Macworld New York 1999
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Macworld New York 1999 was an Apple-focused trade show and keynote event where Steve Jobs introduced major new products and technologies to the public.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Macworld New York 1999 canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T658057 — 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: Macworld New York 1999 Context triple: [iBook, announcementEvent, Macworld New York 1999]
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A.
Macworld Conference & Expo 2000
Macworld Conference & Expo 2000 was a major Apple-focused trade show and keynote event where Apple showcased significant new technologies and products to the public and developers.
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B.
Macworld 2007
Macworld 2007 was the Apple trade show keynote at which Steve Jobs first unveiled the original iPhone to the public.
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C.
Macworld Conference & Expo 2006
Macworld Conference & Expo 2006 was a major Apple-focused trade show and keynote event where Apple unveiled significant new products and technologies to the public.
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D.
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2006
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2006 was Apple's annual developer conference held in 2006, notable for major Mac hardware and software announcements including the debut of the Mac Pro.
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E.
Macintosh Portable
The Macintosh Portable is Apple’s first battery-powered Macintosh computer, a bulky early laptop introduced in 1989 that paved the way for the more compact PowerBook line.
- 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: Macworld New York 1999 Target entity description: Macworld New York 1999 was an Apple-focused trade show and keynote event where Steve Jobs introduced major new products and technologies to the public.
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A.
Macworld Conference & Expo 2000
Macworld Conference & Expo 2000 was a major Apple-focused trade show and keynote event where Apple showcased significant new technologies and products to the public and developers.
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B.
Macworld 2007
Macworld 2007 was the Apple trade show keynote at which Steve Jobs first unveiled the original iPhone to the public.
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C.
Macworld Conference & Expo 2006
Macworld Conference & Expo 2006 was a major Apple-focused trade show and keynote event where Apple unveiled significant new products and technologies to the public.
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D.
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2006
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2006 was Apple's annual developer conference held in 2006, notable for major Mac hardware and software announcements including the debut of the Mac Pro.
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E.
Macintosh Portable
The Macintosh Portable is Apple’s first battery-powered Macintosh computer, a bulky early laptop introduced in 1989 that paved the way for the more compact PowerBook line.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Apple event
ⓘ
Macworld Expo ⓘ technology conference ⓘ trade show ⓘ |
| associatedCompany | Apple Inc. ⓘ |
| audience |
Apple customers
ⓘ
Macintosh enthusiasts ⓘ developers ⓘ technology press ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| era | late 1990s ⓘ |
| feature |
Apple keynote presentation
ⓘ
product announcements ⓘ technology demonstrations ⓘ |
| focus |
Apple hardware
ⓘ
Apple software ⓘ macOS ⓘ
surface form:
Mac OS
Apple Macintosh computers ⓘ
surface form:
Macintosh computers
|
| hasGenre |
industry conference
ⓘ
trade fair ⓘ |
| industry |
computer industry
ⓘ
consumer electronics industry ⓘ software industry ⓘ |
| keynoteSpeaker | Steve Jobs ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| location | New York City ⓘ |
| mainSubject | Apple Inc. ⓘ |
| name | Macworld New York 1999 self-link ⓘ |
| notablePerson | Steve Jobs ⓘ |
| organizer | IDG World Expo ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Macworld Expo ⓘ |
| platform |
Mac OS 8
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Mac OS 9 ⓘ Apple Macintosh computers ⓘ
surface form:
Macintosh
|
| purpose |
developer outreach
ⓘ
media publicity ⓘ product promotion ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Macworld Expo
ⓘ
Macworld San Francisco ⓘ |
| subject |
consumer electronics
ⓘ
information technology industry ⓘ personal computing ⓘ |
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: Macworld New York 1999 Description of subject: Macworld New York 1999 was an Apple-focused trade show and keynote event where Steve Jobs introduced major new products and technologies to the public.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.