Tempo
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Tempo was the internal codename used by Apple for the Mac OS 8 operating system during its development.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tempo canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1971601 — 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: Tempo Context triple: [Mac OS 8, codename, Tempo]
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Pace
Pace is a popular American brand best known for its chunky salsas and Mexican-style sauces.
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B.
Pace
Pace is a company based at the Granta Park science and business campus, likely involved in technology or life sciences.
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C.
Allegro
Allegro is a high-speed passenger train service operating between Russia and Finland under the Russian Railways brand.
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D.
Allegro
Allegro is a 1947 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical that experiments with nontraditional staging and narrative to follow a man's life from birth through adulthood.
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E.
Fast as You
"Fast as You" is a popular country song by American singer-songwriter Dwight Yoakam, known for its upbeat honky-tonk style and enduring radio appeal.
- 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: Tempo Target entity description: Tempo was the internal codename used by Apple for the Mac OS 8 operating system during its development.
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A.
Pace
Pace is a popular American brand best known for its chunky salsas and Mexican-style sauces.
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B.
Pace
Pace is a company based at the Granta Park science and business campus, likely involved in technology or life sciences.
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C.
Allegro
Allegro is a high-speed passenger train service operating between Russia and Finland under the Russian Railways brand.
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D.
Allegro
Allegro is a 1947 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical that experiments with nontraditional staging and narrative to follow a man's life from birth through adulthood.
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E.
Fast as You
"Fast as You" is a popular country song by American singer-songwriter Dwight Yoakam, known for its upbeat honky-tonk style and enduring radio appeal.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Apple internal project name
ⓘ
software codename ⓘ |
| appliesToProductLine |
Macintosh operating systems
ⓘ
linked to:
Apple operating systems
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| associatedWithCompanyDivision | Apple software engineering ⓘ |
| codenameFor | Mac OS 8 ⓘ |
| codenameType | internal development codename ⓘ |
| developer |
Apple Computer, Inc.
ⓘ
linked to:
Apple Inc.
Apple Inc. ⓘ |
| developmentPhaseOf | Mac OS 8 ⓘ |
| distributionModel | commercial retail software ⓘ |
| finalProductName | Mac OS 8 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| licenseModel | proprietary software ⓘ |
| nameOrigin | musical term "tempo" ⓘ |
| operatingSystemFamily |
Mac OS
ⓘ
linked to:
macOS
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| operatingSystemKernelType | classic Mac OS architecture ⓘ |
| platform |
Macintosh
ⓘ
linked to:
Apple Macintosh computers
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| predecessorOf | Mac OS 9 ⓘ |
| relatedToProject |
Copland
ⓘ
linked to:
Aaron Copland
Gershwin ⓘ |
| replacedCodenameSchemeOf | earlier Mac OS projects ⓘ |
| softwareGenre | operating system ⓘ |
| successorTo |
Mac OS 7
ⓘ
linked to:
System 7 (early versions)
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| targetedHardware |
PowerPC Macintosh computers
ⓘ
linked to:
Power Macintosh
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| timePeriod | 1990s ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Apple Computer, Inc.
ⓘ
linked to:
Apple Inc.
Apple Inc. ⓘ |
| usedDuring | Mac OS 8 development ⓘ |
| userInterfaceStyle |
Mac OS Platinum interface
ⓘ
linked to:
Mac OS Platinum
|
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: Tempo Description of subject: Tempo was the internal codename used by Apple for the Mac OS 8 operating system during its development.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.