Windows CE 3.0
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Windows CE 3.0 is a compact, modular operating system by Microsoft designed for resource-constrained and embedded devices such as handheld PCs and industrial controllers.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Windows CE 3.0 canonical | 1 |
| Windows Embedded CE | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8286634 — 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: Windows CE 3.0 Context triple: [Handheld PC 2000, basedOn, Windows CE 3.0]
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A.
Windows Mobile
Windows Mobile is a discontinued Microsoft operating system platform designed for smartphones and mobile devices, offering a touch-based interface and integration with Windows and Office services.
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B.
Windows 98
Windows 98 is a consumer-oriented Microsoft operating system from the late 1990s that built on Windows 95 with improved hardware support, a more integrated graphical interface, and bundled web technologies.
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C.
Windows 9x
Windows 9x is a family of consumer-oriented Microsoft operating systems based on the Windows 95 codebase, designed for home and small office PCs in the mid-to-late 1990s.
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D.
Palm OS
Palm OS is a mobile operating system originally developed by Palm, Inc. for personal digital assistants and early smartphones, known for its touchscreen interface and stylus-based input.
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E.
Windows ME
Windows ME (Millennium Edition) is a consumer-focused version of Microsoft’s Windows operating system released in 2000, known for introducing features like System Restore and Windows Movie Maker but also for its instability and frequent crashes.
- 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: Windows CE 3.0 Target entity description: Windows CE 3.0 is a compact, modular operating system by Microsoft designed for resource-constrained and embedded devices such as handheld PCs and industrial controllers.
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A.
Windows Mobile
Windows Mobile is a discontinued Microsoft operating system platform designed for smartphones and mobile devices, offering a touch-based interface and integration with Windows and Office services.
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B.
Windows 98
Windows 98 is a consumer-oriented Microsoft operating system from the late 1990s that built on Windows 95 with improved hardware support, a more integrated graphical interface, and bundled web technologies.
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C.
Windows 9x
Windows 9x is a family of consumer-oriented Microsoft operating systems based on the Windows 95 codebase, designed for home and small office PCs in the mid-to-late 1990s.
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D.
Palm OS
Palm OS is a mobile operating system originally developed by Palm, Inc. for personal digital assistants and early smartphones, known for its touchscreen interface and stylus-based input.
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E.
Windows ME
Windows ME (Millennium Edition) is a consumer-focused version of Microsoft’s Windows operating system released in 2000, known for introducing features like System Restore and Windows Movie Maker but also for its instability and frequent crashes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
embedded operating system
ⓘ
operating system ⓘ real-time operating system ⓘ |
| configurationTool | Platform Builder NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| designedFor |
consumer electronics
ⓘ
embedded devices ⓘ handheld PCs ⓘ industrial controllers ⓘ |
| developer | Microsoft ⓘ |
| feature |
COM support
ⓘ
TCP/IP networking stack ⓘ Unicode support ⓘ Win32 API subset ⓘ modular component architecture ⓘ multimedia APIs ⓘ object store file system ⓘ plug-and-play device support ⓘ power management support ⓘ real-time capabilities ⓘ small footprint ⓘ |
| includes |
Windows CE 3.0 kernel
NERFINISHED
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device drivers ⓘ file system ⓘ graphics windowing and events subsystem (GWES) NERFINISHED ⓘ networking components ⓘ |
| kernelType |
hybrid kernel
ⓘ
preemptive multitasking ⓘ |
| licenseModel | OEM licensing ⓘ |
| memoryModel | 4 GB virtual address space per process (slot-based) ⓘ |
| multitasking | supports multiple processes ⓘ |
| partOfFamily |
Windows CE
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Windows Embedded NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessor | Windows CE 2.12 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 2000-06-15 ⓘ |
| successor | Windows CE .NET 4.0 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| supports |
32-bit architecture
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ARM architecture NERFINISHED ⓘ MIPS architecture ⓘ SH3 architecture ⓘ symmetric multiprocessing (limited, OEM-dependent) ⓘ x86 architecture ⓘ |
| supportsDevelopmentWith |
Microsoft eMbedded Visual Basic
GENERATED
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Microsoft eMbedded Visual C++ GENERATED ⓘ Visual Studio (via toolchains) GENERATED ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Handheld PC 2000
NERFINISHED
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Pocket PC 2000 NERFINISHED ⓘ Pocket PC 2002 NERFINISHED ⓘ industrial automation devices ⓘ set-top boxes ⓘ thin clients ⓘ |
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: Windows CE 3.0 Description of subject: Windows CE 3.0 is a compact, modular operating system by Microsoft designed for resource-constrained and embedded devices such as handheld PCs and industrial controllers.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Windows Embedded CE