⓘ |
| supportsGuestOS |
Linux distributions
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Microsoft Windows NERFINISHED ⓘ macOS virtual machines on supported hardware ⓘ |
| supportsHostArchitecture |
Apple silicon
ⓘ
Intel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| useCase |
IT administration and labs
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run Windows applications on Mac ⓘ software development and testing ⓘ |
| website | https://www.vmware.com/products/fusion.html ⓘ |
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: VMware Fusion Description of subject: VMware Fusion is a virtualization software application for macOS that allows users to run Windows and other operating systems alongside Mac applications on the same machine.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Mac OS X (hosted)