Spotlight
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Spotlight is Apple’s system-wide search feature on macOS and iOS that quickly locates files, apps, and information across a device and the web.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Spotlight canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1773882 — 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: Spotlight Context triple: [Finder, integratedWith, Spotlight]
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A.
Spotlight
"Spotlight" is an R&B ballad by Jennifer Hudson that showcases her powerful vocals and explores themes of control and emotional struggle in a relationship.
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B.
Birdman
Birdman is an American rapper, record executive, and co-founder of Cash Money Records, known for his influential role in Southern hip hop and for mentoring artists like Lil Wayne.
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C.
La La Land
La La Land is a 2016 romantic musical film that follows the love story of an aspiring actress and a jazz musician in Los Angeles, celebrated for its nostalgic homage to classic Hollywood musicals and its acclaimed direction, music, and performances.
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D.
The Shape of Water
The Shape of Water is a 2017 romantic fantasy film that blends a Cold War-era fairy tale with themes of otherness and empathy, directed by Guillermo del Toro.
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E.
Moonlight
Moonlight is a critically acclaimed 2016 coming-of-age drama film that explores themes of identity, sexuality, and race through the life of a young Black man growing up in Miami.
- 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: Spotlight Target entity description: Spotlight is Apple’s system-wide search feature on macOS and iOS that quickly locates files, apps, and information across a device and the web.
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A.
Spotlight
"Spotlight" is an R&B ballad by Jennifer Hudson that showcases her powerful vocals and explores themes of control and emotional struggle in a relationship.
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B.
Birdman
Birdman is an American rapper, record executive, and co-founder of Cash Money Records, known for his influential role in Southern hip hop and for mentoring artists like Lil Wayne.
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C.
La La Land
La La Land is a 2016 romantic musical film that follows the love story of an aspiring actress and a jazz musician in Los Angeles, celebrated for its nostalgic homage to classic Hollywood musicals and its acclaimed direction, music, and performances.
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D.
The Shape of Water
The Shape of Water is a 2017 romantic fantasy film that blends a Cold War-era fairy tale with themes of otherness and empathy, directed by Guillermo del Toro.
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E.
Moonlight
Moonlight is a critically acclaimed 2016 coming-of-age drama film that explores themes of identity, sexuality, and race through the life of a young Black man growing up in Miami.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (61)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Apple software
ⓘ
search technology ⓘ system feature ⓘ |
| allowsUserTo |
choose searchable categories
ⓘ
exclude folders from indexing ⓘ |
| configurableVia |
Settings app on iOS
ⓘ
System Settings on macOS ⓘ |
| developer | Apple Inc. ⓘ |
| featureOf |
Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger
ⓘ
iOS 3 and later ⓘ
linked to:
iOS
iPadOS ⓘ later versions of macOS ⓘ |
| integratedWith |
Safari search
ⓘ
Siri Suggestions ⓘ
linked to:
Siri
|
| introducedIn | Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger ⓘ |
| invokedBy |
Command–Space keyboard shortcut on macOS
ⓘ
menu bar search icon on macOS ⓘ search field on Today View on iOS ⓘ swipe-down gesture on Home Screen on iOS ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
OS X
ⓘ
linked to:
macOS
iOS ⓘ iPadOS ⓘ iPhone OS ⓘ
linked to:
iOS
macOS ⓘ |
| primaryFunction |
application search
ⓘ
content indexing ⓘ file search ⓘ system-wide search ⓘ web search integration ⓘ |
| privacyFeature | can limit search to local content ⓘ |
| relatedFeature |
Finder search
ⓘ
linked to:
Finder
Launchpad ⓘ Siri ⓘ |
| resultPresentation |
inline results list
ⓘ
preview of selected item ⓘ |
| searchAlgorithmType | indexed search ⓘ |
| searches |
PDFs
ⓘ
applications ⓘ calendar events ⓘ contacts ⓘ dictionary definitions ⓘ documents ⓘ emails ⓘ files ⓘ folders ⓘ images ⓘ maps and locations ⓘ messages ⓘ music and media ⓘ system preferences ⓘ web results ⓘ |
| storesIndex | local device storage ⓘ |
| supports |
currency conversion
ⓘ
launching applications ⓘ natural language queries ⓘ opening files directly from results ⓘ quick calculations ⓘ unit conversion ⓘ |
| uses |
full-text indexing
ⓘ
metadata indexing ⓘ search index ⓘ |
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: Spotlight Description of subject: Spotlight is Apple’s system-wide search feature on macOS and iOS that quickly locates files, apps, and information across a device and the web.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.