Microsoft Office binary formats
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Microsoft Office binary formats are the legacy proprietary file types (such as .doc, .xls, and .ppt) used by earlier versions of Microsoft Office applications for documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Microsoft Office binary formats canonical | 3 |
| Compound File Binary Format | 1 |
| Microsoft Excel formats | 1 |
| Microsoft PowerPoint formats | 1 |
| Microsoft Word formats | 1 |
| OLE Compound File Binary Format | 1 |
| Office 97–2003 binary formats | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3244681 — 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: Microsoft Office binary formats Context triple: [StarOffice, fileFormatSupport, Microsoft Office binary formats]
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A.
Office Open XML (ECMA-376)
Office Open XML (ECMA-376) is a standardized, XML-based file format used primarily by Microsoft Office applications for representing word processing documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.
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B.
Microsoft Office encryption (legacy)
Microsoft Office encryption (legacy) refers to the older, less secure document protection system in early Office versions that relied on the RC4 stream cipher and is now considered cryptographically weak.
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C.
OpenDocument format
OpenDocument format is an open, XML-based file format standard for office documents such as text, spreadsheets, and presentations, designed for interoperability across different software suites.
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D.
ISO 32000
ISO 32000 is the international standard that defines the specifications and requirements for the Portable Document Format (PDF).
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E.
Office 2013
Office 2013 is a version of Microsoft’s productivity suite that includes updated editions of applications like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote with a modernized interface and cloud-integration features.
- 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: Microsoft Office binary formats Target entity description: Microsoft Office binary formats are the legacy proprietary file types (such as .doc, .xls, and .ppt) used by earlier versions of Microsoft Office applications for documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.
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A.
Office Open XML (ECMA-376)
Office Open XML (ECMA-376) is a standardized, XML-based file format used primarily by Microsoft Office applications for representing word processing documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.
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B.
Microsoft Office encryption (legacy)
Microsoft Office encryption (legacy) refers to the older, less secure document protection system in early Office versions that relied on the RC4 stream cipher and is now considered cryptographically weak.
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C.
OpenDocument format
OpenDocument format is an open, XML-based file format standard for office documents such as text, spreadsheets, and presentations, designed for interoperability across different software suites.
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D.
ISO 32000
ISO 32000 is the international standard that defines the specifications and requirements for the Portable Document Format (PDF).
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E.
Office 2013
Office 2013 is a version of Microsoft’s productivity suite that includes updated editions of applications like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote with a modernized interface and cloud-integration features.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
file format family
ⓘ
legacy document format ⓘ proprietary file format ⓘ |
| abbreviation | BIFF for Excel ⓘ |
| associatedApplication |
Microsoft Excel
ⓘ
linked to:
Excel
Microsoft PowerPoint ⓘ
linked to:
PowerPoint
Microsoft Word ⓘ
linked to:
Word
|
| basedOn |
Compound File Binary Format
ⓘ
linked to:
Microsoft Office binary formats
|
| category |
legacy Microsoft technology
ⓘ
office document format ⓘ |
| commonlyUsedIn |
Microsoft Office 2000
ⓘ
Microsoft Office 2003 ⓘ
linked to:
Office 2003
Microsoft Office 97 ⓘ Microsoft Office XP ⓘ |
| compatibility | can be opened by modern Microsoft Office versions ⓘ |
| developedBy | Microsoft ⓘ |
| documentationStatus | partially documented ⓘ |
| encoding | little-endian ⓘ |
| fileExtensionType |
.doc is Word binary document
ⓘ
.ppt is PowerPoint binary presentation ⓘ .xls is Excel binary workbook ⓘ |
| fileStructure | binary ⓘ |
| includesFormat |
.doc
ⓘ
.dot ⓘ .pot ⓘ .pps ⓘ .ppt ⓘ .xls ⓘ .xlt ⓘ |
| interoperabilityIssues | limited compatibility with non-Microsoft software ⓘ |
| introducedIn | early versions of Microsoft Office ⓘ |
| migrationPath | conversion to Office Open XML formats ⓘ |
| openSpecificationPublicationPeriod | late 2000s ⓘ |
| openSpecificationPublishedBy | Microsoft ⓘ |
| reverseEngineeredBy | open-source communities ⓘ |
| securityConcerns | macro malware risk ⓘ |
| status | deprecated ⓘ |
| supersededBy |
.docx
ⓘ
.pptx ⓘ .xlsx ⓘ Office Open XML formats ⓘ
linked to:
Office Open XML (ECMA-376)
|
| supports |
OLE storage
ⓘ
linked to:
OLE
embedded objects ⓘ macros ⓘ |
| usedBy | Microsoft Office ⓘ |
| usedFor |
presentations
ⓘ
spreadsheets ⓘ word processing documents ⓘ |
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: Microsoft Office binary formats Description of subject: Microsoft Office binary formats are the legacy proprietary file types (such as .doc, .xls, and .ppt) used by earlier versions of Microsoft Office applications for documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Microsoft Office binary formats
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subject linked to:
IBM Docs (for cloud-based successor services)
linked to: Microsoft Office binary formats