TOC
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TOC (Talk to OSCAR) is a simplified, publicly documented protocol once used by AOL Instant Messenger clients to communicate with AOL’s messaging servers.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| TOC canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T528504 — 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: TOC Context triple: [AOL Instant Messenger, protocolUsed, TOC]
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A.
COT
COT is the standard time observed in Colombia, corresponding to UTC−05:00 without daylight saving time.
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B.
the T
The T is the public transit system serving the Greater Boston area, operated by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.
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C.
TC
TC is the standard abbreviation for the IEEE Transactions on Computers, a leading peer-reviewed journal covering research in computer science and engineering.
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D.
TC
TC is the common abbreviation for the Trilateral Commission, a non-governmental policy discussion group that brings together leaders from North America, Europe, and Asia to address global issues.
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E.
TC
TC is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to the Turks and Caicos Islands.
- 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: TOC Target entity description: TOC (Talk to OSCAR) is a simplified, publicly documented protocol once used by AOL Instant Messenger clients to communicate with AOL’s messaging servers.
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A.
COT
COT is the standard time observed in Colombia, corresponding to UTC−05:00 without daylight saving time.
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B.
the T
The T is the public transit system serving the Greater Boston area, operated by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.
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C.
TC
TC is the standard abbreviation for the IEEE Transactions on Computers, a leading peer-reviewed journal covering research in computer science and engineering.
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D.
TC
TC is the common abbreviation for the Trilateral Commission, a non-governmental policy discussion group that brings together leaders from North America, Europe, and Asia to address global issues.
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E.
TC
TC is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to the Turks and Caicos Islands.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
instant messaging protocol
ⓘ
network protocol ⓘ |
| abbreviationOf | Talk to OSCAR ⓘ |
| allows | third-party AIM clients ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
AIM clients
ⓘ
AOL Instant Messenger ⓘ |
| category |
AOL protocols
ⓘ
instant messaging technologies ⓘ |
| comparedTo |
OSCAR
ⓘ
surface form:
OSCAR protocol
|
| designedBy | AOL ⓘ |
| documentationStatus | public specification available ⓘ |
| fullName | Talk to OSCAR ⓘ |
| hasProperty |
publicly documented
ⓘ
simplified ⓘ text-based ⓘ |
| isSimplifiedVersionOf |
OSCAR
ⓘ
surface form:
OSCAR protocol
|
| maintainedBy | AOL ⓘ |
| origin |
AOL
ⓘ
surface form:
America Online
|
| replacedBy |
OSCAR
ⓘ
surface form:
OSCAR protocol
|
| scope | client-to-server communication ⓘ |
| status | obsolete ⓘ |
| supports |
buddy lists
ⓘ
chat messages ⓘ error reporting ⓘ instant messaging ⓘ sign-on and sign-off ⓘ user presence ⓘ |
| transportProtocol |
Transmission Control Protocol
ⓘ
surface form:
TCP
|
| usedBy | AOL Instant Messenger clients ⓘ |
| usedFor | communication with AOL messaging servers ⓘ |
| usedIn |
early 2000s
ⓘ
late 1990s ⓘ |
| usedOn |
the internet
ⓘ
surface form:
Internet
|
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: TOC Description of subject: TOC (Talk to OSCAR) is a simplified, publicly documented protocol once used by AOL Instant Messenger clients to communicate with AOL’s messaging servers.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.