Excel
E5278
Excel is a widely used spreadsheet software by Microsoft that enables data organization, analysis, visualization, and basic to advanced analytics through formulas, functions, and tools like PivotTables.
All labels observed (15)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Microsoft Excel | 30 |
| Excel canonical | 14 |
| Excel 2013 | 1 |
| Excel Mobile | 1 |
| Excel desktop app | 1 |
| Excel for the web | 1 |
| Flash Fill in Excel | 1 |
| Microsoft Excel Online | 1 |
| Microsoft Excel files | 1 |
| Microsoft Excel for Macintosh | 1 |
| Microsoft Excel for Windows (early versions) | 1 |
| Microsoft Excel formulas | 1 |
| Microsoft Excel workbook | 1 |
| PivotTables | 1 |
| Pocket Excel | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T39181 — 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: Excel Context triple: [Master of Business Analytics, commonSoftwareTools, Excel]
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A.
Tableau
Tableau is a widely used data visualization and business intelligence software platform that enables users to analyze, explore, and present data through interactive dashboards and reports.
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B.
ERP
ERP is the commonly used abbreviation for the Marshall Plan, the U.S.-led post–World War II European Recovery Program that financed and coordinated Western Europe’s economic reconstruction.
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C.
SAS
SAS is the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, encompassing the university’s core liberal arts and sciences departments and programs.
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D.
Microsoft
Microsoft is a multinational technology company best known for its Windows operating system, Office productivity suite, and Azure cloud computing platform.
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E.
docuverse
Docuverse is Ted Nelson’s visionary concept of a universal, interconnected digital library where all documents are permanently linked and traceable across a global hypertext system.
- 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: Excel Target entity description: Excel is a widely used spreadsheet software by Microsoft that enables data organization, analysis, visualization, and basic to advanced analytics through formulas, functions, and tools like PivotTables.
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A.
Tableau
Tableau is a widely used data visualization and business intelligence software platform that enables users to analyze, explore, and present data through interactive dashboards and reports.
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B.
ERP
ERP is the commonly used abbreviation for the Marshall Plan, the U.S.-led post–World War II European Recovery Program that financed and coordinated Western Europe’s economic reconstruction.
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C.
SAS
SAS is the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, encompassing the university’s core liberal arts and sciences departments and programs.
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D.
Microsoft
Microsoft is a multinational technology company best known for its Windows operating system, Office productivity suite, and Azure cloud computing platform.
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E.
docuverse
Docuverse is Ted Nelson’s visionary concept of a universal, interconnected digital library where all documents are permanently linked and traceable across a global hypertext system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (60)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
software application
ⓘ
spreadsheet software ⓘ |
| availableAs |
desktop application
ⓘ
mobile app ⓘ web application ⓘ |
| developer | Microsoft ⓘ |
| fileFormat |
.csv
ⓘ
.xlam ⓘ .xls ⓘ .xlsm ⓘ .xlsx ⓘ .xltx ⓘ |
| initialReleaseYear | 1985 ⓘ |
| license | proprietary ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
Android
ⓘ
Windows ⓘ iOS ⓘ macOS ⓘ web ⓘ |
| partOf |
Microsoft 365
ⓘ
Microsoft ⓘ
surface form:
Microsoft Office
|
| primaryUse |
business reporting
ⓘ
data analysis ⓘ data organization ⓘ data visualization ⓘ financial modeling ⓘ |
| publisher | Microsoft ⓘ |
| supports |
OLE automation
ⓘ
PivotCharts ⓘ Excel self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
PivotTables
Power Pivot ⓘ Power Query ⓘ Solver add-in ⓘ VBA ⓘ What-If Analysis ⓘ add-ins ⓘ array formulas ⓘ cells ⓘ charts ⓘ cloud storage integration ⓘ collaborative editing ⓘ conditional formatting ⓘ data validation ⓘ data visualization ⓘ dynamic arrays ⓘ filtering ⓘ flash fill ⓘ formulas ⓘ functions ⓘ macros ⓘ named ranges ⓘ page layout view ⓘ pivot table slicers ⓘ printing ⓘ sorting ⓘ spreadsheets ⓘ tables ⓘ text to columns ⓘ workbooks ⓘ worksheets ⓘ |
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: Excel Description of subject: Excel is a widely used spreadsheet software by Microsoft that enables data organization, analysis, visualization, and basic to advanced analytics through formulas, functions, and tools like PivotTables.
Referenced by (57)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Microsoft Excel
this entity surface form:
Excel for the web
this entity surface form:
Flash Fill in Excel
this entity surface form:
Microsoft Excel
this entity surface form:
Microsoft Excel