Flip 3D
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Flip 3D is a Windows desktop navigation feature that presents open windows in a 3D stacked view, allowing users to cycle through them with a visual flipping effect.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Flip 3D canonical | 1 |
| Flip 3D (on supported versions) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8220346 — 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: Flip 3D Context triple: [Windows Aero, feature, Flip 3D]
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A.
Flipt
Flipt is a casual dining restaurant located inside Rivers Casino Des Plaines, known for serving classic American comfort food like burgers and sandwiches.
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B.
Flick of the Finger
"Flick of the Finger" is a rock song by the English band Beady Eye, known for its brassy, psychedelic sound and politically charged lyrics.
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C.
Flipper
Flipper is a 1996 family adventure film starring Elijah Wood and Paul Hogan about a boy who befriends a dolphin in the Florida Keys.
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D.
Flipper Purify
Flipper Purify is the successful African-American architect and central protagonist in Spike Lee’s film "Jungle Fever," whose interracial affair drives the movie’s exploration of race, desire, and social tension.
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E.
Playfish
Playfish was a pioneering social gaming company best known for creating popular Facebook and mobile games before being acquired by Electronic Arts.
- 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: Flip 3D Target entity description: Flip 3D is a Windows desktop navigation feature that presents open windows in a 3D stacked view, allowing users to cycle through them with a visual flipping effect.
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A.
Flipt
Flipt is a casual dining restaurant located inside Rivers Casino Des Plaines, known for serving classic American comfort food like burgers and sandwiches.
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B.
Flick of the Finger
"Flick of the Finger" is a rock song by the English band Beady Eye, known for its brassy, psychedelic sound and politically charged lyrics.
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C.
Flipper
Flipper is a 1996 family adventure film starring Elijah Wood and Paul Hogan about a boy who befriends a dolphin in the Florida Keys.
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D.
Flipper Purify
Flipper Purify is the successful African-American architect and central protagonist in Spike Lee’s film "Jungle Fever," whose interracial affair drives the movie’s exploration of race, desire, and social tension.
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E.
Playfish
Playfish was a pioneering social gaming company best known for creating popular Facebook and mobile games before being acquired by Electronic Arts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Windows desktop navigation feature
ⓘ
graphical user interface feature ⓘ |
| accessibility | provides visual navigation between windows ⓘ |
| availableInVersion |
Windows 7
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Windows Vista NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| category |
Windows Aero feature
ⓘ
window management feature ⓘ |
| controlledBy | Desktop Window Manager NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| defaultToggleKey | Windows key + Tab ⓘ |
| developedBy | Microsoft ⓘ |
| differenceFromAltTab | uses 3D stacked thumbnails instead of flat icons or previews ⓘ |
| discontinuedReason | replaced by newer window switching interfaces ⓘ |
| function |
allows users to cycle through open windows
ⓘ
presents open windows in a 3D stacked view ⓘ |
| inputDevice |
keyboard
ⓘ
mouse ⓘ scroll wheel ⓘ |
| introducedInVersion | Windows Vista NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| introducedYear | 2007 ⓘ |
| navigationMethod |
keyboard
ⓘ
mouse ⓘ scroll wheel ⓘ |
| notAvailableInVersion |
Windows 10
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Windows 8 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
Windows 7
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Windows Vista NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Windows Aero NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| platform |
Windows
ⓘ
surface form:
Microsoft Windows
|
| replacedBy | Task View NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| requires |
Desktop Window Manager
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Windows Aero theme enabled ⓘ hardware-accelerated graphics ⓘ |
| selectionMethod | bringing a window to the front of the 3D stack ⓘ |
| similarTo | Alt+Tab window switcher ⓘ |
| status | discontinued ⓘ |
| supports | live window previews ⓘ |
| triggeredByKey |
Ctrl + Windows key + Tab
ⓘ
Windows key + Tab ⓘ |
| uiElement | 3D window stack ⓘ |
| uiStyle | Aero Glass NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| userAction | cycles through open application windows ⓘ |
| uses | GPU-accelerated compositing ⓘ |
| viewContent | thumbnails of all open windows ⓘ |
| viewOrientation | tilted 3D perspective ⓘ |
| viewType | stacked window thumbnails ⓘ |
| visualEffect | 3D flipping effect ⓘ |
| windowSelectionOutcome | brings selected window to foreground ⓘ |
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: Flip 3D Description of subject: Flip 3D is a Windows desktop navigation feature that presents open windows in a 3D stacked view, allowing users to cycle through them with a visual flipping effect.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Desktop Window Manager
this entity surface form:
Flip 3D (on supported versions)