Multiple Document Interface
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Multiple Document Interface is a graphical user interface design that allows a single application window to contain and manage multiple child document windows simultaneously.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Multiple Document Interface canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9899938 — 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: Multiple Document Interface Context triple: [Microsoft Foundation Classes, supports, Multiple Document Interface]
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A.
Documentum
Documentum is an enterprise content management platform that provides tools for storing, organizing, and controlling access to large volumes of digital documents and records.
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B.
InterPress page description language at Xerox PARC
InterPress page description language at Xerox PARC was an early device-independent page description system developed at Xerox PARC that laid foundational concepts later used in Adobe’s PostScript.
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C.
MIPDoc
MIPDoc is an international documentary and factual content market and conference that runs alongside MIPTV, bringing together producers, buyers, and distributors from the global non-fiction industry.
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D.
Distributed Component Object Model
Distributed Component Object Model is a Microsoft technology that enables software components to communicate over a network as if they were on the same machine, extending the Component Object Model (COM) to distributed environments.
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E.
Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing
Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing is an IHE integration profile that defines standards-based methods for registering, locating, and sharing patients’ clinical documents across different healthcare enterprises.
- 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: Multiple Document Interface Target entity description: Multiple Document Interface is a graphical user interface design that allows a single application window to contain and manage multiple child document windows simultaneously.
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A.
Documentum
Documentum is an enterprise content management platform that provides tools for storing, organizing, and controlling access to large volumes of digital documents and records.
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B.
InterPress page description language at Xerox PARC
InterPress page description language at Xerox PARC was an early device-independent page description system developed at Xerox PARC that laid foundational concepts later used in Adobe’s PostScript.
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C.
MIPDoc
MIPDoc is an international documentary and factual content market and conference that runs alongside MIPTV, bringing together producers, buyers, and distributors from the global non-fiction industry.
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D.
Distributed Component Object Model
Distributed Component Object Model is a Microsoft technology that enables software components to communicate over a network as if they were on the same machine, extending the Component Object Model (COM) to distributed environments.
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E.
Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing
Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing is an IHE integration profile that defines standards-based methods for registering, locating, and sharing patients’ clinical documents across different healthcare enterprises.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
graphical user interface design pattern
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window management model ⓘ |
| abbreviation | MDI ⓘ |
| advantage |
easy comparison of multiple documents side by side
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shared menus and toolbars reduce UI duplication ⓘ |
| allows | single parent window to contain multiple child document windows ⓘ |
| category |
software architecture pattern
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user interface design ⓘ |
| contrastsWith |
Single Document Interface
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tabbed document interface ⓘ |
| disadvantage |
can confuse users about which window has focus
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can create cluttered parent window ⓘ less consistent with modern OS-level window management ⓘ |
| enables |
centralized window management
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menu and toolbar sharing across child windows ⓘ |
| exampleApplication |
Adobe Photoshop (older versions)
NERFINISHED
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Borland Delphi IDE NERFINISHED ⓘ Visual Studio (older versions) NERFINISHED ⓘ older versions of Microsoft Excel ⓘ older versions of Microsoft Word ⓘ |
| featureOf | desktop applications ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
child windows
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parent window ⓘ |
| hasDesignGoal | manage multiple related documents in a single application frame ⓘ |
| historicallyPopularIn | 1990s desktop software ⓘ |
| implementedIn |
.NET Windows Forms
NERFINISHED
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MFC (Microsoft Foundation Class Library) NERFINISHED ⓘ Win32 API NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| manages | lifecycle of child document windows ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
Single Document Interface
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document-centric application ⓘ tabbed document interface ⓘ workspace window ⓘ |
| requires | message routing between parent and child windows ⓘ |
| supports |
child window activation and deactivation events
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child window minimization and maximization ⓘ child window resizing within parent ⓘ overlapping child windows ⓘ simultaneous display of multiple documents ⓘ window cascading within parent window ⓘ window tiling within parent window ⓘ |
| trend | largely replaced by tabbed interfaces in many applications ⓘ |
| typicalUseCase |
comparing or referencing multiple documents at once
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editing several files in one application instance ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Microsoft Windows applications
NERFINISHED
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graphics and CAD applications ⓘ integrated development environments ⓘ productivity software ⓘ |
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: Multiple Document Interface Description of subject: Multiple Document Interface is a graphical user interface design that allows a single application window to contain and manage multiple child document windows simultaneously.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.