TComboBox
E322638
TComboBox is a VCL GUI control in Delphi that combines an edit box with a drop-down list, allowing users to either select from predefined items or enter their own text.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| TComboBox canonical | 3 |
| TCustomComboBox | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3061206 — 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: TComboBox Context triple: [Visual Component Library, includes, TComboBox]
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A.
Comdlg32
Comdlg32 is a core Windows library that implements the standard common dialog boxes (such as file open/save, color, and font dialogs) used by Win32 applications.
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B.
cui-ui
The cui-ui is a large, long-lived sucker fish species endemic to Nevada’s Pyramid Lake and known for its cultural and ecological importance to the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe.
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C.
Component Pascal
Component Pascal is a modern, strongly typed programming language in the Oberon family, designed for component-based software development with an emphasis on safety and simplicity.
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D.
Contextual Menus
Contextual Menus are right-click or modifier-click pop-up menus that provide quick access to commands relevant to the item or area currently selected on the screen.
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E.
Item Chooser
Item Chooser is an accessibility tool in Apple's VoiceOver screen reader that lets users quickly navigate and select on-screen items from a searchable list.
- 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: TComboBox Target entity description: TComboBox is a VCL GUI control in Delphi that combines an edit box with a drop-down list, allowing users to either select from predefined items or enter their own text.
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A.
Comdlg32
Comdlg32 is a core Windows library that implements the standard common dialog boxes (such as file open/save, color, and font dialogs) used by Win32 applications.
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B.
cui-ui
The cui-ui is a large, long-lived sucker fish species endemic to Nevada’s Pyramid Lake and known for its cultural and ecological importance to the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe.
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C.
Component Pascal
Component Pascal is a modern, strongly typed programming language in the Oberon family, designed for component-based software development with an emphasis on safety and simplicity.
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D.
Contextual Menus
Contextual Menus are right-click or modifier-click pop-up menus that provide quick access to commands relevant to the item or area currently selected on the screen.
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E.
Item Chooser
Item Chooser is an accessibility tool in Apple's VoiceOver screen reader that lets users quickly navigate and select on-screen items from a searchable list.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Delphi class
ⓘ
GUI component ⓘ VCL control ⓘ |
| allowsFreeTextEntry | true ⓘ |
| category | standard control ⓘ |
| definedInUnit |
Vcl.StdCtrls
ⓘ
linked to:
VCL.StdCtrls unit
|
| framework |
VCL
ⓘ
linked to:
Windows VCL
|
| hasAncestor |
TControl
ⓘ
TObject ⓘ TPersistent ⓘ TWinControl ⓘ |
| hasProperty |
DropDownCount
ⓘ
ItemHeight ⓘ ItemIndex ⓘ Items ⓘ OnChange ⓘ OnClick ⓘ OnCloseUp ⓘ OnDropDown ⓘ OnEnter ⓘ OnExit ⓘ OnKeyDown ⓘ OnKeyPress ⓘ OnKeyUp ⓘ OnSelect ⓘ Sorted ⓘ Style ⓘ Text ⓘ |
| hasStyleValue |
csDropDown
ⓘ
csDropDownList ⓘ csSimple ⓘ |
| inheritsFrom |
TCustomComboBox
ⓘ
linked to:
TComboBox
|
| partOf |
Delphi VCL standard controls palette
ⓘ
linked to:
Delphi (programming language)
|
| platform | Windows ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage |
Delphi
ⓘ
linked to:
Delphi (programming language)
|
| provides |
drop-down list
ⓘ
editable text box ⓘ |
| supportsAlignment | true ⓘ |
| supportsDataType | string items ⓘ |
| supportsEnabledProperty | true ⓘ |
| supportsItemSelection | true ⓘ |
| supportsOwnerDraw | true ⓘ |
| supportsParentColor | true ⓘ |
| supportsParentFont | true ⓘ |
| supportsTabOrder | true ⓘ |
| supportsUserInput | true ⓘ |
| supportsVisibleProperty | true ⓘ |
| usedFor |
entering custom text
ⓘ
selecting from predefined options ⓘ |
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: TComboBox Description of subject: TComboBox is a VCL GUI control in Delphi that combines an edit box with a drop-down list, allowing users to either select from predefined items or enter their own text.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: TComboBox
linked to: TComboBox
subject linked to:
VCL.StdCtrls unit
subject linked to:
VCL.StdCtrls unit
linked to: TComboBox