APFS
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APFS (Apple File System) is Apple's modern, high-performance file system designed for macOS and other Apple platforms, featuring strong encryption, space sharing, snapshots, and improved reliability over its predecessors.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| APFS canonical | 10 |
| Apple File System | 2 |
| APFS (in later versions) | 1 |
| APFS file system | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T321695 — 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: APFS Context triple: [macOS, supportsFileSystem, APFS]
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A.
HFS Plus
HFS Plus is a proprietary journaling file system developed by Apple for use in macOS and earlier Macintosh operating systems, succeeding the original HFS to support larger files and volumes.
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B.
F2FS
F2FS (Flash-Friendly File System) is a Linux file system optimized for NAND flash-based storage devices, designed to improve performance and lifespan on solid-state media.
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C.
XFS
XFS is a high-performance 64-bit journaling file system originally developed by SGI, widely used on Linux for handling large files and parallel I/O workloads.
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D.
Btrfs
Btrfs is a modern copy-on-write Linux file system designed for advanced features like snapshots, checksumming, and efficient storage management.
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E.
exFAT
exFAT is a Microsoft-developed file system optimized for flash drives and SD cards, designed to handle large files and volumes with broad cross-platform compatibility.
- 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: APFS Target entity description: APFS (Apple File System) is Apple's modern, high-performance file system designed for macOS and other Apple platforms, featuring strong encryption, space sharing, snapshots, and improved reliability over its predecessors.
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A.
HFS Plus
HFS Plus is a proprietary journaling file system developed by Apple for use in macOS and earlier Macintosh operating systems, succeeding the original HFS to support larger files and volumes.
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B.
F2FS
F2FS (Flash-Friendly File System) is a Linux file system optimized for NAND flash-based storage devices, designed to improve performance and lifespan on solid-state media.
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C.
XFS
XFS is a high-performance 64-bit journaling file system originally developed by SGI, widely used on Linux for handling large files and parallel I/O workloads.
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D.
Btrfs
Btrfs is a modern copy-on-write Linux file system designed for advanced features like snapshots, checksumming, and efficient storage management.
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E.
exFAT
exFAT is a Microsoft-developed file system optimized for flash drives and SD cards, designed to handle large files and volumes with broad cross-platform compatibility.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Apple technology
ⓘ
file system ⓘ |
| defaultFileSystemFor |
iOS 10.3 and later
ⓘ
macOS High Sierra and later ⓘ tvOS 10.2 and later ⓘ watchOS 3.2 and later ⓘ |
| designedFor | solid-state drives ⓘ |
| developer | Apple Inc. ⓘ |
| encryptionMode |
multi-key encryption
ⓘ
no encryption ⓘ single-key encryption ⓘ |
| feature |
TRIM support
ⓘ
clones ⓘ copy-on-write metadata ⓘ crash protection ⓘ fast directory sizing ⓘ nanosecond timestamp resolution ⓘ snapshots ⓘ space sharing ⓘ space-efficient file copies ⓘ space-efficient snapshots ⓘ sparse files ⓘ strong encryption ⓘ |
| firstShippedIn |
iOS 10.3
ⓘ
linked to:
iOS
macOS High Sierra ⓘ
linked to:
macOS
|
| fullName |
Apple File System
ⓘ
linked to:
APFS
|
| introducedAtEvent | WWDC 2016 ⓘ |
| license | proprietary ⓘ |
| operatingSystemFamily |
iOS
ⓘ
iPadOS ⓘ macOS ⓘ tvOS ⓘ watchOS ⓘ |
| optimizedFor | flash and SSD storage ⓘ |
| replaces |
HFS+
ⓘ
linked to:
HFS Plus
|
| snapshotType | read-only snapshots ⓘ |
| supports |
64-bit inode numbers
ⓘ
Fusion Drives ⓘ case-insensitive volumes ⓘ case-sensitive volumes ⓘ flash storage ⓘ full disk encryption ⓘ hard disk drives ⓘ large file sizes ⓘ large volume sizes ⓘ per-file encryption ⓘ space sharing between volumes ⓘ sparse files ⓘ volume groups ⓘ |
| vendor | Apple Inc. ⓘ |
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: APFS Description of subject: APFS (Apple File System) is Apple's modern, high-performance file system designed for macOS and other Apple platforms, featuring strong encryption, space sharing, snapshots, and improved reliability over its predecessors.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: APFS
linked to: APFS
linked to: APFS