Basilisk II
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Basilisk II is an open-source emulator that allows modern computers to run classic 68k-based Apple Macintosh operating systems and software.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Basilisk II canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8521349 — 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: Basilisk II Context triple: [Apple Macintosh ROM, requiredBy, Basilisk II]
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A.
Brutus IX
Brutus IX is one of the later essays in the Anti-Federalist "Brutus" series, continuing the critique of the proposed U.S. Constitution’s structure and its potential threat to individual liberties and state sovereignty.
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B.
Baldwin II of Constantinople
Baldwin II of Constantinople was the last Latin emperor of Constantinople, whose troubled reign was marked by financial hardship, territorial losses, and the eventual fall of the Latin Empire in 1261.
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C.
David of Trebizond
David of Trebizond was the last emperor of the Empire of Trebizond, whose reign ended with the Ottoman conquest in the mid-15th century.
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D.
Siladitya IV
Siladitya IV was a ruler of the Maitraka dynasty of Vallabhi in western India, known from inscriptions as one of its later kings during the early medieval period.
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E.
Othon
Othon is a given name most notably borne by the French Fauvist painter Othon Friesz.
- 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: Basilisk II Target entity description: Basilisk II is an open-source emulator that allows modern computers to run classic 68k-based Apple Macintosh operating systems and software.
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A.
Brutus IX
Brutus IX is one of the later essays in the Anti-Federalist "Brutus" series, continuing the critique of the proposed U.S. Constitution’s structure and its potential threat to individual liberties and state sovereignty.
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B.
Baldwin II of Constantinople
Baldwin II of Constantinople was the last Latin emperor of Constantinople, whose troubled reign was marked by financial hardship, territorial losses, and the eventual fall of the Latin Empire in 1261.
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C.
David of Trebizond
David of Trebizond was the last emperor of the Empire of Trebizond, whose reign ended with the Ottoman conquest in the mid-15th century.
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D.
Siladitya IV
Siladitya IV was a ruler of the Maitraka dynasty of Vallabhi in western India, known from inscriptions as one of its later kings during the early medieval period.
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E.
Othon
Othon is a given name most notably borne by the French Fauvist painter Othon Friesz.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Macintosh emulator
ⓘ
emulator ⓘ open-source software ⓘ |
| developer | Christian Bauer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| emulates |
68k Macintosh
ⓘ
Motorola 680x0-based Macintosh computers ⓘ |
| genre | system emulator ⓘ |
| hasConfigurationFile | basilisk_ii_prefs ⓘ |
| hostedOn | GitHub NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| license | GNU General Public License ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Mini vMac
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
QEMU NERFINISHED ⓘ SheepShaver NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| requires | Apple Macintosh ROM image ⓘ |
| supportsCPUArchitecture |
PowerPC
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
m68k ⓘ x86 ⓘ x86-64 ⓘ |
| supportsFeature |
CD-ROM access
ⓘ
JIT compilation ⓘ color display ⓘ floppy disk image access ⓘ full-screen mode ⓘ hard disk image access ⓘ networking ⓘ shared folders ⓘ sound output ⓘ windowed mode ⓘ |
| supportsFileSystem |
HFS
ⓘ
HFS+ ⓘ |
| supportsHostPlatform |
AmigaOS
GENERATED
ⓘ
BeOS GENERATED ⓘ FreeBSD GENERATED ⓘ Linux GENERATED ⓘ NetBSD GENERATED ⓘ OpenBSD GENERATED ⓘ Solaris GENERATED ⓘ Windows GENERATED ⓘ macOS GENERATED ⓘ |
| supportsInputDevice |
joystick
ⓘ
keyboard ⓘ mouse ⓘ |
| supportsOperatingSystem |
Mac OS 7.x
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mac OS 8.0 NERFINISHED ⓘ Mac OS 8.1 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| targetPlatform | classic Mac OS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writtenInProgrammingLanguage |
C
ⓘ
C++ ⓘ |
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: Basilisk II Description of subject: Basilisk II is an open-source emulator that allows modern computers to run classic 68k-based Apple Macintosh operating systems and software.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.