MapInfo TAB
E903609
MapInfo TAB is a proprietary geospatial vector data format used by MapInfo Professional to store and manage map layers and associated attribute information.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| MapInfo TAB canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11060163 — 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: MapInfo TAB Context triple: [MapInfo Professional, fileFormatSupport, MapInfo TAB]
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A.
MapInfo Professional
MapInfo Professional is a desktop geographic information system (GIS) software application used for mapping, spatial analysis, and visualization of geographic data.
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B.
MapBasic
MapBasic is a specialized programming language used to customize, automate, and extend the functionality of MapInfo Professional geographic information system (GIS) software.
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C.
Mapam
Mapam was a left-wing socialist Zionist political party in Israel that played a significant role in the early decades of the state, particularly within the kibbutz movement and peace-oriented politics.
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D.
MapServer
MapServer is an open-source platform for publishing spatial data and interactive mapping applications on the web.
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E.
MAPER
MAPER is the official abbreviation for the Spanish Army’s Personnel Command (Mando de Personal), the body responsible for managing military human resources and related administrative functions.
- 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: MapInfo TAB Target entity description: MapInfo TAB is a proprietary geospatial vector data format used by MapInfo Professional to store and manage map layers and associated attribute information.
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A.
MapInfo Professional
MapInfo Professional is a desktop geographic information system (GIS) software application used for mapping, spatial analysis, and visualization of geographic data.
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B.
MapBasic
MapBasic is a specialized programming language used to customize, automate, and extend the functionality of MapInfo Professional geographic information system (GIS) software.
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C.
Mapam
Mapam was a left-wing socialist Zionist political party in Israel that played a significant role in the early decades of the state, particularly within the kibbutz movement and peace-oriented politics.
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D.
MapServer
MapServer is an open-source platform for publishing spatial data and interactive mapping applications on the web.
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E.
MAPER
MAPER is the official abbreviation for the Spanish Army’s Personnel Command (Mando de Personal), the body responsible for managing military human resources and related administrative functions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
GIS file format
ⓘ
geospatial vector data format ⓘ |
| associatedFileExtension |
.dat
GENERATED
ⓘ
.id GENERATED ⓘ .ind GENERATED ⓘ .map GENERATED ⓘ |
| attributeDataFile | .dat ⓘ |
| canBeConvertedTo |
ESRI Shapefile
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
GeoJSON NERFINISHED ⓘ GeoPackage NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| canBeReadBy |
FME
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
GDAL NERFINISHED ⓘ OGR NERFINISHED ⓘ QGIS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| category | GIS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dataType | vector ⓘ |
| developedBy |
MapInfo Corporation
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Pitney Bowes Software NERFINISHED ⓘ Precisely NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fileExtension | .tab ⓘ |
| fileStructure | multi-file dataset ⓘ |
| geometryDataFile | .map ⓘ |
| indexDataFile | .ind ⓘ |
| isBinaryFormat | true ⓘ |
| isProprietary | true ⓘ |
| metadataFile | .tab ⓘ |
| primaryIndexFile | .id GENERATED ⓘ |
| stores |
attribute data
ⓘ
map layers ⓘ spatial index information ⓘ |
| storesTableDefinition | true ⓘ |
| supportsAttributeIndexes | true GENERATED ⓘ |
| supportsCharacterEncoding |
UTF-8
ⓘ
Windows-1252 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| supportsCoordinateReferenceSystems | true ⓘ |
| supportsGeometryType |
line
ⓘ
point ⓘ polygon ⓘ region ⓘ text ⓘ |
| supportsMultipleFilesPerDataset | true GENERATED ⓘ |
| supportsProjections | true GENERATED ⓘ |
| supportsThematicMapping | true GENERATED ⓘ |
| supportsTopology | limited ⓘ |
| typicalUse |
cartographic data storage
ⓘ
desktop GIS mapping ⓘ spatial analysis ⓘ |
| usedBySoftware |
MapInfo Pro
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
MapInfo Professional NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: MapInfo TAB Description of subject: MapInfo TAB is a proprietary geospatial vector data format used by MapInfo Professional to store and manage map layers and associated attribute information.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.