OS X Mountain Lion
E215078
OS X Mountain Lion is the ninth major release of Apple’s Mac operating system, focusing on tighter integration with iOS services and enhanced security and cloud features.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| OS X Mountain Lion canonical | 6 |
| OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion | 5 |
| OS X 10.8 | 3 |
| macOS 10.8 | 3 |
| Power Nap in OS X Mountain Lion | 1 |
| macOS Mountain Lion | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1935159 — 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: OS X Mountain Lion Context triple: [Gatekeeper, introducedIn, OS X Mountain Lion]
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A.
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard is a refinement-focused release of Apple's Mac operating system that emphasized performance, stability, and under-the-hood improvements over major new features.
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B.
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard is a major 2007 release of Apple’s Mac operating system that introduced features like Time Machine, Spaces, and an updated user interface while dropping support for running classic Mac OS applications.
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C.
Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger
Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger is a major release of Apple’s desktop operating system that introduced features like Spotlight search and Dashboard widgets while bridging the transition from Classic Mac OS to modern macOS.
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D.
macOS
macOS is Apple’s proprietary Unix-based operating system known for its graphical user interface, tight integration with Apple hardware and services, and strong emphasis on usability and security.
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E.
Mac
Mac is Apple’s line of personal computers known for their sleek hardware design and tight integration with the macOS operating system.
- 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: OS X Mountain Lion Target entity description: OS X Mountain Lion is the ninth major release of Apple’s Mac operating system, focusing on tighter integration with iOS services and enhanced security and cloud features.
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A.
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard is a refinement-focused release of Apple's Mac operating system that emphasized performance, stability, and under-the-hood improvements over major new features.
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B.
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard is a major 2007 release of Apple’s Mac operating system that introduced features like Time Machine, Spaces, and an updated user interface while dropping support for running classic Mac OS applications.
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C.
Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger
Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger is a major release of Apple’s desktop operating system that introduced features like Spotlight search and Dashboard widgets while bridging the transition from Classic Mac OS to modern macOS.
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D.
macOS
macOS is Apple’s proprietary Unix-based operating system known for its graphical user interface, tight integration with Apple hardware and services, and strong emphasis on usability and security.
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E.
Mac
Mac is Apple’s line of personal computers known for their sleek hardware design and tight integration with the macOS operating system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: OS X Mountain Lion Description of subject: OS X Mountain Lion is the ninth major release of Apple’s Mac operating system, focusing on tighter integration with iOS services and enhanced security and cloud features.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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