Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2006
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Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2006 was Apple's annual developer conference held in 2006, notable for major Mac hardware and software announcements including the debut of the Mac Pro.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2006 canonical | 3 |
| Apple Worldwide Developers Conference | 1 |
| WWDC 2006 | 1 |
| Worldwide Developers Conference 2006 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T501342 — 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: Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2006 Context triple: [Mac Pro, introducedAtEvent, Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2006]
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A.
Macworld Conference & Expo 2006
Macworld Conference & Expo 2006 was a major Apple-focused trade show and keynote event where Apple unveiled significant new products and technologies to the public.
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B.
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2020
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2020 was Apple's first fully virtual WWDC event, notable for major software updates and the landmark transition announcement from Intel processors to custom Apple silicon for Macs.
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C.
Macworld Conference & Expo 2000
Macworld Conference & Expo 2000 was a major Apple-focused trade show and keynote event where Apple showcased significant new technologies and products to the public and developers.
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D.
Apple WWDC 2022
Apple WWDC 2022 was Apple’s annual developer conference where the company unveiled major software updates across its platforms and introduced new hardware including the M2 chip.
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E.
Macworld 2007
Macworld 2007 was the Apple trade show keynote at which Steve Jobs first unveiled the original iPhone to the public.
- 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: Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2006 Target entity description: Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2006 was Apple's annual developer conference held in 2006, notable for major Mac hardware and software announcements including the debut of the Mac Pro.
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A.
Macworld Conference & Expo 2006
Macworld Conference & Expo 2006 was a major Apple-focused trade show and keynote event where Apple unveiled significant new products and technologies to the public.
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B.
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2020
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2020 was Apple's first fully virtual WWDC event, notable for major software updates and the landmark transition announcement from Intel processors to custom Apple silicon for Macs.
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C.
Macworld Conference & Expo 2000
Macworld Conference & Expo 2000 was a major Apple-focused trade show and keynote event where Apple showcased significant new technologies and products to the public and developers.
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D.
Apple WWDC 2022
Apple WWDC 2022 was Apple’s annual developer conference where the company unveiled major software updates across its platforms and introduced new hardware including the M2 chip.
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E.
Macworld 2007
Macworld 2007 was the Apple trade show keynote at which Steve Jobs first unveiled the original iPhone to the public.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Apple event
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developer conference ⓘ technology conference ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2006
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surface form:
WWDC 2006
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| announcedFeature |
Dashboard enhancements in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
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Mail enhancements in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard ⓘ Spaces (virtual desktops in Mac OS X) ⓘ Time Machine (Mac OS X feature) ⓘ iChat enhancements in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard ⓘ |
| announcedProduct |
Mac Pro
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Xserve (Intel-based) ⓘ |
| announcedSoftware | Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard ⓘ |
| announcedTechnology |
64-bit support in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
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Boot Camp integration plans ⓘ Core Animation ⓘ |
| announcedTool |
Dashcode (for Dashboard widgets)
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Instruments ⓘ
surface form:
Instruments (performance tool, early form)
Xcode ⓘ
surface form:
Xcode 3.0 (preview)
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| approximateAttendance | 4200 ⓘ |
| city | San Francisco ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| endDate | 2006-08-11 ⓘ |
| followedBy | Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2007 ⓘ |
| hasLabs | yes ⓘ |
| hasTheme | Redesigned. Reengineered. Re-everythinged. ⓘ |
| hasWorkshops | yes ⓘ |
| keynoteSpeaker | Steve Jobs ⓘ |
| mainFocus |
Apple Macintosh computers
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surface form:
Intel-based Macs
macOS ⓘ
surface form:
Mac OS X
|
| notableFor |
completion of Apple’s transition to Intel-based Macs
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introduction of Mac Pro as Power Mac G5 replacement ⓘ preview of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard ⓘ |
| numberOfDays | 5 ⓘ |
| numberOfSessions | over 150 ⓘ |
| officialWebsite | https://developer.apple.com/wwdc/2006/ ⓘ |
| organizer | Apple Inc. ⓘ |
| partOfSeries |
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2006
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference
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| platformTargeted |
Intel Mac developers
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Mac OS X developers ⓘ |
| precededBy | Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2005 ⓘ |
| registrationRequired | true ⓘ |
| startDate | 2006-08-07 ⓘ |
| track |
Developer tools
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Enterprise IT ⓘ Graphics and media ⓘ Mac OS X development ⓘ |
| venue |
Moscone Center
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surface form:
Moscone West
|
| year | 2006 ⓘ |
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: Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2006 Description of subject: Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2006 was Apple's annual developer conference held in 2006, notable for major Mac hardware and software announcements including the debut of the Mac Pro.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2006
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alsoKnownAs
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Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2006
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this entity surface form:
WWDC 2006
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2006
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partOfSeries
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Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2006
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference
this entity surface form:
Worldwide Developers Conference 2006
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2005
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followedBy
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Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2006
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Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2007
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precededBy
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Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2006
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