Finder
E38934
Finder is the primary file management and desktop navigation application for Apple's Macintosh operating systems, providing users with a graphical interface to access and organize files, folders, and drives.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Finder canonical | 18 |
| Finder 8 | 1 |
| Finder search | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T299841 — 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: Finder Context triple: [Classic Mac OS, userInterfaceElement, Finder]
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A.
Fay
Fay is a given name most famously associated with Canadian-American actress Fay Wray, the iconic star of the 1933 film "King Kong."
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B.
Chase
Chase is a major U.S. consumer and commercial banking brand of JPMorgan Chase, offering a wide range of financial services including checking, savings, credit cards, and loans.
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C.
Grok
Grok is an AI chatbot developed by xAI, designed to provide conversational access to real-time information and reasoning capabilities.
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D.
Goole
Goole is an inland port town in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, known for its significant docks and role in regional maritime trade.
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E.
BARD Mobile app
The BARD Mobile app is a specialized application that provides accessible audio and braille books and magazines to people who are blind, visually impaired, or print disabled.
- 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: Finder Target entity description: Finder is the primary file management and desktop navigation application for Apple's Macintosh operating systems, providing users with a graphical interface to access and organize files, folders, and drives.
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A.
Fay
Fay is a given name most famously associated with Canadian-American actress Fay Wray, the iconic star of the 1933 film "King Kong."
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B.
Chase
Chase is a major U.S. consumer and commercial banking brand of JPMorgan Chase, offering a wide range of financial services including checking, savings, credit cards, and loans.
-
C.
Grok
Grok is an AI chatbot developed by xAI, designed to provide conversational access to real-time information and reasoning capabilities.
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D.
Goole
Goole is an inland port town in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, known for its significant docks and role in regional maritime trade.
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E.
BARD Mobile app
The BARD Mobile app is a specialized application that provides accessible audio and braille books and magazines to people who are blind, visually impaired, or print disabled.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (60)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
desktop shell
ⓘ
file manager ⓘ graphical user interface application ⓘ |
| allowsCustomization |
sidebar
ⓘ
toolbar ⓘ view options ⓘ |
| bundleIdentifier | com.apple.finder ⓘ |
| defaultFileManagerFor | macOS ⓘ |
| developer | Apple Inc. ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
Finder windows
ⓘ
desktop ⓘ menu bar ⓘ sidebar ⓘ status bar ⓘ toolbar ⓘ |
| icon | smiling face icon ⓘ |
| integratedWith |
Dock
ⓘ
Mission Control ⓘ Spotlight ⓘ iCloud ⓘ |
| introducedWith |
original Macintosh
ⓘ
linked to:
original Macintosh 128K
|
| operatingSystem |
Classic Mac OS
ⓘ
Mac OS X ⓘ
linked to:
macOS
macOS ⓘ |
| primaryFunction |
desktop navigation
ⓘ
file management ⓘ launching applications ⓘ managing disks and drives ⓘ managing files and folders ⓘ |
| providesInterfaceType | graphical user interface ⓘ |
| replacedComponent | none (was original shell of Classic Mac OS) ⓘ |
| supportsFeature |
Get Info inspector
ⓘ
Quick Look ⓘ column view ⓘ disk eject ⓘ disk mounting ⓘ file copy ⓘ file delete ⓘ file move ⓘ file permissions management ⓘ file preview icons ⓘ file rename ⓘ file search ⓘ gallery view ⓘ iCloud Drive integration ⓘ icon view ⓘ list view ⓘ network volume browsing ⓘ sidebar favorites ⓘ smart folders ⓘ tags ⓘ |
| supportsFileSystems |
APFS
ⓘ
FAT ⓘ HFS+ ⓘ
linked to:
HFS Plus
NTFS (read-only by default) ⓘ
linked to:
NTFS
exFAT ⓘ |
| supportsInteraction |
context menus
ⓘ
drag and drop ⓘ keyboard shortcuts ⓘ multi-window browsing ⓘ |
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: Finder Description of subject: Finder is the primary file management and desktop navigation application for Apple's Macintosh operating systems, providing users with a graphical interface to access and organize files, folders, and drives.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Finder
subject linked to:
System 7 (early versions)
linked to: Finder
subject linked to:
Puma