NSWindowController
E900213
NSWindowController is a Cocoa framework class that manages a window’s lifecycle, coordinates its content view controllers, and mediates interactions between the window and the rest of a macOS application.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| NSWindowController canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11016473 — 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: NSWindowController Context triple: [Application Kit, coreClass, NSWindowController]
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A.
NSView
NSView is the fundamental visual building block for user interfaces in macOS applications, representing a rectangular region responsible for drawing and event handling.
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B.
macOS Cocoa
macOS Cocoa is Apple’s native object-oriented application framework for building graphical user interfaces on macOS.
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C.
WindowGroup (SwiftUI)
WindowGroup (SwiftUI) is a scene type that manages one or more windows for an app’s user interface, typically serving as the main entry point for presenting views in a SwiftUI application.
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D.
NeXTSTEP Interface Builder
NeXTSTEP Interface Builder was a pioneering graphical tool for visually designing user interfaces and connecting them to application code in the NeXTSTEP operating system.
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E.
WKInterfaceObject
WKInterfaceObject is a fundamental WatchKit class that represents and manages user interface elements in Apple Watch apps.
- 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: NSWindowController Target entity description: NSWindowController is a Cocoa framework class that manages a window’s lifecycle, coordinates its content view controllers, and mediates interactions between the window and the rest of a macOS application.
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A.
NSView
NSView is the fundamental visual building block for user interfaces in macOS applications, representing a rectangular region responsible for drawing and event handling.
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B.
macOS Cocoa
macOS Cocoa is Apple’s native object-oriented application framework for building graphical user interfaces on macOS.
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C.
WindowGroup (SwiftUI)
WindowGroup (SwiftUI) is a scene type that manages one or more windows for an app’s user interface, typically serving as the main entry point for presenting views in a SwiftUI application.
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D.
NeXTSTEP Interface Builder
NeXTSTEP Interface Builder was a pioneering graphical tool for visually designing user interfaces and connecting them to application code in the NeXTSTEP operating system.
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E.
WKInterfaceObject
WKInterfaceObject is a fundamental WatchKit class that represents and manages user interface elements in Apple Watch apps.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
AppKit class
ⓘ
Cocoa class ⓘ Objective-C class ⓘ |
| conformsTo |
NSCoding
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
NSSeguePerforming ⓘ |
| coordinatesWith | NSViewController ⓘ |
| definedInFramework | AppKit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| definedInModule | AppKit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasInitializer |
initWithWindow:
ⓘ
initWithWindowNibName: ⓘ initWithWindowNibName:owner: ⓘ |
| hasMethod |
close
ⓘ
loadWindow ⓘ performSegueWithIdentifier:sender: ⓘ prepareForSegue:sender: ⓘ setContentViewController: ⓘ setDocument: ⓘ setWindowFrameAutosaveName: ⓘ showWindow: ⓘ windowDidLoad ⓘ windowWillLoad ⓘ |
| hasProperty |
contentViewController
ⓘ
document ⓘ owner ⓘ shouldCascadeWindows ⓘ synchronizeWindowTitleWithDocumentName ⓘ window ⓘ windowFrameAutosaveName ⓘ windowNibName ⓘ |
| inheritsFrom |
NSObject
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
NSResponder NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| introducedInOS | macOS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageBinding |
Objective-C
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Swift NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| lifecycleResponsibility |
closing the window
ⓘ
loading the window from a nib or storyboard ⓘ showing the window ⓘ |
| manages | NSWindow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| oftenUsedWith |
NSDocument
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
NSStoryboard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| platform | macOS ⓘ |
| primaryRole |
coordinates content view controllers for a window
ⓘ
manages a window’s lifecycle ⓘ mediates interactions between a window and the rest of a macOS app ⓘ |
| supportsFeature |
automatic window frame autosaving
ⓘ
window cascading ⓘ |
| typicalUsage | subclassed to customize window behavior ⓘ |
| usedIn | macOS applications ⓘ |
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: NSWindowController Description of subject: NSWindowController is a Cocoa framework class that manages a window’s lifecycle, coordinates its content view controllers, and mediates interactions between the window and the rest of a macOS application.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.