NSOperationQueue
E770629
NSOperationQueue is a Foundation framework class that manages the scheduling and concurrent execution of NSOperation tasks in an organized queue.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| NSOperationQueue canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9004023 — 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: NSOperationQueue Context triple: [Foundation framework, includes, NSOperationQueue]
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A.
Grand Central Dispatch
Grand Central Dispatch is Apple's low-level concurrency and task scheduling framework used to efficiently manage parallel execution of code on macOS, iOS, and other Darwin-based systems.
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B.
NSAutoreleasePool
NSAutoreleasePool is an Objective-C Foundation class that manages the deferred release of objects in manual reference-counted memory management.
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C.
WKRefreshBackgroundTask
WKRefreshBackgroundTask is a WatchKit API class used to handle and manage background refresh tasks in watchOS apps.
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D.
URLSession
URLSession is Apple’s networking API for performing HTTP and other URL-based data transfers in iOS, macOS, and related platforms.
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E.
Open Multi-Processing
Open Multi-Processing is an application programming interface that supports multi-platform shared-memory parallel programming in C, C++, and Fortran.
- 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: NSOperationQueue Target entity description: NSOperationQueue is a Foundation framework class that manages the scheduling and concurrent execution of NSOperation tasks in an organized queue.
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A.
Grand Central Dispatch
Grand Central Dispatch is Apple's low-level concurrency and task scheduling framework used to efficiently manage parallel execution of code on macOS, iOS, and other Darwin-based systems.
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B.
NSAutoreleasePool
NSAutoreleasePool is an Objective-C Foundation class that manages the deferred release of objects in manual reference-counted memory management.
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C.
WKRefreshBackgroundTask
WKRefreshBackgroundTask is a WatchKit API class used to handle and manage background refresh tasks in watchOS apps.
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D.
URLSession
URLSession is Apple’s networking API for performing HTTP and other URL-based data transfers in iOS, macOS, and related platforms.
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E.
Open Multi-Processing
Open Multi-Processing is an application programming interface that supports multi-platform shared-memory parallel programming in C, C++, and Fortran.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Foundation framework class
ⓘ
class ⓘ |
| availableIn |
iOS
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
macOS NERFINISHED ⓘ tvOS ⓘ watchOS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conformsTo |
NSCoding
ⓘ
NSCopying NERFINISHED ⓘ NSSecureCoding NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| definedIn | Foundation framework NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| documentationURL | https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/nsoperationqueue ⓘ |
| hasClassMethod |
currentQueue
ⓘ
mainQueue ⓘ |
| hasInstanceMethod |
addOperation:
ⓘ
addOperationWithBlock: ⓘ addOperations:waitUntilFinished: ⓘ cancelAllOperations ⓘ setMaxConcurrentOperationCount: ⓘ setQualityOfService: ⓘ setSuspended: ⓘ setUnderlyingQueue: ⓘ waitUntilAllOperationsAreFinished ⓘ |
| hasProperty |
maxConcurrentOperationCount
ⓘ
name ⓘ operationCount ⓘ operations ⓘ progress ⓘ qualityOfService ⓘ suspended ⓘ underlyingQueue ⓘ |
| introducedIn |
iOS 2.0
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
macOS 10.5 ⓘ |
| isSubclassOf | NSObject NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainQueueUsedFor | executing operations on main thread ⓘ |
| manages | NSOperation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memoryManagement | ARC compatible ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage | Objective-C NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedTo | NSOperation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| supports |
Quality of Service classes
ⓘ
cancellation of operations ⓘ concurrent execution ⓘ operation dependencies via NSOperation ⓘ prioritization of operations ⓘ serial execution ⓘ |
| threadingModel | GCD-based implementation internally on modern systems ⓘ |
| usedFor |
managing concurrent execution of operations
ⓘ
organizing operations into queues ⓘ scheduling NSOperation objects ⓘ |
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: NSOperationQueue Description of subject: NSOperationQueue is a Foundation framework class that manages the scheduling and concurrent execution of NSOperation tasks in an organized queue.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.