Enhanced Graphics Adapter
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Enhanced Graphics Adapter is an IBM PC graphics standard introduced in the mid-1980s that provided improved color and resolution capabilities over the earlier CGA standard.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Enhanced Graphics Adapter canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10156534 — 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: Enhanced Graphics Adapter Context triple: [EGA, fullName, Enhanced Graphics Adapter]
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A.
Monochrome Display Adapter
Monochrome Display Adapter is an early IBM PC video display standard that supports only text output on a monochrome monitor, primarily used for business and word-processing applications.
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B.
GeForce 256
GeForce 256 is NVIDIA’s first-generation consumer graphics processing unit, widely regarded as the first GPU to integrate hardware transform and lighting for 3D acceleration.
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C.
GeForce FX
GeForce FX is a series of NVIDIA graphics cards from the early 2000s that introduced DirectX 9 support but was criticized for its relatively weak performance and image quality compared to competitors.
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D.
Hercules Graphics Card (third-party)
The Hercules Graphics Card is a third-party monochrome graphics adapter for early IBM PCs that provided high-resolution text and graphics capabilities beyond IBM’s original display standards.
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E.
GeForce3
GeForce3 is a third-generation NVIDIA graphics card series known for introducing programmable shaders and significantly advancing consumer 3D graphics performance.
- 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: Enhanced Graphics Adapter Target entity description: Enhanced Graphics Adapter is an IBM PC graphics standard introduced in the mid-1980s that provided improved color and resolution capabilities over the earlier CGA standard.
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A.
Monochrome Display Adapter
Monochrome Display Adapter is an early IBM PC video display standard that supports only text output on a monochrome monitor, primarily used for business and word-processing applications.
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B.
GeForce 256
GeForce 256 is NVIDIA’s first-generation consumer graphics processing unit, widely regarded as the first GPU to integrate hardware transform and lighting for 3D acceleration.
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C.
GeForce FX
GeForce FX is a series of NVIDIA graphics cards from the early 2000s that introduced DirectX 9 support but was criticized for its relatively weak performance and image quality compared to competitors.
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D.
Hercules Graphics Card (third-party)
The Hercules Graphics Card is a third-party monochrome graphics adapter for early IBM PCs that provided high-resolution text and graphics capabilities beyond IBM’s original display standards.
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E.
GeForce3
GeForce3 is a third-generation NVIDIA graphics card series known for introducing programmable shaders and significantly advancing consumer 3D graphics performance.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
IBM PC graphics standard
ⓘ
computer display standard ⓘ |
| abbreviation | EGA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | IBM EGA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| backwardCompatibilityWith |
CGA
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Color Graphics Adapter NERFINISHED ⓘ MDA NERFINISHED ⓘ Monochrome Display Adapter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| category | IBM PC display standards NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| colorDepth | 4-bit per pixel effective in 16-color modes ⓘ |
| colorPaletteSize | 64 colors ⓘ |
| connectorType | DE-9 video connector ⓘ |
| developer | IBM ⓘ |
| graphicsModeSupported |
320×200 16-color graphics mode
ⓘ
640×350 16-color graphics mode ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | first widely used IBM PC standard with 16 colors at higher resolution ⓘ |
| improvedOver |
CGA color capabilities
ⓘ
CGA resolution ⓘ |
| industryImpact | bridge between early PC graphics and VGA era ⓘ |
| introducedInDecade | 1980s ⓘ |
| introducedInYear | 1984 ⓘ |
| marketedAs | mid-range graphics solution between CGA and VGA ⓘ |
| maxResolution | 640×350 pixels ⓘ |
| maxSimultaneousColors | 16 colors ⓘ |
| maxTextResolution | 80×25 characters ⓘ |
| memorySize | 64 KB video RAM ⓘ |
| outputDevice | EGA monitor ⓘ |
| platform | IBM PC compatible computers ⓘ |
| predecessor |
CGA
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Color Graphics Adapter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryUse |
PC games in the late 1980s
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business graphics ⓘ |
| requires | dedicated EGA-compatible monitor ⓘ |
| signalType | digital RGBI ⓘ |
| standardizedBy | IBM internal specifications NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| status | obsolete ⓘ |
| successor |
VGA
NERFINISHED
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Video Graphics Array NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| supports |
hardware text fonts
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intensity and background color attributes ⓘ multiple display pages ⓘ user-definable character sets ⓘ |
| textModeSupported |
40×25 text mode
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80×25 text mode ⓘ |
| usedIn |
IBM PC/AT
NERFINISHED
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IBM Personal Computer line NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Enhanced Graphics Adapter Description of subject: Enhanced Graphics Adapter is an IBM PC graphics standard introduced in the mid-1980s that provided improved color and resolution capabilities over the earlier CGA standard.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.