Memphis
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Memphis was the internal codename used by Microsoft during the development of the Windows 98 operating system.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Memphis canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1621399 — 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: Memphis Context triple: [Windows 98, codename, Memphis]
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A.
Memphis
Memphis is a major city in southwestern Tennessee known for its influential contributions to blues, soul, and rock 'n' roll music, as well as its rich cultural and civil rights history.
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B.
Memphis
Memphis is an ancient Egyptian capital near modern Cairo, renowned as a major political, religious, and cultural center and closely associated with the nearby pyramid fields and necropolises.
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C.
Nashville
Nashville is the capital city of the U.S. state of Tennessee, widely known as a major center for country music and the recording industry.
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D.
Memphis metropolitan area
The Memphis metropolitan area is a multi-county urban region centered on the city of Memphis, spanning parts of Tennessee, Mississippi, and Arkansas and serving as a major cultural, economic, and transportation hub of the Mid-South.
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E.
Jackson, Tennessee
Jackson, Tennessee is a mid-sized city in West Tennessee known as a regional hub for commerce, education, and the judiciary, including serving as one of the locations where the Tennessee Supreme Court convenes.
- 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: Memphis Target entity description: Memphis was the internal codename used by Microsoft during the development of the Windows 98 operating system.
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A.
Memphis
Memphis is an ancient Egyptian capital near modern Cairo, renowned as a major political, religious, and cultural center and closely associated with the nearby pyramid fields and necropolises.
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B.
Memphis
Memphis is a major city in southwestern Tennessee known for its influential contributions to blues, soul, and rock 'n' roll music, as well as its rich cultural and civil rights history.
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C.
Nashville
Nashville is the capital city of the U.S. state of Tennessee, widely known as a major center for country music and the recording industry.
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D.
Memphis metropolitan area
The Memphis metropolitan area is a multi-county urban region centered on the city of Memphis, spanning parts of Tennessee, Mississippi, and Arkansas and serving as a major cultural, economic, and transportation hub of the Mid-South.
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E.
Jackson, Tennessee
Jackson, Tennessee is a mid-sized city in West Tennessee known as a regional hub for commerce, education, and the judiciary, including serving as one of the locations where the Tennessee Supreme Court convenes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Microsoft Windows development codename
ⓘ
software project codename ⓘ |
| appliesToProductLine |
Microsoft Windows
ⓘ
linked to:
Windows
|
| basedOn | Windows 95 codebase ⓘ |
| developer |
Microsoft Corporation
ⓘ
linked to:
Microsoft
|
| developmentCodenameForVersion |
Windows 4.10
ⓘ
linked to:
Windows 3.x
|
| developmentPhaseOf | Windows 98 ⓘ |
| developmentStartApproximate | mid-1990s ⓘ |
| genre | operating system codename ⓘ |
| includedFeature |
FAT32 file system support
ⓘ
Internet Explorer 4 integration ⓘ USB support improvements ⓘ Windows Driver Model ⓘ Windows Update ⓘ |
| kernelType | monolithic kernel ⓘ |
| marketedUnderName | Windows 98 ⓘ |
| notMarketedUnderName | Memphis ⓘ |
| operatedOn | personal computer hardware ⓘ |
| operatingSystemFamily |
Microsoft Windows 9x
ⓘ
linked to:
Windows 9x
|
| platform | IA-32 ⓘ |
| precedesCodename | Georgia ⓘ |
| relatedCodename |
Chicago
ⓘ
Detroit ⓘ Nashville ⓘ |
| releaseProduct | Windows 98 ⓘ |
| softwareType | closed-source proprietary software ⓘ |
| succeededCodename | Chicago ⓘ |
| targetedFor | consumer desktop PCs ⓘ |
| usedAsCodenameFor |
Microsoft Windows 98 operating system
ⓘ
linked to:
Windows 98
Windows 98 ⓘ |
| usedBy | Microsoft ⓘ |
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: Memphis Description of subject: Memphis was the internal codename used by Microsoft during the development of the Windows 98 operating system.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.