DAO
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DAO (Data Access Objects) is an older Microsoft data access technology that provides an object-oriented interface for working with databases, particularly Jet/Access databases.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| DAO canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7999603 — 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: DAO Context triple: [Microsoft Access, supports, DAO]
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A.
DAOO
DAOO is the ICAO airport code assigned to Oran Ahmed Ben Bella Airport in Oran, Algeria.
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B.
Dao
Dao is a municipality in the province of Capiz in the Philippines, known for its predominantly rural communities and agricultural economy.
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C.
Dao
Dao is the fundamental principle in Chinese philosophy and religion that denotes the natural, ineffable way or path underlying and guiding the universe and human life.
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D.
ERC
The ERC is a major European funding body that supports pioneering, investigator-driven research across all scientific disciplines.
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E.
ERC
ERC is a professional ice hockey club based in Ingolstadt, Germany, competing in the country’s top-tier Deutsche Eishockey Liga.
- 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: DAO Target entity description: DAO (Data Access Objects) is an older Microsoft data access technology that provides an object-oriented interface for working with databases, particularly Jet/Access databases.
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A.
DAOO
DAOO is the ICAO airport code assigned to Oran Ahmed Ben Bella Airport in Oran, Algeria.
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B.
Dao
Dao is a municipality in the province of Capiz in the Philippines, known for its predominantly rural communities and agricultural economy.
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C.
Dao
Dao is the fundamental principle in Chinese philosophy and religion that denotes the natural, ineffable way or path underlying and guiding the universe and human life.
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D.
ERC
The ERC is a major European funding body that supports pioneering, investigator-driven research across all scientific disciplines.
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E.
ERC
ERC is a professional ice hockey club based in Ingolstadt, Germany, competing in the country’s top-tier Deutsche Eishockey Liga.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Microsoft technology
ⓘ
data access technology ⓘ object-oriented API ⓘ |
| accessModel | COM-based API ⓘ |
| canAccess | ODBC data sources via ODBCDirect (in later versions) ⓘ |
| category |
Microsoft data access API
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
database access library ⓘ |
| commonlyUsedWith |
Microsoft Access
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Microsoft Jet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| designedFor | Jet database engine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| developer | Microsoft ⓘ |
| documentationScope | Microsoft Jet and Access development documentation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| exposes |
Database object
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Field object ⓘ Index object ⓘ QueryDef object ⓘ Recordset object ⓘ TableDef object ⓘ |
| fullName | Data Access Objects ⓘ |
| introducedIn | early 1990s ⓘ |
| lessSuitableFor | large-scale client-server databases ⓘ |
| optimizedFor | local Jet databases ⓘ |
| primaryUse |
data access
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database programming ⓘ |
| provides |
database objects
ⓘ
object-oriented interface to databases ⓘ query definition objects ⓘ recordset objects ⓘ table definition objects ⓘ |
| status | legacy technology ⓘ |
| supersededBy |
ADO
NERFINISHED
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OLE DB-based technologies ⓘ |
| supports |
Jet/Access databases
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relational databases ⓘ |
| supportsFeature |
data definition operations
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data manipulation operations ⓘ schema manipulation ⓘ transactions (limited, via Jet engine) ⓘ |
| supportsLanguage |
C++
NERFINISHED
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Visual Basic NERFINISHED ⓘ Visual Basic for Applications NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| typicalEnvironment |
Microsoft Office solutions
NERFINISHED
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desktop applications ⓘ |
| usedFor |
creating tables
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defining indexes ⓘ navigating records ⓘ running queries ⓘ updating records ⓘ |
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: DAO Description of subject: DAO (Data Access Objects) is an older Microsoft data access technology that provides an object-oriented interface for working with databases, particularly Jet/Access databases.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.