El Torito
E100897
El Torito is a bootable CD-ROM specification that extends the ISO 9660 standard to allow computers to boot directly from optical discs.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T868612 — 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: El Torito Context triple: [ISO 9660, extension, El Torito]
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A.
Mogotón
Mogotón is a mountain on the border between Nicaragua and Honduras that forms the highest peak in Nicaragua.
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B.
Tobalaba
Tobalaba is a major Santiago Metro station in Chile that serves as an important transfer point between multiple lines in the city’s rapid transit network.
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C.
Piipaash
Piipaash are a Native American people of the lower Colorado River region, closely related to the Maricopa and known for their distinct language and cultural traditions.
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D.
Wonko the Sane
Wonko the Sane is an eccentric Californian marine biologist from Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide series, known for building an inside-out asylum called the Outside of the Asylum to cope with the world's madness.
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E.
Majadahonda
Majadahonda is a suburban municipality west of Madrid, Spain, known for its residential character, shopping centers, and sports facilities.
- 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: El Torito Target entity description: El Torito is a bootable CD-ROM specification that extends the ISO 9660 standard to allow computers to boot directly from optical discs.
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A.
Mogotón
Mogotón is a mountain on the border between Nicaragua and Honduras that forms the highest peak in Nicaragua.
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B.
Tobalaba
Tobalaba is a major Santiago Metro station in Chile that serves as an important transfer point between multiple lines in the city’s rapid transit network.
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C.
Piipaash
Piipaash are a Native American people of the lower Colorado River region, closely related to the Maricopa and known for their distinct language and cultural traditions.
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D.
Wonko the Sane
Wonko the Sane is an eccentric Californian marine biologist from Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide series, known for building an inside-out asylum called the Outside of the Asylum to cope with the world's madness.
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E.
Majadahonda
Majadahonda is a suburban municipality west of Madrid, Spain, known for its residential character, shopping centers, and sports facilities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bootable CD-ROM specification
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computer boot specification ⓘ |
| allows | selection of multiple boot images on one disc ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
CD-ROM
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DVD-ROM ⓘ bootable optical media ⓘ |
| bootCatalogLocation | specified in ISO 9660 file system ⓘ |
| category |
Computer boot process
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ISO 9660 extensions ⓘ
linked to:
ISO 9660
Optical disc standards ⓘ |
| compatibleWith | x86 PC architecture ⓘ |
| defines |
boot catalog structure
ⓘ
boot entry descriptors ⓘ method for making CD-ROMs bootable ⓘ |
| enables | booting computers directly from optical discs ⓘ |
| extendsStandard | ISO 9660 ⓘ |
| influenced | design of bootable DVD and CD formats ⓘ |
| introducedIn | 1990s ⓘ |
| nameOrigin | named after El Torito restaurant in San Jose, California ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
BIOS boot sequence
ⓘ
UEFI optical boot support ⓘ |
| requires | BIOS support for optical boot ⓘ |
| specifies |
bootable volume descriptor
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default boot entry ⓘ validation entry for boot catalog ⓘ |
| standardizedBy |
IBM
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Phoenix Technologies ⓘ |
| supports |
boot images stored on optical discs
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floppy emulation boot mode ⓘ hard disk emulation boot mode ⓘ no-emulation boot mode ⓘ |
| usedBy | PC BIOS firmware ⓘ |
| usedFor |
live operating system environments on optical discs
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operating system installation from CD-ROM ⓘ system recovery discs ⓘ |
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: El Torito Description of subject: El Torito is a bootable CD-ROM specification that extends the ISO 9660 standard to allow computers to boot directly from optical discs.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.