Carbon
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Carbon is a now-deprecated C-based application programming interface (API) for macOS that was designed to help developers port and run classic Mac OS applications on Mac OS X.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Carbon canonical | 7 |
| Carbon (legacy) | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1935669 — 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: Carbon Context triple: [Cocoa, relatedFramework, Carbon]
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A.
Carbon Black
Carbon Black is a cybersecurity company known for its cloud-native endpoint and workload protection platform that helps organizations prevent, detect, and respond to advanced cyber threats.
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B.
Carbonne
Carbonne is a small commune in southwestern France, known for its picturesque setting along the Garonne River and traditional rural charm.
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C.
Co2
Co2 is one of the three sporadic Conway groups, a finite simple group arising from the symmetries of the Leech lattice in group theory.
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D.
Karby
Karby is a locality within Vallentuna Municipality in Stockholm County, Sweden.
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E.
Chromium
Chromium is an open-source web browser project that serves as the foundation for several major browsers, including Google Chrome.
- 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: Carbon Target entity description: Carbon is a now-deprecated C-based application programming interface (API) for macOS that was designed to help developers port and run classic Mac OS applications on Mac OS X.
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A.
Carbon Black
Carbon Black is a cybersecurity company known for its cloud-native endpoint and workload protection platform that helps organizations prevent, detect, and respond to advanced cyber threats.
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B.
Carbonne
Carbonne is a small commune in southwestern France, known for its picturesque setting along the Garonne River and traditional rural charm.
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C.
Co2
Co2 is one of the three sporadic Conway groups, a finite simple group arising from the symmetries of the Leech lattice in group theory.
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D.
Karby
Karby is a locality within Vallentuna Municipality in Stockholm County, Sweden.
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E.
Chromium
Chromium is an open-source web browser project that serves as the foundation for several major browsers, including Google Chrome.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Apple technology
ⓘ
application programming interface ⓘ software framework ⓘ |
| basedOn |
classic Mac OS API
ⓘ
linked to:
Macintosh Toolbox
|
| category |
Apple frameworks
ⓘ
linked to:
Apple platforms APIs
macOS APIs ⓘ |
| component |
Carbon Controls
ⓘ
Carbon Events ⓘ Carbon File Manager ⓘ Carbon Printing ⓘ Carbon QuickDraw APIs ⓘ Carbon Windows ⓘ |
| deprecatedBy | Cocoa ⓘ |
| designedFor | transition from classic Mac OS to Mac OS X ⓘ |
| developer | Apple Inc. ⓘ |
| documentationWebsite | Apple Developer Documentation ⓘ |
| domain |
application services
ⓘ
event handling ⓘ file system access ⓘ graphical user interface programming ⓘ printing ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
backward-compatible API surface
ⓘ
event-driven programming model ⓘ |
| introducedAt | Apple Worldwide Developers Conference ⓘ |
| introducedWith |
Mac OS X
ⓘ
linked to:
macOS
|
| isPartOf |
macOS developer tools
ⓘ
linked to:
Apple developer tools
|
| notSupported | 64-bit applications on macOS ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
Mac OS X
ⓘ
linked to:
macOS
macOS ⓘ |
| paradigm | procedural programming ⓘ |
| primaryLanguageBinding | C ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage | C ⓘ |
| provides | C-based API for macOS ⓘ |
| purpose |
porting classic Mac OS applications to Mac OS X
ⓘ
providing backward compatibility with classic Mac OS APIs ⓘ |
| replaces | classic Mac OS Toolbox APIs ⓘ |
| status | deprecated ⓘ |
| supports |
32-bit applications
ⓘ
C++ ⓘ preemptive multitasking environment of Mac OS X ⓘ |
| supportsLanguageBinding |
C++
ⓘ
Objective-C ⓘ |
| targetPlatform |
Intel-based Mac
ⓘ
PowerPC ⓘ |
| usedWith |
Metrowerks CodeWarrior
ⓘ
Xcode ⓘ |
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: Carbon Description of subject: Carbon is a now-deprecated C-based application programming interface (API) for macOS that was designed to help developers port and run classic Mac OS applications on Mac OS X.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Carbon
linked to: Carbon